Call me Mr. Sophistication: I wrote about 50 years of THE KILLING OF A CHINESE BOOKIE stephensilver.substack.com/p/the-killin...

Such a liar. He's such a gossip queen, there's no way he doesn't know about every single affair in his whole administration

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I got shorts! I ranked the 15 Oscar-nominated shorts, upon my completion of the #oscarsdeathrace stephensilver.substack.com/p/ranking-th...

Um, how am i going to do my banking this morning?

I reviewed CRIME 101 for Splice Today www.splicetoday.com/moving-pictu...

I wrote for Living Life Fearless about the Chevy Chase documentary livinglifefearless.co/2026/film-tv...

It's not a new observation at this point but that wild Noem/Lewandowski story in WSJ really brings home the extent to which all the Trump 2 cabinet-level goblins see their jobs as flying private, doing short-form video, and screaming at underlings. They all hate each other and none of them can read.

In this week’s notes column, I wrote about the rise of Industry, two new newsletters you should subscribe to, my interview with Marc Shaiman, and remembering James Van Der Beek and Bud Cort. stephensilver.substack.com/p/fin-sudden...

I wrote about 30 years of John Woo's BROKEN ARROW, a film I've never quite been able to separate from Roger Ebert's review of it stephensilver.substack.com/p/john-woos-...

I reviewed GOOD LUCK HAVE FUN DON'T DIE for Splice Today www.splicetoday.com/moving-pictu...

Putting aside that the old House doesn't seat the new House, the buy-in for a conspiracy like this would have to be massive. It would take thousands of polling places giving up ballots, nearly every state-level official going along with it, and likely require tens of thousands of armed enforcers.

Substack was being screwy this morning, so here's my WUTHERING HEIGHTS review again: stephensilver.substack.com/p/wuthering-...

For @livinglifefearless.bsky.social I reviewed the excellent new Muppets special, with Sabrina Carpenter now on Disney Plus livinglifefearless.co/2026/film-tv...

I reviewed WUTHERING HEIGHTS stephensilver.substack.com/p/wuthering-...

She's now the most successful credit card thief in sports

For Broad Street Review, I reviewed two new documentaries, both featuring the @philadelphiaeagles.bsky.social NFL Films and Super Bowl LII: History Making Productions and Sam Katz's BOYS TO FAME and @espn.com's THE PHILLY SPECIAL: www.broadstreetreview.com/reviews/boys...

I reviewed ten documentaries, including ELWAY, VIVA VERDI!, 33 PHOTOS FROM THE GHETTO, MIRACLE: THE BOYS OF '80, HOMEGROWN and more stephensilver.substack.com/p/february-2...

For JTA, I talked to the great Marc Shaiman about his career, his new memoir, the South Park movie, and how much he really cares about finishing the EGOT jta.org/2026/02/09/c...

I wrote about the Super Bowl, and really mostly the commercials, and how they got to be so bad stephensilver.substack.com/p/how-did-su...

Here's the latest #crimeblotter for @appleinsider.com, featuring an Apple Store theft in the UK and Jeffrey Epstein gifting an expensive Apple Watch appleinsider.com/articles/26/...

I wrote for Political Tribune about MELANIA's historically large critic/audience split on @rottentomatoes.bsky.social and why it's probably legit polinews.org/melania-sets...

I wrote about Trump vs. Bad Bunny polinews.org/trump-respon...

I wrote for Political Tribune about Trump vs. Bad Bunny polinews.org/trump-respon...

I reviewed SEND HELP, for Splice Today www.splicetoday.com/moving-pictu...

Righteous gemstones ass dialogue

I wrote for Political Tribune about Trump's racist video polinews.org/trump-shares...

In this week’s notes column, I wrote about the EYES WIDE SHUT thing, other Epstein-inflected conspiracy slop, why Mel Gibson is not “vindicated,” the Washington Post’s self-defenestration, the scourge of influencers in both movies and politics, and more. stephensilver.substack.com/p/fin-they-k...

I wrote about 40 years of HANNAH AND HER SISTERS stephensilver.substack.com/p/hannah-and...

I also wrote for Political Tribune about Trump's Sopranos-inspired Columbus statue polinews.org/trump-report...

I reviewed THE MOMENT, a fake documentary that isn't really from Amazon, which I liked a lot more than a certain real documentary that was really from Amazon stephensilver.substack.com/p/the-moment...

“But even if Melania Trump were interesting, and even if she had anything notable to say, there’s just no way this documentary, structured the way it is, would get to that truth, or any other truth, in any discernible way. It more resembles something that would be produced by the White House….”

There's no stupider conspiracy theory possible than "They murdered Stanley Kubrick for exposing the pedophile elite in EYES WIDE SHUT, but then they let the movie come out a few months later anyway." It's stupid as film analysis, stupid as history, and stupid as logic.

I reviewed MELANIA, in which there’s no conflict, not much happens, and nothing is surprising or illuminating stephensilver.substack.com/p/melania-is...

I reviewed UNTITLED HOME INVASION romance for Splice Today www.splicetoday.com/moving-pictu...

I wrote about Odessa A’zion, Lupita Nyong’o, casting insanity, rules that don’t make any sense, and further evidence that Elon Musk’s Nazi salute was definitely real. stephensilver.substack.com/p/odessa-azi...

I wrote for Political Tribune about the Kennedy Center's two-year break polinews.org/people-shock...

I wrote for Political Tribune about one of the best SNL political sketches of the Trump era polinews.org/snl-delivers...

Is Jeffrey Lurie the only sports owner not named in the Epstein files?

It really saddens me that Rob Reiner didn't live to see the day when a fellow director got it worse than he did when NORTH was released.

Got a NY Times write up www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/u...

One of my best friends is a huge hockey fan, and she loved HEATED RIVALRY, but is texting me about all the things it got wrong about hockey This is how I am learning that the creators ROBBED us of Ilya and Shane's playoff beards

In this week's notes column, I paid tribute to @dhm.bsky.social, the most Philadelphia of all writers stephensilver.substack.com/p/fin-rip-da...

I reviewed SHELTER, which is fairly minor Statham, for Splice Today www.splicetoday.com/moving-pictu...

This theater being where and what it is I fully expect that every one of these is going to result in a 1200-word freelance piece.

I wrote for Political Tribune about a particularly vile Trump fundraising email polinews.org/trumps-new-f...

Here's the February repertory roundup for Broad Street Review, featuring John Waters, GASLIGHT, and a fun @phillyfilmsociety.bsky.social program www.broadstreetreview.com/previews/the...

I reviewed the fun grammar documentary REBEL WITH A CLAUSE stephensilver.substack.com/p/rebel-with...

If they outlaw whistles, only outlaws will have whistles

Maybe this is maudlin but I feel like we need some type of Oscars montage for the posters we lost this year. Guys like Dan McQuade, Mike Fossey and Kaleb Horton contributed so much to online culture, but everything about it is so impermanent. People need to know who they were.