Death By Lightning is one of my favorite shows in ages: Think of the House scenes in Lincoln, but the whole show with insane performances from Shannon, Macfadyen and Offerman, and an ending that made me weep.

Incredible trailer for an incredible movie www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zK_...

On the eve of Mamdani's election, I saw Joel Coen and Tim Blake Nelson dining together through a restaurant's window. Feels significant.

But will Rachel Weisz pluck her eyebrows for this new Mummy movie?

I was overjoyed when @elizaberman.bsky.social asked me to speak with Bess Wohl about Liberation, my favorite new play in ages. Bess and I both started crying during this interview, but that's what this piece of art will do to you. time.com/7330118/bess...

Do you ever think about how the actress who played Rayanne Graff is now a Countess?

Remember in Vice (2018) when Jesse Plemons plays the guy whose heart is given to Dick Cheney?

Last night I wrote about Diane Ladd and Laura Dern's collaborations. They were a mother-daughter team and a vital creative partnership. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/m...

When I spoke to Pamela Adlon for my Mikey Madison profile she said she cast Mikey in Better Things because she looks like one of her daughters and then you see Odessa A'zion and you're like, yeah, for sure.

Throughout my rewatch/research on GIRLS for my book every so often Adam Driver makes a choice in a scene that just sort of blows my mind. You totally get why everyone who went to Juilliard with him talks about him like he's some sort of alien.

A little homepage action for Tim

Rachel Sennott's I Love L.A. takes influencing seriously so I wrote about the evolution of the influencer on TV. RIP Selfie. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/a...

I profiled the always funny Tim Meadows for the NYT www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/a...

An honor and a pleasure to be part of the Gotham Awards nominating committee in the Screenplay categories with @timgrierson.bsky.social, @jon-frosch.bsky.social, @mcastimovies.bsky.social, and @ezwrites.bsky.social. Together we came up with an eclectic list of nominees from around the world.

For the first time ever, the Gothams are giving out awards for adapted and original screenplay. Very happy to be on that inaugural committee, alongside @jon-frosch.bsky.social, @mcastimovies.bsky.social, @carlosfilm.bsky.social and @ezwrites.bsky.social. Here are our nominees.

We need a Down with Love style vehicle for Sabrina Carpenter this INSTANT

Zohran just gave the most millennial answer to this question www.vulture.com/article/zohr...

Seeing Liberation, even for a second time, is the most cathartic experience I've had in the theater in ages

The Newsroom season 4

I spoke to Jenni Konner about the second season of Nobody Wants This—a show I had major issues with in its first—about how they deepened the portrayal of Jewish women this time around time.com/7327010/nobo...

As a red carpet obsessive, I'm fascinating in how the relatively new Academy Gala has become sort of a training ground for stars plotting awards runs.

You wish you had swag like this

Got home and realized I moderated a Q&A with a piece of popcorn in my shirt

There's an upcoming show that features so many guys you love doing such good work.

I'm going to order udon soup tonight!!!!!!!!!

First round for Diane Keaton: @ezwrites.bsky.social: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/m... @peterbradshaw1.bsky.social: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc... @katerbland.bsky.social: @david-rooney.bsky.social: www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie... And seek out her excellent memoir, Then Again

Devastated. Once saw Diane Keaton on the streets of Soho walking alone in a perfectly Diane Keaton outfit, smiling at everything.

Watching Scream 2 on MTV tipsy in a hotel room as the lord intended

It is pretty funny that Is This Thing On? basically has the same premise as The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel except with a depressed white guy.

Spoke with legend Jim "lunatics, haters, and punk trash" Downey about working with PTA twice, Tim Robinson and "Jeff Epstein? The New York financier?" www.gq.com/story/jim-do...

MARTY SUPREMEEEEEEEE

The use of American Girl in One Battle After Another has been rattling around in my head since I saw it so I wrote about why the cue is so powerful www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/m...

The Taylor-Charli song comparison I can't stop thinking about is Wi$h Li$t versus I Think About It All The Time. Two female artists in their 30s thinking about kids vs careers, but whereas Taylor version feels conservative with its idea of a happy ending, Charli's is messy, ambivalent, and tender.

Based on Taylor Swift professing her love for Shakespeare in her not-quite-movie I can only assume she'd love Hamnet but she will never see it because of of Joe Alwyn www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/a...

Rose Byrne should have three Oscars by now but the indie IF I HAD LEGS I'D KICK YOU is truly a moment for her. @ezwrites.bsky.social sat down with her in Cobble Hill. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

I profiled Rose Byrne!!!

Weird to interpret a song that has the lyric “I wanna shoot myself” as not intensely self loathing

Really looking forward to my Jarmusch/Swift double feature tomorrow.

Driving me crazy because, AS A WOMAN (lol), One Battle is one of the most moving films I've seen this year, and I have sobbed all three times I've seen it.

In 2017 I interviewed Jane Goodall and she asked if I wanted a picture. I don’t take pictures with sources so I panicked and she said something to the effect of, “You don’t have to.” We took one and I am glad she guilted me into it.

Jay Kelly is a movie that works on the magic trick that is George Clooney, but my god Billy Crudup gives an absolutely insane 10 minute performance

I think the combination of seeing OBAA for a third time this past weekend plus watching this week's Peacemaker led me to a nightmare in which I was being Final Destinationed in a town run by the Christmas Adventurers.

I've seen OBAA three times and have yet to do the Modelo count. How many "few small beers" do we think Sensei has over the course of the movie?

For Time, I spoke to @benstiller.redhour.com about his wonderful and revealing new documentary about his folks, Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara. time.com/7319395/ben-...

There cannot be a band named Geese and a band named Goose. That's not allowed.

Deeply amusing to me that Charli XCX had an embargo lift on her friends' photos of her wedding

Cinematic insult of the year is Radu Jude absolutely bodying Wim Wenders' Perfect Days in Kontinental '25

A FAMILY OF FRIKS????

Taylor Swift has crashed the AMC app

Thank you, GQ, for giving me an opportunity to type out "BA BA BA BA BASKETBALL GIMME GIMME GIMME THE BALL BECAUSE I’M GONNA DUNK IT!" www.gq.com/story/tim-ro...