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in an act of Canadian solidarity, everyone should go see Atom Egoyan's SEVEN VEILS this weekend.

yeah man that'll show 'em.

"band still playing while the titanic is sinking" vibes. playbill.com/article/here...

the EEPHUS Oscar campaign starts now.

when the best movie of 2024 is mentioned

and the oscar goes to 'el mal'

Nice of them to do an In Memoriam for James Bond

Conan’s having so much fun and so am I.

The NO OTHER LAND team on the red carpet at the Oscars!! 🇵🇸❤️

top 5% babyyyyyyy! Vulture Cinematrix No. 341: Mar 2, 2025 I got 9/9 Correct Score: 2603 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 Play at: vulture.com/vulturecinem...

i ranked this year's best picture nominees. i love this business! open.substack.com/pub/benkayew...

always fun when these clowns are just like "why yes I *would* like to sexual harass whomever I please at all times, thanks for asking!"

Francis Coppola on his Razzie award nominations should be the thing that that finally kills the stupid Razzies out of shame and embarrassment.

this "economic blackout" planned for tomorrow just makes me think that more people yearn to be shomer shabbos than they let on.

Poker ‘beast’ Nathan Fielder is about to re-enter our lives in a big way. Season two of ‘The Rehearsal’ debuts on April 20.

republicans straight up removed their house speaker while the democrats can't even bring themselves to gently criticize hakeem jeffries. pathetic!

Tenth Circle Added To Rapidly Growing Hell theonion.com/tenth-c...

i ranked this year's best picture nominees. i love this business! open.substack.com/pub/benkayew...

trains sound really great right about now.

if you're also nominated for an Oscar, I don't think you should be allowed to win an Independent Spirit Award. Jane Schoenbrun should win Best Director. June Squibb should win Best Lead Performance. Adam Pearson should win Best Supporting Performance. this is *their* time to shine.

wife is out, baby is asleep, papa’s getting wild tonight.

If this run was killed, MTC should say so, not cover with some nonsense about “financial difficulties.” Grow a spine!!! Now is the time!! playbill.com/article/eure...

Hunter Schafer was ‘shocked’ that her new passport lists her gender as male, following President Donald Trump’s new gender policies. ‘I’m never gonna stop being trans, a letter on a passport can’t change that, and fuck this administration,’ she said.

what a week!

My column this week is about NO OTHER LAND, a must-see Oscar nominee that every U.S. studio is too afraid to touch: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/m...

feel like someone should do something about the Everything going on, yeah?

one more for the pile. for @chicagoreader.com, my review of CAPTAIN AMERICA: BRAVE NEW WORLD. chicagoreader.com/film-tv/movi...

i'm trying to not let too much insignificant nonsense needlessly bother me these days, but nothing has frustrated me more recently than the lack of an indefinite article in the title of the broadway show "All In: Comedy About Love."

I’m not one for the hagiography of the whole SNL50 thing, but goodness, seeing Jack here made me kinda tear up.

Herman Melville's "Moby Dick" has perhaps the most memorable opening line in all of Western literature: "I hope you motherfuckers like reading about whales"