Well worth your time. Banger indeed!

Is there a new print?? I was at an Academy screening under a year ago and the 35mm print was not in great shape. But it was great fun to see this brilliant film projected!!

The New York Times drops freelance journalist who used AI to write book review Writer and author Alex Preston said he “made a serious mistake” after a reader spotted similarities between his review and one that appeared in the Guardian

This is all reminding me of a conversation I had recently with an old friend who works in tech and extremely gung-ho about AI. When I told him about my process for writing a long New Yorker piece, he was absolutely sure that AI could make it more "efficient." / www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

So much more interesting! We editors thank you - this helps people understand how much can change during the editorial process and in turn helps people understand a bit more what editors do!

Democratic consultants: To replicate Mamdani’s success with the young people we must appeal to their short attention spans with memes and TikTok

Mamdani (actual quote): In the fifth century in what we now know as Ireland, a British warlord named Coroticus had laid waste to the countryside

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Great to see Landry from FNL cheering Vince Howard

I will make sure he sees this!! What a lovely note. (Also I’m so so so thrilled for him!!)

A personal note: I was very touched to hear Best Editing winner Andy Jurgensen thank his aunt Barbara Hall. As an Academy archivist, she took an interest in my research and, miraculously, found me George Stevens's pocket diary. A miracle. Five Came Back would not have been what it was without her.

Me, every year on Oscar night: Surely everyone else I know has an encyclopedic recall of the recent winners of the ACE Eddie awards!

The writing winners! Giving the (Oscar) people what they want, back to back.

Especially bad because removing or changing those signs in post is VERY easy.

Yes Andy!! Woooooooo!!!

We Take John Turturro for Granted He’s a ubiquitous face but rarely gets the chance to carry a feature, as he does in the modest, lovely drama The Only Living Pickpocket in New York.

THE ONLY LIVING PICKPOCKET IN NEW YORK is a lovely little movie that gives John Turturro a great leading role. www.vulture.com/article/revi...

The Contender. I hated it SO MUCH. I was so furious when I left the theater I picked a fight with my poor unsuspecting date. It filled me with such intense RAGE AND ANGER. This article sums it up - although I didn't need 20 years to see that it is absolute nonsense. www.nytimes.com/2021/09/08/m...

My driver’s ed teacher was also the town cop - so kids were pulled over by the same guy who taught them to drive. Small town New Hampshire for the win!

One thing you see in both the smug dope from the Plain Dealer and the Cruise/Pitt clip is profound resentment at the idea that creative work is a skill with human variables--experience, instinct, practice, imagination. There is real anger at the very idea that non-technological human talent matters.

This is perhaps the best explanation of why AI is not always a better way to do something (anything!) - it skips the thinking part. We need to THINK to get from the start to the finish of something. Thinking is what makes life interesting.

I always have this Lucky t-shirt in multiple colors - they also have other cuts that might be what you’re looking for. www.luckybrand.com/short-sleeve...

Kristen Stewart’s Bold Plan to Bring a Beloved Los Angeles Theater Back to Life How the actor-director is restoring the historic Highland Theatre as a community-centered home for adventurous cinema in LA

oh hell yes
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It me.

Of note, though I'm not sure exactly how to note it: all of the Oscar nominees for Best Documentary Feature premiered at Sundance last year.

While I won’t need to worry about accidentally writing “2025” on my checks, as I no longer write checks, I will have to worry about mis-dating my sequences in Avid

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Opinion | One Factor Will Decide How Much You Enjoy TV Next Year

For the New York Times, I wrote about the creative implications of the potential Netflix/WBD deal, and why I hope Netflix learns more from HBO than HBO learns from Netflix (gift link): www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/o...

Finally caught up with PETER HUJAR'S DAY. Among its many small, exquisitely proportioned pleasures, it's a great movie about the life of a freelancer. Lotta talk about rates and stretches that didn't feel all that productive.

She has it in the bag.

Transparent is to blame for this :)

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