Men Might Be in Crisis. But Tom Blyth Sure Isn’t. "I want to keep stretching my skin.”

"I fucking hate boxes, I really do. I find it so boring that we live in a world now where people seem so keen to identify themselves by the tramlines that they think they must stay within."

Chatted with Tom Blyth about his new film, WASTEMAN, and more: www.menshealth.com/entertainmen...

'Wasteman' Review: Cal McMau's Tense Prison Thriller While 'Wasteman' is largely verité in approach, the filmmakers introduce several breaks in style to emphasize big moments.

Cal McMau’s WASTEMAN illustrates why a powerful paradox about prisons makes them such a popular staging ground for psychodramas. Read @marshallshaffer.bsky.social's review.

Duncan Jones Can Rebound From ‘Mute’ By Finding Another ‘Source Code’ Jones seems to be at his best when collaborating with a gifted writer to translate their vision into pure cinema.

Today marks 15 years since SOURCE CODE, one of the best time loop films - and one I wish had set director Duncan Jones on a different trajectory. I reflected on it a while back for Decider: decider.com/2018/03/09/d...

Please welcome our new Film Critic, Monica Castillo Please welcome our new Film Critic, Monica Castillo

not a joke, not a drill: we've hired a new film critic! www.avclub.com/film-critic-...

Read our extensive interview with Lily Gladstone about Martin Scorsese's KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON, why learning Osage was so central to unlocking her character, and what she still carries from her experience playing Mollie Kyle. tinyurl.com/4cpk9ws2

Lily Gladstone on the Impact of 'Killers of the Flower Moon' Lily Gladstone discusses learning the Osage language and what she still carries from her experience playing Mollie.

"But the 'why,' I think, is the most important [...] It gives you another avatar for having big conversations that are a little bit more difficult when they’re lived experiences."

Spoke to Lily Gladstone with KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON now out from Criterion: www.slantmagazine.com/film/lily-gl...

Gabriel Mascaro’s THE BLUE TRAIL, opening in NY/LA this Friday, is an empowering narrative of one woman who refuses to see age as a ceiling. Read @marshallshaffer.bsky.social's review. tinyurl.com/jaehbfvt

“If you’re gay or transgender, I love you. And if anybody gives you shit, tell ‘em Charles said fuck you.”

Passing Time with EEPHUS Starting MLB's opening week with a great new baseball movie

Tonight's newsletter: a little something for the start of baseball season on the joys of rewatching EEPHUS ⚾️ marshallandthemovies.substack.com/p/passing-ti...

The Epstein emails have had "a bipartisan impact on how people think about power and wealth in contemporary society,” @marshallshaffer.bsky.social writes, and “as screenwriters begin to process this shift, they’ll have a varied set of cinematic antecedents from which to pull."

The Epstein emails have had "a bipartisan impact on how people think about power and wealth in contemporary society,” @marshallshaffer.bsky.social writes, and “as screenwriters begin to process this shift, they’ll have a varied set of cinematic antecedents from which to pull."

Nadav Lapid on His Incendiary Post-October 7 Israeli Satire 'Yes' The Israeli filmmaker discusses how his main character defies cinematic archetypes of morally conflicted protagonists.

"The phone is a party pooper, but the party is a decadent one. It’s a party where you dance on dead bodies, and the phone reminds you of the texture of the floor you’re dancing on."

Talked to Nadav Lapid about his "sick" film YES for @slantmagazine.com: www.slantmagazine.com/film/nadav-l...

Ready or Not 2 Heralds a Burgeoning Epstein Files Cinema — Crooked Marquee The horror sequel is far from a perfect movie, but it could help move us away from lazy "eat the rich" satire to tap into the growing revulsion at the wealthy stemming from the Epstein Files.

What would an "eat the rich" cinema inspired by the bipartisan outrage over the Epstein files look like? I tried to read the tea leaves by way of READY OR NOT 2: HERE I COME (of all things) for @crooked-marquee.bsky.social: crookedmarquee.com/ready-or-not...

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'Below the Clouds' Review: A Marvelous Mosaic of Life in Naples The snapshots of the area between Vesuvius and the Gulf of Naples conjure a sense of life here being suspended in time.

Gianfranco Rosi’s POMPEII: BELOW THE CLOUDS leaves us with a haunting sense of life in Naples existing in a liminal state. Read @marshallshaffer.bsky.social's review.

'Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie' Review: Lightning in a Bottle Matt Johnson's 'Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie' offers a joyous throwback to the optimistic feeling of the early internet creator era.

Matt Johnson's NIRVANNA THE BAND THE SHOW THE MOVIE offers a joyous throwback to the optimistic feeling of the early internet creator era. Read @marshallshaffer.bsky.social's review.

Sundance 2026, Ranked The Best and the Rest from Out West

Think I can officially call it a wrap on Sundance, 50 films later: marshallandthemovies.substack.com/p/sundance-2...

'Josephine' Review: Bearing Witness Is No Child's Play Beth de Araújo's film demonstrates how small acts of courage can help people persist through the pain they experience.

Beth de Araújo’s sophomore feature JOSEPHINE is a harrowing chronicle of a premature maturation. Read @marshallshaffer.bsky.social's #Sundance review.

'I Want Your Sex' Review: A Screed Against Zoomer Puritanism Gregg Araki's 'I Want Your Sex' quickly reveals itself to be little more than a screed in a sex comedy's clothes.

Gregg Araki's I WANT YOUR SEX, starring Olivia Wilde and Cooper Hoffman, gets too caught up in concern trolling about the sexual timidity of today’s youth. Read @marshallshaffer.bsky.social's #Sundance review.

‘Chasing Summer’ Review: Josephine Decker Brings The Art, Iliza Shlesinger Brings The Heart To This Texan Tale [Sundance] “Chasing Summer” may be the movie that cements filmmaker Josephine Decker’s status as an auteur in the original sense of the word. She’s not a brand name with a set of aesthetics that the average film fan can identify in a social media post. Instead, her artistic fingerprints are present all over a film that originated from somewhere other than her own mind. Decker is not contorting a personal project from comedian Iliza Shlesinger into the avant-garde stylings of her earlier films or even the assured formalism of indie breakouts like “Madeline’s Madeline” and “Shirley.” She’s applying her artistry to a character’s coming-of-middle-age story. Continue reading ‘Chasing Summer’ Review: Josephine Decker Brings The Art, Iliza Shlesinger Brings The Heart To This Texan Tale [Sundance] at The Playlist.

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Simpson Family in their church outfits. Homer has a little flag that says 'AWARDS' on it

i haven't done this since twitter but at the request of 1 (one) person, OSCAR NOMINEES AS SIMPSONS SCREENCAPS THREAD

elvis presley is sitting in a rocking chair and saying `` thank you very much ! '' ALT: elvis presley is sitting in a rocking chair and saying `` thank you very much ! ''

For anyone who's seen it: is the Baz Luhrmann Elvis doc worth waiting to see in IMAX, or is a press screening room fine enough to get the effect?

It’s started: Oliver Laxe said on Spanish television that THE SECRET AGENT is doing well because there are too many Brazilians in the Academy — “ultranationalists” who would vote for a shoe if it were Brazilian and now this is what the comment section on the SIRÂT Instagram looks like x 5,000.

What I Learned from This Year's Oscar Nominees Great moments from memorable interviews

Today's newsletter: a highlight reel from the 15 of this year's Oscar nominees whom I've interviewed 📬 marshallandthemovies.substack.com/p/what-i-lea...

Maybe a niche NYC post, but I feel like I should have seen the IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT nomination falloff coming when the showtimes became so minimal at Lincoln Center and Film Forum didn't even keep it until nominations

who knows a guy with a VIVA VERDI screener

was coming here to say this

Bubble burst!

What Does "Achievement in Casting" Look Like? A chat about the newest Academy Award in 2026

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Trying to understand what the new Oscar Achievement in Casting will entail? I chatted with a friend with experience in the field to break it down: marshallandthemovies.substack.com/p/what-does-...

Thought HIS & HERS was a movie, Netflix really gotta make this clearer