Not to brag but I just finished a midseason screener of an upcoming show that had me literally screaming and running around my room at the final moment

Sat down with Odessa A'zion about her huge moment with Marty Supreme and I Love L.A. and she walked me through her character playlists, worried about overexposure, and complimented my hair, which means a lot coming from a curl queen. time.com/7333860/odes...

Also finally caught up with Ron Howard's Eden for this piece...and...I gotta say...that thing sorta rocks

I tried to unpack the enigma that is Sydney Sweeney, who is telling a different story about herself on screen than she is off (and in various endorsements). Don't yell at me lol. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/m...

Sydney Sweeney drives people insane on the internet, but for those of us in the trenches, watching her prolific work on TV and in the movies, she's a fascinating (and sometimes quite good) star. Grateful to @ezwrites.bsky.social for this excellent deep dive: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/m...

Though TBH this is the most important Avatar piece that ever will be written.

Just a little reminder of what our friends Payakan, Jake Sully, Kiri, and Lo'ak were doing before Fire & Ash www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/m...

I guess I feel weird about this Oscars to YouTube thing because I also love live events on TV, which I understand is weird and old fashioned but I gotta be me

The score for Diane Warren: Relentless making the Oscar shortlist over Testament of Ann Lee? An outrage.

I LOVE LA talks up the reveal of this big fancy fashion guy and I GUFFAWED when it was Tim Baltz doing a funny accent. Good shit.

WE GOT SPIELBERG FACE

Avatar: Fire & Ash repeats some of the same beats as Way of Water (masterpiece) but I wrote about why it feels like the eternal earnestness of James Cameron's universe feels right for this year in Hollywood www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

For as disparate as his films were, Reiner always found a personal connection to them. In Misery, he related to Paul as a character who created a character that overtook his life. In A Few Good Men, he thought about Kaffee's relationship to his dad. That's why I think his movies feel so special.

Wrote about Rob Reiner's extraordinary career www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/m...

Feels great to be coming out of podcast semi-retirement and to be getting an excuse to blather about movies on the regular with Richard, who will soon be filled with regret when I try to make "wrong kid died!" into some kind of regular bit about HAMNET

I interviewed the woman of the hour for Time. (Ella McCay. Aka Emma Mackey.) time.com/7333856/emma...

You know how fans used to go nuts as soon as the Marvel title card came on screen? That was me with the Gracie Films logo and fanfare during Ella McCay.

There's a movie called Night Nurse at Sundance and it's not starring Cary Dubek

Dale Dickey joining The Hunting Wives is important to me

This "comedy" category is sending me. Do most of these movies have funny parts? Sure. Are they largely devastating? Yes. The Naked Gun robbed.

Uh, I won an LA Press Club National Arts & Entertainment Journalism award for my Businessweek columns and that's pretty cool and unexpected

Best actress 2025: Uma Thurman in Kill Bill The Whole Bloody Affair. (I kid—or I KIDDO lmao—but holy shit she is amazing.)

In other news, I wrote about the weird, wild world of Zootopia fandom www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/m...

What does this mean for the Animaniacs? Do they have to move?

I love movie theaters

An astonishing letter published in the Times of London.

a devastating loss and a lovely tribute

YUP

Most deserved

DREAM BIG

BEST ACTOR: Wagner Moura, The Secret Agent

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: Sinners

You create one of the most iconic horror villains in recent years, you get a prize

female journalists rock

Okay so we are really on a dudes rock run...it will end eventually but let's crack open a few small beers

Also...dudes rock?

Dudes rock

@nyfcc.bsky.social is voting today!

Going straight from this Avatar: Fire & Ash screening to the Gothams tonight means I look pretty hot for Avatar, but that is what Payakan deserves

I'm doing something revolutionary. Something no one has done before: A NEWSLETTER! Yes, I'm throwing a party and I'd love for you to come.

Just remembered I had this photo from freshman year of college

Tom Stoppard is such a key figure in my literary life. I saw Rock 'n' Roll when I was 16 and it blew my mind. I used to wait outside Lincoln Center when the Coast of Utopia was playing hoping I would meet him. Devastated.

Watching The American Revolution: In some ways Thomas Paine’s Common Sense was the original zine, which means that America was basically built on a zine, which means blogging is crucial to the establishment of this country

Could Odessa A’zion voice Bobby Hill?

I have a new favorite song and it's the one where Shakira goes "zoo-oo-oo-oo" from Zootopia 2

Bobo was dressed so slutty at the Sabrina Carpenter show

Me, when we got our first Benjamin Franklin quotation in Ken Burns' The American Revolution

In this tough and moving essay, Caroline Kennedy's 35-year-old daughter Tatiana Schlossberg reveals that she is terminally ill with leukemia. She has some choice words about how her cousin Bobby has made the limited time she has left worse. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

A requiem for the Wicked press tour www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/m...