Watching That's So Raven as our new-parent smooth-brain show, and discovered it's the anti-Surf Dracula: They waste zero time explaining the premise, because they already covered it in the theme song! And with the time they save, they do THIS. In the very first episode! youtu.be/fGdQ6Jn7MKU?...

Once you notice this rhetorical okeydoke -- by which any critique of Trump is magically transmuted into a personal critique of his voters, which is ipso facto out of bounds -- you can't stop noticing it everywhere.

Today in creepy AI stuff, the transcription service we use has now thrown in some psychoanalysis for free: POWER DYNAMICS: [Redacted] clearly holds expertise and authority; Nate defers to her judgment and seeks validation

was a real delight gaming out this incredibly consequential Oscars weekend out with the brilliant @kn8.bsky.social, who I think is among the best in the game at awards season coverage www.vulture.com/article/this...

This week's Oscar column is looking ahead to what's at stake at the PGAs and SAG this weekend, plus a postmortem on the BAFTA omnishambles: www.vulture.com/article/this...

a few months ago, i talked to Tony Kushner for an hour and a half about Munich

I strongly recommend this well-sourced argument that Harry Styles is a "Potemkin pop star" exiledfan.substack.com/p/harry-styl...

Break the news to her gently, Aubrey! I shall die! With slit ribbons of his shirt whipping the air he hops and hobbles round the table, with trousers down at heels, chased by Ades of Magdalen with the tailor’s shears. A scared calf’s face gilded with marmalade. I don’t want to be outmogged!

Here for the sidebar on twink vs hunk -- www.vulture.com/article/osca...

I wrote about one of Oscar's most infamous glass ceilings: the Academy's longstanding bias against hunks. www.vulture.com/article/osca...

I’m so excited to be publishing my first-ever visual essay with @puddingviz.bsky.social: pudding.cool/2026/02/wome... It brings together so many of my recent interests — research, coding, design, and sewing — on a topic that won’t leave me alone: the chaos of women’s clothing sizes.

"Someday this war's gonna end..."

This week's Oscar column looks at how the theoretical Sinners surge, currently a matter of vibes and tea leaves, could become concrete: www.vulture.com/article/what...

I made this the other night and my wife noted that, while it was delicious, it also resembled premium-grade dog food. On trend! cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1020...

He's gotta change his name to Drake May Not

You know things are bad for the Patriots when you think, At least they sacked him forward.

If only I could bet the over on how many times the words "He's actually from Puerto Rico" will be said across America tonight

Who should win the first ever Casting Oscar? It’s another craft category award filled with Best Picture nominees, but each one reveals something about how the Academy is thinking about its new trophy.

In this week's Oscar column, I look at the five nominees in the inaugural Best Casting category, and what they can tell us about a craft that often goes overlooked: www.vulture.com/article/who-...

In 1942, RKO slashed 43 minutes from Orson Welles's "The Magnificent Ambersons" and slapped on a happy ending. Now, an A.I. company wants to restore what was lost. Are they righting a historic wrong or descrating a classic? My deep dive, in this week's New Yorker. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

This is @kn8.bsky.social! Every Oscars article he writes has at least one line this good www.vulture.com/article/osca...

I spent the morning going through these old blog posts, which are a real time capsule of the 2007 blogosphere. When people say the woke era was a reaction to the glib nihilism of the Bush years, believe them. nymag.com/tags/maximil...

Presenting: The official 2026 Oscar villain rankings www.vulture.com/article/osca...

"You need to let go of wanting to show off and just be. That’s the trick in life, too. Just be.​" Revisit E. Alex Jung's 2019 interview with Catherine O’Hara on her long career and more www.vulture.com/2026/01/cath...

We're officially fundraising for laid-off Vox workers. Please share and donate if you can! www.gofundme.com/f/support-la...

I'm doing an Oscars AMA in the Vulture Discord -- come join! discord.com/invite/cZZkG...

I'm giving you Snubs, and I'll even throw in Surprises for free: www.vulture.com/article/osca...

Interesting note about Sinners’ 16 nominations—it was nominated in every single category it could’ve been. There are 24 Oscar categories, and the eight it missed are the three Shorts, Animated Feature, Doc Feature, International Film, Adapted Screenplay, and Lead Actress.

Here are my final Oscar predictions, including a few big swings, a few medium swings, and an attempt to figure out just how international they'll get this year: www.vulture.com/article/2026...

Will the Academy Awards continue to recognize global cinema, or will they prefer to reward films closer to home? Here are Gold Rush columnist Nate Jones’s final guesses for the 2026 Oscar nominations, and just how international they will be.

This week's Oscar column: A look at all the on-the-bubble contenders hoping to get into Best Picture www.vulture.com/article/who-...

A Bone Temple is what you build when you outgrow your Goon Cave

It’s pencils-down time for Oscar season 2025-2026, and the biggest category is up for grabs: Best Picture. Six spots seem solidified, but that leaves four others up in the air. Here are Gold Rush columnist Nate Jones’s best guesses.

It should be illegal to eat these at ground level.

This week, in a standalone Oscar Futures: Marty Supreme and a whole lot of guild nominations! www.vulture.com/article/mart...

In nonsense news, here's me and @joereid.bsky.social giving you our Golden Globes picks: www.vulture.com/article/gold...

What if we kissed in the Barry Goldwater Memorial in Paradise Valley, Arizona?

This one Nate paragraph has at least two, possibly three of the funniest sentences I will read in 2026

This week's Oscar column is a little more personal than usual: www.vulture.com/article/the-...

There’s an unfortunate trend among 2025 Oscar contenders — one our Gold Rush columnist, @kn8, has personally been avoiding: the sheer number of movies that are about dead, dying, or sick children.

This was a year where the personal outweighed the professional for me. But the baby is making an offer you can't refuse: Read this thread of my five favorite stories I did in 2025...

A key ethos of the anti-wokesters is "We are the only people who are allowed to use hyperbole."

A lede from @ralter.bsky.social that must be seen to be believed.

Auteur-driven blockbusters, timely social dramas, a weepie. This year’s crop of Academy favorites fit a classic mold. Here are the 12 Oscar contenders of Christmas.

SCOOP: Vulture has heard that Bowen Yang is leaving 'SNL' after seven and a half seasons. www.vulture.com/article/snl-...