just watched PROJECT HAIL MARY and my review is that i want to watch it on a big screen again immediately!!!

Never After Dark was the best thing I saw at SXSW and it wasn’t close! www.avclub.com/best-film-at...

BREAKING: Workers at CBS are walking out. The unionized team that works CBS' streaming service are going on a 24 hour strike in New York and San Francisco. The walkout comes after negotiations with CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss reportedly imploded.

soo happy to get the official S3 renewal for PARADISE. recapped this week's very fun episode, which expands on the show's bonkers sci-fi scope & gives its elusive villain a backstory.

congrats to amy madigan for winning an award for playing dr. meredith grey's therapist!!!

next: I 🩵 I Love Boosters!

i need to know who is holding Nicole Kidman hostage and making her do these dreadful tv shows. prime video's SCARPETTA is a real low point imo:

Film Trivia Fact Check is back for subscribers! In this new installment, @schimkowitz.bsky.social untangles a web of possible fiction around Spider-Man 2's surgery scene. www.avclub.com/film-trivia-...

I finally lost my shit about so-called AIs, LLMs, enshittification & everything fucking evil that @officialgrammarly.bsky.social is doing. I'm fucking furious, and not just about what 1 company has done. An open letter to Grammarly & the rest of the LLM hype machine www.moryan.com/an-open-lett...

New for @theverge.com: i wrote about how Kansas' trans ID law and the "age verification" systems popping up everywhere tie into larger efforts to force trans people to out themselves both IRL and online

i need to know who is holding Nicole Kidman hostage and making her do these dreadful tv shows. prime video's SCARPETTA is a real low point imo:

HBO's Rooster, starring Steve Carell, kicks off with an exposition-heavy outing. Our recap: www.avclub.com/rooster-prem...

the Austin mass shooter was a Tesla employee who assaulted a coworker during a company-allowed prayer break late last year the company refused to give the victim her assailant's name so she could press charges, and he went on to become a mass shooter www.statesman.com/business/art...

We talked with Steven Conrad about what to expect from the rest of his HBO miniseries DTF St. Louis, middle-aged malaise, and the singularity of Gene Wilder. www.avclub.com/dtf-st-louis...

ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there. They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.

talked to Steven Conrad about tackling "middle-aged malaise" in DTF St. Louis, & the inspirations for his new HBO series (ranging from a conversation about kinks to the Ashley Madison app) good show, good performances, highly recommend!

went slightly long on Shah Rukh Khan in what is one of my favorite pieces i've gotten to write 🥰

Embrace the prolific career of Bollywood giant Shah Rukh Khan with our Primer. Here's where to start with King Khan:

really enjoyed talking to Yerin Ha, the powerhouse lead of BRIDGERTON S4, about her love of the romance genre & why she thinks it's important to see yourself represented as desirable on screen.

PARADISE kind of wrecked me with this week's episode. Shailene Woodley & Sterling K. Brown are doing some excellent work. also appreciate how the show is subverting expectations set by a lot of other dystopian thrillers.

had a brief but fun chat with Myha'la and Marisa Abela about the INDUSTRY S4 finale and why they "crave" YasHarper as much as we do

I’m OBSESSED

When Keri Russell wins a notable acting award:

news pegs are for cowards, it is always time for SRK

went slightly long on Shah Rukh Khan in what is one of my favorite pieces i've gotten to write 🥰

welp, the current shitshow nightmarish hellscape we live in rn is about to get SO MUCH MORE WORSE

what can I say, I am all in on Benedict and Sophie!!! BRIDGERTON S4, barring a couple of glaring missteps, really nails the sweet spot between fairytale romance and pragmatism imo. & my gosh, Yerin Ha, what an all-encompassing performance.

got to go kinda long on Industry's insanely good music and interview their music supervisor, for @gqmagazine.bsky.social ! bless!!! www.gq.com/story/how-in...

i really enjoyed PARADISE S1 & am glad to be recapping S2 weekly. to me, it begins on a high note (especially the Graceland-set episode one), but you have to be a fan of Dan Fogelman's schmaltzy THIS IS US-style of storytelling (which i sure am!!!).

had a lovely chat with A KNIGHT OF THE SEVEN KINGDOMS' co-creator Ira Parker about nailing the show's very specific, non-GOT tone & how FX's BETTER THINGS (!) was an influence. most impressed by his insightful takeaways on all things Ser Dunk, though:

NEW: ChatGPT and other chatbots are feeding users' fixations on real people, reinforcing users' delusional ideas and obsessions about others as they descend into unwanted harassment, stalking, and/or domestic abuse — traumatizing victims and profoundly altering lives. futurism.com/artificial-i...

At Google, speech critical of ICE is censored from the company's internal platform, employees who speak out are served with warnings, and leadership refuses to acknowledge a petition that's now gotten 1,200 employee signatures. Inside the worker-led push to get ICE out of Google:

netflix's HOW TO GET TO HEAVEN FROM BELFAST—from DERRY GIRLS creator lisa mcGee—works better as a madcap buddy dramedy than it does as a thriller. highly recommend it for a fun time, even if the show kinda spirals by the end.

perfect take from @drewupdates.bsky.social!!!!

On Substack, wrote about some recent haunted houses: Best Picture nominee Sentimental Value, Eva Victor’s Sorry, Baby, and Larissa Pham’s new novel Discipline. open.substack.com/pub/thedesko...

some good tv news: DARK WINDS renewed!!! if you're craving annual releases (what a concept!) & haven't watched this excellent show yet, now is a good time to catch up because S4 is around the corner. we need to get Zahn McClarnon that Emmy, okay!!! www.avclub.com/dark-winds-r...

Sagar Radia's performance in this week's INDUSTRY, playing a man whose soul has essentially been sucked out of him, was so incredible. spoke to him (super briefly) about pushing Rishi Ramdani to the brink once again.

I really hate that media layoffs have been happening for the last three years, including my own, and most of the people responsible for the mismanagement won't experience any negative consequences, especially for decimating the number of people of color in so many American newsrooms.

A staggering statement from former Washington Post editor Marty Baron: "This ranks among the darkest days in the history of one of the world's greatest news organizations."

I hadn’t known this. Two men who were accused of sexual abuse on the Shitty Media Men document that I created back in 2017 reached out to Michael Wolff for help as they looked to sue me, and Wolf forwarded their concerns to Jeffrey Epstein. Epstein offered to help. www.jmail.world/thread/EFTA0...

🚨Confirmed ICE operation today in #Hoboken near the 9th Street light rail station. Please take share this information widely. I know how deeply upsetting this news is, especially for our immigrant neighbors.

Luke Thompson and Yerin Ha develop a swoony, sexy chemistry in Bridgerton season four. Our review:

wrote about why A KNIGHT OF THE SEVEN KINGDOMS—with its central bromance, smaller scale, surprising levity/visual gags—is the palate cleanser that the GAME OF THRONES universe desperately needed:

CNN reporting that a week before Alex Pretti was killed, 5 agents tackled him and he suffered a broken rib. CNN says he stopped his car after he saw ICE agents interacting with a family on foot and began to blow his whistle. Source tells CNN Pretti believed “That day he thought he was going to die”

I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com

"Boo hoo," one agent said after he and a gang of colleagues murdered 37-year-old Alex Pretti, who died trying to help a woman who was being assaulted. A sobering piece from @lebassett.bsky.social www.laura-bassett.com/p/ice-execut...

If you’re outside of Minnesota and you’re wondering how to help, this guide is excellent. And seriously. Take down your Ring doorbell TODAY.

I wrote about Minneapolis. nymag.com/intelligence...

excuse me while i go yell at every academy voter for snubbing NO OTHER CHOICE!!!!

Ziff Davis is not in financial distress. IGN wasn't in financial distress. They are, in fact, doing GREAT. This corporation continues to destroy people's livelihoods so it can buy more companies and destroy their laborer's livelihoods too. It has to end. Solidarity with my former union siblings.