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Picking the Best Casting Oscar for Each of the Past 25 Years There’s a new statuette at the Oscars this year, so we decided who should’ve won it for each year of the 21st century

I contributed to @theringer.com.web.brid.gy's retroactive casting Oscars. It's a fun read. I wrote the entry for 2009 (a competitive year with a clear winner, to my eyes:

For @tvguide.com I reviewed ROOSTER, a new comedy starring Steve Carell and created by Bill Lawrence and Matt Tarses. It's not _quite_ there yet but I enjoyed the six episodes I watched. The deep-bench cast helps: Danielle Deadwyler is great as always as is Charly Clive (who's new to me):

Well... Huh. These things happen.

In Review: ‘The Bride!,’ ‘Hoppers’ Animated critters? Reanimated molls? This week's new releases offer both options.

Today at The Reveal: Reviews of THE BRIDE! by me (the exclamation point is part of the title) and HOPPERS (no exclamation point, and @scotttobias.bsky.social wasn't that excited by it):

Mads Mikkelsen in Bleeder.

Me watching your movie.

The Rebirth of Jonathan Glazer’s ‘Birth’ Following Jonathan Glazer's peculiar reincarnation tale down the bumpy path to respectability.

For The Reveal, I wrote about Jonathan Glazer’s BIRTH, in which an everlasting love that transcends death is, more simply and unromantically, grief: thereveal.film/the-rebirth-...

Casting two English actors as the hero and villain of this otherwise very American movie gives North by Northwest a weird energy. Grant plays everything Yanks like about Brits while Mason gets to play the opposite. There’s something rotten beneath those impeccable manners and literate airs. He might be impossibly handsome and clever, but, here and elsewhere, Grant seems approachable. Mason plays Vandamm as a man who looks at almost everyone else like something he scraped off his shoe. That he’s betraying and trying to escape the uncultured United States of America makes a lot of sense for the character.

I know I did but I doubt I'm the only one.

If you aren’t following The Reveal (and, if you can, paying for it), you should start now. Then catch up on all of these Sight and Sound 100 Best conversations. I am always excited when the notification shows up for a new one!

Without reading the nest post I thought you were talking about Vin Diesel.

Dalton points

The moment in Alex Ross Perry’s VIDEOHEAVEN when narrator Maya Hawke talks about a clip from STRANGER THINGS in which she appears.

that's a very good idea for a project

#45 (tie): ‘North by Northwest’: The Reveal discusses all 100 of Sight & Sound’s Greatest Films of All Time Cary Grant is a man wrongfully accused in the first of four Hitchcock films to make the list. Is it one of Hitch's masterpieces or just frothy entertainment? We'll try to figure it out.

Today at The Reveal: @scotttobias.bsky.social continue to watch every movie in Sight and Sound's 100 best list. We're at #45 which is also somehow the first Hitchcock on the list. It's a good one, too:

All this plus apologize for letting ICE use Target stores as a staging area and make it policy to refuse them in the future.

Catalog Club: Ramones' "Ramones" (1976) Our new series starts with an iconic album that came out 50 years ago this spring

This month's Catalog Club series on the Ramones begins today with the self-titled debut, which turns 50 this spring. My challenge: Can a music critic in 2026 actually say something original about this band?
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So we’re just supposed to try to go about our lives today.

what if we did 2003 again but with even stupider people in charge of everything

Hard to find? That works, right?

Hard-to-see great film alert: ALL THAT JAZZ is on TCM Sunday night.

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In Review: ‘Scream 7,’ ‘Dreams’ New in theaters this week: Ghostface kills again while another film asks: Is social inequality the real villain?

Today at The Reveal: You can read me on the not-so-hot SCREAM 7 and @scotttobias.bsky.social on DREAMS:

In Review: ‘Scream 7,’ ‘Dreams’ New in theaters this week: Ghostface kills again while another film asks: Is social inequality the real villain?

Today at The Reveal: You can read me on the not-so-hot SCREAM 7 and @scotttobias.bsky.social on DREAMS:

Headline: Nude Olympics? It's Possible.

Same.

Family sitting in front of TV. Dad has camera. Caption: "you can shoot your own home movies and see them on your tv set almost instantaneously."

Big if true.

the party that wants to require ID to vote abruptly invalidating a thousand people’s IDs overnight seems like a pretty giant flashing red light

Will let you know! (In the form of a review.)

Just a heads up for readers of The Reveal: No reviews today. They'll run tomorrow. SCREAM 7 was not screened for critics in Chicago so we're seeing it tonight.

We have had so many notable deaths lately that The Reveal hasn't had a chance to pay our respects to everyone. Scott's piece nicely sums up both what made Noonan a unique screen presence and a compelling filmmaker.

For the night people. (It’s better than the SOTU, I promise.)

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