Kyle Stevens

I used to think Robert Duvall‘s political views, which he freely gave, were a mess. Now, of course, conservative views in 2007, say, look reasonable.

The always-worth-reading Hannah Kim on Rental Family and labor.

"The first human job was a creative one involving classification and invention. Labor wasn’t something Adam had to do to survive; it gave him a way to introduce order and meaning."

Lisa McGee's How to Get to Heaven from Belfast (Netflix): I'm 3 episodes in and so far it absolutely slaps. All the Irish feminist anger of Bad Sisters, but more complex, funnier, and beautifully directed.

Just learned of Ladies of Letters: a 13-season radio show with Prunella Scales and Patricia Routledge. Proleptically obsessed.

Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights Is Fan Fiction The new movie smooths out the novel’s difficulties and plays fast and loose with its romantic elements.

Give your lady what she *really* wants this Valentine’s Day — to read, like, and repost her WUTHERING HEIGHTS review for @newrepublic 💕

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The president of OpenAI has donated almost as much to Trump as the DNC has cash on hand www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

All About Eve
The Women
My Favorite Wife
Sabotage

In many ways predictable! And Kate knows I love Now, Voyager, The Letter, The Awful Truth, Mildred Pierce, most of Crawford’s pre-code work, etc. etc. But one must be honest, mustn’t one?

Blue Moon: Golly, do I run hot and cold with Linklater. I loved it! I love a theatrical movie! Hawke is truly fantastic, as is the screenplay. It hits so many big ideas so effortlessly. A real movie!

New Mozilla Firefox version to allow AI features to be blocked Mozilla will allow Firefox users to entirely block current and future generative AI features on the browser.

Mozilla will allow Firefox users to entirely block current and future generative AI features on the browser after user feedback revealed many who wanted an AI-free browser experience.

Death is a Caress (Edith Carlmar, 1949): Norway’s first feature directed by a woman! Fascinatingly, aggressively sexual, with open hetero marriages that would confound American indies today. (I’m looking at you, Splitsville!!) And pro-abortion!!

Caught Ophüls’s Sans lendemain at the Metrograph last week (natch, 😏) and haven’t stopped thinking about it. In many ways it’s the French Brief Encounter. Stays true to the darkness of its own premise in a difficult but honest, and so, beautiful way.

Now a warning?! (Could’ve used this advice an hour ago.)

Epstein Backed ‘Billionaires’ Dinner’ Network of Prominent Anti-Trans Figures Lawrence Krauss, Richard Dawkins, Steven Pinker and other anti-trans influencers personally benefited from a right-wing academic social group backed by infamous human trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, somet...

You’re not crazy. The anti-trans movement is not organic; it was funded by pedophilic billionaires like Jeffrey Epstein who backed a network of conservatives to accuse the same people they were sexually abusing of being the real danger. @madycast.com exposes the truth in our in-depth report.

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Catherine O’Hara in Waiting for Guffman.

Thank you to her. She gave us so much! I was so young when I found d her. This scene changed me.

Opposition Party | Los Angeles Review of Books In 2025, television offered a primer in principled dissent.

For the snow day crowd! For @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social, I wrote about the anti-authoritarian turn in recent prestige series, and the morally courageous characters of The Lowdown, Pluribus ,The Pitt, Andor, et al lareviewofbooks.org/article/lowd...

Here's hoping that Sam Altman continues praising Donald Trump, that his remarks are widely disseminated, and that all those using or considering using ChatGPT hear them.

ICE is now responsible for 66% of the homicides in Minneapolis this year.

You've just described almost all of A24's output. Maybe it's valid, but you never see such phrases in reviews of straight dude movies. I wish someone would call Malick excessively decorous!

Back in 2009 I wrote an essay that put the predicament for out gay directors like this: "make a stylish film and it will be dismissed as the product of an 'aesthete' or make a non-stylish film and it will just be dismissed."

This shit really gets my goat. I haven't seen the film, but I'm sick of gay directors' films being called "excessively decorous," or some such euphemistic suggestion they should stay in the worlds of interior decorating and flower shops. It has plagued directors from Almodovar to Tom Ford.

Watching the excellent cozy period murder mystery Bookish on PBS, and aside from many charms it has given me the phrase “I’m in a state of advanced refreshment” as a euphemism for drunk. 🙏

Kiki always knows.

I think Jesse Plemons might be so good that people forget he’s acting his ass off.

While we’re mulling over the Oscar nominations (which is usually about what we would’ve done), I’ll say that my own supporting actress category would’ve included Celia Weston for A Little Prayer.

The most dangerous place in the world is between a straight liberal and an opportunity to call someone a faggot

Partner surprised me with a visit to a used/antique cookbook shop today. I usually hate surprises but not this one!! Amazing.

Fuck it, Norway should hold a festival where they celebrate every living American who won the peace prize. Have Barack narrate the filmed version.

So to keep people in the loop, one of the biggest school districts in the state is closed Tuesday and Wednesday because they need to give teachers time to build hybrid options for families worried about their children getting kidnapped on the way to school by lawless masked armed federal goons.

Grant beams at a luminous Kate Hepburn likening her own face to that of a stuffed giraffe.

Oh, it's Cary Grant's birthday? Let me once again beat the drum for Holiday, one of the five movies that raised me—but don't let that stop you! It's a delightful, human portrait of youthful middle class anxieties about facing a life of labor ahead.