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raising kids is like watching the “reaping/sowing” tweet happen five times a day

Great @kateyrich.bsky.social writeup of last weekend's Full Frame festival, and I am not saying that just because it includes a picture of my panel where it looks like I have just said something amusing.

SPOILERS: After last night's explosive finale, Sepideh Moafi joined @kateyrich.bsky.social to discuss the 'The Pitt' twist she's been holding in all season. Full conversation: theankler.com/p/sepideh-mo...

Paramount is pulling its ads from @theankler.com, I'm told. The decision seems to stem from columnist Richard Rushfield's opposition to the Paramount/WBD merger. Rushfield was one of the signatories of yesterday's letter from 1k Hollywood players opposing the deal...

I’m raising a Space Kid, and boy I cannot recommend enough watching a rocket launch with your Space Kid

Come watch the Oscars with me and @chrisjrosen.bsky.social right now! www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iBG...

Paid subscribers to Prestige Junkie After Party can join me, @chrisjrosen.bsky.social and the brilliant @joyceeng61.bsky.social LIVE on Substack tomorrow at noon ET to talk about our final Oscar predictions and freakouts — call-ins from listeners encouraged. prestigejunkieafterparty.substack.com

This Sunday! See ya there! www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iBG...

This Sunday, watch the Oscars with me and @chrisjrosen.bsky.social! We'll be live on YouTube starting at 6 pm Eastern/3 pm Pacific and chatting through the entire ceremony (while keeping reverent silence for acceptance speeches, obvi). See you there! www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iBG...

Talking SAG Awards right now live! www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5C3...

Watching the SAG Awards LIVE with @chrisjrosen.bsky.social tonight, but only for paid Prestige Junkie After Party subscribers. What a great time to join us!

Going live with @chrisjrosen.bsky.social in a few moments to talk about the BAFTAs! Join us! youtube.com/@the-ankler?si=I0XRuTW-8YM33tQP

Jack Fisk, the legend! I talked to the production designer who got his start with Terence Malick and David Lynch and still answers 1 a.m. texts from Josh Safdie, and I just feel like if we don't finally win him an Oscar this year we'll have messed up big time theankler.com/p/the-man-wh...

A dream come true in EVERY way

The Muppet Show happens in alternate universe where muppets and humans co-exist but Dianne Wiest and Whoopi Goldberg still have their Oscars and Maya Rudolph is still famous, what better utopia can you imagine

Sean Penn but I would still enjoy watching him try

The only thing that has ever made me think I’d do well on The Traitors is watching Tara Lipiniski and Dorinda Medley stick around week after week, having no idea what’s going on but having a GREAT time

Never in my life have a started a giant document with academic sources for a podcast recording… until now. Stay tuned for a dispatch from me and @kateyrich.bsky.social soon…

I learn so much from the Grammys and I’m trying to respect youth culture I swear, but are we really gonna have Benson Boone and ANOTHER floppy haired youth who wears sparkly jumpsuits, and just pretend we can tell them apart?

Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.

Highlight of my career, probably

Catherine O'Hara as Katharine Hepburn, an icon as an icon. (h/t @richardrushfield.bsky.social for this one)

I don't think it's exaggerating to say that the stark contrast between Delia Deetz in "Beetlejuice" and Kevin's mom in "Home Alone" was the first time it really dawned on me what acting was.

Why would I ever watch any other reality TV show when The Traitors introduces me to everyone I’ll ever need to know

Dirty Dancing is really a bulletproof concept and there's no reason not to have one for every generation — and if you don't already know exactly who should be in the new version of the Swayze role you haven't been paying attention!

“In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesive—because of its diversity and not in spite of it.”

Look we’re not trying to minimize the crimes of real-life villains by comparing them to fictional characters but also… I cannot be the only one thinking of her right now

I once got to ask Wes Anderson if he loved hotels as much as it seems from The Royal Tenenbaums and Hotel Chevalier and The Grand Budapest Hotel. The answer: not really! You forget something in your room and have to trek all the way back from the lobby! Never ever could have guessed that response.

For those of us who worry the Oscars no longer have the ability to draw in people who otherwise don’t pay much attention to movies: two texts from two completely unconnected friends, sent within an hour of each other tonight

I can't put into words the feeling of watching our government, a hive of evil antisocial filth, the absolute worst humanity has to offer, colliding with the best. Ordinary people trying to help each other, risking everything to stand up for what's plainly, unambiguously fair and right. It's unreal

I know it’s controversial but I will always side with “why should we change the idealistic symbols, they’re the ones who suck.”

"Oh my gosh, it was so nice to see you! Have a lovely day, fuck ICE!" "Oh you too hon! Stay safe in that traffic, fuck ICE!' - two older Minnesota ladies, bidding farewell after the protest

This morning @chrisjrosen.bsky.social and I are going live and digging deep on the Oscar nominations, taking listener calls and getting very nerdy — but ONLY for paid Prestige Junkie After Party subscribers! What better time to join us than now, right?? prestigejunkieafterparty.substack.com

10 hours into covering the Oscar nominations, this is inevitably where we land

Me and Chris reacting to the Delroy Lindo nomination, and very sincerely this sums up what I love so much about the Oscars. There's a pure joy in seeing a well-deserved surprise that is just really not matched by anything else!

You can revisit our Oscar nominations livestream, or also just skip ahead to this moment around 33 minutes in where I realize F1 has gotten into best picture ahead of It Was Just an Accident www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xkez...

Remember how Cynthia and Ariana just Where's Waldo-ed their way through the Paris Olympics? How do we get the Heated Rivalry boys — preferably in coordinated outfits — in the crowd at every ice-based event?

Brazil is, per custom, already showing up big time in the YouTube comments for the nominations livestream

We'll be watching the Oscar nominations announcement together on The Ankler's YouTube page this morning starting at 8:10 eastern, join us and hang around to dish afterwards! www.youtube.com/@The-Ankler

It’s just me and @da7e.com on @fitwr.bsky.social this week but look, we have fun

Today we’re talking about 2012 drama On the Road with special guest @kateyrich.bsky.social (@theankler.com). Plus: mourning the Hollywood Film Awards, Viggo Mortensen’s insistence on nudity, and Apple TV shows that don’t exist. 🎧: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

This movie now looks as wild and experimental as a hand-painted Melies short. It doesn’t make it GOOD but maybe even more interesting than it was in 1982

I’m finally caught up on Traitors and finding myself very invested in Johnny Weir and Tara Lipinski’s secret alliance… but also wondering if truly NONE of these people remember their seminal Olympics coverage??

I recorded this even before my children became weirdly obsessed with Tron, so the Garrett Hedlund-aissance is in full flower over here

So my kid who reads at a middle school level and I are both interested in reading The Odyssey before the summer. Is there a translation, or even a graphic novel version, that might work for both of us? I promise I read higher than a middle school level, I am just tired

I love local news www.axios.com/local/raleig...

He tried so hard, you have no idea

If you need a vacation from fighting fascism and would like to be reminded of the things that really matter, your connection to everything around you, and the tiny slice of time and history we are moving through, you could do worse than taking the time to watch Train Dreams.