I’m saddened to hear of the death of Homayoun Ershadi, who gave one of the great performances in one of the greatest films, Taste of Cherry. english.alarabiya.net/amp/life-sty...

Do you read Danish and subscribe to @weekendavisen.dk? If so, here’s a new piece interviewing me about my two forthcoming books. www.weekendavisen.dk/kultur/borte...

ALGORITHM OF THE NIGHT, the new collection of film writing by @hamrahrama.bsky.social, is out next month. Preorder it today: shop.nplusonemag.com/products/alg...

Excerpt from LAST WEEK IN END TIMES CINEMA in @parisreview.bsky.social today. Book comes out Nov 25 www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/11...

Reading @hamrahrama.bsky.social reminds me of Richard Price’s cameo in Scorsese’s LIFE LESSONS, when he says to the painter played by Nick Nolte: “I’m an artist myself, but when I look at your work I wanna go home and divorce my wife.”

Peter Watkins has died, one of the greatest and least known and most uncompromising filmmakers, a life well lived fighting power. www.bfi.org.uk/features/pet...

Art in America looking forward to Last Week in End Times Cinema. www.artnews.com/list/art-in-...

LAST WEEK IN END TIMES CINEMA getting ups in book review section of new Harper’s. Publication date is Nov 25. harpers.org/archive/2025...

“When you ask it what it thinks of Donald Trump, for example, it says: “I’m not sure about that; let’s talk about something fun like princesses or animals.”” www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

We strongly condemn the actions taken by Nexstar and Disney-ABC to pull JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE! off the air.

@nplusonemag.com spoke with me about the dreaded Cracker Barrel rebrand. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

My new book from @nplusonemag.com, Algorithm of the Night, is now available for preorder at 10% off. shop.nplusonemag.com/products/alg...

Right now you can preorder my book Last Week in End Times Cinema at Bookshop for 20% off. bookshop.org/p/books/last...

I’m teaching an online course on film criticism this fall through @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social. Anyone can join!

It's workshop time! In addition to the annual Publishing Workshop you know and love, we're hosting two summer writing workshops with Katie Kadue and Nadja Spiegelman—and later down the line, with A.S. Hamrah and Lauren Markham. Learn more at lareviewofbooks.org/learn

The new issue of @nplusonemag.com is out and includes my Oscar movies piece. Please subscribe!

The new issue of the Whitney Review of New Writing includes my piece on Charlie Haas’s new novel, The Current Fantasy. Haas wrote the movies Gremlins 2 and Over the Edge.

My recent piece on Oscar movies reappears in the mighty 50th issue of @nplusonemag.com, out now. Please consider subscribing, if you don’t already.

Kristi Noem has been working with the producer of “Duck Dynasty” to pitch a reality TV show—titled “The American”—where immigrants will compete in a string of challenges across the country “for the honor of fast-tracking their way to U.S. citizenship,” according to a new report.

For @screenslate.bsky.social I interviewed Alexander Horwath about his excellent new doc Henry Fonda for President, now playing at @anthologyfilm.bsky.social www.screenslate.com/articles/pre...

We join our colleagues in @nyfcc.bsky.social, @lafilmcritics.bsky.social and @bsfc.bsky.social in condemning the attack on NO OTHER LAND co-director Hamdan Ballal.

That’s right, I’m on the @hitfactorypod.bsky.social discussing AI in movies because of that piece I wrote for @fastcompany.com

Todd Solondz’s film Palindromes (2004) is getting rereleased this week. I interviewed him for @screenslate.bsky.social www.screenslate.com/articles/eig...

The international cast of the Trashfuture podcast were good enough to have me on this week to discuss the use of AI in cinema, because of my recent piece in @fastcompany.com

For @nplusonemag.com, me on 17 Oscar-nominated movies and David Lynch: www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

I wrote a piece for @fastcompany.com on the use of AI in current movies: www.fastcompany.com/91285846/hol...

This fall I’ll be teaching a 6 week course on writing film criticism via LARB. Open to anyone.

The Big Mouth (Jerry Lewis, 1967) will be playing in 35mm at BAM on Mar 4, so the programmers asked Chris Fujiwara and me to discuss it, which you can read here: theaterofthematters.com/texts/the-bi...

My piece on David Lynch for Bookforum in 2016, “The Interpretation of Screams,” link in comments —

“Twin Peaks foregrounds a kind of American emptiness of the soul that is filled by violence. The show places this evil in the whole country now, not just in a single town.” From 2017, @hamrahrama.bsky.social on David Lynch in the Trump era. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-29/rev...

Hamrah shares with Michael Dirda the gift of the enthusiast. He conveys the flavor of a film with such concision that it plants a hook in your head: you want to watch (or oftentimes, rewatch) it immediately.

If you’re in Amsterdam this Nuri Bilge Ceylan film series and exhibition opens soon www.eyefilm.nl/en/programme...

On the best films of the year (and making lists: www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

The first issue of @metrographnyc.bsky.social’s beautiful new journal includes a short piece by me on Jean-Pierre Melville’s Le deuxième souffle. metrograph.com/magazine-iss...

’Tis the season to pour yourself a glass of spiked nog and revisit A.S. Hamrah’s 2010 evisceration of Thomas Kinkade, “The Painter of Light,” and his saccharine direct-to-DVD biopic, “The Christmas Cottage.”

Metrograph asked me to contribute to their end-of-year highlights list: metrograph.com/metrograph-b...

Excellent piece by @tavlin.bsky.social in the new @nplusonemag.com on why Netflix is so destructive to the cinema and so lame. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-49/ess...

My 2024 Discoveries ballot for @screenslate.bsky.social www.screenslate.com/articles/bes...

“Bogart and Bacall waved goodbye from the airport gangplank. The kid waved back from the employee’s arms. And it was at this moment, as the plane left the runway, that the nanny had a brain haemorrhage and dropped dead on the tarmac.” amp.theguardian.com/film/2024/no...

In the new issue of the Whitney Review of New Writing I review two books: Esther Kinsky’s excellent new novel Seeing Further, and Apprentice in Wonderland, in which the editor of Variety lets Trump ramble on about his old reality TV show. Print only.

Lost John Ford Film The Scarlet Drop (1918) found. www.thenationalnews.com/arts-culture...

On Agnès Varda in the new issue of Bookforum

On Ali Abbasi’s Young Trump movie THE APPRENTICE in @nybooks.com