charli xcx shopping for clothes: i think i‘m gonna try on this blouse

Sad news from the NPR family. Brian Jarboe was all you would want in a colleague- talented, kind and fun. He is missed www.npr.org/2026/04/13/n...

i have reached 80 films from 2021. top 10: 1. west side story 2. licorice pizza 3. the card counter 4. dune 5. the last duel 6. no sudden move 7. the green knight 8. shiva baby 9. the power of the dog 10. the velvet underground

OUT OF THE PAST has replaced BLACK NARCISSUS as my favorite movie of 1947

shout out to my friend and trivia team member aaron navarro of cbs news for asking the question

what are some movies you would describe as specifically riffing on Hitchcock - like the De Palma movies, Stoker, Mission Impossible II, etc. I'm aware of The Skin I Live In and Phoenix but have not seen either

go blue

The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me. It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."

we are very overdue for a new album by the war on drugs

Matthew Shear is 41??? Drop the skincare routine

This is all reminding me of a conversation I had recently with an old friend who works in tech and extremely gung-ho about AI. When I told him about my process for writing a long New Yorker piece, he was absolutely sure that AI could make it more "efficient." / www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...

But then the dove of hope began his downward slope

thank you Tennessee Lookout for using a photo of our current building, and not an old photo of the building in Mt Vernon Triangle which does not exist anymore

there’s a joke in SCHOOL OF ROCK, a movie that came out when I was seven, where Jack Black explains he lost a job to Yo Yo Ma’s cousin, and then he says “Little Nepotis’“ and i thought that was the cousin’s name, Lil Nepotis, like Lil Wayne. Because I had never encountered the word nepotism before.

my condolences to fellow Glenbrook North High School alumnus and Duke head coach Jon Scheyer

Sad news. Mary Beth Hurt was such an interesting, spiky actress--it was always a pleasurable jolt when she showed up on screen. I would recommend Interiors, Chilly Scenes of Winter, or The World According to Garp as starting points. variety.com/2026/film/ne...

Artists I used while directing today: Mogwai Black Country, New Road North Americans Vulfpeck CAN Mark Orton Hannah Frances Massive Attack Madeline Kenney Mort Garson Ezra Furman Winged Wheel Victoryland

Radu Jude on Weekend Edition! He's a great interview www.npr.org/2026/03/28/n...

me on a first date

Had the great pleasure of taping with Radu Jude today to discuss his latest, KONTINENTAL '25. Lovely talker, great interview, etc.

Thinking about Maude Apatow directing Leslie Mann, her mother, in POETIC LICENSE. Are there other examples of children directing their actor parents? Only one coming to mind is Walter Huston in THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE. Don't mention Estelle Reiner or Catherine Scorsese

AAAAAAAAAA!!!!

P.W. Herman.

Last night I watched THE AMERICAN PRESIDENT which begins with the president being invincible and essentially with unlimited political capital by having a 63% approval rating. What does it mean if it’s the opposite?

I think I just realized Samantha Mathis and Samantha Morton are different people. Sorry!

i've reached 40 movies from 1990. my top 10: 1. goodfellas 2. edward scissorhands 3. total recall 4. mo' better blues 5. life is sweet 6. wild at heart 7. misery 8. the hunt for red october 9. paris is burning 10. home alone

RIP Montana Wildhack, Samantha Simpson, Honey Harlow Bruce, Miss Tessmacher #filmsky 📽

As CBS retreats from radio - which 233 million Americans use - NPR remains on and the audience is up. The main CBS product was a short hourly newscast. NPR’s hourly news is on your local station - and also available on demand! Hit Play on the NPR app: apps.apple.com/us/app/npr-n...

A month late to this, but this is an essential interview about MUNICH www.gq.com/story/tony-k...

The Polymarket bar, playing on the “Monitoring the Situation” meme, is a bust. After waiting outside for nearly an hour and a half in the rain because of technical issues—power and wifi going out—none of the TVs are working. Staff say everything will be back up and running tomorrow.

is the trailer music in the ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER soundtrack?

One of the most important lessons I learned in college was from a history professor who cautioned us that there are no heroes in history: there are only good actions, and flawed people behind those actions.

good god this is horrific www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/u...

i've reached 20 movies from 1977. my top 10: 1. star wars 2. close encounters of the third kind 3. annie hall 4. sorcerer 5. suspiria 6. house 7. one sings, the other doesn't 8. smokey and the bandit 9. the spy who loved me 10. between the lines

The chicken shop date gal asked Ethan Hawke if he had advice for unrequited lovers. He says, "The one who's in love always wins. It doesn't matter if you get your heart broken. You're living when you're feeling alive. The sun doesn't care if the grass appreciates its rays. It just keeps on shining."

The only PTA movies I've seen more than once are his last four, and PUNCH DRUNK LOVE, so with that caveat, that I should rewatch all of them, mine are: 1. Phantom Thread 2. One Battle After Another 3. Boogie Nights 4. Inherent Vice 5. The Master

if you cast OUT OF SIGHT you should get a lifetime achievement award STAT

OBAA probably didn't need any more Oscars, but just want to pour one out for Greenwood's phenomenal score. "Trust Device" is an all-timer in his catalogue.

Years in which my favorite movie won Best Picture: 1927: Wings 1934: It Happened One Night 1943: Casablanca* 1946: The Best Years of Our Lives 1961: West Side Story 1971: The French Connection 1972: The Godfather 2006: The Departed 2007: No Country for Old Men 2025: OBAA * my favorite of 1942

If you didn't catch the names in PTA's speech, the 1975 Best Picture nominees are Barry Lyndon, Dog Day Afternoon, Jaws, Nashville, and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. There are no skips; there is no wrong place to start. They will make you love American movies anew, and demand the best from them.

i think it fucking rocks that Paul Thomas Anderson has won Best Picture for a ridiculously timely, crazy entertaining adaptation of Thomas Pynchon novel

remember malcolm and marie

great great looking movie

BABS

Yes, and all those smaller characters — her friends, Billy Goat, Comrade Josh, Willa’s teacher, Jim Downey…

OBAA is only nominally about radical politics, which it views as a lens through which to consider what it’s really interested in, which is the terror of bringing a child into the world, a question that will always have a political valence but not EXCLUSIVELY a political valence.

everyone see BLACK BAG!!!!!