With summer movie season approaching, you could use a reliable guide to and through the best, worst, and most fascinating new films. Luckily, as senior film critic @salon.com—where I cover film and its role in the broader human experience—I’ve got you more than covered. Lemme tell ya why! (1/5)

A thing we're launching at @salon.com is a weekly art-over-algorithm newsletter on culture and entertainment that isn't decoding the latest trends but rather looking closely at stuff that's (hopefully) built to last. It's called The Swell, it's free, and it starts next week. www.salon.com/newsletter

ok hey bluesky i regularly forget about this app honestly but i’ll try to use it more for holiday film coverage and takes (of the smart, thoughtful, and sharp kind, of course). marty supreme tonight, which means us gwyneth gals are rising up

ahead of opening night at #nyff, i wrote about ‘after the hunt,’ a mercurial and cruel provocation that tests its audience’s wits and questions the modern desire to define heroes from villains in a ceaseless search for answers. i absolutely loved it. www.salon.com/2025/09/25/a...

“After the Hunt” is a slippery study of our desire to wield power

In Luca Guadagnino’s timely drama, Julia Roberts is out for millennial blood at a steep cost.

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On this note, I absolutely endorse this @salon.com review of the now Emmy-winning Adolescence by @colemanjspilde.bsky.social www.salon.com/2025/03/18/a...

"Adolescence" explores the dark consequences of teenage boys being radicalized online - Salon.com

The third episode of the limited series finds online misogyny bleeding into real-life, and parents shouldn't look away.

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Alan Elrod@aselrod.bsky.social · last yr.

I wrote about the assassination of Charlie Kirk, its aftermath, and the sort of people we are when we engage the world through our screens. Read @liberalcurrents.com www.liberalcurrents.com/yes-its-the-...

"Escola didn’t catch up to the culture; the culture caught up to them. Their win and ongoing success are fate manifested, a testament to the power of hard work and uncompromising vision. Sometimes, the right things still happen." Read the story by @colemanjspilde.bsky.social ⬇️

"Oh, Mary!" star Cole Escola manifested their Tony win the old-fashioned way

The smash-hit play is the result of Escola's uncompromising vision and flair for the absurdly strange.

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Chloë Sevigny and Lily McInerny star in "Bonjour Tristesse," a lush, haunting remake from Durga Chew-Bose. In an interview with Salon's @colemanjspilde.bsky.social, the stars open up about fleeting beauty, aging, creativity and the ache of feelings we can’t quite name. www.salon.com/2025/05/02/i...

In "Bonjour Tristesse," Chloë Sevigny and Lily McInerny try to capture beauty before it slips away

The stars of Durga Chew-Bose's remake find languid, new resonance in the most beguiling film of the year.

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david cronenberg has a very singular, special way of addressing the humor in our mortality and the deeply ironic pain of living and losing. wrestled with that for my review of ‘the shrouds,’ his prickly, agonizing, and hilarious latest. www.salon.com/2025/04/19/w...

With "The Shrouds," cinema's great body horror auteur goes for something a little lighter: grief

Perhaps the greatest living filmmaker, Cronenberg's latest — a flawed, dynamic look at loss – doesn't disappoint.

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Salon's @colemanjspilde.bsky.social praises Lady Gaga's Coachella performance: "A striking vision like Gaga’s is critical in proving that beauty is not lost; it’s just harder to find, and her Coachella masterpiece makes our world all the more beautiful just by existing."

nurse, he’s out! ahead of coachella weekend two, i wrote 2440 words on lady gaga’s “the art of personal chaos,” a magnificent live spectacle where the superstar reminds us beauty is not lost, just harder to find. www.salon.com/2025/04/16/l...

Lady Gaga's Coachella spectacle makes a case for beauty in an ugly world

The superstar's second headlining show in the desert is a magnificent display of artistry when we need it the most.

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should i try to get back on here. i’m trying to get back on here. i’m also trying to get off social monday to friday. girl i’m trying to go full 2004 i want two hours of screen time a day and to only use it to play cartoon network dot com games

Really lovely tribute to Val Kilmer here from @colemanjspilde.bsky.social www.salon.com/2025/04/02/v...

Val Kilmer, Hollywood's oddball bad boy, was the real deal until the end

Dead at 65, Kilmer spent his life in pursuit of wonderful things, even if it meant rubbing others the wrong way.

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it’s almost like journalism has long since been overtaken by a media industry centering the perspectives of the establishment as the default for ‘neutrality’ & any deviation from that ruse gets you fired & shunned. even if you do speak up you can only go so far within their ‘decorum’ boundaries.

@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze)@newsjennifer.bsky.social · 2y ago

One week in and @sulliview.bsky.social is right to worry: "I worry that Big Journalism is going to treat a lot of what’s happening as almost normal. In fact, in some cases, they’ve been explicitly ordered to do so by the big bosses." margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/beware-the...

scraped my soul to write about david lynch’s radically empathetic filmmaking by examining my favorite recurring image in his work: the long road in the dead of night. would mean a lot to me if you read it. i’m so grateful to have the platform to share it. www.salon.com/2025/01/25/d...

David Lynch's films pull back the red curtain on our shared reality

Though surreal and sometimes impenetrable, Lynch's films lead us down dark roads to curious, new possibilities.

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i have been horribly neglectful of this platform which i hope to change in 2025. but first, here’s jlo’s brilliant mind singing a mashup of auld lang syne and live it up.

personal news! next week i’m joining the culture team @salonnewsroom.bsky.social as a senior staff writer, where i’ll be tightening the scope of my criticism and analysis to film. i’m so grateful and even more excited to keep writing with empathy and wit about my favorite art form in the world.

is bluesky a place that will be responsive to my latest crush aka this guy i saw hosting an hgtv show my boyfriend’s mom was watching

had a productive meeting and filed a review (assuming everyone has already marked their calendars for monday when i announce news) and though those both brought me great joy, nothing can compare to taking in the latest lindsay lohan holiday “spectacular” on the couch with a beloved friend

every day proud to have been born and raised in the greatest city on earth

JP@jpbrammer.bsky.social · 2y ago

In Bismarck for a show. Saw a wall that forbade kissing. Went to a restaurant that had a wall of kisses. We asked the waitress if it was a North Dakota thing and she looked aghast. “But there’s one across the street and one here,” we said. “That has nothing to do with ours,” she replied

‘wicked’ has its shortcomings (that consistently baffling lighting design!) but entertainment value isn’t one of them. it’s a bewitching, timely holiday movie spectacle, made with plucky earnestness that’ll charm fans and newcomers alike. my review for salon: www.salon.com/2024/11/19/w...

"Wicked" is a bewitching spectacle that smartly probes who has power in a beloved fairy tale

Cynthia Erivo is moving while Ariana Grande delights in an entertaining holiday event film that defies expectations

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wearing this to the premiere of my latest review which you can read oh so soon

one of my biggest hopes rn is that we get a feature-length doc that follows charli from the conception of brat up to its release and through the phenomenon of the next six months. preferably intercut with sweat tour footage/backstage clips. could be on par with ‘truth or dare’ no not kidding

this benefits me in ways you can’t imagine

autumn morning color yaaaayyy

enjoying both the rhyme and the reality of being a bluesky reply guy

one of these lookalike competitions needs to take place at a career fair damn

hearing this in ‘just my luck’ when i was 11 rerouted my entire life i was like oh my god music should be able to make your soul feel like it’s touching heaven music.apple.com/us/album/onl...

Only This Moment by Röyksopp on Apple Music

Song · 2005 · Duration 3:55

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went to the store for a lemon and got light eggnog, a celsius, and meatless ground beef but no lemon……..

was just laying around so i did a foley work edit of a gaga tiktok because i wanted to use it as a reaction vid