Phil Nugent

Hey, The Criterion Channel tacked a Charles Burnett wing onto its site! Which includes his “new” movie, which got a restoration and a limited release earlier this year, 26 years after it was completed but failed to receive distribution.

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32 Chunk, a brown bear from Katmai National Park and Preserve in Alaska, has been declared the winner of the 2025 Fat Bear Week contest. All rise for the National Anthem!

R.I.P. Jane Goodall

Sometimes, in the world of film curation, a simple, direct statement of fact can achieve a Bazin-like eloquence.

Fuuuuuck yeah Criterion Channel gettin’ its HK on for autumn!

Now Playing: The season premiere of BOB’S BURGERS. You think David Mamet could have ever written dialogue like this, if he’d been at the height of his powers and coked out of his mind? That may be two ways of saying the same thing.

The trick to becoming Ezra Klein is being incapable of ever thinking, “I’m just gonna keep my mouth shut about this for a minute.”

Ezra Klein is explaining to David Remnick that anyone who didn’t like him praising Charlie Kirk to the skies in the hours after his death doesn’t get it that there are people who loved Kirk, and if he’d criticized him in that moment, he’d have antagonized and alienated them forever.

Update: Turns out Sinclair’s and Nexstar’s resolve can be broken, but the Supreme Court is in it for the long haul.

I’m constantly amazed at much Tiger Woods and I have in common. (My wife once tried to kill me with a golf club.)

I filled out my first Cinemascore card today. I knew about these things but I’ve never actually even seen what they look like before. For the record, I gave ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER an A, and I lied about my age in the hope of increasing the likelihood that whoever sees it gives a shit.

The first time I encountered the phrase “ran like he had never run before”, I pitched a Michael Palin Gumby character spazzing out at top speed.

A Statue of Trump and Epstein Holding Hands Is Removed From the National Mall

They’re erasing our history!

Now Playing: MUSSOLINI: SON OF THE CENTURY on MUBI. This is the fourth episode of an eight-part series, and I’m enjoying the flash and brio of it all. But I am starting to wonder when this motherfucker plans to shave his head.

Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time One of the most devastating diseases finally has a treatment that can slow its progression and transform lives, tearful doctors tell BBC.

This is it. This is the moment everything turns around. I mean, not really, obviously, but fuck it. Let’s live a little.

Fat Bear Week 2025 Fat Bear Week 2025

Let’s get ready to truuuundle!!

R.I.P. Claudia Cardinale

This Might Just Be the Most Bonkers Speech of Trump’s Career And I say that knowing the bar is high here.

This is what happens when enough people decide to just politely wait out the part of the meeting where the freak whose name is on the building starts talking about how now he might not fuck Princess Diana after all if she doesn't stop being so needy.

RFK Jr. said that "Some of our friends like to say that we should believe all women", so they ought to believe all the mothers he's met who think vaccines gave their kids autism. Whenever a Trump or a Kennedy claims to have "friends",you're about to hear the ultimate in passive-aggressive horseshit.

Finney just turned three. We’ve had him since he was a puppy.

Happy (belated) 50th birthday, FAWLTY TOWERS

Finneas Z. Higgenbotham IV wishes everyone a Happy National Westies Day. Last night I may have uttered some loose talk about Santa paying a nocturnal visit to the back yards of every good Westie, leaving a live bunny they can actually catch. Anyone know a supplier for really cheap crippled rabbits?

Happy National Westies Day Eve to all who celebrate

Was Playing: BLACK RABBIT. Now Playing: REUNION. One more show about a deaf guy who has half a mind to kick your ass through your hat and we’ll have ourselves a trend.

Celebrate Robert Redford’s cinematic legacy by gazing on this picture of Timothee Chalamet with Jane Lynch’s hair.

Maybe the entire MAGA movement is a long-game plan to let Jimmy Fallon have late night all to himself.

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From THE CANDIDATE, my favorite Robert Redford moment—maybe because it made me wonder if he’d heard the scene with the self-destructing presidential robot in The Firesign Theater’s I THINK WE’RE ALL BOZOS ON THIS BUS.

R.I.P. Robert Redford

It's kind of like if the '60s assassination that is said by the political and media elites to have traumatized the country and created a new secular martyr figure was that of George Lincoln Rockwell.