I believe Ryan Coogler will win for Director because it's the destiny of the great Gen X American filmmakers (Tarantino, PTA, Wes Anderson, Fincher, Spike Jonze, Sofia Coppola, Linklater) to never win a Best Director Oscar.

Read the whole thing.

I wrote about the problematic history of the Oscars recognizing the work of Black directors. I’m really proud of this one, so please spread it far and wide. It’s an important convo that’s been sadly absent from the Oscars discourse this year.

@craigcalcaterra.bsky.social Hey Craig, I just saw the recent photo of Steve Cohen with one of Epstein's victims. I'm ending my Mets fandom today. Looking for a new team. Do you have thoughts on who the least evil MLB owner is? I'm leaning David Rubenstein but would love your thoughts.

What’s the deal with John Cusack? Either he is being blacklisted, or he has taken himself out, but either way it’s weird he is NEVER in a big movie anymore.

I don’t mean to ruin it for those of us who already know, but you don’t have to wait until your group is called to board the plane. No one cares if you board earlier.

Now seated for DR vs. Netherlands in Miami. It’s a home game for the DR. This place is ready to explode.

Matt is one of the greats. Help him keep doing his thing.

THREAD: I got laid off from NYMag/Vulture after 14 years. The family lost 75% of income + medical. Now mzs.press bookstore, once a side project. is do-or-die for Judith & I. I feel weird telling you this because others are doing much worse. But if you could like or share this, we'd be so grateful!

I’m in Miami for Netherlands-Nicaragua. I did not realize it would basically be a Nicaragua home game.

What if Gob Bluth was Secretary of Defense

I recently went through a list of all my Facebook friends, and it's remarkable how many of them are dead. Pretty soon, that thing will be just one big digital graveyard.

Yesterday the Texas Rangers erected a statue of a segregationist cop at Globe Life Field. A statue that was removed from public property in 2020 because of its racist history. @mlb.com has refused to comment. www.cupofcoffeenews.com/cup-of-coffe...

EXCLUSIVE: At more than 30 installations, U.S. commanders told troops the war on Iran is a Christian war. The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has been “inundated” with more than 110 complaints. One NCO said they were told the U.S. war is to bring about Armageddon and the return of Jesus…

I've watched this about a dozen times, and it makes me laugh each time.

As someone who has seen Mallrats more times than I care to admit, this is a fascinating profile that has a couple twists along the way. Crazy how even mentioning the word "Scientology" to a former Scientologist provokes a Pavlovian response of hostility and near-immediate legal action.

THE MENU is definitely the dumbest movie that I can't stop watching clips of on youtube

we finally reached the end of this calendar event i accidentally made 12 years ago

Now that I have some distance from the world of film criticism, I am baffled as to why we talk about the Oscars as if they're the arbiter of anything. There are no "snubs," "oversights," or "mistakes." An "Oscar winner" just represents the plurality opinion of 12,000 people in the film industry.

Incredible threat to the integrity of the public comment process

My early 2026 ranking of pitchers who sound most like early 70's British lead guitarists: 1) Mick Abel 2) Ian Seymour 3) Hunter Greene 4) Hunter Brown 5) Paul Skenes

I did a BBC piece on COOL RUNNINGS for the summer Olympics a while back, and I vividly remember interviewing @justinpeters.bsky.social, who had this incredible line. "Calling COOL RUNNINGS a cult movie is an insult to movies and, frankly, to cults."

I don't laugh with my friends anymore. Not the kind of big, whole-hearted laughs that I used to share with friends. Now it's only YouTube videos that get that joy out of me. This is a problem.

Glen Powell is trying to be an old-fashioned movie star, but his recent failures are demonstrating the system is no longer set up to create or support old-fashioned movie stars. Man, I'd write the shit out that essay if I were still writing that sorta thing.

This is so fucking wrong. This should never happen in this country.👇

having a "googling could the movie The Core actually happen" kinda day over here

Hey, if you're in the Cleveland area, I'm playing a very fun show on Friday night. Be there!

It's February 18, and I've seen two 2026 movies that will almost certainly be on my year-end Top 10 list. It's gonna be a good year.

I had coffee with a 21yo musician I'm sort of mentoring, and she was talking about being in the room for a recent Rock and Roll HOF concert. She really liked one of the performers and how comfortable he was onstage. "I think his name was, like, Dave...Matthew or something?" I felt 100 years old.

Jesus Christ these people are monsters.

I'm having a colonoscopy tomorrow, so I'm fasting today. This is hell.

NIRVANNA THE BAND THE MOVIE. Holy shit. Genuinely had me thinking, “How did they do that?” a few times. That doesn’t happen often. Also the hardest I have laughed in a movie theater in probably 15 years.

These events are fun regardless, but it'll be extra great with Luke participating.

Listening to a lot of early Beatles stuff, and I'm surprised at how many imperfections there are in their performances. I mean, it's cool! And it makes me feel better about the imperfections in my own recordings. But it's startling how raw it feels compared to today's ultra-slick releases.

It's amazing how many podcasts I listen to are people just guessing at what might happen or pretending to "read the tea leaves" on things that are just pure fairy dust. I must like it because I keep coming back, but man, it's all pretty dumb.

This is the superhero movie I've wanted for a very long time. The only problem is it's not a movie. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgMb...

Either Barbara Bush (the original) or Nick Kroll. Quite a legacy.

The biggest compliment I can give Mr. Epplin and his writing is that I am actually excited to read this book despite caring little about basketball. His baseball book "Our Team" was among the best I've ever read. If you actually like basketball, I have no doubt you will devour this one.

This is the aftermath of an ICE kidnapping a few blocks from my home in St. Paul—an hour ago. A quiet street full of broken glass and at least three wrecked cars. The target of the kidnapping was taken away by ambulance. He was on a stretcher and covered by a sheet, though a cop said he was alive.

I don't know where else to say this, so I'm gonna say it here: Tom Hanks fundamentally misunderstands his own appeal, and half of the roles he has taken were missteps.

I've waited a long time to be able to say this, but we're hiring a full-time Film Critic for @avclub.com! Details are in the job listing, but you should send application materials to [email protected] www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43...

I don't know how this happened, but Facebook is the best social media app again. It all came full circle.

Guys, my book has been out for almost two years. You don't have to keep sending me emails letting me know about the factual error I made on page 8. First of all, I know. Second of all, there will be no second edition, so there's nothing for me to do. Please stop.

Can I be honest? I don't quite get all the fuss about Pedro Pascal.

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.” What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.

who called it Heated Rivalry and not Fuck Ice

It’s weird how the White House can just blame a “staffer” for the racist post as if just any low level flunky can pretend to be the President of the United States at any random time.

By the way, for those of you not in MN: Homan’s strategy was to withdraw some agents, so it felt like we were in the denouement of the crisis, and then escalate hard against observers. They’re being incredibly aggressive with observers now. National media may not want to check out just yet