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...

Goddamn @theamynicholson.bsky.social COOKED with this FRANKENSTEIN review. Bow down to one of the greats. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

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...

The Julia Roberts v. Andrew Garfield v. Ayo Edebiri college cancel culture drama AFTER THE HUNT attacks academia as a rat’s nest of egomaniacs and cowards and insular, faux-radical thinking. It's a mystery with no curiosity, a cautionary tale with no good advice. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

Should we cover one of the most beloved films on Letterboxd? Aye, my Captain!

Goodbye cafeteria corn dogs? Goodbye pepperoni pizza? Gov. Newsom has signed a law that will ban some ultra-processed foods in California schools starting in 2035. In a first, the law also defines what exactly an ultra-processed food is. Our deep dive: www.latimes.com/california/s...

NAME RANK

The Bunker was supposed to be the "ultimate man cave," an exclusive club for super car enthusiasts. My investigation suggests it was a "mirage" used by the son of America's wealthiest real estate baron to take investors for millions. Meet David Bren: www.latimes.com/california/s...

THE SMASHING MACHINE. Two high-intensity talents with something to prove egg each other on to be exhaustingly photorealistic. What's the point? www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

Kaleb’s memorial will be Thursday, October 9th at 2pm at Silver Lake Community Church in LA. We will have a private service in Bakersfield to inter him next to his grandparents, date TBD. If you can attend, it would be very meaningful to his loved ones.

Who's up for a lil pre-crime?

I love Indy the dog to death, and liked his horror movie more on second watch when I knew not to expect Jamie Lee Curtis on all fours. The ending is great and the build up to it, though draggy, gives you space to think about the interdependence between our species. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

🚨emergency ep🚨

RIP to the great Kaleb Horton, who was such a funny, thoughtful writer. he wrote some fantastic things during our brief stint at MTV News together that have been wiped from the internet, but here was one of the few i was able to save: medium.com/mtvnews/a-jo...

Is there any Wayback hack that will turn up the broken images on Kaleb's fake Sully script? That one was an all-timer. For the cost of one Pepsi ad on a Road Rules rerun, MTV could have afforded to keep its archive online. Unforgivable.

This final post from Kaleb Horton is very beautiful and hits hard. This is just so sad. RIP.

This is the Kaleb Horton piece that deserved to make him the defining voice of today. He was an poet, a comic, and a cultural anthropologist who understood America on a soul-deep level. It's his 2016 road trip to the Constitution Party's election convention in Utah. web.archive.org/web/20160918...

"To Catch a Predator" was a TV phenomenon. Now it faces its turn in the hot seat. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

Happy 50th birthday to DOG DAY AFTERNOON. It's a good time to rewatch.

Spinning off from Thomas Pynchon's "Vineland," Paul Thomas Anderson’s "fun and fizzy adaptation views its Molotov cocktail as half-full," says our @theamynicholson.bsky.social in her review, a beautiful piece of writing. Make time for this one. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

Paul Thomas Anderson’s fun and fizzy adaptation views its Molotov cocktail as half-full. Yes, it says, the struggle for liberation continues. But isn’t it inspiring that there are still people willing to fight? www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

This doc is incredible. An intimate portrait of Kanye's grand scale self-immolation. Tragic and mesmerizing. And it's barely playing -- try to see before it's gone.

From The Last Waltz to The Simpsons to Sabrina Carpenter’s album cover… Spinal Tap is everywhere once you start looking. New Substack post goes to...You know -

Masterly analysis by @jasonzinoman.bsky.social — stick around for the subtle but savage filleting of “Kremlin star” Jimmy Fallon [giftie] www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/a...

A BIG BOLD BEAUTIFUL JOURNEY is sticky sweet and sludgy and cloyingly aesthetic. While the film has a techno-fantasy bent, Kogonada’s style is too self-consciously bespoke, the cinematic equivalent of a hipster carrying their old iPod in a hand-carved wooden case. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

Do I like this weekend's new releases? Not really. Do I think it's kinda effed that AMC is so swamped with Taylor Swift traffic that it's telling audiences they have to buy movie tickets for tonight at the theater? Totally.

HIM wants to be “The Substance” with jockstraps: a Satanic-tinged, steroidal “Rosemary’s Baby.” Every shot is a stunner, from stark images of eerily spinning footballs to goalposts that loom like devil’s horns. But this GOAT plot is baaaaaaahd. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

We strongly condemn the actions taken by Nexstar and Disney-ABC to pull JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE! off the air.

This episode at least goes up to 8 or 9

A salute to Robert Redford who used his all-American looks to get us to examine all of America -- good, bad and ugly www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

Toronto is finally in the rearview and @theamynicholson.bsky.social @indiefocus.bsky.social and I have our favorites from a lineup that kept us guessing. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...