To celebrate the release of @brianduffield.bsky.social’s Whalefall, I recorded a very entertaining episode of The Spiel where we nerd out about Minority Report! Listen to the podcast and then go see Austin Abrams navigate a surprising amount of whale sphincters at a theater near you!
Good morning! For @nytimes.com, I had the immense pleasure of talking to Baz Luhrmann and his collaborator Jonathan Redmond about how they combed through boxes of long-forgotten Elvis footage from a salt mine in Kansas to create their marvelous new documentary "EPiC." Gift link:
Please take the time to read this superb @jamellebouie.net column. It establishes a baseline of truth for anyone who wants to think, talk, and write honestly about Trump. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/o...
There are like 40 perfect examples of this exactly in TERMS OF ENDEARMENT, but the one that always gets me is at the very end when Nicholson takes Winger’s eldest son to see his swimming pool as a field trip away from her funeral 😭
This is a favorite question to ask. Favorite little moment of kindness in a movie? I'm thinking of Tim Blake Nelson leaving money on the sill after they steal a pie in O Brother.
1/11/44: Hitchcock's Lifeboat
w/Tallulah Bankhead, Walter Slezak ++
Starts with the bad guys committing shocking atrocities at sea. Hmmm.
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In less than a week, I will be sworn in as the next mayor of New York City. It was only possible because of the more than 100,000 people who volunteered on our campaign. Here’s a story about one of them, my mother.
Revisited @brianduffield.bsky.social's SPONTANEOUS today. The film has become exponentially more profound in light of the world today. It's frustrations @ the "cosmic bullshit of the universe" reverberate and move me even deeper now.
Phenomenally lit, too (hard sources, YAY!) Incredible first film.
Instead of peeling potatoes or watching bad football, read these nuggets of wisdom I put together from my chat with James Cameron. Happy Thanksgiving! puck.news/james-camero...
Hey, movie directors - don't you want to be on this list, too?
An Ongoing List of Directors Positively Acknowledging Visual Effects
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Took five hours almost to the minute for someone to drop the old "RETURN OF THE KING had too many endings!" chestnut, so here's a thing I wrote for Paste's film section (RIP) about that.
Please, please, everyone, this is not the season for us to argue about STAR WARS movies.
It's the season for us to argue about LORD OF THE RINGS movies.
Show some decorumm
I have seen not one journalist ask Ethan Hawke this press tour about his defining role in the Duffield household, Batman. You’re all lazy and need to ask more questions about ETHAN HAWKE AS BATMAN.
I spoke to Rian Johnson about WAKE UP DEAD MAN. He tells the story about how Daniel Craig was almost not Benoit Blanc. How Craig will always play Benoit Blanc in future movies. And he makes a personal plea to an Oscar winning actor to be in Knives Out 4. www.indiewire.com/features/int...
When asked if there was anything "incriminating" in Epstein's emails, Trump pointed a finger in a female reporter's face and snapped. 'Quiet. Quiet, Piggy.'
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I read the Nuzzi excerpt in Vanity Fair, and there is something maddening about her choice to refer to RFK Jr. not by name but with mock coyness as "the Politician." It suggests that the chance to actualize some Carrie Bradshaw-meets-Big fantasy fueled all of this. Anyway, I don't need to know more.
Sadly, today's the day this is public: The Books section at Paste Magazine is no more.
This is why I started asking around about potential review outlets over the weekend.
I'm so proud of the work I did with horror books over there, and grateful to @lacymb.bsky.social for letting me run wild.
In the current landscape, you can get a great distribution and STILL have to raise $40K to cover archival. We're on the final push and any donation is entirely tax-deductible. Also, we will send you a cool Coroner-themed evidence kit! #filmsky
i actually don’t think the “average” american millennial man had a nazi phase. it’s not some boys will be boys shit. this makes me side eye you and your friend group, sounds like a personal problem
Over the weekend, I kept asking myself "...did I hallucinate that the first Disney Channel original movie starred Diane Keaton??" - and as it turns out, I did not. I remember this vividly because Memaw + I watched the premiere together, this was quite An Event.
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