Bud Cort, star of ‘Harold and Maude’ and ‘Brewster McCloud,’ has died at the age of 77. He also appeared in ‘MASH,’ ‘Dogma,’ and ‘Eagleheart.’

RIP Bud Cort variety.com/2026/film/ne...

some years ago “geese tiny desk” would have been a viral cute animal clip they would run on the Ellen show. makes you think

my king stays winning 👑👑👑🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

Bad Bunny's performance at the Super Bowl may have been his biggest audience yet, but for the people he has represented since his start — his fellow Puerto Ricans — it meant something special. n.pr/4ksBgOJ

back to the future (2) x nirvanna the band the show the movie pairing for @thenextpictureshow.bsky.social please!!!

happy super bowl day from my favorite football movie

R.I.P. Cake founding guitarist Greg Brown

i've reached 40 movies from 1987. my top 10: 1. raising arizona 2. broadcast news 3. the princess bride 4. ishtar 5. innerspace 6. moonstruck 7. adventures in babysitting 8. full metal jacket 9. robocop 10. prick up your ears

Watching PRICK UP YOUR EARS and cannot stop thinking about how Alfred Molina looks like Paul Mescal but only kind of

My story on Elon Musk cutting safeguards at xAI is on the front page of today's @washingtonpost.com. I’m also among 100’s of reporters laid off. I absolutely loved my job my brilliant coworkers & the thrill of reporting @ the center of forces upending the world: AI & Silicon Valley’s political power

working at the post since november 22, 1965. fired today

I donated to the Washington Post 2026 layoff fund, and you can too: www.gofundme.com/f/standing-t...

the Post news is gutting for many reasons, but I can’t help focusing on the books section—how great it was, and how essential. So many worthy books barely get reviewed. I’ve had authors reach out to thank me because mine was the only post-pub coverage they got. Just awful for readers & for writers.

Seems as though they have laid off their entire photography staff. Photojournalists don’t just take photos, we report, we pitch, we take photos while our lives and safety are under threat. We explore our neighborhoods, restaurants and sports with a creative eye. Photojournalists do it all.

For those looking for freelance work in the wake of WaPo layoffs: I'm an editor at large overseeing Ideas & Culture at Bloomberg, including our Books coverage. Find me at [email protected]

I wrote this two years ago and it's still true www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...

Seems like Newport Folk Festival sold out in about 3 seconds

INBOX: Washington Post Ukraine Correspondent Lizzie Johnson announces that she has been laid off in the middle of a below-freezing war zone without power, heat, or running water.

The Washington City Paper lives! It's one of the only places in the DC area where you can find local news and arts coverage that The Post just decimated. Follow @wcp.bsky.social nerds.

This is the dude that Zoe Chace was hanging out with in Portland. Quote from him: "that doesn't make any sense. Antifa is not an organization." Feds just straight up regurgitating right-wing streamer blather www.thisamericanlife.org/877/transcript

This week on the substack: recommendations for films by Nancy Savoca, Sam Raimi, Lynne Ramsay and Stephen Frears. Plus, a classic novel by Bernard Malamud and revisiting a lovely British soul singer more people should be listening to. open.substack.com/pub/dannyhen...

anyway,

did the in memoriam section forget... SLY STONE??

reading your timeline like

she brought her a-game www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwlP...

❤️

Catherine O'Hara & Eugene Levy performing "A Kiss At The End Of The Rainbow" from A MIGHTY WIND at the 2004 Oscars🌈💔

DOJ has since killed this link. This is what was there:

catherine o’hara is secretly wonderfully MANIC in scorsese’s weird and wacky ‘after hours’ if you want a deep cut to honor her today

SEND HELP is out today. We weren't able to get it on the show but I was delighted by it. Gnarly little thriller with fantastic performances by Rachel McAdams and Dylan O'Brien, and a lot of fun direction by horror comedy king Sam Raimi. GO SEE IT!!!

apropos of nothing, i started crying in my apartment last night thinking about "being alive"

@donell-harvin.bsky.social Hi there, I'm a producer with NPR's Weekend Edition. We'd like to speak with you this week about the history of DHS and calls to rethink the department. DM or email me at dhensel at npr dot org to talk more!

three movies and four albums recommended in the newsletter this week. take a read! dannyhensel.substack.com/p/january-26...

in case you missed it, I WAS ON NPR TALKING ABOUT COW TOOLS THIS MORNING AND YOU CAN LISTEN TO IT:

A lot going on in the news, but if you want a small break, I talked with @cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social about "Cow Tools" and cows using tools www.npr.org/2026/01/25/n...

Oscar nominees on NPR's Weekend Edition! THE SECRET AGENT is up for Best Picture, Actor, Foreign Film and Casting. We spoke with nominee Wagner Moura, who stars in the film. www.npr.org/2025/12/06/n...

@cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social Hi there! I'm a producer with NPR's Weekend Edition. Would you like to talk to us about the news about cows using tools? (www.npr.org/2026/01/19/n...) Let me know! You can send me an email at dhensel at npr dot org. Thanks!

best picture nominees in my 2026 movie ranking (out of 96 movies) 1. one battle after another 5. marty supreme 9. the secret agent 19. bugonia 27. sentimental value 41. train dreams 62. f1 66. frankenstein 75. sinners 89. hamnet

i've reached 50 movies from 1999. top 10: 1. eyes wide shut 2. being john malkovich 3. election 4. the insider 5. all about my mother 6. the straight story 7. show me love 8. the limey 9. the matrix 10. galaxy quest

Hey so stupidly i started a substack where i just write about the movies i watch and the music i listen to and the books i read. that's it! subscribe or don't! i don't care. my dad told me to do this because he said his friends would read it dannyhensel.substack.com

i've reached 20 movies from 1978. my top 10: 1. invasion of the body snatchers 2. the last waltz 3. days of heaven 4. i wanna hold your hand 5. superman 6. the deer hunter 7. blue collar 8. the wiz 9. a wedding 10. halloween

i've reached 40 films from 1996. my top 10: 1. fargo 2. trainspotting 3. lone star 4. mars attacks! 5. jerry maguire 6. walking and talking 7. bottle rocket 8. dead man 9. bound 10. secrets & lies

Yall not only is BOYZ N THE HOOD in the Criterion Collection but so are BABY BOY and POETIC JUSTICE too!! This is amazing news.

favorite bits of scores of 2025: "Trust Device" - Jonny Greenwood, One Battle After Another "Force Of Life" - Daniel Lopatin, Marty Supreme "Black Bag" - David Holmes, Black Bag "The Chase" - Fergus McCreadle, Highest 2 Lowest Basically everything happening in "The Mastermind"