@mattzollerseitz.bsky.social's beautiful Vulture piece on Rob Reiner is required reading. www.vulture.com/article/rob-...

Jeff Wells is a sick fuck and this post is par for the course with him: The last time I spoke with him he told me to kill myself but that first he wanted to piss in my mouth.

Slam Frank, the "woke musical satire" about Anne Frank that ends with her handing her family to the Nazis so that they don't colonize Palestine, got caught posting (and deleting) these images from Bondi Beach yesterday. Fuck this musical and fuck everyone involved with it.

The death of Rob Reiner brings to mind his most tantalizing unmade project: The movie musical Singing Out Loud, written by William Goldman and with songs by Stephen Sondheim. I wish we lived in a universe where it existed.

Rob Reiner’s death is fucking heartbreaking. The man made some of my all-time favorite movies, and he never pretended to be a writer and steal credit. He loved collaborating—a rarity among directors, especially comedy directors.

Hey @aoc.bsky.social we need you to do the Ella McCay Challenge!

shoutout to the crowd that insisted it was a political loser to stand up for abrego garcia’s rights

No matter who buys Warner Brothers, the new CEO will have to deal with the Warner Brothers and the Warner Sister Dot. Just for fun, they run around the Warner movie lot.

Mark Harris is absolutely right. The takedowns of Hamnet (usually by men) are an embarrassing reflection of people’s needs to create an Oscar villain, not to mention their unresolved mommy issues. (Looking at you, Walter Chaw.)

Even if Philip Kaufman had only made The Right Stuff, it would be enough to get him into movie heaven. It's one of the greatest movies ever. Full stop.

I stand by every word.

In retrospect, this will go down as one of the most notorious pieces the New York Times has ever done, along with the reports denying Stalin's genocide in Ukraine and Ben Brantley's rave for Melanie Griffith as Roxie in Chicago.

I think the Netflix deal is ultimately better for movies and for WB than a Paramount deal (which I 100% believe would end WB) or a Comcast deal (which would take the two best-functioning studios in Hollywood and reduce them to one). I'm open to arguments, but "None of the above" isn't one.

Fuck it. This woman plays to a white audience and has since twitter. She didn't block anyone because going through the past couple of days of her posts shows where her attention was. I haven't forgotten her shitting on KH during the 2020 primaries.

Ruben Gallego, brought to you by the exact same campaign consultants who gave you John Fetterman!

"We need shadow universities to preserve academic values and academic freedom at a time when they are under attack by government officials and campus administrators." — John K. Wilson for Inside Higher Ed @insidehighered.com

Jeff: Why do you listen to this shitty Asian music? Sutton: Grandpa, I like this song! Jeff: If you like Korean stuff then why did they let the maid in in Parasite? Sutton: Dance with me! Jeff: Real men don't dance! They do LSD!

I'm not surprised that Brett Ratner and Chris Tucker are shit, but Jackie Chan too? I hope Rush Hour 4 winds up a tax write-off that sits on a shelf like Batgirl.

This is disgraceful toadying to someone who could well be dead, out of office, or both by the time this reanimated corpse knuckle-drags itself to the screen. Some context: Ratner directed the state-approved Melania doc that is coming to Prime, so he's now a friend of The Family. >

Cancel your Vanity Fair subscription if you have one.

If you ever wanted to know what would happen if aliens with no knowledge of human behavior made a movie, you're in luck because After the Hunt is now on Amazon Prime.

In this tough and moving essay, Caroline Kennedy's 35-year-old daughter Tatiana Schlossberg reveals that she is terminally ill with leukemia. She has some choice words about how her cousin Bobby has made the limited time she has left worse. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Hard to see Olivia Nuzzi lasting very long at Vanity Fair after all this. www.status.news/p/olivia-nuz...

I’m 250 paid subscribers away from a major goal. Think we can get there tonight? www.thehandbasket.co/upgrade

I’ve found Olivia Nuzzi’s song “Jail Bait” from the brief period when she tried to be a pop star named “Livvy.” The song sounds like it was written by R. Kelly. It is a masterpiece and I have listened to it three times. jumpshare.com/s/oMIJUAz8ca...

It's hard to overstate what a catastrophe it would be for moviemaking and moviegoers if the Ellisons are allowed to acquire Warner Brothers and merge it with Paramount. I know that rooting for Comcast and/or Netflix sticks in a lot of throats here but those would be far better alternatives... >

Twitter keeps crashing because everyone's tweeting about Olivia Nuzzi.

I can't believe I'm linking to Ryan Lizza's story of how he found out Olivia Nuzzi was cheating on him - the first time, in 2020 - but this is the world we live in now. telos.news/p/part-1-how...

This is a confession.

Olivia Nuzzi's just a girl in love! She can't be held responsible for her actions! She has no underlying issues to address, she's certifiably cute and adorably obsessed! They say love makes you crazy therefore you can't call her crazy cuz when you call her crazy you're just calling her in love! BAM!

I laughed so hard reading this that I woke up my baby.

Still thinking about what an eviscerating insult "This book reads as if it were punched into a phone while the author was hiking" would be if it appeared in a review.

Jesse Armstrong and Celine Song have some hard questions to answer about why they ever hired Dasha Nekrasova to act for them. She was always this bad—you just weren’t paying attention, didn’t care, or both.

From the piece about the Olivia Nuzzi book. I am trying to remain calm.

The Speaker of the House shut the chamber down for two months to block the release of the Epstein Files and the president is huddled in the Situation Room of the White House to formulate a plan to keep them from being released, and I don't know why you crazy libs think there's some kind of cover up.

When people say "Democrats should act more like Republicans," remind them that Democrats are literally doing QAnon For Real by demanding the Republicans expose all their pedophiles via the Epstein files.

This is more important than yall driving yourself insane following every ass hair of the negotiations

Me reading the reviews for the Ryan Murphy/Kim Kardashian show:

When I was a kid I wrote a sketch comedy series called The Dick Cheney Show where Dick Cheney is forced to host a kids' TV show with "Sideshow Bush." In the first episode, Richard Simmons puts him on a diet and he has a heart attack running up the Rocky steps. I have no regrets.

I never met Dick Cheney but if I had I would have unleashed my inner Chris Farley and been like "remember the time you shot a guy in the face? That was awesome."

"I guess this is the end of a chapter in your life, Bruce Springsteen!" www.forbes.com/sites/timlam...

There's probably something worse than a Nazi tattoo that's gonna drop on Platner, so brace yourselves.

honestly the only piece worth reading on the platner situation. @tressiemcphd.bsky.social is absolutely cooking here. (gift link)

Roses are Red Violets are Blue Don't vote for the candidate with the Nazi tattoo.

NEW: The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Friday that it will send election monitors to polling sites in California and New Jersey — a move that Democrats and democracy advocates warned may be a potential step toward the Trump administration seizing control of voting.

This thread from Mark Harris about journalism is 100% accurate. Too many prominent publications castigate all criticism from the left as whining when they’d do better to listen to them and not create animosity among the people most likely to consume their product.

Might I remind the writer of this piece that Johnny Cash got a biopic that was so famous that whole sections got lifted for Walk Hard and nobody could tell the difference.

BREAKING NEWS: Donald Trump loses @nobelprize.bsky.social to George C. Scott in Man Getting Hit By Football.

My New One at MSNBC Opinion on How the Supreme Court Seems Poised to Kill Off What Remains of the Voting Rights Act While Few Pay Attention–With Implications for 2026 Redistricting www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb... @msnbc.com

If the headline of your article takes the form of a question, then 99% of the time the answer is "no."