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Film critic of the LA Times and host of the podcast Unspooled. Say hello with your favorite movie and why -- or a picture of a standard poodle. IG/Letterboxd: @theamynicholson
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To some, the Oval Office scene between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy was a meme, a cold open sketch or a reason to rage about American politics. To one Laker it was a chance for America to see how his country needs peace and safety www.latimes.com/sports/laker...

At this year's fantastic Oscars, we were all Anora clapping back at bosses and billionaires. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

You know who should've won an Oscar last night? The person who designed the little 'Gravity on / off' buttons in Alien Romulus.

Our first Oscar-winning Ghostface

No Fango mention in his THREE Oscar speeches, though, I see how it is

I may as well mention the true fact Oscar-winning editor Sean Baker made his bones by cutting junket videos of ... JORDAN HOFFMAN a zillion years ago at a shitty website. Mazel tov to him and therefore me.

Isabella in Blue Velvet for David ❤️

Beautiful 🦋

Here's an indie thriller worth taking a risk on www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

RIFF RAFF starts dumb and '90s formulaic but you eventually get why so many movie stars signed up for this script. (Bill Murray! Pete Davidson! Gabrielle Union! Ed Harris! Jennifer Coolidge!) www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

One of my fave annual traditions

The LAT team all saluted our favorite Gene Hackman performances. I was surprised how much I needed to write about YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN and the moment Hackman felt he could take more control over his career. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

Yelled "yes!" so many times reading this piece. Great convo by Glenn Whipp and @joshuarothkopf.bsky.social

Movie night with Bagel. Trying not to interrupt whatever’s going on here. #Flow

The new administration's mass reduction of the federal workforce will endanger the relatively few and short holidays Americans take. That's not "efficient." It’s heartless, Times columnist Mary McNamara writes.

Here are my 100% biased heart-felt beliefs about what deserves to win the Oscars -- and what should have been nominated. I stand by BETTER MAN as a Best Picture contender now and thru the rest of Robbie Williams' millennium. (If you've seen it, you get it!) www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

Fun fact Google doesn't give you AI suggestions if you swear

“Love Hurts” is an action-romance that fizzles like a science-class volcano made of baking soda and cheese. The individual ingredients are fine: Oscar winners Ke Huy Quan and Ariana DeBose. But their chemistry is all wrong. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

HEART EYES has decent gags, middling scares and a rationale sloppier than two dogs sharing a strand of spaghetti. As date night fare, it’ll do. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

I just subscribed to Wired today. They have a killer deal going right now: a full year for $5 www.wired.com/v2/offers/wi...

Thousands of protesters rallied in downtown Los Angeles on Sunday against President Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigration and his aggressive deportation policies.

Adios to Sundance, who closed out the fest with a fascinating string of films about big names, big fans, and big tensions www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

AD for Luka!? What! Why?

In Silicon Valley in 2016, A.I. whizzes and VCs met to plot how to “replace all the writers." I was there. "I was taking careful notes," I wrote, "so that the replaced writers of the future would have some record of how the purge went down.” Now I’m publishing them. the.ink/p/special-re...

97% of @NYMagUnion members (including me) just signed a pledge to walk out of work if we don’t get a fair contract from @VoxMedia. If you love @NYMag and the work we do, sign our solidarity pledge to support us in the event of a walkout! nymagunion.org/reader-pledge 🙏🏼❤️

Sincere post ahead: I'm absolutely thrilled to spend two weeks in Berlin inhaling and digesting and debating movies with these brilliant film minds. deadline.com/2025/01/fan-...

Sundance 2025: What's with all the rabbits? Movies worth mentioning in this dispatch: BUNNYLOVR BUBBLE & SQUEAK LAST DAYS SUGAR BABIES OBEX RABBIT TRAP www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

OPUS: I'd listen to a full album of John Malkovich's pop songs (they're great) but this slasher movie isn't sure of its target. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

Our Sundance condo comes with frozen croissants from Utah's most famous tradwife. (Who totally should have gotten plane tickets for her birthday and not an egg apron, bro.)