“They’re the same picture.”

Looking to connect with assigning entertainment editors at outlets I haven't worked with yet. As we head into Q4, my primary focus is expanding my pitch pool before we hit "let's circle back after the holidays" season. I can be reached here or my contact page:

🎉TOMORROW 1 PM PT🎉 I'm playing Titanfall 2 with lots of fun challenges to fundraise for the Trans Empowerment Project. They provide so many resources and direct aid to those in crisis and are a completely nonprofit org. Donate link: tilt.fyi/Vf87Whgp82

I'm no Stephen King, but he's right — the second verse was absolutely better than the first (which I loved) when it comes to BLACK PHONE 2. What a thrilling and surprisingly lovely movie #FantasticFest nerdist.com/article/blac...

in case there was any doubt I want everyone to know that even writers hate cover letters

Idk it feels like something is shifting. This tweet was also the language of the AP push alert, and just now the Times chimed in:

DAN! CAMPBELL! FOREVER!

I heard too many sounds and now I’m a bitch but also the Lions beat the Ravens so you can’t tell me shit

Secret Screening #2 is BUGONIA #FantasticFest

If you protested Jimmy Kimmel being pulled off the air by canceling Disney+ or some similarly simple action that had clear, direct, effective results, it feels good that you helped get him back, right? The neat part of you can choose another simple action, and keep that awesome feeling going.

I cannot emphasize this enough: The regime has overextended itself. It is vulnerable to protest and dissent. They have not consolidated power and we are entirely capable of keeping them from doing so. Doomers are not realists.

Sinclair, by the way, has a handy contact form on their website if you want to talk to them directly: sbgi.net/contact-us/

If you’re looking to complain to Nexstar corporate: PHONE (972) 373-8800 FAX (972) 373-8888 www.nexstar.tv/contact/

OMG, Disney's new Star Wars trailer is so, so good. I can't wait for THE MANDALORIAN AND GROGU! www.picketywitch.com/star-wars-th...

There's a silver lining to not being an employed entertainment editor today but Disney trying to use its most anti-fascist franchise to try and distract from their capitulation sure is SOMETHIN'.

Jimmy Kimmel was taken off the air after our government threatened a private company with retaliation, marking a dark moment for free speech in our nation. More than 400 artists across our nation signed on to say: We refuse to be silenced by those in power.

I did most of my best work at Vanity Fair while working remotely, and it bums me out that Conde Nast is willingly letting go of talented people in the name of some vaguely defined corporate mandate.

I am ✨tired✨

But then how will the people dunking on them hide the fact that they are doing absolutely nothing themselves?

As CNN offers daylong saturation coverage of the podcaster’s funeral, I went back and checked to see how CNN covered Melissa Hortman’s memorial on 6/28, where Walz spoke and Biden/Harris attended. It got about four minutes during the hours it was happening—less than Jeff Bezos’s wedding that day.

Disney adults canceling subscriptions, vacations, etc really are making the Harry Potter adults that threw a fit over a $60 video game look like huge bitches

Christian persecution in America is best defined by this image: No actual struggle, wearing clothes that cost more than my entire wardrobe, polished cross instead of rugged, and surrounded by crowds of fellow hypocrites cheering on bigotry who believe they're the victims.

#FantasticFest reviews comin' in hot! ✨✨✨✨ Here's the thing about COYOTES: Is it good? No. Is it so bad it's good? Also no. But was I entertained? Yeah! Angeleno's ridiculous terror when it comes to coyotes is extremely funny, and that's almost a character in this silly, silly movie. It's fun!

Nothing says week 1 was a fluke like taking an L to the BROWNS 😂

No, no...I think you misheard: The RAPTOR is coming this week. Still a cause for concern, I suppose. You could stay inside, but she can open doors. Clever girl.

geez good thing we’re only using it for health insurance claims, legal arguments, mortgage rates, teaching students, predicting crime, mental health care, automating government services, fact checking, and pointing out other AI

#FantasticFest reviews comin' in hot! ✨✨✨✨ Here's the thing about COYOTES: Is it good? No. Is it so bad it's good? Also no. But was I entertained? Yeah! Angeleno's ridiculous terror when it comes to coyotes is extremely funny, and that's almost a character in this silly, silly movie. It's fun!

Iron Man is the story of how it is totally cool to get rich selling weapons so long as you use your blood money to create a narrative that you can wear.

Had a great time chatting with both lovely people. The live show should be available within the next week on your podcatcher of choice.

Went back to the hotel to write while the gang stays out and plays, but I didn’t go alone. #FantasticFest

John Wesley Shipp was one of my first ever interviews. We were at a dinky convention whose schedule got borked, so I went and got us coffee and we chit-chatted while we waited. I met him again 5 yrs later working for a major pub. He didn't just remember my name, he remembered how I took my coffee.

That’s never bothered Americans before.

I want to be empathetic, but I grow increasingly exhausted by the constant "nobody voted for this" when a new, unhinged, act drops. They literally printed out what they were going to do. It was readily available everywhere. We talked about it the whole election cycle. They all voted for it.

The idea of running anti-abortion Democrats is sickening to me. That means killing women! That is what that means!

If organizing didn't matter they wouldn't be fighting so hard to stop us from doing it, and other missives from the world of entertainment while I head into the bulk of Fantastic Fest. This week's newsletter is live thanks to the martini and caesar salad that are saving my life right now.

Dudes rock

THIS!! All that "both parties are the same" rhetoric totally disregards the blood, sweat, and tears that Black folks and other progressives spent over the past couple centuries to get us this far. All that work and then this generation was just too lazy to vote.

Very good reporting/analysis from @tvmojoe.bsky.social on KImmel/Disney/ABC that provides real answers to many of the "Why don't they just..." questions. www.vulture.com/article/bob-...

Disney/ABC have a responsibility to refuse to participate in corruption. Kimmel must be reinstated. If Disney/ABC agree to this extortion then perhaps creatives + workers should consider collective action to push back. Same w/buying park + cruise tickets if they bow. People have power. Ask Target

I was reliably told celebrating political violence was cause for government reprisal and private sector termination.

If organizing didn't matter they wouldn't be fighting so hard to stop us from doing it, and other missives from the world of entertainment while I head into the bulk of Fantastic Fest. This week's newsletter is live thanks to the martini and caesar salad that are saving my life right now.

Big announcement from me! On October 8 I will be moving to the UK for a new opportunity that will take me out of the media (but I'll still be in the games industry). You can read what that means for @bloodgodpod.bsky.social right here: www.patreon.com/posts/future...

Anyone who tells you that small actions have no meaning has absolutely 0 understanding of how organizing works. Boycotts are one the of the strongest tools in any collective arsenal. There will be no Great Action™ that stops all of this. Only a bunch of small ones that create a greater whole.

yiiiiiiiit's time for the annual #FantasticFest thread. My first this year was Paramount's PRIMATE, which unequivocally rips. It had so, so much fun hootin' and hollerin' at this one with the fest crowd. I'll tell you more about it later in my full review but phew, what a blast. #BenInnocent

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Back when I had a job, I had a weekly column. In that column I frequently told people to vote with their dollars. A fact that I, a jobless entertainment critic, bring up in this moment for absolutely no reason what-so-ever. Also unrelated: proud of so many of you today. Again. No reason.

Landed in Austin this morning. Drafted 2 reviews and banged out a screener. Picked up the essentials from H.E.B. See you soon, #FantasticFest buds.

Fuck yeah Letterman