I believe the women who want to throw RFK Jr. into a volcano for saying this.

What actually happens is kind of 🥺: The kid has no idea they’re getting a shot so there’s a slight delay from when the needle goes in to when their face crumples into tears. You say, “Oooh…” and cuddle them briefly and they’re fine. Then you leave and they don’t get preventable illnesses. The end.

watching kimmel tomorrow

my word nymag.com/intelligence...

shit ain’t over til it’s over

SEVEN turns 30 today and I wrote about it for The Guardian. One of those great movies where its imitators took all the wrong lessons from it: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...

Now getting multiple people who had the same experience cancelling Hulu. Really gross to have a hyperlink labeled “Cancel My Subscription” function basically as a refresh button. These are scammy times.

Welp.

How Trump survives a half dozen Watergates at once: Three Stooges Syndrome.

Just came home after a five-hour drive to see Clemson got smoked at home by Syracuse despite being 17.5-point favorites. What happened to Dabo? Did Jimmy Boeheim throw the zone at him?

There’s no way I retain even a shred of sanity when this is all over. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/u...

Dutch late night TV has its take

Not to excuse Disney's actions -- which are an unconscionable capitulation and an abandonment of first amendment principles -- but I think people just genuinely do not understand how much power affiliates wield in the broadcast TV game. Still! To this day!

Jesus, this whole affair has been like... 10 PRINT "The Worst Person You Know Just Made a Great Point." 20 GOTO 10

If you're my good friend of 20 years and I've been muzzled by a censorious far-right government and various weak-willed corporate suits, please defend me more vigorously on your hugely popular podcast than Bill Simmons did for Jimmy Kimmel today.

If you live in New York—or you live in LA next week or you live in Chicago the week after that, etc.—I really can't recommend seeing PREDATORS @filmforumnyc.bsky.social more strongly. You will not see a more thought-provoking film about documentary ethics. And that's one of so many layers to this.

the best movie at Sundance is now playing at Film Forum

Tune into this Aces-Storm game if you haven’t already. Dramatic finish in progress.

Good hire. You have to believe that Olivia Nuzzi has gotten embarrassing herself and the entire field of journalism out of her system.

Today in The Reveal, @kphipps3000.bsky.social embarks on a journey that is, in this economy, big bold and beautiful, and I review PREDATORS, an incredible documentary that you should see at your earliest opportunity: thereveal.film/in-review-a-...

this is the funniest graphic you could have made for this

As opposed to when someone says something that a ton of people find offensive, rude, and dumb then builds a whole media empire out of the practice.

Another super-enjoyable episode of my favorite podcast, Pablo Torre Clowns On Mark Cuban, has dropped this morning.

“You used to be able to say anything” comedians never been more quiet in their lives

Meanwhile, Americans hate all of this in massive and still growing numbers.

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

Folks, I'm telling you this movie is a tonic. If you're a certain type of person, you will believe it was made just for you, at this specific moment in time, like a gift from above.

'To make Exorcist II' - an instantly legendary horror movie's sequel that's not a horror movie, and that is also a direct rebuttal to the first film - 'is one of the most prime examples of ’70s Hollywood thinking that I can think of.'

Finally read @emilystjams.bsky.social's WOODWORKING-- or listened to it, anyway, which I highly recommend-- and what a beautiful, funny, thorny piece of work. If more people met Abigail and Erica and the other finely wrought characters here, the world would be a better place.

Last week I had a fun chat with @scotttobias.bsky.social about BOORMAN AND THE DEVIL and the importance of art that takes risks.

When I heard about the new documentary on EXORCIST II: THE HERETIC that premiered in Venice, I had to talk to its director @davidkittredge.bsky.social immediately. Today in The Reveal, he talks about the making, unmaking and revival of this one-of-a-kind sequel: thereveal.film/interview-da...

Highly recommend watching BECOMING LED ZEPPELIN with the subtitles on.

[*CHEERS theme*]

The shape of politics in the US right now is increasingly that the media, political and economic elites are allied with the Trump regime against the actual people of the country who hate it

Inspired by my first visit to Toronto I wrote about a film that seemingly all Canadians know and many revere. Americans like me, however, are another story. Read about Donald Shebib's GOIN' DOWN THE ROAD at The Reveal:

my favorite robert redford story is that mike nichols considered him for dustin hoffman's part in THE GRADUATE. during their conversation nichols asked redford something like, "have you ever struck out with a girl?" and redford's response was basically, "i don't understand the question"

When QUIZ SHOW didn't catch fire at the box office, Hollywood died a little for me. You just cannot ask for a better-crafted and performed studio film, one that reflected the values of its director beautifully. thereveal.film/quiz-show-at...

Now's the time to subscribe to @sepinwall.bsky.social's Ghost newsletter. Speaking from personal experience, getting directly funded by your readers is stable, sustainable and hugely rewarding. And everyone wants to know what Alan's watching, right? alansepinwall.ghost.io/dont-stop-be...

Don't forget, my freelance brethren, that quarterly tax payments are due today. Lotta cool government stuff needs to be bankrolled by us.

Charlie Kirk was a garden-variety bigot with a penchant for demeaning the "brain processing power" of Black women, but pointing this out in the face of a cynical effort to portray him as a virtuous model of civility and political debate was unacceptable.

Why is it so funny to me that the Vice President, with his fancy chair and all the flags and gold crap around him, uses the same stupid Shure mic that the rest of us do?

They’re calling it “the polar opposite of a ‘must read’”

It’s great. To be. A Georgia Bulldog.

Oh gosh. It would appear hardship has befallen Dabo Swinney's Clemson Tigers once more.

Feel like I’m going insane with the revisionist history that Charlie Kirk fostered open debate. He chilled speech and his targeting of professors for wrongthink led to threats, harassment, and being forced out of their jobs. His legacy is chilling speech right now, about him

It's grimly funny that the political right is getting people on the left fired for not being sufficiently sad about Charlie Kirk's death despite the fact that their movement is what actually killed him and that, in reality, they don't really give a rat's ass about him. bsky.app/profile/bird...

[the shooter is unidentified] the left must be purged with the sword [the shooter is, again, a compulsive masturbator who loved Hitler] I believe it was pascal who said that the heart has reasons that reason may not know

The remnants of the 2010s A.V. Club have shared the space of newsletters too long without collaborating, so I invited @kphipps3000.bsky.social and @scotttobias.bsky.social from The Reveal to chat the blurred lines of "TV Movies" in the streaming age. Crossover episode!