What a gift to spend a summer day in deepest New Jersey discussing maniacs, motherhood, and mediocre Spielbergs with the lovely and indomitable @JoyceCarolOates for @esquire magazine esquire.com/entertainment/bo…
I spent a very vibey afternoon exploring life, love, and LA’s kookiest cemetery with @BethanyCoast for @NYMag and it is all here in this piece (except for our extremely fervent & in depth discussion of Albert Brooks’ tunics in Defending Your Life) vulture.com/2023/07/bethany-…
I had a lot of fun writing about the transgressive (and mostly very entertaining!) sex that is coming to your multiplex this summer for @nytimes nytimes.com/2023/06/13/movie…
What a wild and chewy novel I got to review this week for @nytimesbooks, and what a perfectly deadpan illustration by Klaus Kremmerz nytimes.com/2023/03/27/books…
When I got hired as a music assistant at @EW I didn’t know if I would be here six months. It’s been almost half a lifetime now and I still can’t believe how much fun we got to have at this ridiculous wonderful job. So I guess this is my Irish goodbye! I had the best time
Thrilled for Brian Tyree Henry and Barry Keoghan but so sad to see Danielle Deadwyler lose her absolutely earned spot to some weird Winslet-y inside job
Still not sure what to make of #LandscapeWithInvisibleHand Corey Finley’s loopy indie sci fi that is somehow both too weird and not weird enough #Sundance
#Shortcomings is a charming and very breezy romantic comedy though every time I see Sonoya Mizuno on screen my mind goes right back to her Ex Machina dance #Sundance
#YouHurtMyFeelings is a pretty perfect matrix of classic Nicole Holofcener things, plus the amazing crease in Tobias Menzies’ cheek #Sundance
Jennifer Connelly is *unleashed* in Alice Engert’s shaggy but extremely enjoyable #BadBehavior and Ben Whishaw is A+ as a very bad guru
It is lovely to see Greta Lee finally get to put her main character energy toward an actual main character in Celine Song’s bittersweet A24 romance #PastLives at #Sundance
