The amazing thing about the hundreds of billions of dollars being spent on AI development is it doesn't even include all the externalized costs like higher electricity prices for hundreds of millions of people.

My first bad time at the movies with Daniel Day-Lewis, or ANEMONE for thee but not for me. 😬

Happy New York Film Festival to all celebrating!

Kaleb's advice in his last piece of published writing is flawless, and we should all do what he says, in his memory, if not for our own good.

Another TIFF review! Justice for June Squibb but ELEANOR THE GREAT is not it. 😬

My pals at one of my favorite LA repertory theaters, @vidiots.bsky.social, are still thriving! New from the @latimes.com: www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

I keep drawing the sex comedy reviews lately, and fortunately, I landed one that didn’t feel so sex shamey. Here’s to DOIN’ IT, a title my mother would never speak aloud.

One thing at a time. Even if it's powered by spite.

Happy Bad Bunny live concert to all tuning in. 🐰

Girl power girl boss girl go start your own company cashing in on people’s loneliness

Nooooo 😭 I can’t watch them fast enough during festival season

We join our colleagues in @lafilmcritics.bsky.social and @nsfc.bsky.social in condemning the actions taken by Nexstar and Disney-ABC to pull "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" off the air.

I gave my heart and soul to that place. Built entire sections for journalists pushed out of their home countries. When the writer I hired, Jamal Khashoggi was murdered by Saudi Arabia, they paraded me around as a symbol for press freedom. I put MY LIFE on the line to defend journalism and WaPo.

I had a relatively good TIFF this year. Will be sharing more reviews soon. ❤️

Robert Redford playing a gentle incarnation of death, coming for a frightened old woman in The Twilight Zone episode "Nothing in the Dark" (1962). An extraordinary performance then, terribly bittersweet today

Another Hollywood legend gone. I’m having a hard time picking a favorite Robert Redford film. He made so many damn good ones! And he left an incredible legacy in film through his work at Sundance. RIP.

Breaking news: Robert Redford, the big-screen idol turned Oscar-winning director, independent film advocate and environmental activist, died at 89.

Robert Redford was a great actor, writer and director, but his biggest contribution to the art was the creation of Sundance which defined American Independent film. Those of us with careers in the field owe him tremendously. RIP

"Peck is clear-eyed about what he wants to say in the film, even if the documentary itself doesn’t quite capture those sentiments,” writes @mcastimovies.bsky.social about ORWELL: 2+2=5.

Was hoping for better here. 😬

Made it to TIFF! Hope to see many friends and movies this week in Toronto. ❤️

The top grossing movie in the 20 year history of the IFC Film Center in New York probably won't surprise you. But the longest running movie will. www.rogerebert.com/mzs/moviehou...

Needed some tenderness this week. ❤️

Who’s headed to TIFF? I’d love to see some friends. ❤️

Needed some tenderness this week. ❤️

Watching HOWARD THE DUCK in 2025 like

“WHAT WE HIDE has the feeling of an old after-school special, a melodramatic lesson about a topical issue. However, simply bringing up the spectre of the opioid crisis isn’t enough,” writes @mcastimovies.bsky.social: www.rogerebert.com/reviews/what...

...I took the buyout. After 20 very good years here, straddling my two lifelong journalistic loves of theater (first four years, coming from the L.A. Times drama critic post to the Tribune's) and the movies, I feel nothing but gratitude for the chance to do this work in a great cultural city. (2/3)

A bit of news: The Chicago Tribune has deemed the post of film critic non-essential, and therefore zeroed-out that post. My options were to take a newsroom reassignment to be named later, or a buyout to be taken more or less immediately. So...(1/3)

"Osborne loved the classic Hollywood stars even though he knew everything about them, the good and the bad, and he was wised-up, in the best 1930s way, rather than jaded." Dan Callahan's wise and very moving essay on TCM hosts Robert Osborne and Dave Karger: open.substack.com/pub/stolenho...

HE'S RIGHT AND HE SHOULD SAY IT AND ALL OF YOU SHOULD SEE IT

I named my trivia team “Buy Me a Beer, and We’ll Call It Even,” and someone actually bought me a beer. Can’t say that’s ever worked before.

Why does it look like an old video game?

I was just thinking about when I watched SIGNS at a strip mall theater that no longer exists in Hialeah. People yelled at the screen, screamed at various jump scares. My grandmother didn’t understand (she only speaks Spanish) and my step grandfather was traumatized. I, however, had a great time.

A huge THANK YOU to the team at @burnsfilmcenter.bsky.social (especially @mcastimovies.bsky.social who shared these photos) for a wonderful screening of THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE and for supporting my book about Vera Miles! It was a pleasure to answer questions and sign books for the audience

Let my escapist travel romances live!

ok ok i wrote about it buttondown.com/theswordandt...

THE WIZARD OF OZ in AI brings to mind those schlocky immersive Van Gogh experiences that skip out on giving context to the work in order to sell blown-up screensaver animations that make his sunflower paintings “move.” It’s an amusement park ride, and not a particularly good one. Just a cash grab.

Among the greatest promotional photos of all time are these for the 1990 television movie of IT, where it looks like a prestige legal drama about a firm of hot young lawyers and one associate who likes to dress up like a clown.

"DICIANNOVE may test the limits of how long a viewer would like to revisit teenaged angst in a self-imposed exile, but Tortorici’s creative approach to the subject keeps the movie feeling lively,” writes @mcastimovies.bsky.social: www.rogerebert.com/reviews/dici...

Survived teaching my first 50+ students class in over a decade and wow, I forgot how much energy this takes. 😅🫠

Don't even have words to describe how excited I am to be launching a Kickstarter for my latest short film, SECOND AMENDMENT SUMMER: a short documentary about trans people learning about gun safety and use in this Floridian hellscape.

August 15 is the deadline to submit nominations to the Library of Congress’s National Film Registry. I don’t know who will be making the selections this time around but I’ll be submitting as if it were Carla Hayden, the Librarian of Congress controversially fired in May. www.loc.gov/programs/nat...

Coming out of dance teacher retirement this Wednesday evening to teach a beginner friendly ballroom class after a screening of the new 4K restoration of SHALL WE DANCE? Come through; wear your dance shoes 💃🏻 burnsfilmcenter.org/booking/shal...

PBS News is not going anywhere. We will continue our work without fear or favor, as we have for nearly five decades on the air. We are profoundly grateful to Viewers Like You for your loyalty and unwavering support.

On August 14, I'll be introducing the wonderful concert film Elvis: That's the Way It Is at @burnsfilmcenter.bsky.social : burnsfilmcenter.org/booking/elvi...

btw did you know you can subscribe to PBS for only like $5/mo or a $60 one-time for a year donation, and get access to their Passport streaming service? They mail you a little live programming guide and everything, too. The 40-something seasons of NOVA alone are worth it.

It's a drop in the bucket compared with the Colbert firing, or the public broadcasting debacle. But the NYT's desire to "go beyond the traditional review" is appalling. By "the traditional review," you mean, like, an essay? Crafted with thought and care? You're sick of that? God help us.

I have a lot of thoughts about the loss of CPB funding but I’ll leave you with the one I come back to over and over again: they are stealing from you. They are stealing from me. They are stealing from all of us.

Having just spent a few months reading accounts of CBS’ grotesque cowardice during the 1950s McCarthy-era blacklist, it’s nice to see that The Tiffany Network respects its traditions