So was it the polarizing third season? The weird comedy classification? Or something else that caused The Bear's shocking loss to Hacks at the Emmys Sunday night? hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/202…

The Emmy ratings this year are like a metaphor for all of media rn: So much better than the worst days, so much worse than the better days hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/emm…

If this is what it turns out to be what a perfect sign of the times. Even our crazy political sex scandals involve never wanting to step away from our phones

Just when we need him most

End of an empire, from the middle of it #Megalopolis #Coppola

This DeNiro pose is art

Coppola: "If you listen quietly the movie tells you how to make it." I've tried to do this with articles. Doesn't work

This is a Capital One commercial waiting to happen

This is a conversation in which literally nothing being discussed happened after 1982

Spike Lee on Coppola's Megalopolis: "My brother continues to amaze me with his fearlessness. He's going to do what he has to do to get it done."

Coppola's Megalopolis is a Gladiator/Gotham/Trumpian mashup whose thematic muddle is done no favors by its crazy tonal veers between full-on camp and absurd self-seriousness. I dug it anyway.

Hochul: Adams = Pelosi: Biden?

These laws outlining what would happen if a mayor is indicted are so vague and chaos-inducing you almost wonder if the authors ever met a NY politician

I feel like Megalopolis is hovering right at the disaster line, which is where you don't want to be, but if it sinks just a little lower it's in the campy Room/Rocky Horror bomb zone that dreams are made of hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-n…

What he said

Whoa

Jesse Eisenberg’s Sundance sensation A Real Pain began with what had to be the most unusual stroke of cinematic inspiration: Eisenberg saw an ad that said "Auschwitz Tour (With Lunch)” hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-n…

On a day when so many people are remembering pain, I just wanted to share my own family's experience with violence in the Middle East. The world is a tough place; understanding and grieving collectively can make it slightly less so jta.org/2023/12/18/isr…