Hey folks 👋 I'm the reporter who revealed immigration agents detained 170+ citizens this year My fellowship w/ProPublica has been incredible, but it wraps January. I'm looking for my next gig. Please reach out to share leads & opportunities! [email protected] www.propublica.org/people/nicol...

When misogyny is baked into every aspect of existence, how do we know when a critique is not the result of an implicit bias or overt hatred for women? And when do we know praise is coming from a place of sincerity and not defensiveness? #WickedForGood www.slashfilm.com/2033262/wick...

Inspired by @rianjohnson.bsky.social’s new film, the @pickfordfilmcenter.bsky.social is inviting the community to play a game — gather the clues, solve the mystery. Nov. 29-30. www.pickfordfilmcenter.org/grand/wake-up

Wake Up Dead Man is coming to @pickfordfilmcenter.bsky.social at our brand new second location on Grand Ave. Such a fun movie to see with a crowd — had a blast when I saw it with a full house at TIFF

Psssssst: Here’s the theater finder page for Wake Up Dead Man! Showtimes begin 11/26, and more theaters will be popping up throughout the week. www.wakeupdeadmanfilm.com

Thanks to @michaelhobbes.bsky.social and @yrfatfriend.bsky.social. Am calling raw milk “swill milk” from now on.

Call your Senators NOW. Repeat tomorrow. No deal without healthcare. (202) 224-3121 ☎️☎️☎️☎️🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨

Hey Seattle, the time is now here for you to see HAPPYEND as it opens today @nwfilmforum.bsky.social. It's a great fiction feature debut from Neo Sora that any discussion of 2025 in film would be remiss not to include. Go see it then read my review or read my review then see it. Just see it ASAP 📽️

Proud of the program I curated this year with my co-programmers, Jane Julian and Lesley Schroeder, for the @pickfordfilmcenter.bsky.social’s Doctober Film Festival and so pleased to see this coverage from Cascadia Daily News, highlighting some terrific docs: www.cascadiadaily.com/2025/nov/08/...

A great-movie avalanche lately continues for me with new films by Joachim Trier and Lynne Ramsay. (The four main performances in the former are just astoundingly good.) And @kphipps3000.bsky.social gets a good performance, too, in only a so-so biopic. thereveal.film/in-review-se...

Zohran Mamdani was the first mayoral candidate and Democratic official to stand up to the Trump administration over the arrest and disappearance of Mahmoud Khalil, which he saw as a violation of the First Amendment.

Carol's not getting EBT this month. Lots of people in need but the thing is, she's, you know, a mate. And if you saw SKINAMARINK it can somehow be traced back to her Lboxd post. So if you can give, give, and if you can give more, give more.

On November 17 and 24, @willowcatelyn.bsky.social and I will be on TCM talking about films featured in our book. More details to come.

Today at The Reveal, I rank the nine films of Kelly Reichardt, which range from very very good to outstanding, because she's just that consistent. The list is really just an excuse to take stock of a brilliant career that almost wasn't. thereveal.film/worst-to-bes...

New sketch from my friend Everett Aison. He occasionally sends me drawings by mail and I love them so much. (More about Everett here: pleasureboatstudio.com/featured-aut... )

Such a good film. (PNW folks can catch it at the Pickford this Saturday. www.pickfordfilmcenter.org/movie/natche... )

Such a lovely lovely interview

Along with directing an episode of TWIN PEAKS, Diane Keaton also directed four movies (one doc, three features). I’ve only seen two: HANGING UP and WILDFLOWER. They’re both flawed but interesting and make me wish she’s directed more films. I gotta track down the other two.

These days I can no longer be shocked; *of course* a flashy provocateur who was never any kind of real journalist to begin with is now entrusted to become an editor -- an editor! -- at CBS News

New IJ lawsuit filed today challenging ICE raids of construction sites, wherein ICE detains American citizens in AL, rejects their proof of citizenship, and holds them without PC. Worth a read, and more evidence of the wide gulf b/w what SCOTUS says is happening and what is actually happening.

Someone have me on your podcast to talk about ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER.

I just ran One Battle After Another on 70mm and in case it's not common knowledge I want to make sure audiences know that those reels are fucking HUGE and HEAVY (like 40-50 lbs) and we have to lift them over our heads and angle them onto a thin shaft without dropping them on ourselves/the projector

We’re playing Chain Reactions @pickfordfilmcenter.bsky.social on Oct 4. Director Alexandre Philippe will be in attendance for a Q&A. Can’t wait!

Playing this Sat/Sun @pickfordfilmcenter.bsky.social !

2025 Democratic politics is that scene in every 70s movie where somebody gets their car stolen and runs down the street shaking their fist in the air yelling, "Hey, that's my car!!!"

Oh by the way, don’t forget you can ask your library to order nearly any book you want to read but don’t want to buy. And as authors we love libraries buying our books & readers being able to access them through libraries.

This post sums up what I've been yelling at TV screens (much to my family's delight) for weeks. We have credible first-person testimony, from the victim herself & Epstein's "handler", that Trump raped a 13-year-old in Epstein's NYC apartment in 1994. But it's just two women talking, so why listen?

I compiled listings for Seattle area rep and art house theatres every week for five years or so at Seattle Screen Scene. It was exhausting and time-consuming work. We published a bunch of great reviewers too. Would have been nice if anyone involved in the site ever got paid for anything they did.

We got a marquee and everything. Open house party August 1 and movies start August 2!

Streaming for free on Kanopy:

The biography “is very clearly the result of slow thinking and methodical research, which makes it precisely the sort of work that its subject could never produce.” 💀 Immensely engaging, pungent review that shows the direct links to the conservative project/tactics/pseudo-intellectualism of today.

Pls drop everything and read this terrific essay from @geniusbastard.bsky.social

If you are a medical professional being targeted for treating transgender minor patients, here is someone who can help.

So many terrible things in the world rn but a friend (and former film student) just gave me this as a belated birthday present and I love it so much

The Body Politic is a terrific doc about Mayor Scott, his campaign, election, and his on the ground grass roots work with community leaders to address root causes of violence. Makes a great pairing with this Post piece.

Quote with you favorite anti-fascist film

The Conformist (1970)

Yeah, we need Charlie more than ever.

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Quote with your favorite anti-fascist film

I'm not a fan of process stories but it's important that folks know and understand that it took all of us to get this provision out of the bill - orgs like HRC, electeds like SMB, you for keeping up the calls and the pressure - and most of it cannot happen in a way that is visible to social media.

I wrote about how Brad Pitt has effectively albeit transparently used F1: The Movie and its press tour to rehabilitate his image, in order to obscure the violent allegations about abuse toward Angelina Jolie & his current estrangement from his six kids, @vulture.com. www.vulture.com/article/brad...

$150 million+ being withheld from Washington state

Meek’s Cutoff Wendy and Lucy Certain Women First Cow Showing Up

KBJ, in dissent, calls today's ruling "profoundly dangerous" and an "existential threat to the rule of law." She expresses her "deep disillusionment" with the court and suggests that the conservative supermajority continues to crown Trump a king above law. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

here’s an excerpt from my book CINEMA HER WAY where Mira Nair and I discuss her film THE RELUCTANT FUNDAMENTALIST and she shared with me this story about her son, Zohran Mamdani, experiencing Islamophobia post-9/11 while walking with his grandfather in Manhattan.

BIG NEWS: This morning, @kphipps3000.bsky.social and I have moved The Reveal from Substack to Ghost. You can get the details in the link below. It was a scary decision for us, but we're excited about it and expect to keep this newsletter going long into the future. thereveal.film/the-reveal-h...