Zack Stentz

That wonderful little period after you send off a script to an admired director and can fantasize that they're gonna call you the next day saying "I couldn't put this down! I'm in!"

Today is an excellent day to celebrate a universally beloved Italian, so happy Marisa Tomei Day, everyone!

I was talking at a party to a showrunner friend who was really candid about how much pressure there is right now from networks for shows to use AI to cut costs-- mainly on things like faking aerial shots and doing inserts for things that were missed during shooting.

In honor of the late Mike Ditka, here's one of my all time favorite classic Onion stories: theonion.com/85-chicago-b...

Sam Altman is Burke from Aliens and you can't convince me otherwise:

The Saudi armed forces are so incredibly bad at fighting despite having 400 combat aircraft and spending twice as much on their military as Israel for the last 40 years, you almost have to admire their dedication.

Interested in worldbuilding? 🌎🛠️ The panel I did recently with @roberthewittwolfe.bsky.social @akelacooper.bsky.social @electricentertainment.com and @musezack.bsky.social is up on the WGAW’s YT channel: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEpQ... #screenwriting #TVwriting

I did a really fun WGA panel on worldbuilding with Dean Devlin, Akela Cooper, and Kira Snyder, moderated by my old friend Robert Wolfe, and you can watch it here if you want! www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEpQ...

I pulled over to take a shot…because how could I not??!

I used my Thor and X-Men residual money to take my dad on a trip to Tibet and Nepal in 2013, and we crossed the border at the exact place where the landslide hit. It's horrifying and heartbreaking to see what's happened there.

Devout Christian and beam of sunshine Dolly Parton singing Led Zeppelin's most eerie and occult song absolutely should not work, and yet somehow does, because Dolly was just that good. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKD_...

Met a new friend on the walk this morning. Didn’t say much, kind of kept to himself.

So what movies are we all most looking forward to over the next couple months? I loved the novel of The Dog Stars and am a longtime Ridley fan, so I'm really hopeful for that one.

Dr. Zack will see you now...

And the queer threw up at the sight of that…

Did Nolan include the part of The Odyssey where Odysseus has to fight a hobo for a sausage, or nah?

Polly is very upset at not being allowed to play with the scruffy dog with no leash…

Sam Neill's wordless acting in under a minute is so great here. www.youtube.com/watch?v=us6Z...

When I was first developing Camp Cretaceous one of the things Colin Trevorrow and I were both adamant about was that the dinosaurs should be animals, not monsters. That was always a huge part of how the great Sam Neill played Alan Grant & became fundamental to the franchise DNA. R.I.P.

Farewell and adieu oh me fair Spanish doggies…

Happy weekend, all! Here’s to swimmin’ with big furry wimmen!

A girl and her butterfly.

Polly is judging you all.

My America.

Emotional photo by @joshsisk.bsky.social - who somehow wound up on Air Force One - of the President and his daughter upon sunrise over a very different America than the one we woke to 24 hours ago. #ID4

The best gimmick account on Twitter has migrated over here-- best use case for BlueSky yet.

Happy Colonel John Matrix Day to all who celebrate.

Catbus is REAL!!

America often disappoints me, but man do I love Americans so much.

Seeing people in Lawrence and Kansas City roll out the red carpet for the Algerian national team is reminding me how much I love the basic decency, kindness, and sincere curiosity of Midwesterners. They remind me of my dad's Ohio relatives.

Buffy peaked with this scene, largely due to Tony Head's monologue at the end. I know Joss Whedon is a Problematic Figure, but when he was on his game the man wrote some damn good television. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mcxo...

I miss our handsome old man so much. He was a beam of pure joy, no matter what challenges he had to deal with.

You hear a lot about the "enshittification" of everything, but not enough people talk about how much better apples have gotten in just the last few years.

That thing where you've felt more and more run down for days and then finally manage to take a nap and realize it was sleep deprivation all along.

This Obsession/Backrooms thing feels like a genuine cultural moment in moviegoing, watching Zoomers who honed their craft doing Youtube shorts breaking into features the way New Hollywood did in the '70s, the MTV directors did in the '80s and Sundance kids did in the '90s.

Moments before disaster…

Dog butts above the sea of fog.

The scariest thing about the Los Angeles mayoral race isn't "We deserve better than these choices" but...what if we actually don't?

Canned fish is gross and stinky but you sure can make a lot of great, cheap, high-protein meals out of it.

Is this a safe space to admit I burst into ugly tears every time I run across this Laura Gilpin poem?

To whoever in the registrar’s office who made mail in ballots the same color as WGA residual envelopes: fuck you.

"Big guy stands next to an even bigger guy" is a genre of photo I never, ever get tired of.

The normie reactions to the recent Ben Sasse interviews suggest that under the surface we're a far less polarized country than we appear to be at first glance. A lot of liberal-left people in my circles have been downright delighted to find a conservative they can like and admire.