The well-acted WILDCAT interestingly explores Flannery O’Connor trying to reconcile with her Catholic faith amidst the pain she sees and feels in the world, but cuts itself off at the knees with filmed versions of her short stories interrupting the narrative. Check my review:

For the release of #TheFallGuy this weekend, we’re asking everyone “What Has Been Your Favorite Action Film From The Last 20 Years?” (Choose Up To 5) #TheFallGuy Movie #ActionFilm #ActionMovie #Stunts #Cinema #FilmTwitter

Vote on this week’s #NBPpoll here: nextbestpicture.com/the-polls/

It’s her time

Ryan Gosling is the greatest movie star to ever movie star lmao this is PERFECT

It is incredibly distressing for me to have to admit that I apparently have a new type: Tall, dark, somewhat unavailable Eastern European romantic leads with off-kilter senses of humor.

THE FALL GUY Officially Kicks Off The 2024 Summer Movie Season
By Robert Dougherty

#TheFallGuy #RyanGosling #EmilyBlunt #DavidLeitch #TheFallGuy Movie #Movies #Film #Cinema #Summer2024 #SummerBlockbuster #Hollywood #Entertainment #BoxOffice #Film Twitter nextbestpicture.com/the-fall-guy-o…

Fictional rock n roll bands that aren’t based on Fleetwood Mac but also aren’t NOT based on Fleetwood Mac you will always be famous 🫶🏻 #TonyAwards

Absolutely wild that in a season with FIFTEEN original musicals, the frontrunner for the Best Original Score #TonyAwards is Stereophonic, a play about a fictional band recording an album.

A wild season leads to wild Tony nominations!

After getting His & Her Tony Award nominations for Days of Wine And Roses, Brian D’Arcy James and Kelli O’Hara end up calling in to NY1 at the same time, and end up congratulating each other for the first time on the air. SO SWEET!

THE IDEA OF YOU has everything: Flawless songs, tattooed Nicholas Galitzine singing and playing piano and guitar, casually gorgeous Anne Hathaway mothering in every sense of the word, that thing where a romantic comedy takes itself seriously but also indulges in fantasy. Perfect.

The invite to tonight’s NY premiere of The Idea Of You (HI ANNE!!!) said “cocktail chic” - how’d I do?

Director David Leitch provides an update on a possible Academy Award for Stunts #Oscars #TheFallGuy #FilmTwitter

Everything in this trailer looks fake, I’m sorry. Love you Barry, and I hope this allows you to make a million smaller movies, but this is NOT it.

THE NEXT BEST PICTURE PODCAST: Ep 390 - New Oscar Rules, Cannes Additions, #DeadpoolAndWolverine & #BlinkTwice Trailers w/ Josh Parham Nadia Will Mavity

#NBPpodcast #PodcastAndChill #Deadpool3 #TheWatchers #AcademyAwards #Cannes2024 #FilmTwitter nextbestpicture.com/the-next-best-…

RRR
The John Wick Films
Atomic Blonde
The Mission: Impossible Films
Mad Max: Fury Road
HM: Crank: High Voltage, Dune, Avatar, Death Proof

I had a LOT to say about Challengers, as did everyone else on this exhaustive (but NOT exhausting) podcast:

On the eve of its 20th anniversary, I took a look at MEAN GIRLS and why it’s held up so well over the years while other iterations already feel dated. Check it out:

CHALLENGERS is now playing in theaters & will be our #NBPpodcast review tomorrow #ChallengersMovie #Zendaya #JoshOConnor #MikeFaist #LucaGuadagnino #FilmTwitter

Please check out Dancin' Dan in MovieLand's review & my interview w/ writer #JustinKuritzkes here: nextbestpicture.com/challengers-1/

This roundtable discussion of CHALLENGERS gets at so much of what bothered me about Guadagnino’s thrillingly filmed but narratively thin film, namely that it feels designed more for memes than as a cohesive narrative, and is weirdly disinterested in Tashi: huffpost.com/entry/challeng…