"Most of [PTA's] films are period pieces, and you can kind of lean into the beauty of the period and this was, like, the exact opposite—you're leaning into the ugliness." One Battle After Another DP Michael Bauman goes in-depth with Nick Newman on the film's complex, unusual production:

Thanks so much to everyone who has checked in about what it’s like in Minneapolis right now. This should answer most of your questions:

THE 25 BEST FILMS OF 2025 A Video Countdown vimeo.com/1156345183

Happy 11th anniversary of me losing my fucking mind over this QVC clip

unreal

typical ai use case

With PEE-WEE'S BIG ADVENTURE now on Criterion, I wrote about its particular magic and how difficult it was to recreate in the sequels. thereveal.film/pee-wees-ame...

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open 'just to do quick research'

The Letterboxd 2025 Year in Review. 🧡💚🩵 Presented by NEON. Illustration by Agata Nowicka. Visit letterboxd.com/2025

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

holy fuck it’s real

Benicio del Toro speaks to the moments in One Battle After Another that have turned into popular memes. One Battle After Another is back in select theaters and available on HBO Max

New today! Our reflections on the best movies and first watches of 2025, featuring @eccantwell.bsky.social, @frankfalisi.bsky.social, @franhoepfner.bsky.social, @dodgyboffin.com, @russellnichols.bsky.social @abigailoswald.bsky.social, @chadperman.bsky.social, @aheartofgould.bsky.social & more

Doing this again for 2025. Top 30 Fave First-Time Watches of the year (excluding '24 & '25 films). Many great discoveries and some embarrassing film gaps filled. letterboxd.com/marq/list/fa...

A common enough phenomenon in media, sadly, so I did make backups. If you remember something you wanted to read and can't find it, let me know. Here's my oral history of Freddy Got Fingered, for instance: authory.com/VinceMancini...

Never mind all the charm and talent. That much of Isiah is always onscreen and utterly obvious. Instead, a last word to let everyone know what isn't evidenced on film: He was an even better person than he was an actor; a warm and gracious delight of a man. Goodbye, friend.

I wrote a short essay on the pilot episode of TWIN PEAKS. It's a perfect episode of television. Almost everything that you need to understand about the series is shown in the first half hour. www.phantasmag.com/articles/twi...

Max Weinberg a legend for this youtu.be/IiqPcVyRhRQ?...

So disappointed. Always thought he was better than this. Fuck you, Michelangelo.

Time for the 2025 Year In Film Watching! By no means am I ready to finalize a top films of 2025 list yet (although #1 is locked in) but here's the highlights from 2025: letterboxd.com/marq/year/20... Some milestones 'n stats to start:

The Nardwuar and Alchemist interview is fantastic. Mobb Deep stories, Canadian rap arcana, DJ Muggs lore, and more. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhkW...

Sharing this New Year’s Eve movies list in case folks are looking for things to watch tonight! boxd.it/1pI7K @letterboxd.social

A great year-end thread celebrating the MTV era of music videos. One I want to add is Beastie Boys - Sabotage, a perfect Spike Jonze video that was so cool even Beavis & Butt-head could merely react in awe to its beauty www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2-S...

An absolutely wonderful, versatile, powerful and powerfully funny actor who enlivened everything he was in, and a huge loss. I'm not going to say the word, but we're all thinking it in his honor. RIP Isiah Whitlock. deadline.com/2025/12/isia...

RIP, Isiah Whitlock Jr

The POW Best Albums of 2025 A tradition like no other www.passionweiss.com/2025/12/29/t...

Who can ever forget this banger. We lost a real one.

Go round the outside.

This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)

Presenting the hotly anticipated, intensely debated, joyously celebrated daily countdown of TOP TEN TOM THE DANCING BUGS OF 2025! 🧵

Prince on Will.i.am: “I like Will.I.am, his business sense, and how we sees the world is very interesting. He’s very technology-driven. Um… but let’s remember, he _did_ write My Humps.” *looks straight to camera*

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...

How I'm turning up to the BlueSky Christmas party.

The Night Before Christmas (1905)

"this could have been slop, but it's not" is rapidly becoming a surefire signifier of premium-ness

The year isn’t quite over yet, but from massive comebacks to underground gems, the leaderboard looks set. We’ve ranked the definitive best Hip Hop albums of 2025. 🎤🔥 Did your favorite make the cut? Check the full list ⬇️ hiphopgoldenage.com/list/the-bes...

As the year comes to a close, TCM remembers the actors, filmmakers and creatives we lost this year. Gone, but never forgotten: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qF8_... Song title and artist: "In the Western Wind and the Sunrise" by Dave Simonett and the Sunrise.

Terrifying headline if you don’t realize they are sports teams.

I wrote about Rob Reiner: www.vulture.com/article/rob-...

Not even remotely adequate, of course, but I tried to get some thoughts down about Rob Reiner

We say goodbye to actor, filmmaker and activist Rob Reiner. A dedicated storyteller with sincerity that imbued his prolific work and the causes he believed in, Reiner’s heartfelt portrayal of the human condition reminds us of the power of film and its abilities to stay with us.

we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫

It hasn't even been twelve hours, but all three of us have been overwhelmed with requests from media for comment and I'm mostly writing this now so they'll leave me alone.

Rob Reiner made some great movies but he was also unafraid to speak the truth, and was one of the public voices who knew you don’t squander your platform, and only got louder about opposing evil fucks as he got older. Legend.

RIP to Rob Reiner and his wife. Reiner was one of the masters of the crowd pleaser, crafting the kind of films that are somehow both rare to see in contemporary cinemas and yet endlessly copied. This is such a brutal and tragic loss.

Rob Reiner was a good guy. He made a lot of movies about good guys, in worlds where not everyone was good and you didn’t have to be good. He made movies about people trying. He was angry, as many hopeful people are. He knew the world could be better and he wanted it to be. His death is devastating.

What a great piece! This just gets better and better as you read. prospect.org/2025/12/11/s...

I'm glad to see people sharing their love for Peter Greene's work. I would like to say this is one of the ten best performances of the '90s and it has haunted me since the first time I saw it. #RIP

If you are having trouble getting into the Christmas spirit, may I recommend watching the greatest Christmas special ever created: youtu.be/NRvtOGLzpvE