Okay, here's a last-minute Christmas gift idea. 🎄🎁 It's as easy as printing out a sheet of paper. #StarWars fans will LOVE this book *when it comes out in April. Here's a chance to give it a little early AND call back to an odd bit of galactic holiday history: The Star Wars Early Bird Certificate

Oscar talk in today’s newsletter! www.premiereparty.com/p/the-oscar-...

Okay, here's a last-minute Christmas gift idea. 🎄🎁 It's as easy as printing out a sheet of paper. #StarWars fans will LOVE this book *when it comes out in April. Here's a chance to give it a little early AND call back to an odd bit of galactic holiday history: The Star Wars Early Bird Certificate

Love the selection of recent #StarWars books at the Lake Grove @barnesandnoble.com. For you last-minute shoppers, they all make wonderful gifts. Happy Holidays! (And, yes, I’m wearing a DC Comics hat even though I edit SW & Marvel books. But in all fairness, I did work there for 11 years.) Ho-Ho-Ho!

Inside the making of the #StrangerThings finale. A story in five acts: No spoilers (the episode airs on New Year's Eve), but lots of twists and turns. Ross and Matt Duffer talked to me about why they had to vanish in the middle of making Season 5 to bring it all to a close. 🎲

“I’m not gonna lie to you ... When you have Bautista mounted up on top of you and he’s throwing punches, you’re like, ‘Fuuuuuck, I know you did wrestling and shit, but man, if you slip I’m fucked.’” My favorite line from this Esquire story👇 You live for a quote like that. :)

These two display true couple goals. I've been around them many times over the years, and they really are just like this every time. Nice to see. Happy anniversary to Mark and Marilou!

Disclosure Day Steven Spielberg finally unveils his secretive new film. I'm in. 👁️ www.esquire.com/entertainmen...

When people die, we should tell good stories to remember them by. Here's one I know about Rob Reiner. It begins with "As you wish ..." www.esquire.com/entertainmen...

I feel more grief about this than I know what to do with.

What a fucking gut punch it is to hear about Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele. The man made the gold standard of damn near every genre he approached. Coming of age movies all try to measure up to Stand By Me, mockumentaries to Spinal Tap, rom-coms to When Harry Met Sally.

Reading about Rob Reiner & his wife Michele, I am heartsick. I think of this line from Stand By Me: “Two men got into an argument. One of them pulled a knife. Chris, who had always made the best peace, tried to break it up…” Rest in peace. Life is not fair, but we do the best that we can with it.

Star Wars Explained 4 Ever❤️

2025 marked our 10 year anniversary of starting the channel so to celebrate we're doing a special livestream with our friends over at @forcecenterpod.bsky.social (also celebrating 10 years!) TODAY December 8th at 12pm PT / 3pm ET!

Getting to talk to @realgdt.bsky.social is never anything less than an honor and a pleasure, and I was delighted to dive into what making #Frankenstein meant to him for Consequence. Fun fact: He now feels like he's done with stories about father figures. consequence.net/cover/guille...

Interviewed this year’s busiest actor, Josh O’Connor, for W Mag’s Culture Diet. We talked briefly about all 4 of his films, and got into the column’s fun Qs, like what he reads, listens to, does when he wakes up… (That last one might shock you.) 🤭 Love him.

Who is Bob Gray? 🤡 Spoke with Andy Muschietti about tonight’s revelation on It: Welcome To Derry🎈about the origins of the creature’s Pennywise identity. It offers an answer to a 40-year-old curiosity from Stephen King’s book. Enjoy…

Our gorgeous #WakeUpDeadMan end credit portraits, painted from life by Isabella Watling. We’re still in theaters, see my pinned post for a theater finder!

I’ve known Adam for 15 years. He’s an excellent writer and reporter, and this is dispiriting in more ways than I can express. I’m sorry, Adam. Here for you in any way I can be.

There’s much to say, but I’ll just say this instead: Radhika Jones was a sublime editor at Vanity Fair. I’m grateful to have worked for her for six years. She deserves more credit for giving the magazine a sense of integrity, honor and intelligence alongside the glamour. Respect to her. Always.

Sheryl Crow has some thoughts on AI.

This is a true and good take.👇

Katherine did extraordinary and inspiring work at Vanity Fair. Rolling Stone is fortunate.

🎉 Have a look …

I don't wish this job on anyone, but someone should do a history of how Trump's social-media pronouncements get particularly rageful/hateful/insane on holiday weekends. Maybe there's something about being alone while others celebrate, or vague, in-and-out awareness that he's waning and hated, etc.

Talked to Noah Schnapp about the mid-season cliffhanger in #StrangerThings. Plus, his part in directing a new kid as Will Byers in that flashback. More from The Boy Who Cane Back to Life: www.esquire.com/uk/a69571926...

Austin Millbarge appreciation post. #StrangerThings

John Candy admits he is still star struck by fellow comedic actor like @stevemartinreally.bsky.social. “Sure. Absolutely. And then you meet him, and you realize … 👀 he’s not real funny at all.” 😂

While shooting Planes, Trains and Automobiles in Buffalo, NY, John Candy agreed to be interviewed by a local news reporter … But only if the journalist got his hair permed like Del Griffith too.

Finally, some good news… #TheEndTimes is here! @benjaminpercy.bsky.social

A good week to be thankful for blessings in disguise. I could not have predicted back then how much happier I would be now. pagesix.com/2025/08/12/c...

Shawn Levy is a great interview and a good guy. Rebecca Ford is the best too. This is such a fun read. #StarWars fans, have at it.

love having Eric at MovieWeb, and his look back at the second Ewoks movie is a real fun read

The writing here is sharp and funny. Josh Rosenberg captured Joe Keery perfectly.

Toxic masculinity is a problem. But we could use more stories of honorable masculinity. #TrainDreams is a powerful example.🌳 Guys will love it. Women will adore it too. A good watch together.

This is a wonderful Q&A. Train Dreams is one of my favorites of the year, and Tomris gets Kerry Condon and Felicity Jones to talk beautifully about its emotional power.

This just made me stand up and shout. Mike Hogan was an excellent boss. More of this, please. Good things coming to good people.

Let’s reassess “Deliver Me From Nowhere.” It deserved better. Scott Cooper’s film is more than the story of an album. It’s about the value of sometimes going it alone. We don’t talk about that very much.

Three years ago, Chris Hemsworth discovered that he had the genetic predisposition for Alzheimer's disease. He trusted me @VanityFair to tell that story. Now today we have the update at Esquire. This is how a father and son are facing the inevitable together.

65 Years Ago,,, History was made. #RubyBridges

Stephen King talked to me about The Running Man, and a gag TV show he included while writing it in the early-‘70s that was called “Swim With Alligators.”🐊 Would something like that air today? It would. It actually HAS. But when Joe Rogan did it, the contestants also wore bikinis.👙 More⬇️

I've liked all of Osgood's movies to varying degrees. KEEPER is the one I really can't stop thinking about. There are some images and ideas in this one that feel like pure deep nightmare language.

i like Osgood Perkins' movies more than most, and the same is true of Keeper, which hinges on an incredible performance from Tatiana Maslany:

Chris Chalk is extraordinary on #IT Welcome to Derry.🎈 We talk about all the revelations of Dick Hallorann, whom Stephen King himself brought over from The Shining to Derry. An Esquire Q&A:

Guess who has a story in the new issue of Weird Tales Magazine? That’s right! Me, and a whole lot of other terrific authors! Snag a copy at weirdtales.com

Katherine Stoeffel did a good job with this interview. Curious, sincere and insightful. Sweeney is guarded, but I got the sense that she answered honestly. That’s what reporters do. They ask. They help people—both audience, and subject—see where the other is coming from.

#Frankenstein A tragedy about fathers and children. And much more. @realgdt.bsky.social built a cathedral here.

It’s the pod we were born to record! Mallory Rubin and I break down tv and film’s top musical moments of the century so far. WE CRIED. open.spotify.com/episode/2zPt...

I’m so psyched for this! Right now I’m frantically trying to finish up a few new additions—and there’s also one proposed feature to this release that means so much to me I actually can’t allow myself to think about it until it’s done—but in the meantime, getcher preordering fingers a-whirling!