MARTY SUPREME is a biography of our national ego. Weigh his selfish desires against any other character’s needs and he's as hollow as a ping pong ball. It really is all about his balls. Their embossing reads: “Marty Supreme — Made in America.” www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

🎁🎄Happy Holidays 🎁🎄

We've celebrated so many of Rob Reiner's movies over the course of the show. Let's hail the man himself.

AVATAR: FIRE AND ASH James Cameron’s daredevil creative risk — is his insistence on treating the impossible like it’s mundane, like the sight of all 9-foot-5 inches of Quaritch casually chilling out in a hoodie. (And Oona Chaplin's new villainess is scorching) www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

“When I die,” Rob Reiner once joked to an interviewer, “I want my tombstone to read, ‘Now I’m in this place!’” That day came too soon. But over his career, Reiner never stayed put, bobbing and weaving and directing at least one of everyone’s favorite movies. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

Just won the auction for a sacred artifact: Roger Ebert's script for BEYOND THE VALLEY OF THE DOLLS

It's kind of a big deal

Always wanted to go to a World Cup match. Bought random tickets before the teams were drawn and now I know it's gonna be Belgium vs Iran babyyyy! Are vuvuzelas still a thing? I've got two.

KILL BILL: THE WHOLE BLOODY AFFAIR credits the Bride to “Q & U” — coy initials a romantic kid might carve into a tree. The 4.5 hours before are love letters from a director to his star, to chop-socky classics, and to every film nut spending their day in a theater. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

This was REALLY good

The ten best films of 2025. From original tales to radical reworkings of classics both high-falutin’ and raucously lowbrow, these movies know that the most vital part of the storytelling business is they have to wow an audience. And they did. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

A rousing final salute from the great art critic @knightlat.bsky.social ❤️ "Every few years now there seems to be a flurry of worry about a 'crisis in criticism.' I think that fuss misses the mark, however. The crisis is in publishing, not criticism." www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

People are calling my lede here "appalling," "nightmare fuel," "actively evil," and "a desecration of the human spirit"

Incredible piece by the Columbia Journalism Review about the continuing evils of everyone’s favorite web owner: Valnet.

WAKE UP DEAD MAN, the darkest, funniest and best KNIVES OUT yet, is set in a church stunned by two sins: murder and theft. Daniel Craig has the movie stolen from him by Josh O’Connor's earnest, tattooed priest. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

William Shakespeare wouldn’t be wowed by this domestic drama about his home life back in Stratford-upon-Avon. Where’s the action? The wit? The wordplay? www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

Truth. My Udo Kier story is he randomly walked into a live podcast event at the Overlook Film Festival, grabbed a mic and made himself my third guest. Blessed moment.

Hi, meet your new favorite movie. The action spectacular of the year stars a 66-year-old man in a speeding truck. “Sisu: Road to Revenge” declares its intention in the title — it’s a scrappy, indie translation of “Mad Max: Fury Road.” www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

Enjoyed WICKED: FOR GOOD much more than the last one. The first installment was all tedious set-up. The second has a body count. Also, Ariana is by far the MVP. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

I wrote about the penny, a terrible coin that sucks, and one I'm going to miss for some reason

No bleaker satire than making it through THE RUNNING MAN, past end credits of a raised fist with “Together Against the Network,” to see the words: A Skydance Corporation. Or maybe there is, if someone makes a documentary about what Edgar Wright may have had to cut. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

The second time I saw the road thriller “Sirāt,” I couldn’t wait to hear the audience moan. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

Howdy folks! Make sure you make frequent visits to the DIASPORA event calendar for the latest happenings in art and culture in the Los Angeles area! thediasporatimes.com/2025/11/10/d...

Aspiring film critics! LAFCA and @rottentomatoes.com are again offering TWO $3,000 SCHOLARSHIPS to students attending L.A.-area community colleges: one to a woman and one to a person from an underrepresented group(s). Apply by Dec. 7 and spread the word! bit.ly/LAFCAScholarship2025

Schumer is pressured to step aside as Senate Democratic leader after shutdown vote

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I like -- but don't love -- SENTIMENTAL VALUE But Elle Fanning is great as a Hollywood star struggling to make her own Nordic family drama, calibrating her sobs to have a hint of hamminess, a marvelous detail that makes this whole type of movie look a little forced. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

DIE MY LOVE As good and committed as Jennifer Lawrence is, there were times I wanted to rescue her from her own movie, to protect her from the fate of Faye Dunaway when “Mommie Dearest” turned another blond Oscar winner into a joke. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

BACK TO THE FUTURE is the modern era’s zippiest comedy about the collapse of the American dream. It took me a dozen watches to realize the preservationist bugging Marty to save the clock tower wants to keep it **broken** for the sake of “history and heritage.” www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

Many of you have been watching our contract fight at the L.A. Times and asking how to help. Now's the time. Tell our managers that you'll honor the picket line if negotiations drag to a point where we're forced to call a strike. You can sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/st...

Fascinated that we all saw the same ending three different ways!

on an all-singing, all-dancing, all-movies Culture Gabfest, @thehighsign.bsky.social @theamynicholson.bsky.social and me take on Hedda, A House of Dynamite, and The Perfect Neighbor, spoil all three endings, and disagree about one of them.

NOUVELLE VAGUE is the origin story of Jean-Luc Godard, and, in a way, of Richard Linklater himself. Even more importantly, it’s a manual for what he hopes will be a fresh wave of talent storming the shore any minute. (I’m counting on it.) www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

Vincent Price handing out Dodger dogs at Dodger Stadium 1965 #Dodgers #TCMParty

A stat we don't talk about enough: Newspapers have lost 77% of their jobs over the last 20 year, more than any of the 532 other industries tracked by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Hell yeah! Congrats gang!

AUSTIN REAVES 🏀❤️🏀

Where are my freaks at? The ones down with ultra-gross out comedy? Cause this is a great one. In LA for a few more days, traveling around after that.

Meanwhile, @theamynicholson.bsky.social loved BUGONIA, was floored by Emma Stone and called the film "a hilarious movie with no hope for the future of humanity." That's my idea of high praise. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

Critic @theamynicholson.bsky.social calls HEDDA divine, vibrant and viciously alive: "With apologies to Ibsen’s ghost, DaCosta’s tweaks have sharpened its rage." www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

It's hobbling time

Emma Stone is so talented even *I'm* not sure she's human www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

Go see HEDDA. For real. It's fantastic. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

Here's why I left @latimes.com to start a newsletter about climate and culture. The story starts with Disneyland, Autopia and my grandfather, an incredible rabbi who passed away last year at 100. Hope you'll subscribe to Climate-Colored Goggles. www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/why-writin...

Pale Man? I'm having nightmares about the Paul Man.

This fab FRANKENSTEIN rewires 1850s Europe into Silicon Valley. Of course, the Creature is a hunk. He’s been assembled from the choicest bits of man flesh to show off the talent of his creator, not so different from Steve Jobs caressing samples of brushed aluminum. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

Wrote a bit about an icon whose breezy, awkward, insecure candor made her feel like a friend. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN, a sexual, scatological dazzler about an inmate‘s obsession with a musical, sounds like a thing some folks won’t watch even if they, too, were imprisoned for years. Their loss. In the spirit of the film, I’ll try to change their mind. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...