My friend, Ray Franks is taking on his second Trans America bike ride later in May in support of LGBTQ+ Lives. Last year: LA to NYC, this year he’s riding from Key West To Bar Harbor, ME. He’s raising money for The Trevor Project and Lambda Legal. Learn more+donate here: www.transamericaride.org

Thrilled to announce that I’ve joined the 2026 edition of the Mill Valley Film Festival as a Programmer/Consultant. I’ll be working remotely from NY alongside my journo duties & will be in Mill Valley for the fest in October. Can’t wait to get started! 🎬 www.mvff.com

#APEX: when the terrific Charlize Theron isn’t Free Solo’ing the Australian wilderness, she’s conquering her own River Wild. Her stamina finds a worthy challenger in (also great) Taron Egerton’s maniacal villain. Good old-school adventure flick. My Review: www.rogerebert.com/reviews/apex...

BLUESKY: help me with this for my own sanity. Last night at Death of a Salesman, we had the misfortune of sitting next to a woman who didn’t get off her phone & texted during much of the 1st half. Eventually, my polite husband politely asked her to get off the phone. She loudly said…1/7

Team “No Project Hail Mary sequel.” Why do we have to suck the life out of everything? The story ended with the right amount of emotional & narrative closure, & enough looseness to linger in our minds. Swear, these suckers would even make E.T. Back From Home if they could. 🤦🏻‍♀️

Lots of Americans have been in denial about this school bombing in Iran. Here, confirmed by The NY Times. It was the US who killed those babies. 175+ people, most of them little kids, dead. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/w...

The U.S. Senate must be clear: no war with Iran.

Love Mamdani beyond words. But it’s slightly frustrating to see him claim that the city is ready for snow. Maybe some areas are. But here in the perennially abandoned Harlem, we’re still swimming in knee-deep trash & no one cares. Let’s elect great people like him. And then demand better from them.

Farewell to Park City and #Sundance as we know it. I poured A LOT into this piece, from seeing 50 films, to reflecting on the past and the future of the fest & talking to the local artist who painted that Sundance Kid artwork we all walked by. My latest... filmmakermagazine.com/133235-sunda...

THE 25 BEST FILMS OF 2025 A Video Countdown vimeo.com/1156345183

I interviewed the great Kleber Mendonça Filho on THE SECRET AGENT. Always a pleasure talking to him. (Exclusive clip within). For Gold Derby. www.goldderby.com/film/2026/kl...

A rough end to ‘25, a rough start to ‘26. Many of my steady outlets had severe budget cuts & I’ve been on the job hunt constantly. I’m very much for hire. I’m a hard worker, a good writer, a very experienced moderator. I’ll appreciate any leads & support w/ a retweet/endorsement.

Current status of all trains that could be useful to me. Fuck—and I cannot stress this enough— daily congestion relief zone robbery, and everyone who believed that money was actually going to make subways better.

Felicity Jones & Kerry Condon don’t share any scenes in TRAIN DREAMS, one of my absolute favorites this year. But the characters they play jointly represent the film’s soulful themes that I hold close. A joy to interview them, for VOGUE: www.vogue.com/article/feli...

Congratulations, Andrew Cuomo! I know how hard you worked for this.

The New York Post is owned by Lachlan Murdoch, solely because his daddy bought it and passed it on to him. And it's backing Andrew Cuomo, a meathead whose whole career in politics stems from his daddy being good at it. But *Mamdani* is the nepo baby, because his mom was a filmmaker? Sure.

Here’s the original clip of Ronald Reagan from April 25, 1987, where he delivered a complete and total rebuke against tariffs. Trump's calling Reagan’s words here “FAKE” and “fraudulent.” They’re 100% real. And the original clip is actually far worse for Trump, as much is left out of the ad:

I don’t have enough words for how much I love Richard Linklater’s NOUVELLE VAGUE, and Zoey Deutch as Jean Seberg in it. It was a joy to interview her for @VogueMagazine. www.vogue.com/article/zoey...

MAGA keeps saying Trump is “saving taxpayers money” and “paying down the national debt.” If that were true, why did the U.S. national debt just surpass $38 trillion, a record high in American history?

I don’t know what Propaganda Barbie is yammering about, but I do know the US Ryder Cup team has lost every session since Trump infected them on day 1 with his loser energy.

I would love to be part of the conversation on MSNBC related to the Kimmel story and it's chilling effects on first amendment, but unfortunately I was terminated by MSNBC for stating that "hateful thoughts lead to hateful words which lead to hateful actions".

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

Wonderful thread. Men, what’s stopping you etc…

> @cnbc.com 🇬🇧

Hope I’m not being too harsh in saying that if you were in charge of publishing an entire list of best Robert Redford films & reached out to various male writers & not a single woman, then you probably haven’t taken to heart his legacy & all the things he did in his biz to level the playing field.

wow

This was a word AND he cussed 😂

So, an MSNBC employee gets fired for accurately talking about who Charlie Kirk was. But this…this gets nothing. 🤦🏻‍♀️

Any news organization with a shred of decency would fire Brian Kilmeade immediately. There is no gray area about this.

I can do two things at once: 1. Be against all kinds of violence & condemn it on unambiguous terms. 2. Acknowledge that this was a horrible, even evil person who preached hate & hated me, because I’m Muslim. (And you also CAN do two things at once.)

Indeed, humans created no art, nothing of note since the ancient times to tell future generations about our evolution, that we need entitled jerks destroying protected land to inform the people of a thousand years from now about who we were. Staggering levels of 🤯 here.

Nigel Farage looks uncomfortable as Jamie Raskin uses his opening statement to absolutely demolish him

Can we be honest? No celebrity left a more significant mark in #Telluride than Audrey did in 2019.

We’d gain a lot from a return to traditional values. And by that, I am of course talking about treating a Chris Columbus-directed movie, starring Helen Mirren, Pierce Brosnan, Ben-effing-Kingsley & Celia Imrie, as one of the major cinematic events of the summer…which THE THURSDAY MURDER CLUB is.

The more our culture doubles down on the idea that arts criticism is unnecessary (and critics are the enemy), the stupider and less curious our world will become… Devastating times.

It's hot out! Share some movie or TV characters at the beach. (Just correcting @tomilaffly.bsky.social ‘s choice)

Federal agents just illegally detained Brad Lander in New York City

“It is a crime against yourself to say no to love.” ♥️ I interviewed Celine Song on her gorgeous MATERIALISTS—on romance, dating, NYC, and how she thematically & visually captured the film’s financial themes with insight and honesty. For ELLE: www.elle.com/culture/movi...

I screened 40 titles exactly in the #Cannes lineup, and here are 15 films that excited me the most. Lynne Ramsay! Oliver Hermanus! Bi Gan! Joachim Trier! Hafzia Herzi! Oh mon dieu… For Elle Magazine: www.elle.com/culture/movi...

One more Cannes, one more Cannes, oui oui!! I wrote about the best performances of the festival — 10 actors across 9 movies. For Backstage Magazine. 📽️✨🇫🇷 www.backstage.com/magazine/art...

You're seeing America kamikaze itself into a brick wall. It didn't have to be this way. But greed and racism, our two sins, will be our downfall. Too many people still with their hands in the sand.

Even before President Trump was re-elected, the Heritage Foundation — the conservative think tank behind Project 2025 — set out to destroy pro-Palestinian activism in the U.S. Read more: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/18/u...

I was interested in the immersive use of camera and continuous takes in THE STUDIO, ADOLESCENCE, and THE PITT. So I interviewed their DPs Adam Newport-Berra, Matthew Lewis, and Johanna Coelho, for GoldDerby. www.goldderby.com/article/2025...

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THE FRIEND is one of the best NYC movies in recent memory. A pleasure to interview co-filmmakers Scott McGehee & David Siegel, & star Naomi Watts on this lovely gem, on embracing grief & working with the GOODEST boy, Bing The Great Dane. For IndieWire: www.indiewire.com/features/int...

One of the co-directors of NO OTHER LAND, Hamdan Ballal was beaten by Israeli settlers and seized by Israeli soldiers from the ambulance Ballal called, per co-director Yuval Abraham. No one knows where Ballal is. (Ballal is second from right in the below photo.)