An excellent episode of CRAIG AND FRIENDS @craigandfriends.bsky.social is out now — Craig talks about 52 PICK-UP with Erik Clapp. And on part 3 there will be an interview with the great great great JOHN GLOVER! #letterboxd #filmsky #moviesky

guy has a trillion dollars, 0 friends, and can’t land either his rockets or his jokes.

Looking at the reviews of DISCLOSURE DAY and everybody just seems to be phoning it in. Or maybe it's just that at this point there's nothing new or crackling to say about the Spielberg enterprise: the rapt techno-religious awe is bleached gray.

Molly Crabapple is great. She gets sneered at and belittled by the same blowhards who still go on about AOC being a bartender instead of clerking with Judge Kavanaugh, whatever.

Remarkable and rather pathetic how the online right is pinning its hopes, dreams, and hunger for vindication on the rising star of the West, Spencer Pratt, a total doofus. Meghan Daum is clinging to his candidacy as if he were the last lifeboat.

Fantastique entretien avec Molly Crabapple, qui a exhumé l'histoire juive de l'antisionisme en écrivant une histoire du Bund (l’Union générale des travailleurs juifs de Lituanie, de Pologne et de Russie, fondée en 1897) - et qui a appris le yiddish pour cela. www.democracynow.org/2026/5/14/th...

Evil comes in many guises-- even monsters can wear pearls. Daniella Weiss, founder of Nachala: "The 2 million or whatever number of Arabs, Gazans, who live here will not live in Gaza. It can take a week, it can take maybe a few months. They will not live here." (link below)

Fresh Hell was ahead of the curve this week. Two days after I advocated going after Andrew for sex offenses, police announced they are expanding their investigation to include sexual misconduct. Bring it on! Column here: open.substack.com/pub/tinabrow...

One of the greatest things you’ll read on Europe and this geo-political moment! Superb piece of work by Ivan Krastev!

I was so enjoying MARGO'S GOT MONEY TROUBLES (Apple TV) but the most recent episode plunged off the pier into bonehead melodrama. As much as one identifies with the underdog characters, once they start crushing someone's hand or breaking someone's jaw, such stupid self-sabotage casts away sympathy.

Yes, they have accomplished their mission. Now we have a job ahead.

The delight the cast members of THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA 2 are taking in each other is really making me ILL.

Interesting article about benefits from taking aspirin.

Classic Hollywood star Debbie Reynolds was BOTD in 1932 and died at 84 of grief one day after the death of her daughter Carrie Fisher in 2016. I wrote about Reynold's overlooked acting chops here: www.talkhouse.com/bruce-labruc... @talkhouse.bsky.social

More Beaudine! We chatted with Author James L Neibaur about his book Directed By William Beaudine: An Overview. This interview gives more context to the big tribute happening in April at the @newbeverly.bsky.social & @videoarchivesclub. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...

4,290 MINUTES of William Beaudine. 71.5 hours worth of movie viewing from just one director. That's what we're getting from Quentin Tarantino's Vista Theater Cinema Club AND @newbeverly.bsky.social this month-- 62 titles spanning from 1923 to 1958! #letterboxd #moviesky #filmsky #tcm

New Episode! QT returns to talk about a director he loves: William Beaudine. He highlights some of his favorites as well as the tribute he’s doing at @newbeverly.bsky.social & Video Archives Cinema Club in April: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...

This April we present a retrospective dedicated to director William Beaudine, including silent film masterpieces with live musical accompaniment, sparkling pre-code gems, and rarely-seen treasures! Plus, swashbuckling classics, The Whole Bloody Affair, midnights, matinees & more!

Some new @letterboxd.social faves for the month long tribute to director William Beaudine at the @newbeverly.bsky.social

Long before today’s ruling, we knew social media was harming our young people. Teens, parents, advocates, even casual observers begged tech and elected leaders to take action. While we applaud this decision, we have more work to do to protect young people online and support their mental health.

Just picked up Mortlake, a new novel by Adrian Lavelle — about the Renaissance occultist John Dee (who invented a language just to talk to angels?) The first chapter title made me laugh: "The Exorcism of Ann Frank". Should be good! www.amazon.com/dp/B0GT44S11N #booksky #historysky #books

ONE WEEK FROM TODAY: March 28 will be the biggest protest in US history. Find your local No Kings event to make clear you're part of The Resistance to this regime’s brutality at home, pathetic ineptness, perpetual lying & their illegal war in Iran. ✊https://app.sosha.ai/s/39HA7UDd

When Matt Taibbi lost his podcast partner & soul bro Walter Kirn in a surly divorce, a vacant spot opened. Diving deep into the grifter dumpster, he has dredged up Michael Tracey to make podcast magic. Yes, the grubby beardo who once claimed a 78 year old Maxine Waters went Cobra Kai on him.

Thank God for the rigor of NYT and others who combed through footage of the girls’ school bombing in Iran. After Karoline Leavitt, who looks more like a mendacious milkmaid every day, insisted it was “propaganda” the US was responsible, sloggers revealed more. tinabrown.substack.com/p/trumps-wil...

If you want to understand where we are at this moment in Trump’s administration, all you have to do is look at that picture of Marco Rubio wearing a pair of oversized Florsheim shoes. tinabrown.substack.com/p/trumps-wil...

I'm trying to figure out which documentary I'm less interested in seeing, the one about Seymour Hersh that came out on Netflix or the upcoming one about Lorne Michaels that will debut only in theaters for a target audience of ghosts and dust bunnies.

Wealth inequality in this state is working exactly how it was designed to—for those at the very top. The question isn't whether our leaders are concerned. The question is whether they have the lived experience to understand the urgency needed.

I love that Barbra Streisand’s torrid love song for EYES OF LAURA MARS (1978) was just played during the YSL winter 26 show in Paris. @barbrastreisand.bsky.social #filmsky #moviesky #barbrastreisand #ysl

We've had enough of leaders who are bought and paid for. It's time for a leader you know only works for you.

“What Netanyahu wants is one thing. What other parts of the state of Israel want is another.” Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on why he believes PM Netanyahu’s warmongering is partly influenced by the upcoming elections in Israel. More on Fresh Hell. tinabrown.substack.com/publish/post...

Things $400 million could actually fix: - Health coverage for 40k Californians - Literacy screening for every K-2 student - 10,000 acres of coastal wetlands - 5,000 homes for the unhoused - Replace our fleet of aging Calfire bases Things it doesn't fix: - A billionaire's need for attention.

"Ivy is not really a cruel girl, just a lass who loves nice things." -- James Agee, TIME review of IVY, July 7, 1947. Excellent film starring Joan Fontaine. #moviesky #filmsky #tmc #letterboxd

Lesbian thespian Marjorie Main, one of the great Hollywood character actresses, known for her "Ma Kettle" roles, was BOTD in 1890 & died in 1975 at 85. Ms. Main, a staunch Republican, had a long term romantic relationship with Hollywood character actress Spring Byington

“Dead Tom’s Dead! Long John shot him!” Happy 30th Anniversary to MUPPET TREASURE ISLAND

I recognize one's a better writer than the other but I miss Elizabeth Wurtzel more than I miss David Foster Wallace.

Can we PLEASE stop doing stuff like this? www.perplexity.ai/page/startup...

I can't steel myself to listen to Ben Shapiro and his whiny rat-a-tat voice on The New Yorker podcast, hosted by Broadway legend Hal Linden.* If only there was an AI summation somewhere I could tap that would supply the salient "high points," if any. *[needs fact checking--ed.]

"Thank-you-very-much" (Elvis Presley voice)

The Jeff Bezos who bought the Washington Post was a different guy from the one who is allowing its destruction now. But oligarchs gonna oligarch. Read more on Fresh Hell about what’s really behind the bloodletting at the Post. tinabrown.substack.com/p/bafflement...

Fans of TO LIVE AND DIE IN LA (1985), MANUNTER (1986), or FEAR (1996) should enjoy this -- Craig MacNeil speaks with William Petersen. #letterboxd #filmsky #moviesky #michaelmann #friedkin #manhunter

"Mia Farrow is a monster. xoxo Peg"-- Email to Jeffrey Epstein from his PR hack Peggy Siegal. Today the monster (who unlike her former boyfriend is not mentioned in Epstein files approximately 7,000 times) turns 81! Photo: @miafarrow.bsky.social with her mom, the divine actress Maureen O'Sullivan

HBD the lovely & talented Brooke Adams, BOTD in 1949, turning 77 today. She is more than game in the excellent early Nazi zombie entry "Shock Waves" (1977) & excelled in two 70's masterpieces, Malick's "Days of Heaven" (1978) and Kaufmans' "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" (1978)

Went to the Castro Theatre reopening last night to see a movie, and was very surprised to find myself thinking: "Could it be that all my worries were unfounded? What's happening here?!"

Grateful for the response to my latest Fresh Hell column, which recounts Jeffrey Epstein's panic over the stories we ran at The Daily Beast in 2010.

More movie fans should be in Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary's Patreon- they often drop in to talk about movies*. Great stuff! *(Many of the titles covered by @gcdb.bsky.social, @speederaserhead.bsky.social, @larrythek.bsky.social, @churchofqtpod.bsky.social, @pmbryant.com, @swdb.bsky.social etc)

Really enjoyed this @80000hours.bsky.social episode about the evolutionary origins of things like anxiety and depression. Some of each is healthy and useful, but both *none* and too much are quite bad! Some pharmas (or the wrong dosage) might take you there. 80000hours.org/podcast/epis...

When Donald Trump messes with our democracy, Californians fight back—and win.

One of my fave Hollywood stars, legendary, glamorous Ida Lupino, was BOTD in 1918 & died in 1995 at 77. She starred in 59 pictures & directed 8, a woman ahead of her time, a pioneer of social-message films, bypassing the traditional studio system 2 direct films on taboo subjects

"Woody Allen is mentioned 7000 times in the Epstein files. Is that, like, a lot?" (George Costanza voice)

yeah seems like a good choice!