Throwing open my window and screaming at passerby on the street, “THE GAY HOCKEY PLAYERS ARE IN LOVE!!!!! MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!” 🎄🏒

Honestly the lighting and cinematography were stellar. No notes

it's been said plenty, but O'Connor is a massive talent

this is also just an incredible scene, beautifully performed

Yeah, this is the best I've ever seen any movie intentionally capture that kind of sudden, natural light/color/temperature shift.

I do just love listening to people talk passionately about their craft! sometimes you know when you got the juice!!

One of the things I was most glad to talk with Rian Johnson about was working with his cinematographer Steve Yedlin (he also shouted out his production designer Rick Heinrichs) on these remarkable sequences 📽️ Read the full @ebertvoices.bsky.social interview here: www.rogerebert.com/interviews/c...

Some of the most underrated craft of the year. A gorgeous film that should get more attention for its cinematography and production design.

Against my better judgment, I watched the second part of #StrangerThings5 and, absent a miracle in the finale, it's a late contender for the worst show of 2025. Genuinely went in with an open mind, but agonizing, awkward lines like "our shared trauma" affirm that its writing has fallen to a new low📺

Yeah

The show has always been about leaning heavily into nostalgia, but not only for itself. Now, instead of being a charming cover of the high highs of a Steven Spielberg film, #StrangerThings plays more like a closed loop that merely refers back to its better days 📺 www.seattletimes.com/entertainmen...

THE CHORAL: Ralph Fiennes can't save this overly sincere yet woefully stuffy WWI drama from falling completely flat. Though it's always a joy to see him command the screen, all else proves to be sadly hollow. Best just go watch CONCLAVE again 📽️ My review: www.thewrap.com/the-choral-r...

This is just beautiful. Sincere but understated. You can feel the ache of loss. Scorsese is as good a writer as he is a director and actor. My house is full of books that he contributed essays, forewords, and introductions to, and every one is a gem.

Timothée Chalamet is so electric in MARTY SUPREME that it takes a while before you realize that he’s playing a total shit. www.vulture.com/article/revi...

I've seen this going around today and it's beautiful, so here's a gift link.

THE CHORAL: Ralph Fiennes can't save this overly sincere yet woefully stuffy WWI drama from falling completely flat. Though it's always a joy to see him command the screen, all else proves to be sadly hollow. Best just go watch CONCLAVE again 📽️ My review: www.thewrap.com/the-choral-r...

I do not fully love MARTY SUPREME but Sean Fennessey's interview with Josh Safdie made me want to watch it again, and I've already seen it twice. youtu.be/rRA9PKxTlC0?...

Treat yourself today to this video www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydvU...

As THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE begins its limited theatrical release, @isaacfeldberg spoke w/ dir. Mona Fastvold about the commonalities between the film and THE BRUTALIST, the process of creating this film’s rapturous musical sequences, and the “dreamlike quality” she always seeks in cinema:

MARTY SUPREME is an American film that comes out on Christmas Eve 2025. That means, as of today, you can see one of the last great films of the year @siffnews.bsky.social and @thegrandcinema.bsky.social. Need more convincing? Read my review below then go see it for yourself or see it then read it 📽️

If you’re looking for where to watch your favorite holiday movies tonight and tomorrow, I’m here to help. www.vulture.com/article/best...

I loved the first season of Pluribus, and I'm excited to see where it goes next. I'm not excited that, according to Gilligan, it's going to be quite a while before season 2.

Adding my voice to the defenders of Vince Gilligan’s PLURIBUS, whose stellar season finale is now out, and the outstanding work of Rhea Seehorn. Her Carol is a bit of a grump, but she's our grump, a graceful sliver of humanity’s complexity in a world that's seeking to flatten it. Bring on Season 2 📺

if you are bored by pluribus and my curmudgeonly queen carol sturka that's a skill issue*!!! *reasonable minds may disagree but I tried to work through that disagreement in writing variety.com/2025/tv/colu...

Bari Weiss just sent this Christmas Eve email to the CBS News staff about "building trust," which includes her tripling down on spiking the CECOT piece "to make sure it's comprehensive and fair." One CBS staffer tells me: "She really has no idea how insulting she comes across."

There’s no denying that he, both Marty and Timmy, is, when all the cards are down, in it for the love of the game. In the case of the Marty, It doesn’t love him back, and most likely never will, though he's got his head too far up in the clouds to realize it 📽️ www.seattletimes.com/entertainmen...

Movie marketing is kind of a mess right now. www.vulture.com/article/movi...

MARTY SUPREME is an American film that comes out on Christmas Eve 2025. That means, as of today, you can see one of the last great films of the year @siffnews.bsky.social and @thegrandcinema.bsky.social. Need more convincing? Read my review below then go see it for yourself or see it then read it 📽️

“Is it madness, or is it some form of spirituality?” With THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE in theaters, I interviewed Mona Fastvold, for @ebertvoices.bsky.social, about faith and trauma, hunger and thirst, echoes of THE BRUTALIST, communal languages of movement, and more. www.rogerebert.com/interviews/t...

Honor and a privilege to publish my top 10 with the Mercury. Support local film criticism and read!

Much has been (rightfully) said about Joel Edgerton’s acting and Adolpho Veloso’s cinematography in TRAIN DREAMS, but for @ebertvoices.bsky.social’s best of craft, I wrote in praise of the stunning work of Alexandra Schaller & John Lavin. It's beautiful, all of it📽️ www.rogerebert.com/features/the...

People at my screening of Avatar 3 cheered when Payakan showed up.

Much has been (rightfully) said about Joel Edgerton’s acting and Adolpho Veloso’s cinematography in TRAIN DREAMS, but for @ebertvoices.bsky.social’s best of craft, I wrote in praise of the stunning work of Alexandra Schaller & John Lavin. It's beautiful, all of it📽️ www.rogerebert.com/features/the...

Today at The Reveal: You can read @scotttobias.bsky.social on MARTY SUPREME and read me on FATHER MOTHER SISTER BROTHER and ANACONDA. More reviews tomorrow. Phew! It's a busy time of year.

Scoop via Pam McClintock: THE LEGEND OF AANG: THE LAST AIRBENDER movie, which was to have hit theatres in October 2026, will now premiere exclusively on Paramount+. Also: Taika Waititi joins the voice cast. www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general...

The CBS 60 Minutes CECOT segment showed up in Canada's Global TV app and then quickly disappeared. But a direct copy (not a screen recording) is now archived online: archive.org/details/60mi...

!! Here’s a link to full video of the 60 Minutes segment that Bari Weiss killed last minute, via @jasonparis.bsky.social: is.gd/paU8Ko (It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)

It’s been a year of major shake-ups for Seattle’s art scene, the biggest of which came from Donald Trump’s second presidency. Here’s what else happened in 2025.

MARTY SUPREME: An exhilarating Timothée Chalamet does career-best work as a man who is most like Wile E. Coyote. As he runs off one cliff after another, he desperately hopes to fight gravity by continually hurtling onward. Chalamet has got the juice 📽️ My review: www.seattletimes.com/entertainmen...

"Today, we go behind the camera to pick some of the great craft of the year in film, including excellence in cinematography, editing, original score, casting, and more.” Read our writers’ picks:

Earlier this month, after Trump blasted "60 Minutes" for interviewing Marjorie Taylor Greene, correspondents noticed a change behind the scenes. "Bari Weiss got personally involved," specifically with stories about politics, a source at the program says.

MARTY SUPREME: An exhilarating Timothée Chalamet does career-best work as a man who is most like Wile E. Coyote. As he runs off one cliff after another, he desperately hopes to fight gravity by continually hurtling onward. Chalamet has got the juice 📽️ My review: www.seattletimes.com/entertainmen...

Timmée. www.vulture.com/article/revi...

One explanation for Bari killing the story is that she did so as a public act of fealty to the administration. But another is that, as an inexperienced journalist, she doesn’t understand that a refusal to go on the record is a kind of comment in and of itself

Full story about what's going on at CBS News: www.cnn.com/2025/12/21/m...

"Whenever I attempt to describe it, people look like they’re ready to fall asleep. But maybe that too, curiously, speaks to its power: It’s about drab boardrooms and mundane offices — spaces filled with corporate doublespeak and legal minutiae — where people’s lives are destroyed."

“What got broken here doesn’t go back together.” www.vulture.com/2019/10/the-...

The greatest examples of investigative journalism don't adhere to balance. They center ethically upon accuracy and veracity. There's a difference. Ida Tarbell never interviewed John D. Rockefeller for "The History of the Standard Oil Company." www.wsj.com/business/med...

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full: