great piece on a great movie (and a good one)

Had fun editing this #NYFF63 roundup from @justinh94.bsky.social for @broadsoundmag.com. His writeup on "Sirāt" has me itching for a wide release date: broadsoundmag.com/2025/10/24/t...

Was honored to cover #NYFF63 for @broadsoundmag.com. A quieter fest than usual, maybe, but that wasn't a bad thing:

This week I got together with @justinh94.bsky.social and Danny Klain on the @broadsoundmag.com podcast to talk about ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER and Vineland. iTunes podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/6dRA...

Our Vineland read-a-long pod continues at a very Pynchonesque pace - stop, start, fast, slow - but we're back: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

New today on the podcast feed: @justinh94.bsky.social and @ethanwarrenauthor.com talk through chapters 4 and 5 of Thomas Pynchon’s Vineland! Search Broad Sound Podcast wherever you pod! www.buzzsprout.com/2389600/epis...

After a short delay, we’re back—with friends!

Thrilled to be back in @broadsoundmag.com writing about a very American movie and how, well… BRUTALIST it is:

Thrilled to be back in @broadsoundmag.com writing about a very American movie and how, well… BRUTALIST it is:

New today on the site: "Try writing about The Brutalist without comparing it to its subject’s subject. Everything about its construction seems designed to earn the word monumental." - @justinh94.bsky.social broadsoundmag.com/2025/07/03/i...

if you don't mind my tendency to go on at length in big long paragraphs, this is really a very good interview

Honored to be joining @ethanwarren.bsky.social to pod our way through Pynchon's VINELAND this summer in anticipation of PTA's (probable?) adaptation. Join us on the @broadsoundmag.com pod feed:

New today on the podcast feed: crack open a new season on the Broad Sound Book Club as @justinh94.bsky.social and @ethanwarren.bsky.social discuss Chapter 1 of Thomas Pynchon’s Vineland www.buzzsprout.com/2389600/epis...

Went back and re-read this interview from @justinh94.bsky.social last night after finally seeing Sing Sing, and it’s a really great read

In its own way, what Nathan does on tonight’s Rehearsal finale is as daring and insane as anything Cruise and McQuarrie have ever attempted

Wrote about three of the best shows of the year (and time as form):

Had the pleasure of joining this workshop last fall and got so, so much out of it. Highly recommend!

I'd be shocked if there's a better album this year than the new Bon Iver record. Wrote about it here:

I love this more than i can possibly say: “Why promote an album with a basketball game? ‘Well, the whole record is about steering to the sunlight or whatever, and being happy,’ he considers. “So that’s what we’re doing.’”

I'd be shocked if there's a better album this year than the new Bon Iver record. Wrote about it here:

Had a blast and a half rambling on to @ethanwarren.bsky.social about a movie that rambles on, and on, and on -- and achieves an imperfect perfection in the process, I'd argue. And I did!

Out now for Patreon supporters: @justinh94.bsky.social defends the perfection of Babylon to a skeptical @ethanwarren.bsky.social on a new Eye of the Beholder www.patreon.com/posts/eye-of...

“There are far too many other Storror video styles to touch on here, but the breadth of content itself speaks to their understated, multifaceted ability as filmmakers.” - @justinh94.bsky.social broadsoundmag.com/2024/07/27/j...

I'll always love @ethanwarren.bsky.social for somehow greenlighting a 4000+ word parkour essay for @broadsoundmag.com. That's the kind of freedom you can usually only feel, say, while jumping across rooftops

Had a lovely chat with Theo Kandel about songwriting, Guitar Hero 3, slant rhymes, and Miller High Life

We've had essays on... The parkour videos of Storror (by @justinh94.bsky.social) Shakespeare as retold by Verdi and Orson Welles (by @carmenchloie.bsky.social) The photography of Laura Aguilar (by Emma Jones) And Bill Watterson and John Kascht's The Mysteries (by @cairdiul.bsky.social)

CALLING ALL FREELANCERS, ESTABLISHED AND EMERGING: Bring us your dream arts and culture pitches to run at the new BroadSoundMag.com beginning in May. $100 per essay (upon completion of edits). There's no place like Broad Sound. But if you write it, they will come. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

NOW AVAILABLE on every global Amazon marketplace: the long-in-the-works Broad Sound Vol. 2 Part 2. Featuring 10 essays, a poem, and an interview with Guy Maddin. Get it here (PDF edition to come at a later date, but...you want the hard copy, come on) www.amazon.com/gp/product/B...

Honored that the great @ethanwarren.bsky.social let me be the Andrew Lloyd Weber newbie to his scholar to talk about the terrific new SUNSET BLVD. (And honored to share an ep with the great Frank Falisi)

Tomorrow on the podcast feed: Broad Sound in the aisles

Movies - now more than ever!

Stop the count!

Continuing my year-enders with a typically eclectic list of books I loved this year

The creators of SING SING—director Greg Kwedar, co-writer Clint Bentley, and producer Monique Walton—talk with @justinh94.bsky.social about telling stories, hard-won optimism, and the necessity of art.

Have you caught up on the Broad Sound podcast? Hear the newest episode, read by @roninonempty.bsky.social, and then visit the backlog for essays by @dodgyboffin.bsky.social, @bcwallin.com, @justinh94.bsky.social, and more! Available wherever you get your pods! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

I’m proud of this piece, which combined my love of Rian Johnson and Agatha Christie—easy to do when one is so heavily inspired by the other

If you don’t know @ethanwarren.bsky.social’s arts & culture journal, Broad Sound, you should really check it out (I might have a couple essays to go around there). If you don’t know the contributors, you should follow them now go.bsky.app/ThzJeoA