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Bing-bop-boom-boom-boom-bop-BAM 😤

The Los Angeles Festival of Movies returns tonight! My talk with founders Sarah Winshall and Micah Gottlieb on this year's line-up, lessons from the inaugural edition and planning a fest that's about film-watching instead of film careers: rb.gy/zhl5hy

Another great season of "You Must Remember This" in the books. Spoke with podcast host Karina Longworth about "The Old Man Is Still Alive" and aging auteurs caught by the tides of a changing Hollywood. "Everybody on the internet is a Clint auteurist." wp.me/pc8uak-1lFI41

Joel Potrykus is back with another queasy frenemy comedy, "Vulcanizadora," now expanding to L.A. Spoke with the director about approaching filmmaking like a garage band and why he stopped having a manager. Also somehow touched on "Sharkboy and Lavagirl." variety.com/2025/film/feat…

RIP King George. He was very interesting.

With "Talk to Me," Danny & Michael Philippou scored one of A24's biggest hits and raised the bar for YouTubers breaking into the film industry. They look to prove they're here to stay with the feel-bad follow-up "Bring Her Back." My interview w/ the twins: wp.me/pc8uak-1lFPv3

MI: The Final Reckoning is Cruise/McQuarrie's MGS4, once you get the goofy "where does it fit into the canon" stuff in the first 45 minutes, it absolutely rips. Submarine and PLANE setpieces are like two of the best I've ever seen lol

Jeremy Renner takes the carpet at #TUDUM

we got ma back

thanks to the LA Press Club for the kudos on my coverage of lance oppenheim's docuseries "ren faire" — one of my favorite interviews from last year + one of my favorite things to come out last year

THE NAKED GUN does not suck. the new one. the old one too though.

Norm of the North is now available to officiate weddings.

Cooper Hoffman is fantastic in "The Long Walk." He and I did a Long Talk. We got into how he trudged hundreds of miles in 100-degree heat for the shoot, and how he found his footing after “Licorice Pizza." And he's still a mess about the New York Knicks. wp.me/pc8uak-1lGdIJ

Seems risky to raise the stakes even higher than "is this as good as The Office"

"The Conjuring: Last Rites" — this time, it's personal. Review here: variety.com/2025/film/revi…

fyc tony goldwyn one battle after another

Jaylen Brown delivers a speech at Bill Nye’s Hollywood Walk of Fame ceremony: "Bill was a bright spot in all of our days."

there isn't that much gun stuff in one battle after another