Saw Apollo 13 in IMAX with the fam. That was a good decision! Excellent all the way around. Of particular interest to screenwriting students because it has the best "exposition that doesn't sound like exposition" that I've ever seen. You don't have to know anything about space travel to follow it.

“Trix are so dangerous we won’t even give them to rabbits!”

this is the second impeachable offense worse than watergate that we have read about *today*

Just about at the halfway point if folks want to help

Trump criticizes Pam Bondi for not charging his adversaries quickly enough, in a Truth Social post that looks a lot like a DM. truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...

I think a lot about the part in From Dusk Till Dawn where Harvey Keitel goes “are you such a fucking loser you can’t tell when you win?”

had to read the article to understand wtf was going on here which is that Meta is literally feeding Instagram pictures parents took of their teenage daughters to middle aged men as ads for Threads

So delighted to see BREWSTER MCCLOUD on the criterion channel, a completely bonkers Altman film that actually slightly helped create BWDR; I wrote about it for This Recording in May 2009 & found myself wishing there was a place I could write or read more about offbeat favorites. BWDR started in July

Just happened upon this old interview with Peter Weller, full of interesting stuff I’d never heard before. “Sounds like a fascinating guy,” I thought. Then I saw the byline. www.vulture.com/2013/05/pete...

Listen to @bilgeebiri.bsky.social and go see Apollo 13 and feel good for two hours!

It’s been sad this year watching how the White House press corps refuses to back each other up. Here a female journalist is insulted and denigrated and the next male reporter just moves on to a new question. You’re all in this together, folks. Time & again, they won’t stand up for their colleagues.

"Go see Apollo 13 on a big screen; for a brief moment, you might feel like you’re a part of something again." Fantastic review.

Did you know that APOLLO 13 is getting an IMAX rerelease this weekend? Well, now you do. Also, it’s still great. www.vulture.com/article/revi...

My review of HIM, which could have been ALL ABOUT EVE meets ANY GIVEN SUNDAY meets THE WICKER MAN but, uh, drops the ball. www.vulture.com/article/revi...

Analysis | To get himself back on the air, Jimmy Kimmel must call for the execution of homeless people.

The latest from Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions, the new football horror film ‘Him,’ directed by Justin Tipping, offers plenty of ridiculous, over-the-top spectacle … and little else.

HIM delivers a relentless barrage of stylized spectacle. And, uh, not much else. www.vulture.com/article/revi...

Turns out The Man Show was our Federalist Papers

"There is plenty of humor in Germany, more than enough. But we do not permit ourselves to be ridiculed." www.abramsbooks.com/product/outr...

“You used to be able to say anything” comedians never been more quiet in their lives

I never had the opportunity to talk to Robert Redford. But I did talk to some of the folks who shared the screen with him when he made a cameo on DARK WINDS, which turned out to be his final screen appearance. The respect everyone had for him ran so, so deep. www.vulture.com/article/dark...

Alan is my friend and a major force in television. Rolling Stone did a round of layoffs, and he was in it. Subscribe to his newsletter. For real. He's one of the most talented people I've ever worked with, and a mensch.

Oh.

This movie is such a treat. Listen to @bilgeebiri.bsky.social and get your tickets now! Tonight's Q&A is sold out but limited tickets are available for tomorrow. www.ifccenter.com/films/sunfis... @thefofif.bsky.social

The whole right-wing ecosystem is a disgusting human centipede that keeps feeding itself on ever-more-toxic bullshit and somehow progressives are to blame. Leave us out of it! It's a closed system!

guys, we have a tone shift

Hi, one of the best movies of the year opens in New York's @ifccenter.bsky.social today. Sierra Falconer's SUNFISH (& OTHER STORIES ON GREEN LAKE) is lovely, gentle, and 87 minutes long. I saw it back in January and haven't been able to stop thinking about it. www.vulture.com/article/sunf...

THE INSIDER 2, O LE 120 GIORNATE DI SODOMA

You know for sure you've lived a just and virtuous life when none of your children attend your second wedding.

If you see Noel at #TIFF25 today, wish him a happy birthday!

Don’t let Trump’s incredibly creepy birthday letter to Jeffrey Epstein make you miss another letter in which a member of Trump’s beach club jokes about Epstein showing “early ‘people skills’” by selling Trump a “fully depreciated” woman

what a humiliating way for don jr. to find out his dad sends birthday cards.

Literally all of EUROVISION SONG CONTEST: THE STORY OF FIRE SAGA

Opening Sept. 12th at The Frida Cinema and running through Sept. 18th! 🎟️: thefridacinema.org/movies/the-b...

Paul Greengrass’s new movie ‘The Lost Bus’ is an instant disaster-movie classic. It’s ‘Speed’ meets the end of the world.

Oh, wow. I hadn't even heard of this movie. I'm interested but, see, this is a movie I'd pay to go see in theaters. Thanks to @bilgeebiri.bsky.social for making me aware this movie even exists. Adding it to my list now!

Paul Greengrass’s new movie ‘The Lost Bus’ is an instant disaster-movie classic. It’s ‘Speed’ meets the end of the world.

I am a hypermasculine and extremely powerful alpha male. As such my greatest fears are seed oils, rainbows, people who don't look like me being on TV, and preventative medicine. I cannot explain any of these fears and consider that to be your fault.

Hey hey PW liked my book

Paul Greengrass's wildfire thriller THE LOST BUS, starring Matthew McConaughey and America Ferrera, is one of the most intense things you'll see this year. www.vulture.com/article/revi...

There's an odd little comedy opening in New York this week called THE BALTIMORONS that I was quite charmed by. Check it out if you get a chance. www.vulture.com/article/movi...

Last night, yet another person died on Rikers Island — the fifth New Yorker to lose their life in City custody within the last two weeks and the 13th this year. These deaths are a result of Eric Adams' failure to reckon with the crisis of violence and neglect in our jails.

I once met Werner Herzog at the Cannes Film Festival and declared myself a fan. After he very patiently spoke with me for a few minutes he told me “You are not a fan. You are a colleeeeeague.” Happy Wernerday to all who celebrate

For @ThatShelf we take a look at the new magnificent Wes Anderson collection from @criterion.bsky.social (with plenty of @bilgeebiri.bsky.social geEbiri content within!), outside the Criterion Closet at #tiff50 www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoKL...

WRITERS ON FILM @ the #VeniceFilmFestival part two with top film critic Bilge Ebiri podcasts.apple.com/it/podcast/w...

THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE is like THE VVITCH meets ANDREI RUBLEV meets RHYTHM NATION. Which is another way of saying I enjoyed it a great deal. www.vulture.com/article/revi...

‘The Voice of Hind Rajab.’ Kaouther Ben Hania’s new film about the killing of a six-year-old Palestinian girl, is the most powerful film at Venice.

let them cook

THE VOICE OF HIND RAJAB is a hard film to watch, a hard film to think about, a hard film to write about. Just gut-wrenching. Absolutely struck a nerve here at Venice. www.vulture.com/article/revi...