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Culture writer at Slate, published in LA Times, Rolling Stone, Entertainment Weekly, Variety, THR, and points south. Member: New York Film Critics Circle, National Society of Film Critics, WGA East

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The Bride! Earns Its Exclamation Point Like No Movie Since Moulin Rouge! The Bride is a spectacular, wonderful, fascinating mess.

I wrote about The Bride! (exclamation point mandatory), which I like more than any movie I’ve seriously considered walking out of.

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A few hours after NYT reported that the U.S. bombed an elementary school in Iran, killing many children, the White House last night posted this video mixing airstrike footage with Top Gun, Iron Man, Gladiator, Halo, Breaking Bad, Star Wars, John Wick, Superman, Transformers and Dragon Ball Z

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Among those who have departed are Toronto Film Festival programmer Kelly Boutsalis, former Toronto fest film picker Norm Wilner, along with critics Nathalie Atkinson, Sarah-Tai Black, Kathleen Newman-Bremang, Bill Chambers, Alicia Fletcher, Barry Hertz, Peter Knegt, Saffron Maeve, Angelo Murreda, Adam Nayman, Andrew Parker, Jose Teodoro and Winnie Wang. TFCA president Johanna Schneller announced her own resignation on Wednesday.

Among those who have departed are Toronto Film Festival programmer Kelly Boutsalis, former Toronto fest film picker Norm Wilner, along with critics Nathalie Atkinson, Sarah-Tai Black, Kathleen Newman-Bremang, Bill Chambers, Alicia Fletcher, Barry Hertz, Peter Knegt, Saffron Maeve, Angelo Murreda, Adam Nayman, Andrew Parker, Jose Teodoro and Winnie Wang. TFCA president Johanna Schneller announced her own resignation on Wednesday.

I'm putting "former Toronto fest film picker" in my LinkedIn bio ASAP. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

06.03.2026 03:36 πŸ‘ 67 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 1

It will.

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I am so delighted to have a new Ross McElwee movie and even more so to see him walking around True/False, but it feels cosmically wrong that he no longer has the red hair. It’s like Charlie Brown grew a goatee.

05.03.2026 23:49 πŸ‘ 16 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
A Reductress post features a photo of Kristi Noem with the headline, β€œKristi Noem Put Down for Being Too Hard to Train”

A Reductress post features a photo of Kristi Noem with the headline, β€œKristi Noem Put Down for Being Too Hard to Train”

Screaming

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Who Bombed Girls’ School in Iran? Reporter Nilo Tabrizy on What We Know About Massacre, 175 Killed After a strike on a girls’ elementary school in Minab, Iran, killed at least 175 people, nearly all young schoolchildren, online reports spread disinformation about the attack, including claims that t...

A strike on a girls’ elementary school in Minab, Iran killed at least 175 people, nearly all young schoolchildren.

04.03.2026 15:36 πŸ‘ 184 πŸ” 113 πŸ’¬ 18 πŸ“Œ 7

I was barely interested when Joss Whedon was involved, now I want neither a version with or without him

05.03.2026 22:24 πŸ‘ 25 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 1

Has Kristi Landed Yet

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The most important quality for a DHS secretary is that Trump won all the counties in their state in every election.

05.03.2026 19:09 πŸ‘ 131 πŸ” 12 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 1

Fawlty Towers was right there

05.03.2026 18:49 πŸ‘ 31 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0
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I think when people see this, they’ll say β€œWhoever made that made CODA.”

05.03.2026 18:18 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

glad to hear the TFCA’s president has resigned over this, but the idea that they just happened to cut the few seconds of Tailfeathers’ speech where she mentioned Palestine because the show was running long does not come close to passing the smell test

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yeah baby

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The White House just posted a video mixing real footage from the Iran strikes with a killstreak animation from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3

x.com/WhiteHouse/s...

04.03.2026 22:12 πŸ‘ 2569 πŸ” 1041 πŸ’¬ 461 πŸ“Œ 959

The Bride > Wuthering Heights

04.03.2026 20:06 πŸ‘ 51 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 2
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04.03.2026 18:47 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I never realized how many fake books were in his movies until I saw this

04.03.2026 17:34 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

two air-travel posts in a row, bro, what do you think this is, Threads?

04.03.2026 15:46 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

the only consolation for having to fly without my customary American Airlines privileges is that United has free stroopwaffels

04.03.2026 15:45 πŸ‘ 18 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

I skipped breakfast so I appreciate the reminder

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AI slop not beating the β€œaesthetic of fascism” allegations

04.03.2026 13:54 πŸ‘ 73 πŸ” 15 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1

It’s the bubblegum-esque β€œsherry-ah” song for me

04.03.2026 13:53 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

leaving out of the United terminal at PHL feels like slipping into the backrooms

04.03.2026 13:44 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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Statement from Jasmine Crockett.

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the data show incontrovertibly that either John Cornyn will win or he won’t

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I refer to it as being β€œover the hump”

04.03.2026 12:58 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

almost visionary of Barry Sonnenfeld to see that should could play a sexpot. Just a marvelous performance in a movie stuffed with them.

04.03.2026 12:58 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

the two phases of writing: (1) writing and (2) wandering aimlessly like an unmoored ghost and complaining about not writing

04.03.2026 05:04 πŸ‘ 772 πŸ” 207 πŸ’¬ 14 πŸ“Œ 14

the way this is basically just a Strong Language Here episode

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