Nuts of distinction.

MARTY SUPREME!!! I’m not sure if it will achieve UNCUT GEMS-level meme-age, but Isaac Mizrahi’s description of watching Kay’s performance will be a thing for sure. What a picture!

J-DUB detonates. A double-poster.

100 straight 20+ point games for SGA. Metronomic consistency. ❤️❤️❤️

I highly recommend watching this segment, not just because the CBS News execs and the White House didn’t want you to, but because these men were tortured and they deserved to have their voices heard.

Bari Weiss is the logical endpoint of corporate media. This is what happens when people who hate journalism are in charge of it. The only way journalism works is when it’s independent from the power it’s supposed to hold to account, which means ownership can’t have anything to do with those in power

So Bari Weiss’s first real editorial intervention at CBS is to repress coverage of American concentration camps.

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.

the shitstorm that’s already brewing because of Bari’s decision to spike this story is going to end up being vastly more damaging to her and to the admin than allowing the story to air would have been she’s an evil propagandist hack but she is also very bad at doing it in a way that isn’t hamfisted

Wow. The correspondent coming out and straight-up blaming Bari Weiss for killing that 60 MINUTES segment on CECOT. You'd like the reputational damage would be too much for CBS, but we live in humiliating times. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...

Journalism, baby.

Sydney Sweeney drives people insane on the internet, but for those of us in the trenches, watching her prolific work on TV and in the movies, she's a fascinating (and sometimes quite good) star. Grateful to @ezwrites.bsky.social for this excellent deep dive: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/m...

Goldilocks waking up:

What a shot from Keyonte George

Keyonte George. Holy crap what a shot.

Truly magical ending to that Bears game. I’m drafting off the fandom of diehards who have suffered with this franchise, but what a great feeling for my city. Ridiculous TD passes from Caleb. Absurd.

Mild letdowns? We got a slew of ‘em: thereveal.film/in-review-av...

Hollywood: this is a serious biopic, not an SNL skit George Costanza: i'm in it Rob Riggle: and i'm in it Shooter McGavin: me too i'm in it Guy Playing Jimmy Stewart: and i'm doing the silliest voice you ever heard Movie: by the way it's just called "Jimmy" www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmaW...

There’s a direct line from ‘just asking questions about women’s sports’ to criminalizing our health care, we warned you it was coming, you said it would be fine and you just had a few more questions.

The year is 2029. The Chicago Bears are playing at Uncle Sam’s Fireworks Store Stadium in Merrillville. It has a retractable roof sponsored by the Hell is Real billboard. The halftime show is presented by a rotating cast of personal injury law firms.

The Vanity Fair photographer from the Susie Wiles story. Holy. Shit. www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...

For The Reveal today, I revisit the Rob Reiner film about what happens to military subordinates who follow an illegal order: thereveal.film/the-present-...

Incredible loser energy from the Clippers in this Ramona Shelburne piece about the Chris Paul fiasco. The people in charge are committed to moping their way to the bottom of the standings. www.espn.com/nba/story/_/...

A classic @kphipps3000.bsky.social list for the holidays: thereveal.film/worst-to-bes...

Certain media types hate this place because, while they of course also get treated like shit on twitter, only like 1% of people on twitter even know who the fuck they are. But on here every single user knows them and despises them

One of my all-time favorite clips of Rob Reiner, from his Friars Club Roast in 2000, as he reads aloud Roger Ebert's infamous scathing review of his movie North. The man had an amazing sense of humor about himself. RIP.

My kids are 14 and 17, and I still don’t think they’re of age to learn about the Cleveland Browns yet.

Today, @kphipps3000.bsky.social and I reviewed the new James L. Brooks movie and the latest SILENT NIGHT, DEADLY NIGHT remake. Bit of a plot twist on which one we liked more: thereveal.film/in-review-el...

Reacting in shock to all these shots of Woody Allen in Epstein's circle:

Reminder that I'm still out here recapping PLURIBUS for @vulture.com and that this week's episode, "The Gap," is particularly masterful: www.vulture.com/article/plur...

It's fitting that the cover on AI mindlessly apes an earlier creation and also displaces workers while elevating Silicon Valley plutocrats.

When the movie spends half the running time accounting for why Billy grew up to be a deranged Santa Claus who murders horny people on Christmas Eve:

I’M LOSING MY SHIT THIS IS SO FUNNY

Putting Elon Musk on the cover of a magazine for anything other than “his illegal government funding cuts have already killed hundreds of thousands of people, mostly children” is propaganda

Only 1200 people bought a copy, but everyone who did started a Substack.

Reminder that only four years and eight days ago, OKC lost to the Memphis Grizzlies by 73 points. It’s been an efficient rebuild since.

The titular wokeness being rolled back is the Civil Rights Act of 1964

The heist, "caught on film", had texture and warmth and an indescribable aura of authenticity that it would have lacked had it been shot with digital cameras.

Tubi is such a crazy streaming service. It’s like if the Criterion Closet was in a gas station

Today in The Reveal, I talked to Roger Deakins and his creative/life partner James about his gorgeous new book on cinematography, which our own @kphipps3000.bsky.social help bring to life: thereveal.film/interview-ro...

Thinking back to how people were "hysterical" for calling trump white supremacist and now he's doing nordic theory on the campaign trail

“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.” Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻

@thepressbox.bsky.social I'm not sure where it goes, but there simply has to be a place on the show for this skeet. bsky.app/profile/aedw...

"there's a new serif in town"

Will Arnett was on Conan and told a story about how Conan dealt with the death of his parents by accusing Jason Bateman of killing them. It’s so funny.

David Osit’s documentary Predators, which I raved about at Sundance, is now streaming on Paramount+. It’s a knotty, complicated, and ultimately very moving account of the legacy of To Catch a Predator and the outsourcing of justice, and … you should watch it.

In all sincerity, one of the great discoveries of parenting newborns is that YOU CAN DO IT. It seems so intimidating to keep this tiny, precious being alive but you gain confidence moment-by-moment. And you create this special, unmediated bond with your baby.

For The Reveal I rounded up the year's best movie posters: