I’m at #Sundance helping cover the festival’s final year in Park City with @latimes.com. Threading all the most interesting things I see.

For those keeping track, the CityWalk AMC is fully stocked on Marty Supreme ping pong balls.

Tom Cruise IS Digger youtu.be/Rd21PhsDHww?...

I paid $25 real dollars for the Kim Kardashian Fortnite bundle that comes with customizable SKIMS bodysuits, an in-game Private Jet and emotes based Kim's biggest memes. AMA.

My planet Arrakis is so beautiful when the sun is low

on october 23rd the muses descend upon a pop girlie to bestow her the divine gift of creation

Have come to the conclusion that the “America” number from Spielberg’s #WestSideStory is the greatest uninterrupted five and a half minutes of feature film ever produced. youtu.be/hoQEddtFN3Q?...

Completely over the moon for Thom Andersen’s opus “Los Angeles Plays Itself.” Nearly three hours of the most fascinating piece of criticism I’ve ever encountered. Among other things, it finds time to extol the Dragnet franchise, critique L.A.’s transit system and rip a Diane Keaton movie to shreds.

i’ve seen the trailer for one battle after another enough times and in enough theaters to say that it’s the best trailer of the 2020s. “thank you sensei,” that little rug unrolling and the bits of score we hear are perfect every single time.

People saying F1 is a riff on the Top Gun Maverick formula… It’s more obviously a riff on Apple’s own Ted Lasso. Brad Pitt is Ted, pit crew is front office, owner vs shareholder tension.

if the ticketmaster queue is to be believed, there are ~100k people trying to get tickets to addison rae’s los angeles concert at the wiltern, which has a 2300 person capacity lol

Los Angeles school police will set up a safety perimeter around campuses and school events — including graduations — to keep federal immigration agents away from students, employees and families, school officials said. Read more: www.latimes.com/california/s...

500 active-duty U.S. Marines from Camp Pendleton will be deployed to L.A., a senior Trump administration official told The Times. Read more: www.latimes.com/california/l...

overcompensating is soooo sharply written, every joke lands, the ensemble is so strong and it manages to be both a farcical and poignant depiction of college life like benito skinner you really did that shit!!

Insane to me that Nathan Fielder in The Rehearsal finale on HBO pulls off a greater stunt – commits to a more impressive bit – than Tom Cruise in the Mission: Impossible movie currently playing in theaters.

#MissionImpossible: The Final Reckoning is a mess! Chaotic and plotty, but every so often McQuarrie throws down something completely mesmerizing. Interestingly less reliant action. I loved that it’s littered with character actor performances. Bless Tom Cruise for deciding to go full Animaniac.

amc adds a fourth slot to a-list’s weekly movie limit tomorrow. we prayed for times like this.

knew the sold out crowd at the vista for sinners was gonna be an all timer when everyone was hootin and hollerin for the elmer fudd preshow. when the duck season poster hit the screen we all held hands and started levitating. hands down best theater experience. this is why we go to the movies folks.

At #Coachella for the first time ever. Having the time of my life. Not overstimulated whatsoever.

reaching heretofore unseen levels of being back

RIP to one of the greats

just wrapped up severance and now we’re all watching the studio, two tv shows i intend to be extremely normal about thank you very much

John Carpenter talking to Bong Joon Ho before a screening of “The Thing.” “Special effects are a huge pain in the ass. They mostly look like crap,” says Carpenter. a gathering of goats

visited the bong joon ho exhibit at the @academymuseum.bsky.social today and saw his copious storyboards among other cool stuff. but learned he was a total movie freak from a young age. he even ran a bootleg movie club with a library of films on vhs and logged his collection by hand in a notebook

#Severance Season 2 ended with a crisis of conscience that led innie Mark to make a critical choice in the face of an uncertain future. Here, Adam Scott, Britt Lower, Dichen Lachman, Ben Stiller and Dan Erickson discuss “Cold Harbor,” the mind-blowing finale. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

severance finale good enough to make me like ben stiller

There’s a scene in “Black Bag” where Cate Blanchett pushes an elevator button in a way no other human ever has or ever will. Seeing acting like that is, frankly, why I wake up in the morning.

I ran (across the street) in the L.A. marathon (to get back to my apartment).

nothin better than seeing my personal friends the looney tunes on the big screen

vin diesel should announce the best picture winner at next year’s oscars

insanely good severance theory in here and just a really great conversation with lindelof. could listen to him talk about tv for hours!

Love this old theater in Seal Beach that’s been restored. Its grand reopening is the premiere of “Harbour Chronicles,” a new film about Rich Harbour, a local surf legend whose surf shop is right across the street from the theater.

history will not look back fondly on the academy class that failed to recognize FURIOSA and SAYOMBHU MUKDEEPROM, a film and a cinematographer responsible for some of the most striking images of the year, for any oscar nominations!!

The Los Angeles Times books newsletter rolls on. This week I looked at some books that might help us better understand the fires. And I spoke with Kristin Hannah, who sold more books than anyone last year — and still had to evacuate. Because fire don’t care how many books you sold.

David Lynch, the surrealist artist behind such film and TV works as “Mulholland Drive” and “Twin Peaks,” has died. He was 78. https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2025-01-16/david-lynch-dead-obit-filmmaker-twin-peaks?utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky_ 

Experienced one of the most magical movie moments last night at a CityWalk IMAX screening of #TheBrutalist. During the Nicole Kidman ad when she says, “when the lights begin to dim,” the actual lights in the auditorium dimmed. An indescribable feeling indeed.

Hey, Bluesky 👋🏼 A friendly reminder that you can avoid #LAFires disinformation with one simple trick: Follow the local news organizations + reporters on the ground in affected areas and in direct contact with residents, officials and agencies. I made this starter list: bsky.app/profile/did:...

Today's Los Angeles Times cover. Five people have died, more than 2,000 structures have burned and at least 130,000 residents are under evacuation orders because of the wildfires burning across the county. Follow our coverage: www.latimes.com/california/l...

An evacuation zone has been established for the Sunset fire between the 101 freeway and Laurel Canyon and between Mulholland Dr. and Hollywood Blvd. Officials urge people to avoid the area so that residents can evacuate and fire crews can get stationed. Learn more: www.latimes.com/california/s...

One of my favorite things to do is edit the books newsletter and Chris has written some stellar editions, including this recent one on anthropologist Jason De Leon: www.latimes.com/entertainmen... This week’s is a great look at some of our most anticipated books of the year. Take a look below!

Happy New Year, book people. In this week’s Los Angeles Times books newsletter I look forward to some 2025 titles that have me excited, including books about Joan Didion, the slam dunk, a French train disaster, and a family that just keeps getting visits from the devil. Subscribe if ya like it.

There’s an insanely fun adaptation of #TheCountOfMonteCristo playing in theaters right now. It’s sumptuous and funny and shot in gorgeous locations. And it’s got a dinner party scene for the ages. The movie had me hootin and hollerin. Add it to the canon of great swashbuckling cinema.

If you start watching #Conclave at exactly 10:08pm, Cardinal Lawrence and the College of Cardinals will select a new pope at exactly 12 midnight as you ring in the new year.

Loved #ACompleteUnknown even more the second time. Where James Mangold’s rigid classicism clashed with Indiana Jones, here the everyman aesthetic strips Bob Dylan of any mythic lore. Timothée Chalamet is incredible. Monica Barbaro rules. Ed Norton goes full Wes Anderson mode. I was charmed!

The ritualistic sacrifice of the Pop-Tart at the hands of our greatest collegiate athletes has begun.

The Beyoncé performance was super impressive and also strengthens my argument that every big performance is made better with a marching band

Saw #EyesWideShut (first time) at the New Beverly on Friday. Then I had to see it again last night at the Egyptian. It’s a movie ripe for what I love about moviegoing: falling down rabbit holes of interviews, reddit threads and podcasts. Just marinating in discussions that have been raging for years

THE BRUTALIST announces itself as a modern epic and goes on to earn that gilded frame. You’re dead certain that at some point, someone must have come up with the elevator pitch that this is CITIZEN KANE from the perspective of Xanadu’s interior designer. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

#Interstellar in 70mm IMAX at the Citywalk AMC. Absolute full body chills. These insanely cool photos are by projectionist Taylor Umpenhour, who’s been projecting the 70mm IMAX film at that theater for the movie’s rerelease: www.instagram.com/taylor.umphe...

#BlackDoves is full of tired spy movie tropes, traps its main character in its least interesting plot and completely lacks energy in its action scenes. But it’s got a fantastic Ben Whishaw, actually funny side characters and enough political intrigue to stay pretty watchable over 6 episodes.