Coming in April from @criterion.bsky.social! FINALLY! 🎉 @wfhinetwork.bsky.social www.criterion.com/boxsets/8685...

Is there a Romancing the Beat type beat sheet or manual specifically for a slow burn (as in, not getting together at 50%)

It's REALLY bad out there

At this rate, there's a pretty good chance we get an American medalist wearing an "ICE OUT" pin on the stand, which could well be the thing that finally makes him kick it.

Crazy how good this feels after the past few weeks

Another of my articles on Ida Lupino is this on how she almost lost her first starring vehicle at Warner Brothers—“The Hard Way”—to the studio’s queen, Bette Davis. pmbryant.com/x/letyoursel...

This is truly incredible. Shakespeare speaking to RIGHT NOW—on the “mountainish” inhumanity of punishing and casting out strangers from your country.

Went on a lil rant about how increasingly annoyed I am by the early release of Super Bowl ads. Give me something to look forward to on Sunday! consequence.net/2026/02/supe...

the Epstein files are really devastating because they remind me of how many girls and women miss out on professional opportunities, mentorship and careers because of how many powerful, rich and influential men only view girls and women — and interactions with them — through the lens of sex

This is an important point. Empathy—in and of itself—is anti-fascist. The arts—and the project of higher education as a whole—teach empathy, enabling you to put yourself in other people’s shoes. So to a fascist, they must be destroyed.

THIS SHIT IS NOT SUBTLE

Watch this, it's astonishing.

my friend sent me this last night about the Epstein files and I can only hear it in Mitch Hedberg's voice

the Washington Post effectively blew up its arts section today, dismissing its books, TV, music, and theater critics, features writers, and several editors. (I'm also guessing the vacant film critic position will stay that way.) Just an insane loss of talent and a huge self-inflicted wound.

Jeff Bezos’s wealth has increased an average of $70 million every day of 2026, meaning that he could have offset The Post’s losses with what he’s made since Monday.

Kiddies who made it out of the ICE dungeon report sighting a schoolmate. Before this, the school district had no information on their whereabouts. The family has now been connected with a lawyer. Youngsters who escape a govt dungeon are the only way to track abducted children? This is fine!

Looks like Hochul is trying to get a similar policy thru in New York: www.npr.org/2026/02/03/n...

Trump's constant degradation of female reporters is unsurprising but the press corps' collective decision to treat it as background noise is actually kind of sickening

(Clears throat loud enough to rattle a table) YOU CANNOT JUST CALL YOUR ROMANTIC COMEDY "GOODBYE GIRL" AND THINK THAT'S OK, STEALING THE TITLE OF ONE OF THE GREATEST ROMANTIC COMEDIES OF ALL TIME AND JUST DROPPING THE "THE" IS NOT OK, I HOPE THIS MOVIE IS A "MELANIA"-LEVEL FAILURE

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I expected the cuts would be bad but I'm honestly stunned and sickened seeing how many great journalists the Washington Post just lost. People who nailed huge investigations, documented war zones, exposed horrific crimes, dropped all at once for failures they did not cause.

My review of ABC's "The Muppet Show," which is a one-off special for now, which is why people need to watch it, even if this special is merely "fine" rather than "great." I also list a bunch of recent memory-holed Muppets projects they did INSTEAD of this:

It’s Ida Lupino Day! #BOTD February 4, 1918

Shutting down (the stellar) books coverage at WaPo is a real telling move when your owner is literally Jeff Bezos

A year and a half after Joaquin Phoenix dropped out of the lead role in Todd Haynes’s explicitly queer romance, Pedro Pascal has officially stepped into the role, all but saving the project from development hell.

As I keep saying, we still have the paperwork eighty years on of everyone applying to gain property and business left behind by interned Jews These people are still amongst us

I Won't Say (I'm in Love) from Hercules www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDT-...

this would be more impressive if they hadn't been harboring and celebrating Roman Polanski for decades

If you could see the “artist’s intentions” you’d probably wish you couldn’t anyway. Nothing is so deathly to enjoyment as the relentless march of a movie to fulfill its obvious purpose. This is, indeed, almost a defining characteristic of the hack director. (1969)

Nothing makes me more rage-whiteout furious than people who deny the sexual violence the hostages and the murdered went through.

The headlines claimed Melania was a surprise success, but Hollywood has a word for a movie that costs $75 million to make and market and finishes third in its opening weekend: a flop.

So the second episode of the American Revolution on PBS describes Thomas Paine’s life before publishing Common Sense as a pretty spectacular failure, and I have to say I find it rather reassuring.

Greatest acting Robert Redford ever did was when Woodward in ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN says “I’m a Republican.”

furthermore, fuck Neil Gaiman

Impeachment for everyone

no greater words have ever been spoken

It’s hard to focus on one thing to be appalled about, but these stories out of Minnesota are awful. (And, of course, on the other hand, very encouraging.) I cannot believe you can wrongly grab somebody, transport them, and then leave them where YOU took them.

This is the quote he's referring to and damned if every one of us who's worked in traditional tv prior to the streaming era isn't silently screaming in frustration right now. TV worked perfectly well before everyone tried to become GoT

If anyone says Lupita Nyong’o is miscast as the most beautiful woman in the world, you know you can safely discard any further opinions from that person

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Penelope Spheeris said she had tons of projects she wanted to do -- including a Janis Joplin biopic -- and yet this quote says so much about how her career went. So frustrating.

Important thread:

The new trailer for MICHAEL reminds me that the Jackson Estate sued HBO over FINDING NEVERLAND, resulting in the film being permanently removed from HBO Max.

Remembering the late 🇺🇲American actor #ClarkGable (1 February 1901 – 16 November 1960) born #OnThisDay in Cadiz, Ohio

☕️ Time for some coffee at Twin Oaks with Lana Turner... The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946) #FilmNoir

Sorry I wasn’t listening, I was once again thinking about how an Oscar-nominated cinematographer called a 56-year-old director with a litany of sexual abuse charges against him “a good kid”

Ice out

"We have a workforce filled with people who weathered COVID in a nursing home. This is no small thing. And now you’re saying they don’t deserve to be in this country? I don’t think so." - Jewish senior living director who requested anonymity so as not to draw attention to the center & its workers.

Much like the White House, the Kennedy Center does not belong to the president and he doesn't get to just do with it as he pleases. The time to seek every kind of injunction imaginable is now, unless you want the view from the Watergate to look like the East Wing, too Hope we learned that lesson!