it’s illegal that I ever have to be inside today

Given that awards season is coming to an end, it felt like a great excuse to get @davidlsims.bsky.social on the pod. had him walk me through the history of netflix, how it ate hollywood, changed movies, tv, & a lot of our consumption behaviors. as well as what's next www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8gI...

In “The Bride!” the director Maggie Gyllenhaal goes for maximalism but ends up with a mess, David Sims writes:

eric rohmer movies will be 2 hours long and about a few people having conversations and always star the most beautiful woman you have ever seen in your life

like all emerald fennell movies, WUTHERING HEIGHTS is dumb. but it is the first emerald fennell movie to *know* it's dumb and deploy said dumbness with intention. I rest my defense

If you haven’t already seen it, please seek out Tom Noonan’s debut feature WHAT HAPPENED WAS… One of the great American independent films of the ’90s directed by one of the very best American character actors ever.

the olympics are so normal

the greatest to ever do it

In memory and honor of Frederick Wiseman, who took hold of a still-young format and, guided from the start by an unyielding sense of principle, made a body of work so original, idea-rich, and unified that it seems foreordained—a historic fusion of investigation and the inner life.

Duvall AND Wiseman?? two guys I figured were never gonna go

I would like to know more

IS THAT OLIVER FROM THE OC ON THE PITT

I wrote this two years ago and it's still true www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...

crying on the R train watchin this vimeo.com/1156345183

doing an AMA here in about an hour! www.reddit.com/r/movies/com...

it’s insane how good BONE TEMPLE is

BABY IF YOU WANNA BE WILD YOU GOT A LOT TO LEARN CLOSE YOUR EYES LET THEM MELT LET THEM FIRE LET THEM BURN

these videos have raised more than $180,000(!) for a variety of urgent causes over the last few years. this year i'm once again supporting the Palestine Children's Relief Fund, whose work is tragically as vital as ever. please consider giving if you can! www.gofundme.com/f/david-ehrl...

A huge, transformative project that, if delivered, would be the first consistent expansion of the New York City subway system since about WWII.

Timmy’s pivoting to the middle for that Oscar www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...

I so rarely get to see actual TV commercials, but it's playoff football season, so I'm getting em, and...there's just a show about a doctor called Doc?

hey @davidehrlich.bsky.social you should listen to this to pump up before your big speech

it has been an unbelievably trying and annoying year for this

I will be playing the rock

Hey guess what’s live right now…

happy new year and let’s go mets

as we bid it farewell, a mild hot take from me: the MetroCard was punk trash, it has always sucked, and I am glad it's gone. BYE LOSER

I can’t believe i’m going to get to see Patrick Stewart as Professor X die for the fourth time on screen in the new Avengers movie

guys subscribe to libby’s podcast. it’s my fave podcast

I just think it’s so much cooler and more interesting to try to be the best audio show rather than the shittiest television show

movies used to ask questions. like what if there was a Money Train

if I had a time machine i’d go back to 1967 to see this crazy-sounding production of Titus Andronicus

omg. I saw so so so many vital movies here. and also Seabiscuit. RIP to my second most visited Odeon

lifelong dream fulfilled

Payakan

absolutely fucking not SAVE ROWANS

James L. Brooks’s strange, shaggy rom-com “Ella McCay” tries to do too much, and succeeds only partially, David Sims writes:

It’s true! The great @alisonwillmore.bsky.social and I are debuting our new show Critical Darlings on the Blank Check podcast feed on January 1st! Come listen to us talk about all the awards-season movies, won’t you?

read read read!

NYFCC votes today! I am no longer chair; that’s @davidehrlich.bsky.social but I will be making sure Payakan wins every award

The “Wicked” sequel takes a dreary turn from the irresistible first film, David Sims argues—even its stars Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande “can’t keep the film from collapsing under the lightest scrutiny.” theatln.tc/iwcCq5Vm

"Ralph Finnes is the Charmeleon to Tom Blyth's Charmander and Donald Sutherland's Charizard" is a sentence I can say that makes sense

greatest video game of all time

Nouvelle Vague gets me.

we should acknowledge that job-a-day superhero movie composer and Zimmer apprentice Henry Jackman absolutely blacked out with this one

come see a sleepy david sims talk for a couple mins before the utter delight that is KISS KISS BANG BANG