The director of Margot at the Wedding was at Taylor Swift's Wedding

Disney releasing a trailer for the Oasis doc—the most British thing ever—on July 4 is just really funny to me

My unique set of skills were of use when I was asked "who is this?" in relation to Swift wedding photos and I correctly identified cinematographer Matthew Libatique.

The idea that Samantha Morton is The Odyssey standout so all the kids are gonna be watching Morvern Callar this summer. Hot Morvern Summer, they are calling it.

Oh, I forgot, it was a musical.

Really shocking how little I have brought up in the lead up to Christopher Nolan's "The Odyssey" that I was in a show at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival written by two guys I went to high school that was an adaptation about a guy trying to get to LAX.

How’s that?

Remarkably, I talked to Rafa www.wsj.com/sports/tenni...

Hooray for @ezwrites.bsky.social and @bobmarshall.bsky.social!!!

Spoke to a bunch of real life disclosure advocates about what they think of Disclosure Day. Spoiler: They think it helps their cause. www.wsj.com/arts-culture...

I'm just saying I need the entire Knicks team on the Dune 3 premiere red carpet.

As a horse girl with a big imagination who sometimes had trouble making friends, I sure felt targeted by Toy Story 5

In the whole "has Jackass always been gay" discussion not enough people talking about the fact that Jackass 2 ends with a production number set to "The Best of Times" a song from...checks notes...LA CAGE AUX FOLLES www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nSA...

Gitchie Gitchie Laurie Metcalf is gonna ring in my head forever

Sometimes a piece of writing is so beautiful it reduces you to sobs like a Spielberg movie does. That is this piece by Wesley Morris. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/07/m...

Spoke to some young people (including Kane Parsons) about why the kids love liminal spaces www.wsj.com/arts-culture...

Catching up on Widow's Bay and really disorienting to hear Roxy Music's "More Than This" in a Matthew Rhys show and it not be this scene www.youtube.com/watch?v=COYX...

I got to write about sports! and fashion! and Old Jewish Men! www.wsj.com/style/fashio...

Just got worried Game 3 of the NBA Finals would be the same night as the Tonys. (It is not. I contain multitudes.)

Perhaps Taylor Swift's boldest move yet is trying to compete with "When She Loved Me" from Toy Story 2 by writing a Jessie-themed song

Funny I haven't seen anyone mention Bo Burnham in the YouTuber-to-director transition. Also, hey, Bo, maybe make another movie.

There are moments in this movie where Steve and Janusz are straight up showing off and it's so spectacular.

Seeing Disclosure Day tonight but this is a wild claim when the man made West Side Story and The Fabelmans in the past 10 years.

Wrote about some movies I saw at Cannes!! www.wsj.com/arts-culture...

Noooooooo

I will say this for The Mandalorian and Grogu: Ludwig is popping off on the score.

A little late, but I wrote about Cannes' Hotel Martinez, about to be transformed into the White Lotus. www.wsj.com/arts-culture...

At the beginning of PAPER TIGER, Adam Driver has a Peter Luger feast delivered to his brother’s home and I have never been more homesick or jealous. Of course, everything then goes bad for the family. Great movie.

Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma hit me so hard. I cried. It also maybe has the best music cue of the century.

You know what roles don’t exist in movies anymore? Bonnie Hunt in Jerry Maguire kinds.

MARLA MINDELLE TONY NOMINEE

Some personal news?!? Starting today, I'm joining the Wall Street Journal as Film and Culture Reporter.

Need Myha'la to play Celebrity Traitors UK in character as Harper Stern

Huge and long overdue changes to International Feature at the Oscars

The Devil Wears Prada 2 is both really good and, in many parts, a too-real nightmare about working in media in 2026. I cringed a lot! But also my heart was ultimately warmed.

Oh The Sheep Detectives embargo is up? Great. Number One Sheep Detectives evangelist here. It's such a pleasure to have a kids movie that's actually dark the way kids movies used to be. Very Babe energy.

Johnny Knoxville tearing up because it's the last Jackass makes me feel a certain way

Why is everyone talking about Michael?

A security guard at a screening just checked my glasses to make sure they were not meta glasses which felt like a new level of dystopia

OH MY GOD I DID NOT SEE THIS AND JUST WENT BACK TO MY SCREENERS AND I'M SO HAPPY

Beef season 2's ruthless targeting of the music tastes of elder millennials is dead on accurate but also savage. Never have the words "Hot Chip" been uttered more in a mainstream television show.

Bryn Mawr Film Institute screened The Philadelphia Story to a SOLD OUT crowd. It was a great night for the movies. Critic Esther Zuckerman discussed her book, Falling in Love at the Movies: ROM-COMS FROM THE SCREWBALL ERA TO TODAY after the film. 📸 @kongmoodsy.bsky.social

Ah, I see people are taking what Lena writes about honestly and comprehensively in her memoir just fully out of context on the internet!

Thinking about the lady next to me at Cats: The Jellicle Ball who told me at intermission she was crying because she was thinking about all her dead cats. She really did perceive it as a show...about cats.

"It gives me street cred galore just to be linked with Michaela." www.nytimes.com/2026/04/11/m... via @ezwrites.bsky.social @nytimes.com

What a day

If you had told me when I was 11 and writing Lord of the Rings poetry and dreaming about being a journalist—yeah, I was a nerd—that one day I would speak to Gandalf for the New York Times, I would have been extremely thrilled.

I interviewed Michaela Coel and Ian McKellen together about their work in The Christophers. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/11/m...

Wrote a little Euphoria primer. (Whispers: I liked the first three episodes.) www.nytimes.com/2026/04/10/a...

Maybe gasped upon finding out Charli XCX was doing an American accent in Faces of Death.