I saw Hamnet 😢 letterboxd.com/kn8/film/ham...

In the criminal justice system, parenting-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In Oslo, the dedicated detectives who investigate these fractious creative personalities are members of an elite squad known as the Sentimental Value Unit. These are their stories.

This is our "Tony Blair and Gordon Brown at Granita": www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/n...

Kept it going this morning with a few of Steely Dan's greatest hits. Peg: So much going on she wasn't sure whether to laugh or cry. Ultimately swayed by the power of MMcD Hey Nineteen: Did not like this one at all. Too sharp and syncopated maybe? Dirty Work: This one soothed her. PTA was right!

Struck by the continuing implication that this is something that happened TO her, rather than something she did.

Here are the baby's reactions to Past Masters 1&2: I Feel Fine: Liked the beat Yes It Is: Too emotionally intense Day Tripper: Enjoyed me explaining how the primacy of the riff prefigured the shift to Rock Rain: Too avant-garde Lady Madonna: Dug the piano Hey Jude: Stopped crying, fell asleep

There are going to be A LOT of misleading, vaguely-worded headlines — particularly from non-music publications — in the near future trying to drum up hysteria about the AI Music Takeover. Please try to not take them at their word. We're still a long way off from this actually being a thing.

My little song rhyming "daddy time" with "not a crime" has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my song.

Stand with Condé Nast Union 🚨 We’re calling on you to sign our petition telling management to reinstate the Fired Four, reverse the suspensions, and end the union busting. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...

GET A JOB STAY AWAY FROM HER

My MIL, who lives in Arizona, texted asking me not to vote for him because of his connection to the Muslim Brotherhood. This stuff is everywhere.

hello friends, loved ones, and haters, I wrote a long piece about the last 25 or so years of "indie," inspired by @chrisdeville.bsky.social's fine new book open.substack.com/pub/ericdhar...

Made this with a teaspoon of Thai chili flakes subbed for the peppers, and it just may be the world's greatest condiment: www.seriouseats.com/quick-pickle...

Glad to see Vulture taking a chance on a little-known writer from the north of England: www.vulture.com/article/paul...

This is devastating. And surely a gross miscarriage of justice. Again.

Stellan Skarsgård, the self-proclaimed ‘nepo daddy,’ is at the top of his game as a narcissistic patriarch in ‘Sentimental Value.’

On some level it's rewarding to learn that Donald Trump has the exact same vision of his presidency that I do.

Something you might not expect from the way both movies are talked about is that Sinners and One Battle After Another have grossed almost the exact same amount internationally.

“I hate all these stories about Condé Nast,” New Yorker writer Susan Orlean tells writer Madeline Leung Coleman. “It implies that everybody was an idiot who wanted to fly the Concorde and eat caviar.’

from me -- a profile of Jafar Panahi, a filmmaker whose work has perfectly met our age of surveillance and interrogation and asks the imperative question of: Who are we, and what comes next? IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT = masterpiece, imo.

[whispering to date while watching Moonstruck] that's the moon

"The original cut of Annie Hall ran nearly two-and-a-half hours, and according to its editor Ralph Rosenblum was a shapeless mass of bits. "And so we began cutting in the direction of that relationship,” he wrote. Result: 4 Oscars. www.vulture.com/article/the-...

It’s the season of the Safdies. One brother’s movie faltered at the box office (‘The Smashing Machine’), and the other’s became the secret screening heard ’round the cinephile world (’Marty Supreme’). Will either win an Oscar?

Despite what you may read online, Manute Bol and Flea were NOT born on the exact same day (Bol's listed birth date was plucked out of thin air by a college coach) and neither were Malcolm X and Pol Pot (they were actually six days apart).

Sincere question: What are these women doing that is different from "2016-era resistance liberalism"? www.thecut.com/article/jenn...

Why look at Bluesky when you could look into your boo's eyes.

this was very exciting to do: chatting with Kleber about being a student of history, living through historical times, and how all that observation and analysis made it into his excellent latest film, THE SECRET AGENT.

I'm on leave for the next few weeks (I got caught sending demure nudes to the Oscar statuette) and in my absence @joereid.bsky.social is handling Gold Rush. He's off to a banging start!

Our daughter when her parents try to put her into a new onesie.

This is AMAZING

"fuck ice and free palestine" while the money counter falls A LITTLE ON THE NOSE DON'T WE THINK

Put your tiny hand in mine.

(to the tune of "Under the Sea") After the Hunt

My review of One Battle After Another, a film that asks, "What if Jeff 'The Dude' Lebowski got stuck in the middle of Battle of Algiers?" letterboxd.com/kn8/film/one...

"In 30 years of acting onscreen, Winters has tended to personify a particular kind of outer-borough rage. Usually Irish or Italian; frequently a cop; spiritually, a Jets fan."

If you haven't read it yet, my Dean Winters profile includes cameos from: -Andy Warhol -Jean-Michel Basquiat -Carolyn Bessette -gangrene www.vulture.com/article/dean...

With all due respect this is not a "relatively new social media archetype," it's just a reskinned version of Male Feminist discourse from 2013. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/s...

I'm on @vox.com's Today, Explained, talking about Obamacore and the 10th anniversary of Hamilton. Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/7Mp4... Apple Podcasts: open.spotify.com/episode/7Mp4... The Obamacore essay: www.vulture.com/article/obam...

The word "knowledgeable" should not have that second E in it. This is my truth.

In my continuing quest to profile every character actor in Hollywood, I spent an afternoon with Dean Winters, who turns out to be the Forrest Gump of downtown New York: www.vulture.com/article/dean...

In my continuing quest to profile every character actor in Hollywood, I spent an afternoon with Dean Winters, who turns out to be the Forrest Gump of downtown New York: www.vulture.com/article/dean...

“When you’re young and you’re kind of handsome, the expectation is you want to be a leading man,’ says the actor, who has a small role in ‘Highest 2 Lowest’ and is famous for his Allstate ads. ‘I’ve always wanted to be a character actor.”

Oh man, end of an era. IOT is incredible.

I wrote a piece about how the R-word is everywhere in stand-up again. You're welcome to yell at me about it, but I would just politely ask that you read the whole article first. Thank you. www.vulture.com/article/come...

No one gets the absurd calculations of the creator economy like @rebeccajjennings.bsky.social: www.vulture.com/article/bop-...

The fact that Stephen Miller is married disproves everything incels say about the dating market.

He just like me fr www.vulture.com/article/zohr...

"Among wrestling fans, Hauser is admired for his ability to take big hits. A few weeks after our interview, he will square off with Q.T. Marshall at a Ring of Honor match in South Philly. 'We’re going to beat the shit out of each other,' he says enthusiastically." www.vulture.com/article/how-...

In my continuing quest to profile every character actor in Hollywood, I got cigars and delivery sushi with actor/wrestler Paul Walter Hauser: www.vulture.com/article/how-...

It’s been a joy to work with Paul on our Chris Farley movie. @kn8.bsky.social really captures him in this excellent profile.