28% is "more than a quarter," not "nearly a third," but sure, go ahead and inflate the made-up numbers on your completely spurious horseshit story.

Well yes but there's also the generation who will watch a tiktok of someone watching the video while doing their make up as excerpts from the original article appear as text on the screen.

They're really going for the EXIT 8 promotion in Taipei! As well they should. It's fun! My review: variety.com/2025/film/re...

One of these days some septuagenarian Man of Letters is going come down broadly on the side of "wokeism" and I am going to die of shock. www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

New Yorkers into delightful things: Go see DRY LEAF, playing NYFF Mon and Tue with a Q&A with director (and, more importantly, my Busan FF co-juror) Alexandre Koberidze. variety.com/2025/film/re...

For the record, I have now seen ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER and in case you haven't heard: it is ever so good.

I simply cannot believe that anywhere other than Ximen District in Taipei looks like this at 7.30pm on a Sunday.

I am back in Taipei

Inadvertently hit on the perfect way to finally see WEAPONS: in Busan with a student lunchtime crowd, nursing a somaek hangover, sitting next to a big soft Korean dude who leaps about 3 feet out of his seat with every jump scare.

Well, A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE is a grand old exercise in apocalypse nostalgia, honking urgently about some ancient period when one could plausibly believe that there were minimally competent and ethical humans in the White House.

Say what you like about Trump, every single Aberbaijani-Albanian I know is a huge fan.

Every new story I read about this sort of capitulation reminds me of that old joke restaurant review where "the food's awful but at least there's lots of it." "Your article is riddled with errors and completely worthless, but at least it was up first."

So now that the "he didn't know him that well" line of defense is failing, this is the best they could come up with? Good luck with that!

Me and my invisible companion back in this Toronto joint for what I think might be my favorite cocktail in the world

Many things to love about TIFF but the normalisation of popcorn in press screenings is not one of them.

For the first time I reviewed (and loved) the Golden Lion winner for Variety! Do make some time in your life for the quiet pleasures of FATHER MOTHER SISTER BROTHER. I don't think you'll regret it. variety.com/2025/film/re...

In which I unapologetically objectify Dwayne Johnson* *kidding. (I do apologise.)

I love this movie, and I love Guy's review: variety.com/2025/film/re...

THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE (Fastvold, 2025) www.youtube.com/watch?v=4q8i...

Very surprised by how much I loved Jim Jarmusch's gorgeously quiet and hospitable FATHER MOTHER SISTER BROTHER variety.com/2025/film/re...

Exhibit A for the establishment of a Pulitzer for jokes.

Whether it's today or not, the importance of today is that it reminds us that one day, it will be today :) Mortality gets a bad rap but it's really cool.

I hate anointing a film my "most anticipated" of any festival because it invariably disappoints except this time when it didn't. variety.com/2025/film/re...

I do not know why this should be true but two boiled egg halves are simply not as nutritionally satisfying as one whole boiled egg.

Relevant to the upcoming interests of Yorgos Lanthimos fans.

It's a decent film and will likely win but imo Int'l Oscar pick SENTIMENTAL VALUE isn't a patch on Haugerud's DREAMS (SEX LOVE) in re this year's Norwegian titles. And yes, there may be some Berlinale bias here, but I'm convinced Haugerud's is the better, richer movie. Enjoy these Asian posters!

Hey Venice FF what is the point of early booking if by the time I get to the front of the queue, every single "tutti gli accrediti" screening is marked CURRENTLY NOT AVAILABLE? I'm daily press and I am logging in on the dot. To whom are all those tickets going?

Jesus fucking Christ

When interesting things happen on the old tl

De-inFestation

on.soundcloud.com/Cjwe1pDeOHH5... Almost as much of a pleasure to talk with @nicolasrapold.bsky.social about the GREAT EXPECTATIONS retrospective in Locarno as it was to explore it. Caution: gushing.

Sorry, I mean aside from changing the time zone of my whole system which will doubtless cause untold fuckups everywhere else.

Does anyone know how to change the time zone setting on the TIFF online schedule? It very unhelpfully converts everything to CEST because that's where I am right now, despite the fact I will be on Toronto time when watching Toronto screenings in Toronto.

I interviewed Terence Stamp years ago, I think for the extremely mid SONG FOR MARION and he was a dream, funny, irreverent, insanely charming, especially when shrewdly assessing his own attractiveness and legendary sex life.

Font of wisdom!

Just look at the fabulous typeface used in this 1932 complete Goethe set in my grandmother's house.

I pray dystopia only comes for those too enfeebled by tech to remember the concept of "a blanket".

This is the first time I've ever seen this ghoul's signature. Why is it exactly like that of her shitbird husband?

Vehemently agree with this review. HIGHEST 2 LOWEST is at its lowest when it's highest and hits its high points when it gets down low.

Yup! AI tech has been enabling my lazy-brained impatience for years. But having reached the event horizon of fast, reliable data retrieval, there was nowhere to go but to change the parameters of "reliable" and indeed "data". Hello, generative AI: the solution to a problem that never existed.

Doing the //DiCaprio_pointing_meme every time either Basil Radford or Naunton Wayne shows up during the barnstorming GREAT EXPECTATIONS Postwar British Cinema retrospective in Locarno. Love these guys, separately and together.

Gorgeous in both sound AND fury.

Some MAGAs Do 'Ave 'Em, I guess.

Good casting. Here for it. Now, who will play Tom Sizemore? variety.com/2025/film/ne...

I have encountered many wonders on my travels through the world's mid-budget hotels but never any object more cursed than this chair bedecked in Michael Bublé lyrics. This is the last thing I'll see before I die.

Home after quite the multiplex quadruple bill, and can now state for the record that SUPERMAN < FANTASTIC 4 << F1 = 28 YEARS LATER (also happened to be the order I watched them in). And I quite enjoyed SUPERMAN! Movies: back.

F1 is a popcorn masterpiece. Loved every second. System now flooded with adrenaline and a powerful urge to file my expenses.

Everybody preorder this instantly.