I picture an aging Mac McClung, now a G League vet, sitting in the team bus like Kevin Costner in Bull Durham, telling the young prospects of what his short time in "the show" was like. ("The arenas are like cathedrals, the hotels all have room service, and the women all have long legs and brains.")

12 Hangry Men.

Today at The Reveal: You can read me on TRAIN DREAMS (currently my favorite of the year) and PETER HUJAR'S DAY (also quite good) while @scotttobias.bsky.social takes on PREDATOR: BADLANDS (more reviews coming tomorrow, too):

This series is terrific, don’t let it slip by - great work from Michael Shannon and a show stopper bonkers performance from Matthew Macfadyen.

I binge-capped the new Netflix series DEATH BY LIGHTNING for @vulture. Tremendously entertaining show about our American tradition of progress being undone by violent, fame-seeking dipshits. www.vulture.com/article/deat...

tomorrow, free our caregivers

Just returned from the North Center protest, held in response to the abduction of a daycare teacher this morning in our neighborhood. Huge turnout for something organized so quickly. Here are some crappy pictures I took! (1/2)

This is happening tonight, too, if you're in the neighborhood.

For my first feature for @latimes.com, I talked to director Clint Bentley, his writing partner Greg Kwedar, and Joel Edgerton about TRAIN DREAMS, an intimate epic I'd encourage you to see in theaters before it hits Netflix later this month: www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

Every day, the Trump administration feels like some Bialystock and Bloom production.

I never felt Fincher's THE KILLER got much of a shake before slipping to Netflix two years ago. So for The Reveal, I wrote about how the world's fussiest director made a film about human fallibility. thereveal.film/david-finche...

My youngest goes to Lane Tech, where parents and teachers have been having to patrol the perimeter to protect students. You wonder if dragging a caregiver out of a daycare screaming, in full view of small children, was just too unimaginably ghoulish to anticipate and prepare for.

the reason republicans lost yesterday is because theyre a bunch of weird freaks pushing policy that everyone hates

Thunder just absolutely stealing the Clippers’ souls right now. Playing some of their best ball of the year on both ends.

Politicians should probably get on Bluesky to get better in touch with the American electorate.

Tough night for college sports betters:

No elections in Illinois or my besieged city of Chicago, but there’s so much hope in a night like tonight that we do not have to live like this.

The media should not be wasting their time reporting every stupid thing these rich dunces say, even to issue a correction. If nothing else, this election should be about de-centering billionaires.

Many thanks to @brandyjensen.bsky.social for letting me write about Kelly Reichardt, our slow action maestra defector.com/kelly-reicha...

New ep! Radu Jude's latest wild provocation, DRACULA, inspired a look back at a previous surreal story about a filmmaker fumbling for ideas: Federico Fellini's startlingly meta 1963 movie 8 1/2, with a thinly veiled Fellini trying to define the movie as you watch it. cms.megaphone.fm/channel/FLM2...

I confess to never having seen anything by the late Peter Watkins. @kphipps3000.bsky.social's piece for us today makes me want to remedy that very soon: thereveal.film/the-awful-tr...

One of our country's greatest war criminals just died, the president is arguing with himself about whether or not to let 40 million people starve, and there is an actual courtroom drama about a five dollar footlong. How are any of us supposed to maintain emotional regulation.

The most consequential vice president in history (derogatory).

She's had to toughen him up for the general, e.g. "I fear thy nature. It is too full o' the milk of human kindness."

Trump take Thanksgiving

But think of the gamblers who are screwed! George was 6.5 point favorites!

Good work from Gunner Stockton f-ing up Georgia's overs by kneeling before the goal line there. Suck it, degenerates!

happy halloween to what many people believed was the greatest tweet of all time

New Trump 2028 campaign slogan just dropped.

Terrible news, though Presti suggests that Topic's long-term prospects for recovery are good. He had just gotten a chance to flash his unique skills after losing his entire rookie season. Poor kid.

Today at The Reveal: We've got a pair of reviews. You can read me on NOUVELLE VAGUE, Richard Linklater's charming account of the making of BREATHLESS and @scotttobias.bsky.social on DRACULA, Radu Jude's, um, unique take on the vampire classic:

I've avoided the "1989 is perfect" discourse around here, but Camper Van Beethoven's KEY LIME PIE is a stone-cold masterpiece and the year 1989 must be perfect for it to be seeded 30th. "Pictures of Matchstick Men," "All Her Favorite Fruit," "When I Win the Lottery".... I mean, my god.

COUNT I Kat Abughazaleh did, while law enforcement was in heated pursuit, paint what appeared to be the entrance to a cave on a sheer rock wall, causing law enforcement to forcibly bonk into said wall. COUNT II The same thing on a different wall, but then a train came out and ran us over???

this is probably going to start shit over here but shout out to neil as the results of this poll have officially driven me insane

Enjoying the moment during our sold-out show at Madison Square Garden (7/12/25)

Sick shit. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/u...

Today at The Reveal, I rank the nine films of Kelly Reichardt, which range from very very good to outstanding, because she's just that consistent. The list is really just an excuse to take stock of a brilliant career that almost wasn't. thereveal.film/worst-to-bes...

NBA media is not built to cover a gambling scandal, but Defector is: defector.com/products

The second episode of our FAIL-SAFE/A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE pairing, with special guest @jasondashbailey.com, is posted. Come celebrate 60 years of plausible, sleep-robbing nuclear scenarios with us! megaphone.link/FILM2925391917

“Tell your children who the cowards were.”

Jesus. 26 athletes stranded. This is basically the plot of "Alive."

OKC opted to end their three-game road trip a quarter early.

When they announce the 35mm print is actually a DCP.

This went as well as might be expected:

Treat yourself to June Squibb talking about Shaft and Godzilla.

oh my GODDDDDDDDDDD (apologies for screenshotting the hellsite, which I no longer use; I saw the link in CNN's Reliable Sources newsletter)

A tip for NBA-enjoyers: @teamziller.bsky.social's newsletter is free all week, and I predict you will be convinced to pay for it by Friday. Gets you caught up on the previous night's action, offers some deeper daily insight into the league, etc. Essential stuff. www.teamziller.com/giannis-ante...

Me when the season started: “Ajay Mitchell will be a key rotation piece.” After two games: “Ajay Mitchell is a sixth man of the year candidate.” After three games: “Ajay Mitchell has all-star upside.”

Dripping Wet 7-Year-Old Gets On Hotel Elevator https://theonion.com/dripping-wet-7-year-old-gets-on-hotel-elevator-1819574036/