23 years ago tonight, a humble attorney from the Bronx invited a troubled kid from Chino to move into his McMansion in Newport Beach. I had a thing or three to say about that once upon a time www.harpercollins.com/pages/welcom...
Angie Han
@ajhan.bsky.social
critic @ The Hollywood Reporter backup human to 2 cats @ home West Hollywood, CA
I do not think I would like One Night Only but I have been enjoying the absolutely scalding review headlines, starting with @oldfilmsflicker.bsky.social's:
🏳️🌈 Ms. Marya E. Gates 🦩@oldfilmsflicker.bsky.social · 8h ago"If this is what it takes to get a rom-com greenlit these days, maybe we should just let them die. Death with dignity is surely a better fate for the genre than fascist capitulation." Zero stars for this piece of shit movie. My review of ONE NIGHT ONLY for @ebertvoices.bsky.social
![An image of The Villeneuve Scale of Air Pollution (aka the Milleneuve)
Arrival
< 100 milleneuves
(normal particulate levels)
Prisoners
200 milleneuves
(chimney smoke and rage)
Sicario
300 milleneuves
(gunsmoke and drugs maybe?)
Enemy
600 milleneuves
(C'mon, Toronto, you used to be cool)
Dune
750 milleneuves
(stillsuits are a must!)
Blade Runner 2049
900 milleneuves
(omg why are you even outside, Ryan Gosling??)
[each entry has a still from the film showing the sky color, from clear to deep orange]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:e3adzvtg56lfn3wpdlfjwnoc/bafkreifderpx4gkosjxomcme5gtboehesquihk5usfuv75aq7naejsitie)
if hating on ted lasso, the tv equivalent of widdle baby kitten with big wet anime eyes, makes me a bad person, then i am a bad person sorry
‘Ted Lasso’ Review: Season 4 of Apple’s Hit Soccer Dramedy Struggles to Find Anywhere Interesting Left to Go
More than three years since it went off the air, the series returns with Jason Sudeikis' chipper American taking a new post as head coach of Richmond's inaugural women's team.
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If your winning issue is trans women in sports, and you're struggling to uncover trans women in any league that anybody has ever heard of, then how do you keep trans athletes at the top of people's minds? Answer: You invent them. defector.com/the-right-ha...
The Right Has Created Their Perfect Trans Athlete | Defector
A lot of people in and around the WNBA are talking about trans women. In the aftermath of Indiana Fever role player Sophie Cunningham’s negative comments about trans people playing sports in an ESPN…
defector.com
Modern romance requires a toll, paid in energy, in sanity, in hours—and not everyone can afford it, @faith-hill.bsky.social argues. In The Atlantic’s September issue, she speaks with single people about why looking for love can feel so deflating these days:
The Great Romance Slump
Why are so few young people finding love?
bit.ly
I have seen roughly 487 "teenage girl comes of age over a summer spent at her family's waterside vacation home" YA dramas over the past few years. Sterling Point, from My Old Ass director Megan Park, is easily the best of them
‘Sterling Point’ Review: Amazon’s Summertime YA Drama Brims with Heart, Humor and Personality
Hailing from Megan Park ('My Old Ass') and executive producers Stephanie Savage and Josh Schwartz ('The O.C.'), the series follows a teenager who inherits a Canadian island from her late grandfather.
hollywoodreporter.com
these guys are so open minded they didnt even notice when their brains fell out 11 years ago
NY Heights’s Denae Benites with the first HR in WPBL history! You can read my profile of Denae and the Queens’s Ashton Lansdell: www.autostraddle.com/ashton-lansd...
The Girls Are Ready To Play Hardball
Ashton Lansdell and Denae Benites are finally living their dream — a busy year for baseball.
autostraddle.com
Using lists of three is not an "AI tell." It's a common trait in human writing because our brains biologically want to make sure there's always one thing to marry, one thing to fuck, and one thing to murder.
an impeccably curated list of the 25 best documentaries of all time, from my colleagues @thefienprint.bsky.social, @david-rooney.bsky.social, @jon-frosch.bsky.social, Jordan Mintzer, and Leslie Felperin
The 25 Best Documentaries of All Time, Ranked
From 'Grey Gardens' to 'The Gleaners and I,' 'Gimme Shelter' to 'Grizzly Man' and beyond, THR critics pick their favorite non-fiction films of all time.
hollywoodreporter.com
I don't know why everyone is in such a frenzy to see The Odyssey in 70mm. That's only like seven centimeters big. I'd rather see it on a movie screen thank you very much.
I am not deep in the Marvel trenches, and I understand that the season told a more or less complete story. But "Wonder Man" was VERY well-reviewed and did decently well ratings-wise. Don't really get this.
‘Wonder Man’ Un-Renewed at Disney+, No Season 2 Coming
The Marvel series scored a now rescinded pickup in March.
hollywoodreporter.com
I wrote about the new "Apple Upgrade" program, which plans to entice people into *leasing* new devices—perhaps devices they can't truly afford—leading them to stay on a perpetual cycle of monthly payments and upgrades, filtering their most personal data through property that isn't truly theirs. 🎁:
The New iPhone Underclass
Apple’s rental program is a trap.
theatlantic.com
"Buying food to eat at home has gotten 33% more expensive in U.S. cities since the beginning of 2019, according to government figures. In the 7.5 years before that, prices rose 6.4%." (via @apnews.com) apnews.com/article/groc...
Sure, Jared Leto is a creep with multiple allegations to his name over the course of two decades, but you have to understand that he's also a mediocre actor who's a nightmare to work with and whose movies are critical flops that don't make money.
"Money can buy a lot of things — rockets, couture, boats with foam parties on them, the ability to behave in ways normal people can’t — but it can’t buy you the ultimate luxury: the ability not to give a fuck."
Bernard Arnault ‘Has No Friends’
Aka sensitive man has sensitive week. Plus: is the luxury downturn ending?; an Anna update; and more.
backrow.net
Very sad to say that I was laid off yesterday along with a bunch of great @salon.com colleagues My time there was short and busy: I got to write about books and relationships and how much gen AI sucks and people being horny for Frankenstein’s monster Some of my faves are linked below
We only rate dogs. This is a very fast tater tot. Please stay out of the way as he clearly has places to be, and only send dogs. Thank you... 12/10 (IG: choppertp)
Media people! @hanhonymous.bsky.social is truly one of the best editors I have ever worked with -- she's smart, creative, respects her reports and has a deep expertise in all things Culture. She would be a terrific addition to your team. Hire her!
👩🏻💻 Hanhonymous@hanhonymous.bsky.social · last wk.Today is my last day as Executive Editor at Salon.com. It’s bittersweet, but I'm so grateful for all the opportunities & working with some of the finest people I’ve met. The media landscape is tough right now. Not sure what’s next, but you can email me at hanh.b.nguyen74@gmail.com with leads
I use every one of these methods, learned from being raised in one of the most sweltering areas of the U.S, years of hard summer labor on the farm, and old family traditions. Great tips! For some, scorching days and humid nights are just the norm. So how do they stay chilled and comfortable?
How to keep cool in a heatwave: 25 tips from the people who know best, from a Rio lifeguard to an Egyptian archaeologist
For some, scorching days and humid nights are just the norm. So how do they stay chilled and comfortable?
theguardian.com
“Without the nuances of Morton’s performance, the Circe scene as written by Nolan is rooted in men’s questionable fear of being accused of violence against women rather than the tragedy of how women navigate that very real threat to our lives.” My latest. www.vulture.com/article/circ...
The Odyssey’s Circe Is the Best Female Character Nolan Has Ever Written
Nolan’s never been great at writing women, but what doesn’t exist on the page Samantha Morton conjures through a tricksy, powerhouse performance.
vulture.com
Sometimes you put Disclosure Day and The Odyssey in conversation and it suddenly occurs to you that Nolan *must* have been raised Catholic (he was!) and it unlocks his whole filmography for you. On that and so much more for Decoding Everything
Spielberg and Nolan’s Summer Blockbusters Have Two Very Different Ideas About How To Save the World
The Odyssey and Disclosure Day are two sides of the same coin
decodingeverything.com
talesoftimesforgotten.com/2026/07/23/a... Many thanks @spencermcdaniel.bsky.social!
An Ancient Historian's Breakdown of Christopher Nolan's 'The Odyssey' - Tales of Times Forgotten
Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey is perhaps the most highly anticipated new film of the 2020s. It has already received near-universal acclaim from film critics and earned more at the box office in its ...
talesoftimesforgotten.com
Recommend this enjoyable, detailed and geeky (a compliment!) take on Nolan’s “Odyssey” from a historian: “Nolan is simply doing the same thing that the original Odyssey itself, and later ancient Greek artists who interpreted it, did. It’s the Rule of Cool all the way down. ***SPOILERS AHOY!***
hard to take Ormund Hightower seriously when I know one (1) hour locked in a room with my cat’s nightly pre-dinner shits would annihilate him