Have started a thread for where it's showing in Washington (where the film was shot) if that is helpful to folks. bsky.app/profile/ecle...

Maybe the movie of the year. DC folks: It’s at Landmark Bethesda, Atlantic Plumbing and a theater in Leesburg, the name of which escapes me.

I gotta get out see this at some point this coming week.

I just finished this book a week ago, not knowing it was being made into a film. I will absolutely find a way to see this in the theater.

TRAIN DREAMS is out in limited theatrical release today. It will be on Netflix in a couple of weeks, but here's the thing: If you are at all able to, you really should see it on a big screen. You will not regret it. www.vulture.com/article/sund...

The sublime PETER HUJAR'S DAY opens theatrically in New York and Los Angeles today. www.vulture.com/article/the-...

PUT YOUR SOUL ON YOUR HAND AND WALK, whose subject, Fatma Hassona, was killed by Israeli forces one month before the film's premiere, is finally in theaters. And it's like nothing you've ever seen. www.vulture.com/article/revi...

There are no bad PREDATOR movies. www.vulture.com/article/pred...

It's uncanny how Cuomo has been laser-focused at appealing to the absolute worst qualities in people - their insularity, their tribalism, and now their fear. A campaign monumental in its cynicism, a colossal bet by this man and his billionaire backers that people are basically bad.

My review of BUGONIA, which is not quite as weird as other Yorgos Lanthimos films but still quite weird: www.vulture.com/article/bugo...

Love to see ancient invented terminology from the movie-nerd chat group infect proper journalism. (Courtesy @bilgeebiri.bsky.social who was a member of said group.)

I'd say that you can find good in many people who voted for Trump, but you won't find it in their reasons for voting for Trump or in their ideas about politics. I know Trump voters who can be kind and generous and loving. If you ask why they voted for Trump they'll give you misinfo and bigotry.

We've gotten so many of these pieces where a liberal engages in a good-faith effort to understand Trump voters. Every time, they discover that there's no deeper sympathetic reason they hold their views. They're just misinformed and hateful. My own efforts have found this too.

Look at this ridiculous primitive country, casting out its sex pests rather than making them Presidents or Mayors or Supreme Court justices

Who knew saying “no one deserves to starve” would be so controversial. I’ve never received this much hate for an article. Folks are really comfortable saying with their full chest that they’re fine if certain people starve. The disabled. Poor kids. Marginalized people. Immigrants. The elderly.

Enough with holding the tiny microphones. Either clip them on or shout you arseholes.

Hell yeah! Congrats gang!

Designer: all right Mr. Del Toro here’s those Frankenstein’s monster designs, real sexy just like you asked for. Del Toro: (nodding) this is exactly as sexy as I asked for.

Once again a great read from Bilge Ebiri. Letts' General Brady is the ONLY character who edges toward corniness but only barely so before Bigelow passes the Nuclear Football. Doubly tense for me, having been in an LCC at Ellsworth AFB while the 28th Bomb Wing was on high alert during Desert Storm.

The latest Colleen Hoover adaptation, starring Allison Williams and Dave Franco as two grieving spouses who were always meant to be together, doesn’t know if it’s a drama or a comedy. And maybe that’s the point.

The latest Colleen Hoover adaptation, starring Allison Williams and Dave Franco as two grieving spouses who were always meant to be together, doesn’t know if it’s a drama or a comedy. And maybe that’s the point.

So REGRETTING YOU is bonkers. www.vulture.com/article/revi...

I enjoyed the tension in SPRINGSTEEN: DELIVER ME FROM NOWHERE between the closed-off, tormented rock star and the shamanic performer, and Jeremy Allen White is terrific as the Boss. The film has its share of biopic cliches, but it's well worth seeing. www.vulture.com/article/spri...

Earlier this month I saw something extraordinary at the Pordenone Silent Film Festival. PALESTINE: A REVISED NARRATIVE, a montage of silent films from Palestine shot during WWI. www.vulture.com/article/sile...

There’s a lot to say, and unpack, regarding the unsanctioned demolition of the east wing of the White House this week. A big part of that, for me at least, is the legacy of presidents watching films in its movie theater and documenting it, including Carter watching AUTUMN SONATA with 50 staff.

Remember the time Obama put his feet up on the desk?

This is where I landed too. A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE plays it coy, but there is no way you can watch it and feel confident in the movie's fictional American infrastructure (let alone the real one). larsenonfilm.com/a-house-of-d...

one of us one of us

One of our favorite Bigelow Boys.

Coming soon in the Yale Review: Me on Terrence Malick’s influence among a generation of filmmakers.

I loved Kathryn Bigelow's A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE, a film that a lot of people seem to be interpreting as a fantasy (read: propaganda) of American power and competence, when in fact it is the exact opposite of that. www.vulture.com/article/revi...

"We know the Frankenstein story...it’s one of the most familiar stories we have. And yet, the dawning of light in Jacob Elordi’s eyes breathes life into the old tale. Of all the parts that make this movie, it turns out his is the one that holds its soul." www.vulture.com/article/revi...

Sunday President diarrheas on the country, Monday President bulldozes White House, Tuesday President steals $230 million, Wednesday President... fucks a horse? Let's see if he fucks a horse.

NEW: After The Washington Post reported Monday on the demolition of the "East Wing facade," a new picture obtained by Law Dork that was taken on Tuesday shows that a substantial portion of the entirety of the East Wing has been demolished.

Chris Lee looks into something I've also been wondering about: What's going on with Blumhouse? Why aren't their movies hitting the way they used to? www.vulture.com/article/why-...

Jafar Panahi is a filmmaker in his bones. Listen to me speak to @bilgeebiri.bsky.social about IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT (live from Adelaide Film Festival) open.spotify.com/episode/0eX5...

I would laugh if this wasn't so true 😭

Oh.

The generals said "sir are you sure you want to fly the diarrhea bomber over the AI city with the nonsense billboards" and I said [zesty] we've got to shit the hell out of 'em. And no one has more loose stool than me. And actually that was very smart. Making myself the diarrhea president was smart.

The president needs your help! He's collecting diarrhea for his plane. He has a plane that's 99% toilet with other people's diarrhea in it and he wears a little crown when he drives it around. Brave patriots please send your loose stool to your favorite diarrhea president for his diarrhea plane.

An astonishingly large crowd! Chicago

this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.

My review of Jafar Panahi's IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT, which won the Palme d'Or at Cannes this year and is now playing in limited release. www.vulture.com/article/revi...

BLACK PHONE 2 goes in a different direction from THE BLACK PHONE. And I think I actually liked it more. www.vulture.com/article/revi...

It’s hard to explain this but Sliwa is a bad leader and a terrible individual—in many ways a harbinger of the violent indecency that plagues America—and yet great at being a New Yorker.

The Irish writer Lee Dunne, who died a couple of years ago, told me that he fought with his publishers for the right to have his books put out in paperback first, as he knew most of his readers couldn't afford hardbacks (he lost).