It seems both fitting and upsetting that no music theatre composers (who practically invented the Great American Songbook) are nowhere to be seen here. You could make a case for Alan Menken or Robert Lopez for sure (and maybe Miranda or Yazbek).

People (me) are going to have some opinions on this! (Giftie) www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

I like movies that have a score that sounds like a cat jumping on the left side of a piano

Just think...it's her first time ever singing this in a theatre!

if you watch and support the new harry potter show you are funding trans genocide globally by the way

The new Harry Potter series looks polished, earnest, and overwhelmingly unneeded. I wish the children in it an easy and early escape and every adult involved a reckoning with the choice they made.

There are so many wonderful, fantastical stories that transport you, that don't give money to a bigoted, foul TERF who is actively making the world worse.

It's that time of the year again...we all need a little smile, so it is the (5th?) annual Best Picture Nominees if their taglines were quotes from "the birdcage":

Hey, I am halfway to an EGOT by this metric (and I have an MTV Music Video Award!). Anyone have a Grammy I can hold and claim?

Good. Because my main complaint about airplanes has always been that people smell too good and need to be sweatier.

It is genuinely wild how this has blown up in QT's face. Just a wild miscalculation for one of the most powerful directors in the business to go on an asshole's podcast and punch down so gleefully against good actors that everyone likes

Nothing sounds worse to me than "Quentin Tarantino on Bret Easton Ellis' podcast," and I'm glad that I seem to have been proven right on that matter.

a movie that takes place where you're from

The loss of matte painting is one of the key reasons Hollywood films have lost so much of their beauty and luster over the past several decades. No CGI I've ever seen is as beautiful, evocative, or meaningful as this image. #filmsky

@bcdreyer.social Can you settle a debate that is dividing our high school English hallway this morning: "Every employee and intern must submit ___ (his or her/their) credentials." Besides the fact that "their" is more appropriate today, is the subject here singular or plural?

I don't want to brag, but this is the exact double feature I recommended on @attcpod.bsky.social!

As always, Matt Singer is mostly right (haven't seen the latest one, put Punch-Drunk at 2, and this is probably my list...).

I’ve been rewatching the Coen Bros filmography this month and while drawing a Barton Fink illustration, it struck me how much their films feel like Far Side cartoons: funny, strange, clever, yet frequently inscrutable. Anyway here’s a thread!

Using one photo already on your phone, what is the announcement tomorrow at 2?

Hulu just added Death of Stalin and Weekend at Bernie’s (and is featuring them on their main page this weekend)… it’s just very funny.

COMING TOMORROW: We are going back to camp and bringing @directorsclub.substack.com with us! It's WET HOT AMERICAN SUMMER time!! And it's a movie so monumental, its also our longest episode of all time!!

Had my own “Harold!” moment tonight when, mid-Megalopolis, the lady behind me yelled “oh, they’re lesbians!” However, one of her lesbians was actually Shia LaBeouf.

@ticketmaster.com I would love you to ask The Chicago Theatre why they just decided to close our section for tonight and move us to seats we don’t like with no notice or refund!!

I want this on a t-shirt!

You know you can just make a list of movies you like without giving any money or further attention to the NY Times, right?

Yes for DETROIT ROCK CITY love! One of my favorite @attcpod.bsky.social discoveries

Always remember what Porco Rosso said:

Warm Weather Finally Allows Man To Get Outside, Explore New Ways To Sweat theonion.com/warm-we...

lmao

Implement a 100% tariff and ruin a movie Salo, or the 240 Days of Sodom

That a long dying pope was able to hang on just long enough to de-pants JD Vance before the world, and then he instantly kicked off like Art Carney in The Last Action Hero, has prompted me to consider the existence of a god for the first time in decades. A god with story sense and sharp comic timing

Aaaaaah! This was my gateway drug!

More in No, Other People: New poll: “America would be better off if more people worked in manufacturing.” • 80% of Americans agree • 20% disagree “I would be better off if I worked in a factory.” • 25% of Americans agree • 73% disagree • 2% currently work in a factory

So sad…and let’s get Boston Public streaming!!

The "Boar on the Floor" scene from "Succession" dramatically underplayed the degree to which powerful people will debase themselves in order to curry favor with more powerful people.

William Finn knew what was up…

Schwarzenegger winning seemed like the most embarrassing thing that would ever happen in politics at the time and now he’s to the left of every elected Republican and a few Democrats and just makes videos going “young men, my fadda was a Nazi and he was a contemptible loosah”

What’s even worse is that Hegseth leaked that Kim and Hugo got PINNED.

Here comes the censorship: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Did you know? By replacing your coffee with green tea, you can lose up to 92% of what little joy you still have left in your life.

Gene Hackman not being nominated for The Royal Tenenbaums but these performances were

So with Demi Moore nominated do you think there will be any G.I. Jane jokes at the Oscars this year?

THELMA Alert!!!

On Super Bowl Sunday, here's a reminder of what real courage looks like.

🚨FUNDRAISER TIME!!!🚨 Donate to any of the trans support organizations in the attached note and YOU can win one of four gift certificates to the Criterion website. Details in the note below, which I will pin to my profile

Because we all need something to brighten our evening, here are this year's Best Picture Nominees as the birdcage quotes...

Season Three is promising to be a wild ride through 2001...come join us!

We do not sufficiently appreciate David Hyde Pierce