NEW: ICE has a plan to lease offices across the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign. Today, @wired.com is publishing dozens of those locations. Many are near schools, medical offices, and places of worship. Vital work from @leahfeiger.bsky.social that I'm proud to publish.

SQUEEEEEEE!

Gregg Araki fans need wait with bated breath no longer as his new film, the Olivia Wilde and Cooper Hoffman-starring I WANT YOUR SEX, was just picked up after a hot bidding war by Magnolia for a theatrical release later this year. Read my review below of this fun, if messy, little romp to get ready📽️

With Ring, American consumers built the surveillance dragnet. Ring's Super Bowl ad, which highlighted a feature to find lost dogs, showed Ring is still, again, and always will be in the business of leveraging its network of luxury surveillance consumers www.404media.co/with-ring-am...

The Seattle Seahawks won the hearts of millions of Washington fans when they defended their way to a dominant #SuperBowlLX win over the Patriots, but one local fan in the crowd was still reeling Monday: good luck charm Kyle MacLachlan. Chatted with him about it: www.seattletimes.com/entertainmen...

absolutely loathed WUTHERING HEIGHTS, peak literacy crisis movie

thought that was @robertcruickshank.com at first glance

The Seattle Seahawks won the hearts of millions of Washington fans when they defended their way to a dominant #SuperBowlLX win over the Patriots, but one local fan in the crowd was still reeling Monday: good luck charm Kyle MacLachlan. Chatted with him about it: www.seattletimes.com/entertainmen...

Extremely exciting news: We're hiring a full-time film critic to come work with me at The A.V. Club! You probably have an idea if you're qualified for this, but if there's something that's not in the job listing, I'm sure I can answer Qs www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43...

WTO/99 February screenings. Many more cities TBA for March, April, and beyond. If you want the film in your city, contact us using the form at wto99doc.com and ALSO hit up your local theater requesting they screen WTO/99. Grateful to continue our double feature tour with Hello Dankness as well

🗓️ Small Budget Production Initiative Season 6 opens THIS WEEK! Join Washington Filmworks staff at a virtual info session Saturday, February 15 at 9am to learn more about the program and get all your burning questions answered. 🔗 RSVP and get the details: www.washingtonfilmworks.org/small-budget...

this is very good for all of us

DARK WINDS SEASON 4: Zahn McClarnon could read the phone book and still be compelling as hell to watch, though it's newcomer Isabel DeRoy-Olson who proves to be the greatest addition. It's still one of TV's best, most reliable shows📺 My review @seattletimes.com: www.seattletimes.com/entertainmen...

for my latest @us.theguardian.com talked to teens leading and joining anti-ICE walkouts from TX to MD to WI. one NYC teen: "I feel scared [of ICE] every day... But I’m not going to let that stop me, because bravery is just the positive way to say you’re scared, and I’d rather be brave than scared."

Join me, won't you, for a journey to the land of Tinkerdee, the end of sex and violence on television, and Kermit doing King Lear opposite a Coke can potentially voiced by Kelsey Grammer

A victory parade will be held Wednesday celebrating the Super Bowl LX champion Seattle Seahawks, a city spokesperson confirmed late Sunday.

America can begin to heal

Out before a movie where I just saw the new trailer for DISCLOSURE DAY and just wanted to say this will be my Super Bowl 📽️ youtu.be/N32YL6wV2j0?...

You're cheering for the Patriots, and you're cheering for the Seahawks, but I'm cheering for a good game that teaches our boys a lot about good sportsmanship!

Out before a movie where I just saw the new trailer for DISCLOSURE DAY and just wanted to say this will be my Super Bowl 📽️ youtu.be/N32YL6wV2j0?...

Whew, this new ending to the updated story

This just shows a fundamental misunderstanding of how to do news. Data helps, but data doesn’t tell a reporter to spend a years-long investigation into child labor or an editor to place staff in a country on the brink of war. What exactly does Bezos think WaPo’s “journalistic mission” is?

BREAKING: Washington Post publisher Will Lewis said Saturday that he’s stepping down, three days after the troubled newspaper said that it was laying off one-third of its staff.

Well Jeff crushed it at Tumblr so this seems like a great call. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

So we’re back to clicks again

Will Lewis is resigning as WaPo CEO, former Tumblr CEO Jeff D’Onofrio is the paper’s new acting CEO and publisher, per memos to staff

we gotta open the schools…or close down the schools. not sure. yikes

Revealed: How Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters

Some news: Ahead of this week’s devastating layoffs at The Post, a group of deep-pocketed locals approached publisher Will Lewis about acquiring the paper’s local news and sports teams. He ignored them. More in @status.news www.status.news/p/washington...

Before The Washington Post layoffs came down, a group of wealthy D.C. locals approached CEO Will Lewis with a proposal. @passantino.bsky.social has the details in his Saturday @status.news column: www.status.news/p/washington...

If you don’t cover culture, you’re not a newspaper.

The Washington Post just laid off its entire award-winning photo team. They were our eyes in places we'll never see. It's a horrifying loss at a time when lying governments, propaganda and AI slop are on the rise.

A new lawsuit accuses Northwest ICE Processing Center staff of assault, sexual abuse.

As life outside the theaters at #Sundance2026 fell further into disarray upon each exit from a screening, the films that cut through the noise were also often the ones that unflinchingly faced down the many pains of our world. Wrote about the best of them (thread) 📽️ www.inlander.com/screen/the-b...

Lawsuit accuses WA detention center staff of assault, sexual abuse

7 days after cancer surgery. I will stand with @postguild.bsky.social til my lungs collapse. also reunited with @karenattiah.bsky.social

The more I've thought about THE MOMENT, AKA The Charli XCX A24 film, the more I stand by its strengths, especially the pitch-perfect finale needle-drop and moving monologue that elevates the comedy into a work of grand, messy ambition. Go see it @siffnews.bsky.social & @thegrandcinema.bsky.social 📽️

Scoop w/ @nataliekorach.bsky.social: Washington Post leadership spiked a story that had been prepared by the newspaper's media desk, covering the historic layoffs at the Jeff Bezos-owned newspaper. Details in @status.news: link.status.news/4ai6W4C

EXCLUSIVE: Jill Busby, interim executive director at Northwest Film Forum (NWFF), is dropping the “interim” from her title and stepping into the role full-time. She wants to restore the film nonprofit to a bustling cultural center 📽️ My story for @thestranger.com: www.thestranger.com/arts/2026/02...

One time when they knock and open the door at breakfast on The Traitors they should let in the pig in the Richard Nixon mask from I Think You Should Leave

The only problem with movies as good as Filipiñana and zi is that, with their comprehensive artistry, they make most other films a letdown. Can't live only on the peaks, more modest virtues should also be discussed and celebrated, but it's important to acknowledge the difference.

Seattle friends--go see this! I'm a little skeptical of Bi Gan's work after his first film, and this is definitely slow in places (also long). But it's exactly the kind of cinema we used to have more of: weird, experimental, adhering to an entirely different set of rules than you are used to.

EXCLUSIVE: Jill Busby, interim executive director at Northwest Film Forum (NWFF), is dropping the “interim” from her title and stepping into the role full-time. She wants to restore the film nonprofit to a bustling cultural center 📽️ My story for @thestranger.com: www.thestranger.com/arts/2026/02...

Back on @citycastseattle.bsky.social to talk with the great @janehu.bsky.social & @liamgbillingham.bsky.social abt Washington’s millionaire tax, answer all the q's oblivious Seattle have about Tacoma, & share some good news for my fellow film nerds 📽️ Listen here: seattle.citycast.fm/podcasts/mil...

EXTREMELY great news out of #Sundance, easily one of the best things I saw at this year's festival, or really, out of any of the Sundances I've been at... (now do JOSEPHINE) variety.com/2026/film/ma...

GREAT NEWS ON THIS: NEON has acquired the outstanding film ONCE UPON A TIME IN HARLEM and will be giving it a theatrical release sometime later this year. Between this & LEVITICUS, glad to see that they've picked up two of the very best films of the fest to give them their moment on the big screen 📽️

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GREAT NEWS ON THIS: NEON has acquired the outstanding film ONCE UPON A TIME IN HARLEM and will be giving it a theatrical release sometime later this year. Between this & LEVITICUS, glad to see that they've picked up two of the very best films of the fest to give them their moment on the big screen 📽️

yes SIR variety.com/2026/film/ma...