A security guard at a screening just checked my glasses to make sure they were not meta glasses which felt like a new level of dystopia

OH MY GOD I DID NOT SEE THIS AND JUST WENT BACK TO MY SCREENERS AND I'M SO HAPPY

Beef season 2's ruthless targeting of the music tastes of elder millennials is dead on accurate but also savage. Never have the words "Hot Chip" been uttered more in a mainstream television show.

Bryn Mawr Film Institute screened The Philadelphia Story to a SOLD OUT crowd. It was a great night for the movies.

Critic Esther Zuckerman discussed her book, Falling in Love at the Movies: ROM-COMS FROM THE SCREWBALL ERA TO TODAY after the film.

📸 @kongmoodsy.bsky.social

Ah, I see people are taking what Lena writes about honestly and comprehensively in her memoir just fully out of context on the internet!

Thinking about the lady next to me at Cats: The Jellicle Ball who told me at intermission she was crying because she was thinking about all her dead cats. She really did perceive it as a show...about cats.

Ian McKellen and Michaela Coel on Art, Fear and Soft Hands

"It gives me street cred galore just to be linked with Michaela." www.nytimes.com/2026/04/11/m... via @ezwrites.bsky.social @nytimes.com

What a day

This also hit the cutting room floor, but made me chuckle.

Couldn't fit this in, but I also asked Michaela about her Bloodsport reboot.

If you had told me when I was 11 and writing Lord of the Rings poetry and dreaming about being a journalist—yeah, I was a nerd—that one day I would speak to Gandalf for the New York Times, I would have been extremely thrilled.

I interviewed Michaela Coel and Ian McKellen together about their work in The Christophers. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/11/m...

Wrote a little Euphoria primer. (Whispers: I liked the first three episodes.)
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/10/a...

Maybe gasped upon finding out Charli XCX was doing an American accent in Faces of Death.

His Film Is Intended to Provoke Both Supporters and Opponents of Israel

I wrote about Nadav Lapid's furious, fascinating Yes www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/m...

Working on my book about GIRLS I've found that obviously a lot of sources are online! It's an internet-age series. BUT one of the most fun and helpful things was going to the reading room at the NYPL and sifting through all available newsprint clippings available on the show.

When Stars’ Plastic Surgery Is Played for Your Entertainment

I wrote about those insidious videos trying to guess what cosmetic procedures stars have had, and how they want to train us to see faces differently www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/m...

How a Mistake Led to the Breakout Star of ‘Project Hail Mary’

Did a deep dive into everyone's favorite little guy: Rocky www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/m...

I just turned it on and was wondering if there was something wrong with my TV

Is it foggy...or does it just look like that...?

sort of upsetting i am in the uk for the premiere of snl uk and my hotel does not carry it

What the ‘Project Hail Mary’ Directors Learned From a Firing

Spoke to Phil Lord and Christopher Miller about what they took from their Solo experience into Project Hail Mary. We also got into their unusual inspirations for their space adventure (Rififi, Harold and Maude) and how it's all influencing Spider-Verse www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/m...

Important for a select group of people: James Ortiz, who puppeteers Rocky in Project Hail Mary, also designed the Milky White for the most recent revival of Into The Woods and the dinosaur for The Skin of Our Teeth.

Did I spot…Kristine Nielsen in the new Spider-Man trailer?

Best and Worst Moments From the 2026 Oscars

Bests and worsts!! www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/m...

Wake up the morning after the Oscars in NY craving In-N-Out, one of the only things I miss about LA

PTA now gets the greatest prize of all: Seeing his wife in Oh, Mary!

Putting bets on Ludwig Göransson winning another Oscar next year for The Odyssey.

Oscars 2026 Live Updates: Casting Director for ‘One Battle After Another’ Wins Inaugural Award

I have been doing a lot of reporting on the new casting Oscar! Cassandra Kulukundis was an INTERN on Paul Thomas Anderson's Hard Eight. And now she's an Oscar winner for One Battle. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03...

Yes. Good.