For around 15 years I was staff at Uproxx, HuffPost and Movieline. I’ve written for a lot of places like Vanity Fair, New York, GQ, Wired, and Empire. I now own a newsletter.
Supergirl is, at times, unpleasant. And I expected a polarizing reaction, which I mentioned in my review, imagining parents taking their young daughter to a movie about sex trafficking and a protagonist on a murderous revenge tour. Not exactly a "feel good" offering. But I admire its audacity.
The day I'm typing this is on a Friday. So that's good in that, if you're reading this on Friday, we have all made it another week. Anyway, this post on Bluesky got my attention: Getting past my own neuroticism about assuming I'
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It was about 25 minutes into Supergirl, the second film of the new DCU – this one directed by Craig Gillespie; a director whose movies, like I, Tonya and Cruella and Lars and the Real Girl, I like — when I wondered to myself why I was not totally enjoying the Supergirl
I had to get to the bottom of this Charlie Kaufman "Weirder Al" Yankovic comedy sketch. I had to know the details. It took me, literally, years. Okay, let's back up. Quite a few years ago now I spent months working on an oral history of
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You posted a story about Tom Cruise that you said "a famous actor" told you at a party. Any chance you can tell me who it was? – Alice Back in April I posted a story about Tom Cruise that I was told at a premiere party and it&
For those of us who have lost a parent, the Mother's Day, Father's Day gauntlet of holidays can be ... fraught. This week is, frankly, one of my least favorite of the year. And, I suspect, I'm not alone. And if you feel this way,
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I have lived in New York City for 22 years. This NBA Finals run by the New York Knicks is the most fun this place has been over those 22 years. New Yorkers get a bad rap because I think people are, generally, pretty nice here as long as you
With Steven Spielberg's Disclosure Day (a movie I like) hitting theaters this weekend, everyone is ranking their favorite Spielberg movies. I tried doing this in my head and I failed. I have seen every Steven Spielberg movie, with the least recent being 1941 – a movie I kinda want
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Disclosure Day isn't a sequel to Close Encounters of the Third Kind. It's definitely not a remake. But there are certainly echoes and parallels and inverted scenarios that do hearken back to Steven Spielberg's 1977 classic. It's a similar premise, but one
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It's Friday, so let's answer some mailbag questions, including one that's been staring at me for a few weeks now but I've been putting off because reliving "worst interviews" isn't really pleasant. I've already written about
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A few years ago I, accidentally, created a new movie for Kristen Wiig. She wound up having to address this movie that doesn't exist on a late night television show. In fact, the above image is of Kristen Wiig the exact moment she's being asked, "
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So, while reading this, keep in mind that the new Masters of the Universe was, somehow, created in a lab specifically for me. I even said this to a publicist who asked for my opinion after the movie. Which is, I really can't attest how the population at