Thank you for all the birthday wishes! And thank you to all of you who have seen #TrapMovie. I will never fully be able to repay the fact that all of you have been coming to my films all these years. I will always try to tell stories that push me. Feel so grateful.

Not a movie but *shrug*

I mean come on.

And yet we still gotta deal with JOKER 2??

In deepest honor and grateful memory of Gena Rowlands; may she be at peace. With no disrespect to any other actress, she was the most inventive and vital I've ever seen. The last closeup I'll see in my mind, the one that can stand for all others, is this one, from Faces:

Reporting this article, I followed the work of amateur sleuths on the trail of a neo-Nazi who turned out to be a soldier in the 82nd airborne. After we contacted the Army, the FBI arrested him. newyorker.com/magazine/2024/…

PSA: Joshua Oppenheimer's sui generis and absolutely terrifying "The Act of Killing" and "The Look of Silence" are on Netflix. Once seen, impossible to forget.

The trailer for Francis Ford Coppola's MEGALOPOLIS features a history of dismissive quotes from noted critics about the director's earlier masterpieces. There's one problem, however. The quotes appear to be made up. vulture.com/article/did-th…

The Mouse needs to be stopped

Wish I was in NY 🥲

Bill Clinton: Donald Trump only cares about himself. "The next time you hear him, don't count the lies, count the I's."

Some of yall are really good at this stuff

goodnight

I, a 31 year old, would run after it

"To pretend that death is a reversible condition, or that you can somehow do an end-run around it via technology, is asking for trouble. The deepest kind of trouble." MZS on ALIEN ROMULUS and the trend of digitally resurrecting actors Read: rogerebert.com/mzs/let-the-de…

Wes Anderson. True original. Not for me.

Phillips and cast declining to call Joker 2 a musical while describing what certainly sounds like a musical is one of the more amusing bits of the year

Mass shootings involving AR-15 style weapons are a recurring American nightmare. Officials said this week that one of these guns was used in the Georgia school shooting. The firearms are used more than any other in the U.S.'s deadliest mass killings. wapo.st/3Xzd7wi

In a time when a tik tok influencer can get called an icon, what word can we use for someone like James Earl Jones. Let's just say there will never be another.

Hey look, a good movie! Had fun talking with Glen Weldon and Chris Klimek about REBEL RIDGE. npr.org/2024/09/11/119…