We have the PREDATOR sequel PREDATOR: BADLANDS. Now we just need the BADLANDS sequel BADLANDS: PREDATOR.

i'm in the middle of listening to this and it's unsurprisingly really great. check it out!

slate's doing a pop-up series on biopics so of course I wrote about the GOAT slate.com/culture/2025...

awesome story, truly takes some unexpected twists and turns www.thecut.com/article/nann....

oh okay i'm just supposed to trust the guy who got fired from g'n'r

from over the weekend: I reviewed HBO's new IT spinoff series, which is mostly just terrible slate.com/culture/2025...

deleted social media from my phone a while back so haven't been around much lately but dropping in here to share something I wrote about d'angelo, whose music meant the world to me slate.com/culture/2025...

this would seem to blow a pretty big hole in the idea that the clippers didn't know about kawhi's fake sponsorship deal www.thestar.com/sports/rapto...

the best lists are both highly thoughtful/informed and deftly calibrated to ignite a ton of arguments. on both counts this is a real triumph www.indiewire.com/lists/best-7...

THE NAKED GUN was so, so good. just incredibly funny and well-done. one small-ish thing I absolutely loved was how much Danny Huston's performance as the villain seemed to be riffing off his dad's as Noah Cross

wrote about my experience watching hbo's big new billy joel documentary, which I really wanted to like despite disliking his music slate.com/culture/2025...

In recent years there seems to be a growing consensus among adults that music that children love is inherently awesome as art, and I am morbidly fascinated by this development. needless to say I would push back on it, lol

it's impossible to do justice to sly's art and legacy but I did my best slate.com/culture/2025...

sacha jenkins and rick derringer passing away within a few days of each other feels unexpectedly consonant to me. two obscenely talented people who influenced american music in profound and unique ways

I thought SINNERS was phenomenal but a lot of the reviews i've read seem to miss the mark about what (I think) the movie is saying about american music. the porosity, and all the gruesomeness that comes with it, is the point

re-upping from the weekend: I wrote about my favorite show on tv and why i'm going to miss it so very much slate.com/culture/2025...

wrote about my favorite show on tv, for probably the last time. the righteous gemstones was such a gift and i'm going to miss it so much slate.com/culture/2025...

I wrote about the new daredevil resurrection, which is unfortunately about as good as you'd expect from the current MCU slate.com/culture/2025...

the rotten tomatoes ranking of every best picture winner by tomatometer score is so funny

what in the world www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/o...

The ever eloquent @jackhamilton.bsky.social on the new Sly Stone doc Sly Lives! (@questlove.bsky.social and @jazzbeezy.bsky.social's highly anticipated follow-up to Summer of Soul, out now on Hulu), the burden of Black superstardom and the fascinating concept of "genius."

I wrote about SLY LIVES!, questlove's terrific new sly stone documentary slate.com/culture/2025...

publicist pitch from hell

I wrote about the new led zeppelin documentary that's currently in theaters, which I really liked. more music docs that actually take their subject and audience seriously! slate.com/culture/2025...

not his worst but "angie" might be my personal least favorite mick jagger vocal performance. it's so mawkish and hollow. amazing that it's the same guy who sang "shine a light" just a year earlier. to quote brennan huff what the fuck happened

"nanker phelge" is such a perfect pseudonym. just inside the realm of plausibility for an actual british guy's name ca. 1963

"nanker phelge" is such a perfect pseudonym. just inside the realm of plausibility for an actual british guy's name ca. 1963

sorry but this guy is a fucking idiot www.msn.com/en-us/news/w...

Loved the part where all the Newport squares are flipping out over Bob’s rock music and we get a shot of Pete Seeger looking meaningfully— longingly, even— at a row of axes. Incredible visual storytelling from James Mangold, America’s greatest living filmmaker

finally saw a complete unknown. kind of a side detail but what was up with the weird smear-job of alan lomax? lomax wasn't some crotchety moldy fig, he was very pro-rock and roll as far back as the 1950s.

emilia perez's success feels like an extreme case of a tendency to praise works of art for being *about* things rather than considering how they are about them and/or what they're actually saying about them. in other words quintessential oscar shit

wrote about a big oscar movie that I really really hated slate.com/culture/2025...

David Lynch is one of the greatest American artists in any medium ever. RIP

the robbie williams monkey biopic cost $110m????

rickey's 1990 mvp season is truly insane, among other things he led the majors in OPS that year. as a leadoff hitter!

It’s crazy that no one made a Rickey Henderson 30 for 30

bill james once said that if you split rickey henderson in two you'd have two hall of famers. RIP to one of the greatest ever nypost.com/2024/12/21/s...

do you think bob listening to timmy do like a rolling stone is like when he first heard hendrix do watchtower

12 Timothee Chalamet Bob Dylan Songs that Improve on the Originals, who's gonna let me do it

oh wow

amazing sentence

always been nuts to me that there's not a bigger body of writing on howlin' wolf. one of the absolute hubs of 20th century popular music, the road from charley patton to ac/dc runs straight through the big guy

Annual reminder that BAD SANTA is a legit masterpiece

this is the best musical performance i've seen on a tv show in I don't even know how long www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ggg4...

mangold up in blue

revenge of the earth

can't remember the last time a coach screwed up a game so badly that he simply could not be allowed to coach another. maybe grady little

every bill simmons-chuck klosterman episode

hip-hop fans romanticize the 90s but the "uhh yeah" about 3 seconds into this song is the single lowest point in the history of rap, nothing before or since has even come close www.youtube.com/watch?v=ed2q...