Amy Nicholson

Really! That's one of my all-time scariest -- how are you on Paranormal Activity?

Review: The sound design is the star in ‘undertone,’ a podcast thriller with too much dead air A24's latest claustrophobic trauma chiller gives us a tease of 'Paranormal Activity's' future director, Ian Tuason, but a dearth of pacing.

I’d love to understand why horror films that I find excruciatingly dull give others the heebie-jeebies.

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Review: Prison behind her, an ex-con gets a romantic reboot in 'Reminders of Him' Maika Monroe and Tyriq Withers play novelist Colleen Hoover's latest pair of star-crossed lovers in a simplistic weepie with good but brief detours.

You can’t help rooting for Colleen Hoover heroines, bless their bruised hearts.

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What should win on Oscar night? And what should have been nominated? Our critic has thoughts Never mind the pundits: Amy Nicholson has strong opinions about which contenders should be golden come Oscar night, and which were left out.

Here's what should win on Sunday.

And here's what should have been nominated gosh dang it.

Justice for EDDINGTON, ANN LEE, HEDDA, LURKER, SPIDER WOMAN, PHOENICIAN SCHEME -- and even Ariana Grande in WICKED: FOR GOOD who is the best part of the whole dang thing.

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This week on Unspooled: My favorite art EVER?

2026 SXSW Film & TV Festival Jury Announced Helping creatives achieve their goals.

Yee-haw! Stoked to be on this year's SXSW narrative feature jury with @mcastimovies.bsky.social @gregoryellwood.bsky.social

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Review: Decadent and disorderly, 'The Bride!' is a spectacular beast rampaging out of control As the monster and her Frankenstein, Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale serve up a messy, electrified take on 'Bonnie and Clyde' in a extravaganza stitched from classic movie references.

THE BRIDE! is a maniacal assemblage of ’30s musicals, ’40s noirs, 19th century literature and 21st century ideology. Every wacky second, you’re well aware how perilously close it is to falling apart at the seams.

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Review: An ego-tripping dad hogs the spotlight at a Korean idol competition in ‘K-Pops!’ Grammy-laden musician Anderson .Paak makes his directing debut in an East-meets-West movie about a K-pop competition show on which his son is a contestant.

Anderson .Paak could be the right star to earnestly explore what it means that the Top 40 is shifting eastward. But this adventure in Seoul is simply an ego trip.

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Review: In convoluted 'Scream 7,' Neve Campbell is back, but the fun isn't Original "Scream" screenwriter Kevin Williamson takes the directing chair in a capricious and crowded sequel that resurrects old faces and introduces new ones.

Maybe in the boldest meta twist of all, the inventor of “Scream” wants to kill it off himself.

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Paul is a genius

Lelaina and Troy are my Catherine and Heathcliff

Ditto and ditto! Also the book's best parts are about boring, dehumanizing bureaucracy -- great to read, hard to film

Review: Swagger, sweat and flirtation swirl in 'EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert,' a tribute to a performer and little else Constructed from excerpts of his Las Vegas concerts during the early 1970s, the documentary captures a glitzy, reborn Presley working the crowd and thrilling fans.

The first hour of EPiC: ELVIS PRESLEY IN CONCERT convinces you that the King is the greatest entertainer who ever lived. By the end credits, he’s a god.

I think Baz Luhrmann prays aliens will discover this footage and build a religion around it.

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Also great!

Review: In 'How to Make a Killing,' a family inheritance inspires Glen Powell to do dirty deeds Director John Patton Ford’s spin on the 1949 British thriller “Kind Hearts and Coronets" doesn't have his star in eight roles, but it does have a spirit of dark fun.

Still waiting on Glen Powell's perfect A-list role, but this is close

(Set It Up remains my fave)

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Emerald Fennell’s Quote-Unquote Wuthering Heights Is Total Fanfic Is Emerald Fennell’s “Wuthering Heights” enough of a compound of vulgar depravity and unnatural horrors?

Tormented romances with @thehighsign.bsky.social @jamellebouie.net on this week's Slate Culture Gabfest:

Heathcliff and Cathy
JFK Jr. and Carolyn
And the Kermit/Miss Piggy/Sabrina Carpenter love triange

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Emerald Fennell’s Quote-Unquote Wuthering Heights Is Total Fanfic Is Emerald Fennell’s “Wuthering Heights” enough of a compound of vulgar depravity and unnatural horrors?

This week's Slate Culture Gabfest was a fun one: I discussed Wuthering Heights, the JFK Jr./Carolyn Bessette Ryan Murphy joint Love Story, & the maybe-pilot for a new Muppet Show with @theamynicholson.bsky.social & @jamellebouie.net.

Food Delivery Robots Are Feeding Camera Footage to the LAPD, Internal Emails Show Serve Robotics, which delivers food for Uber Eats, provided footage filmed by at least one of its robots to the LAPD as evidence in a criminal case. The emails show the robots, which are a constant si...

Food delivery robots and Waymos are not our friends.

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just saying, if you want a horny, pervy movie about a swoony romantic in love with a cruel but devastatingly hot man … Pillion is in theaters now

This video is a stunning facsimile of Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt starring in a piece of shit.

(It's awesome!)

Review: We're all doomed but a sly sci-fi satire, 'Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die,' offers parting words Director Gore Verbinski puts an inspired script by Matthew Robinson through its paces as a crazy prophet comes to a diner in search of disciples to help him save the world.

GOOD LUCK, HAVE FUN, DONT DIE opens like an AI merged THE TERMINATOR and GROUNDHOG DAY.

But this funny, savage and surprising anti-tech comedy is so intricate and angry — so shamelessly ambitious — you can’t believe today’s Hollywood put up the cash to get it made

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With her 'own version' of 'Wuthering Heights,' Emerald Fennell gives us 'permission to go too far' We sat down with Jacob Elordi, Margot Robbie and a British director known for taking chances to discuss an Emily Brontë adaptation unlike any attempted before.

I spoke to Emerald Fennell, Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi about adapting ‘Wuthering Heights’ and their desire to make the viewer feel something for @latimes.com

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Review: 'Wuthering Heights' is a bold, filthy fantasy — but these moors need more erotic heat Emerald Fennell, the provocateur of 'Saltburn' and 'Promising Young Woman,' struggles to burn down the screen even with Margot Robbie, Jacob Elordi and a tinderbox of kinks.

Turn-ons of Emerald Fennell’s WUTHERING HEIGHTS include raw eggs, rainstorms, dog collars, horse bridles, paper mushrooms and aspic-smothered fish — a caricature of lust that befits this unconvincingly erotic adaptation of a Victorian-era novel written by a virgin.

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Essay: Ricky Martin's Super Bowl performance was an act of justice for the 1990s Though it lasted only 30 seconds, Martin's Super Bowl moment was a symbolic demonstration of how far Latin music has come in the United States.

with respect to every other outlet, no one has done a better job at covering the cultural impact of Bad Bunny before AND after his Super Bowl performance better than @latimes.com De los section. Here’s a thread, starting with this thoughtful essay on Ricky Martin

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we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

I doubt this has happened before: 11 of this weekend's top 15 movies were made independently, inc. 4 of the top 5. There is nothing holding down overall grosses and attendance more than the fact that studios have forgotten how to do what they used to do, which is to fill the pipeline with movies.

Jose 'Grand Theft' Alvarado sneaky steals | New Orleans Pelicans YouTube video by New Orleans Pelicans

The Knicks got Jose Alvarado?! Love that guy, always low-key hoped he'd become a Laker.

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Review: Kinky 'Pillion' captures the thrill of attachment — even if BDSM is not your thing "Harry Potter" alum Harry Melling gets into some hairy situations as a submissive enthralled by Alexander Skarsgård's gruff biker daddy.

Our @theamynicholson.bsky.social called PILLION one of her favorites out of Cannes and she expands on that reaction here: "Free yourself to see it and you’ll discover it’s a universal romance." www.latimes.com/entertainmen...