Recent posts by NPR Staffers on Bluesky

I think guys are really telling on themselves when they describe NOSFERATU (2024) as "erotic." I mean, the girl is corseted up like a trussed ham, tied to a bed and drugged to the eyeballs so she doesn't have a relapse of her [checks notes] *adolescence*. Mmmm... sexy.

Timeline cleanse with a short flip through of Turner’s sketchbooks youtu.be/3LJtaoFK00U

Okay, it looks like the Discover tab lost interest in me, it’s safe to come out

Portrait of starving dogs who have never so much as tasted a cookie

I hate jury duty, but I love my annual Gotham Awards jury duty. I was part of the limited series/limited performances panels and while I assume that "Adolescence" is set up to sweep, I'm glad we got well-deserved recognition for stuff like "Get Millie Black" and "Penelope."

This looks good. Maybe DJ gives us something here.

List of people promising things will float: 1. Elon Musk 2. Pennywise

We live in the worst SNL cold open ever staged.

HE’s Own Mounting Dementia

Review: By examining the value of libraries in the distant and recent past, this PBS film makes a compelling case for the importance of the American public library system today.

FLIPSIDE. Probably the most Gen-X documentary you will see this decade. What begins as a navel gazing reflection on life and a record store reveals a documentarian-turned-commercial-director realizing his many abandoned documentary projects are all about the same thing - art and mortality. Brilliant

Charlie Jane is a truly wonderful writer. Her prose is so good -- emotional, playful, suspenseful, grounded. Treat yourself if you can and pre-order her latest and/or check out her other books.

The first trailer for Now You See Me: Now You Don’t is here ✨ In theaters November 14.

This is horrible, and it should be constantly repeated that NO ONE should be enduring this. Not a single person, regardless of citizenship status or criminal history/allegations.

Is it anyone else's experience that studios just ignore BlueSky? Even the press screenings don't have BlueSky as a social media account to track for posting about the movie. Too bad for them, I guess, other than my reviews I don't post anywhere else.

This is good (unlike some of this person's tweets).

Has anyone considered trying to talk to the gorilla instead?

Mohsen Mahdawi — the Columbia student arrested at his citizenship appointment — speaks

As a non-movie-ranker, I endorse this list. Hot Fuzz = the Cornetto film I rewatch the most, but The World's End = the most achieved & ambitious of the three. & Shaun of the Dead is a drop-dead (ha) perfect breakthrough--not his true debut, as he had already made the low-budget A Fistful of Fingers.

Brokeback Mountain will return to theaters on June 22 and June 25 to celebrate the film's 20th anniversary 🤠

At least some* of the cultural/media capitulation to Trump 2.0 seemed driven by the sense of a big generational rightward shift in the public. With polls turning so fast on him, curious if any of that will pivot, and how abrupt/weird it will be if so *not nearly all! this is a tweet, not a book!

Decided to play some albums I haven't heard in a while and I landed on The Police's SYNCHRONICITY, which I cannot think of without thinking about @noelmu.bsky.social's "worst lyrics on any classic album" assessment.

Thunderbolts* is definitely the best Marvel movie in a minute, whatever that's worth, but this back-to-basics adventure still can't quite outrun the emptiness at the center of the MCU. Florence Pugh rules tho. my review*: www.indiewire.com/criticism/mo...

Grief gets a gnarly new shakeup in THE SURRENDER, the feature debut by writer-director Julia Max. Shudder has released the hellish new trailer ahead of the occult ritual horror movie’s debut next month.

Spent this morning trying to bargain for equal wages for equal work and benefits, which the company is refusing to move on. Honored to do this work even when management is being rude af.

It truly is one of the great TV moments. The way that live audience started SCREAMING. They were INVESTED and it paid all the way off 🔥🔥🔥

Not sure if you saw but Dinner Party (our daily evening newsletter) is now on Substack 👀 substack.com/@nymag

A truly sad day for us old white guys. I feel hip broken over this. www.politico.com/live-updates...

Trump White House Blasts Amazon’s Reported Plans to List Cost of Tariffs on Products a ‘Hostile and Political Act’; Company Says It’s ‘Not Going to Happen’ variety.com/2025/digital...

DOGE's supposed mission keeps changing.

Finally caught up with Adolescence on Netflix. It is now officially my cozy comfort watch of 2025!

Be honest...which pop star has the most iconic walk?

happy birthday daniel day-lewis 🎉

there is no greater freedom than getting to where you are going and not having to park

Coming to you live from Shadyside High, it’s the trailer for FEAR STREET: PROM QUEEN — and anything could happen. Based on the 1992 R.L. Stine novel The Prom Queen, the fourth film in the Fear Street franchise releases May 23 on Netflix.

Watch the trailer for Fear Street: Prom Queen 👑 The film will be released on Netflix May 23.

Wrote a big column about the art of the compact disc and the most "CD album" albums of all time. What makes an album perfectly suited for the CD format? Explored that idea in depth in very personal and nerdy ways! uproxx.com/indie/cd-alb...

ah yes, parking in new york. true freedom.

Sometimes I go to Wikipedia just to see a person’s signature and Pete Hegseth did not disappoint.

JAWS: 50th Anniversary Edition swims onto SteelBook, 4K UHD, Blu-ray, and Digital on June 17. It has over 5 hours of extras, including the new documentary JAWS @ 50: THE DEFINITIVE INSIDE STORY.

At The Reveal I tried to figure out what we can expect from what looks likely to be an odd summer movie season: thereveal.substack.com/p/the-fantas...

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A sunrise glow at our neighborhood’s entrance.

Trump White House Blasts Amazon’s Reported Plans to List Cost of Tariffs on Products a ‘Hostile and Political Act’ variety.com/2025/digital...

I remember when I had to think twice before I spelled the word “fascism”. Now I use it everyday. Sigh. www.npr.org/2025/04/29/n...

From dogs to rabbits, NPR readers share how adopting shelter pets impacted them

in one sense this piece includes a beyond-deserved shoutout to gazelle emami, an astonishing editor who i respect and love so much and in another just as true sense, it is an important warning about accidentally posting yourself into an assignment www.bookforum.com/print/3104/c...

Has anyone used Chewy's telehealth vet? I have a non-emergency that needs looking after and the local vets are understaffed and not taking walk-ins.

Thomasin McKenzie (Last Night in Soho) and Katie Douglas (Clown in a Cornfield) are set to star in a film adaptation of Sam Ripley‘s novel THE RULE OF THREE:

Hello and welcome to Women Are Really F*cking Going Through It In Your Genre Entertainment week.

The great French director Jean Grémillon (Daïnah la métisse, La Petite Lise, Le Ciel est à vous, Lumière d'été, Gueule d'amour, Remorques) and his cat. ♥️

fascinating story here about a football stadium left to ruin after chernobyl

FINALLY

How about when I buy something at the store and they print the sales tax on the receipt?

Make scientists stay away from politics again so this dumb fucking country can relearn some basic facts

Me: It’s important to always have hope that good things can still happen. Also me: I don’t know how to process it when good things still happen.

oops, just remembered we're in a world war against Russia and losing badly

I’m so used to not checking the news for a couple hours when I wake up (I need a quiet morning before letting the horrors in) that I missed Poilievre eating shit.

NO ONE: NO ONE: ABSOLUTELY NO ONE: ME: Humanity decided to have a base 10 number system thousands of years ago and now we’re stuck doing 100 days retrospectives like 1/15th of the way through a presidency for the rest of our lives and don’t you think time is meaningless and also human governance

For the first fifteen years of projected cinema, there were no movie stars. Early filmmakers would engage stars of the stage and other media for quick performances but film stardom as we know it was simply not a thing.

Watch the first trailer for Zach Cregger’s Weapons, starring Josh Brolin and Julia Garner 👀 In theaters on August 8.

Oh thank god, I’ve been looking for books by male writers www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

Some part of me thought it was Principled and Honest and Dignified or some shit to stay and know what the trolls and misogynists and freaks were saying to me. Fuck that. It was too much.

There’s something wrong in Maybrook. The trailer has arrived for Zach Cregger's WEAPONS:

Looking for a silent film? I have reviewed over 750 of them! My index: moviessilently.com/index-of-mov...

genuinely thrilled for my Canadian friends and family, although now it’s like gazing longingly over the fence at your neighbor’s beautiful yard when yours is full of dog poop

But would you even be an artist if you weren’t excitedly starting a new project each week that you will absolutely never think about again

Inside Out if it was filmed inside my head

Elliott Dexter thinks it will in CASTLES FOR TWO

Found something for them to cry into

The official trailer for Benny Safdie’s The Smashing Machine is here 👀 Starring Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt, the film will be released in theaters on October 3.

Having slept on it, I like THUNDERBOLTS* more. That sequence really is great, and Pugh and Harbour are invested. Big fan of what Wyatt Russell is doing too. It’s the connective tissue to other Marvels that’s frustrating. Maintaining the world at the expense of the characters is not the way to go.

Lemme just say: getting off twitter? Amazing.

I canceled my account when they hinted at doing this last year. The app stinks anyway with its constant freemium demands. I may as well play Candy Crush.

What to make of Trump’s first 100 days, and what to make of the next 100? We talked with influential MAGA figure Steve Bannon at the time of Trump’s inauguration—and just returned for a new conversation that drops on NPR radio, podcast and video Wednesday.

An underrated selling point of the parliamentary system is the ability for a candidate to lose twice the same night www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/w...

I’ve been struck by recent stories on families separated by borders rigidified by conflict. This dispatch from Ukraine www.npr.org/2025/04/27/g...

I’m not too well-versed in international politics, is this good?

There are barriers to Deaf people trying to make careers as scientists and teachers. The federal government helped--until the Trump Administration said "no more" www.npr.org/2025/04/28/n...

Wordle 1,410 3/6 ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ 🟨🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

love that Ryan Coogler made a horror movie that straight-up incinerated most of the young celebrated filmmakers of 'elevated' horror. Sinners is so warm and beautiful and horny and just effortlessly cool that it makes the rest look frigid and flat in comparison

I regret to inform you that I still think SITH rips.

I, personally, think they should give the Emmy to Mr. Noah Wyle.

May's theme will be 100 Years Ago... the Films of 1925. I've done over 140 theme months since I started blogging and there are only two I will never, ever repeat. First, I will never do a theme that makes me watch more than one Sidney Olcott movie because I once scheduled an entire month of him!

Bluesky is still Bluesky

Hey, a few people have asked, so I thought I would just post it in case anyone else is curious and might find it useful: If you want to learn everyday cursive, not calligraphy, The Lost Art of Handwriting by Brenna Jordan is very good and has helped me a lot. Enjoy!

#THUNDERBOLTS!?! FOR ME??? How kind.

I’m stunned to report that I enjoyed THUNDERBOLTS and that it may in fact be one of my favorite post-ENDGAME MCU films. It looks great, the action rocks, and Florence Pugh really brings a lot of heart to it. Its biggest issue is the villain’s arc, which feels like it was put on ultra fast-forward.

One of my favorite videos. We all should have learned about 9/11 from Bill Paxton after emerging from the ocean’s depths.

I have BritBox for a little while cuz I got it to watch Ludwig and Towards Zero but what other newish things should I watch on it?

that’s enough election for today ❤️

When Eva was a baby, an owl tried to get her, or, rather, scouted her because even as a baby, I think she was too big for owl food but it was the eeriest thing. I was out with her and heard and felt it pass overhead. Eva freaked out and ran under me and I carried her in.

Oh my god this is so funny. Villanueva, suing the county: Sure I’ll do this psych eval and it will prove I will win this case. The psych eval: This dude is a psycho.

About three times a day I remember that Maye Musk regularly goes on TV to squelch out the words, “WHY DOES EVERYBODY HATE MY SON A VERY GOOD BOY INDEED!” And then she retreats to her snail mucus pod until she is needed again.

Will never get over the fact that the US is the reverse of most countries when it comes to this color demarcation entirely because of a historical accident (the colors being that way for the 2000 election).