Me agreeing to a new project knowing full well it’s gonna add stress 🇲🇽

The Thunderbolts* / New Avengers of Screen Drafts episodes.

This is a fascinating and informative read.

Love that you included 'Great Muppet Caper'. One of my favorite conversations with Diana Rigg on set was when she related to me how she and Charles agreed, at the start of filming, on how to approach acting with the Muppets. Total commitment and sincerity!

Splendid!

Guys and Dolls

The Most Important Movie About Journalism Is a Timeless Thriller That Just Keeps Getting Better Fifty years hasn't aged the film a day.

A little delay getting this up but here's my thoughts on All the President's Men at 50. Such a killer film that really hasn't aged a day. It's a reminder of the importance of analysis and investigation, only more relevant in the digital age.

ah, I miss St. George‘s Market!

Some very exciting movie news from my friends @grahamskipper.bsky.social and @billyraybrewton.bsky.social.

Oh, I'm sorry!

This is a real fucking shame. One of my best friends attended Hampshire College and it sounded like an incredible place. Dark times.

Had the pleasure of meeting Marty for a meeting of a proposed LAND OF THE LOST reboot (nothing came of it, I suspect I'm one of hundreds of writers who took this meeting). But it was a real kick just to talk to him for an hour! Never met Sid. RIP!

Just in terms of its depiction of depression and suicidal ideation, I will defend THE PITT to the fucking end.

I’ll add — I’m not just seeing this in fandom. I’ve read more than one critic engaging with this particular show this way.

And if your idea of narrative derives not primarily from books or movies or TV shows but from games in which you ARE the main character, then main characters who are not behaving the way you imagine you would are really going to baffle you. That's how we get to "It's bad that Dr. Robby turned mean!"

A very astute (and upsetting!) piece that touches on four scary cultural trends: 1) The demand for spelled-out moral clarity in stories 2) A growing inability to understand different types of narratives 3) The "customer's always right" version of fandom 4) The growth of fandom as a social identity.

Would the devil still wear Prada? That really is the question

Has anyone studied the psychic toll of years spent waking up to the unhinged rantings of a vicious madman who could kill us all — and then going about one’s day per usual?

THE DEVILS is on Shudder. (No it’s not the mythological restored version that you always fucking ask if it is, just go watch it)

NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. I’m not crying you’re crying 🥹🔭🧪 📸: NASA

A photo of our lord and savior, S'chn T'gai Spock, sacrificing himself in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan" to save the USS Enterprise and its crew from a radiation leak

today we remember the one who willingly suffered and died before the glorious celebration of the day he was raised from the dead, heralding his victory over death 😔

Ah, this is fun. Love this.

Mary Beth Hurt, Who Starred in ‘The World According to Garp,’ Dies at 79 Mary Beth Hurt, who starred in films including 'The World According to Garp' and was married to director Paul Schrader, has died.

A wonderful and (I think) under-appreciated actor. Brilliant in INTERIORS, THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP, CHILLY SCENES OF WINTER... Rest easy.

Thank you for this! I remember thinking he did a good job at the time too. (haha)

[Hannibal Lecter follows Dr. Chilton into the crowd. The camera rises until the figures get lost.]

CUT TO:

A man sits in a chair addressing the camera.

"Hello, I'm director Jonathan Demme. We've had a lot of fun here tonight, but there's an issue that's no laughing matter: Cannibalism."

“Everyone overlooks” = everyone writes the same article every two months

PREACH!

I can't recall a time when more talented reporters and writers on movies and culture who have real skill and knowledge are struggling to find a foothold. We live in an "Everyone's an expert" era. But everyone isn't. Editors: Please take a chance on folks you haven't tried before. Read their clips!