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.

I wrote about Nadav Lapid's furious, fascinating Yes www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/m...

Working on my book about GIRLS I've found that obviously a lot of sources are online! It's an internet-age series. BUT one of the most fun and helpful things was going to the reading room at the NYPL and sifting through all available newsprint clippings available on the show.

I wrote about those insidious videos trying to guess what cosmetic procedures stars have had, and how they want to train us to see faces differently www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/m...

Did a deep dive into everyone's favorite little guy: Rocky www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/m...

sort of upsetting i am in the uk for the premiere of snl uk and my hotel does not carry it

Spoke to Phil Lord and Christopher Miller about what they took from their Solo experience into Project Hail Mary. We also got into their unusual inspirations for their space adventure (Rififi, Harold and Maude) and how it's all influencing Spider-Verse www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/m...

Important for a select group of people: James Ortiz, who puppeteers Rocky in Project Hail Mary, also designed the Milky White for the most recent revival of Into The Woods and the dinosaur for The Skin of Our Teeth.

Did I spot…Kristine Nielsen in the new Spider-Man trailer?

Bests and worsts!! www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/m...

Wake up the morning after the Oscars in NY craving In-N-Out, one of the only things I miss about LA

PTA now gets the greatest prize of all: Seeing his wife in Oh, Mary!

Putting bets on Ludwig Göransson winning another Oscar next year for The Odyssey.

I have been doing a lot of reporting on the new casting Oscar! Cassandra Kulukundis was an INTERN on Paul Thomas Anderson's Hard Eight. And now she's an Oscar winner for One Battle. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03...

Yes. Good.

Chloé Zhao. You know what. I respect it.

Remember Emilia Perez?

A reminder that this is the director Sirat

Early fashion fave. Gorgeous.

I just don’t know how you can advertise an Oscars-themed barre class and not even play Golden

Yeah, but what if your dog never stops whining at you for attention when you're trying to write? www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/b...

Looking up Jeff Kober who plays Duke on The Pitt (and has been in many other things), and came across the insane revelation he was once married to Kelly Cutrone

Surprise! Here's my face on the NYT homepage

He should be playing Will McAvoy

For my second feature about the new casting Oscar, I wrote about how the internet has changed the world of casting www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/m...

Putting this here for no particular reason at all!!! www.nytimes.com/2026/03/08/a...

Alanna Ubach gives one of the most masterful comedic performances on television in the TED TV show

The Bride > Wuthering Heights