the original Christmas movies this year are all so bad what the hell is going on

IF I HAD LEGS I'D KICK YOU "is a film that is at times viscerally uncomfortable to watch, the ultimate filmic embodiment of walking a mile in someone else’s deeply stressed-out shoes." I wrote the film's cinematography for @ebertvoices.bsky.social Read: www.rogerebert.com/features/the...

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 5/5

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 4/5

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 3/5

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 2/5

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

It's been a packed year of writing from me. Here are 12 pieces I'm happy to have written in 2025.

Some of the best (I think) material in Five Came Back is there because a librarian saw what I was working on over 3 days and asked me if I'd like to take a look at a box of old George Stevens papers that had not been catalogued yet. So no, for a ton of reasons, AI cannot "do the research for you."

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

before I turn forty next year I would like to finally remember how to spell "restaurant" correctly, but I fear that is reaching too high

"Hawke allows this desperation to seep in slowly, like a balloon letting out air over the course of a party." At @ebertvoices.bsky.social I wrote about Ethan Hawke's masterful work in BLUE MOON as one the year's great performances Read: www.rogerebert.com/features/the...

The @trylon.org is screening The Last Days of Disco on Jan 8, with director Whit Stillman in attendance for a Q&A (attn @chrissteller.bsky.social — possibly relevant to your interests)

I’ve had a cold for the last week that’s really zapped all my energy but I have two more assignments due by Monday 🫠

Got my contributor’s copy of the new issue of Documentary Magazine, my first ever cover story.

Robert found this video yesterday while we were watching HOLIDAY AFFAIR. IYKYK.

for the night crowd

Robert Mitchum in a promo photo for HOLIDAY AFFAIR (1949)

In this week's guide: a new docu-drama from an Oscar-nominated Tunisian director, the new doc by Laura Poitras and Mark Obenhaus, a collection of short films, an experimental doc, a biopic of artist Niki de Saint-Phalle, a Canadian winter-set animated short, and a screwball comedy by Rebecca Miller

for the evening crowd

god what a brutal year

In honor of Ossie Davis' birthday today, here's the @ebertvoices.bsky.social piece I wrote about how he and Ruby Dee were partners like John Cassavetes and Gena Rowlands. One of the best pieces I wrote this year. www.rogerebert.com/features/oss...

Added to our holiday lineup! 📽️🎼🌫️ Spend NYE watching THE PHANTOM CARRIAGE (1921) in 35mm + live score by composer Cliff Retallick. Don’t miss this extraordinarily rich, innovative silent classic (which inspired Ingmar Bergman to make movies)! 12/31 LF3: www.americancinematheque.com/now-showing/...

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"Hawke allows this desperation to seep in slowly, like a balloon letting out air over the course of a party." At @ebertvoices.bsky.social I wrote about Ethan Hawke's masterful work in BLUE MOON as one the year's great performances Read: www.rogerebert.com/features/the...

In this week's guide: a new docu-drama from an Oscar-nominated Tunisian director, the new doc by Laura Poitras and Mark Obenhaus, a collection of short films, an experimental doc, a biopic of artist Niki de Saint-Phalle, a Canadian winter-set animated short, and a screwball comedy by Rebecca Miller

Watching BARTON FINK on Criterion Channel with @812filmreviews.com, so here’s this piece I wrote about the film’s inspirations for @nerdist.bsky.social a few years ago

Since DAVID BYRNE'S AMERICAN UTOPIA is now in Criterion Collection, I wrote about Spike as a musical director!

My Dad would have been 75 years old today. Miss you every day, Dad.

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for the late night crowd

Annual screening of EYES WIDE SHUT on 35mm with @812filmreviews.com at @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social

“THE VOICE OF HIND RAJAB exists not just as a clarion call to say never again, it also asks you to sit with this violence,” writes @oldfilmsflicker.bsky.social.

This is good, you should read it.

THE VOICE OF HIND RAJAB "exists not just as a clarion call to say never again, it also asks you to sit with this violence. Not with the bloodshed, not with the abstraction of a number in a news article. But with this violence." Read my four-star review for @ebertvoices.bsky.social

for the afternoon crowd

for the afternoon crowd

I wrote about Rob Reiner: www.vulture.com/article/rob-...

“The viewer, like these Red Crescent workers, must sit with Hind and bear witness to her distress, to her singular pleas for help, for her life.” Fantastic stuff by Marya

THE VOICE OF HIND RAJAB "exists not just as a clarion call to say never again, it also asks you to sit with this violence. Not with the bloodshed, not with the abstraction of a number in a news article. But with this violence." Read my four-star review for @ebertvoices.bsky.social

The uniqueness of a Black director like Spike getting to make musicals.

for the night crowd!

I’ve been working on this one for a minute. With Criterion releasing DAVID BYRNE’S AMERICAN UTOPIA, for @letterboxd.social I surveyed Spike Lee’s rich history as a musical director. Read: letterboxd.com/journal/spik...

Side note: A FEW GOOD MEN was Rob Reiner's ONLY Academy Award nomination. It was for Best Picture.

For @ebertvoices.bsky.social I wrote about Rob Reiner's THE AMERICAN PRESIDENT Read: www.rogerebert.com/tributes/the...

The extraordinary true legend, THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE opens January 16th at the Music Box, PRESENTED IN 70MM! Advance Tickets on sale now for Music Box Members. General sales open this Wednesday 12/17 at Noon. Showtimes & Advance Tickets: musicboxtheatre.com/films-and-ev...

Rob Reiner: “Silence in the face of authoritarianism is complicity. Speaking out is a patriotic act. Democracy doesn’t defend itself. It requires participation, vigilance, and courage from ordinary people."

this field biologist does a great job highlighting the insidiousness of AI editing these one-click AI edit buttons are incredibly appealing to many photographers, amateurs and professionals alike, and are framed as innocuous this is worth sharing and educating people about