Catherine Haight

What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?

The logic of algorithms tends to repeat what “works,” but art opens up what is possible. Not everything has to be immediate or predictable. Defend slowness when it serves a purpose, silence when it speaks and difference when evocative. Beauty is not just a means of escape; it is above all an invocation. When cinema is authentic, it does not merely console, but challenges. It articulates the questions that dwell within us, and sometimes, even provokes tears that we did not know we needed to express.

Some inspiring words on cinema in the streaming era from the Pope.

Yes, THAT Pope.

🧵!

Please inject all of that Agatha Christie show straight into my veins.

All grocery stores with signs that say '10 items or less' are wrong and should be boycotted.

If you need a refresher: if you can count it you use fewer and number. If you can't count it it's less and amount: There are fewer grains of sand/There are a number of grains of sand. There is less sand/there is an amount of sand.

Mine will read "THERE ARE RULES ABOUT WHEN TO USE LESS OR FEWER AND NUMBER OR AMOUNT!"

Using rancho gordo beans instead of canned is what makes ALL the difference! They’re just so good.

I gotta give it up to the writers tho. If NYC elects a Muslim mayor on the day Dick Cheney died, that is one hell of a slow played story arc. Every time you want to fire 2025's writers room they give you a little narrative resolution as a treat.

When do we get the Sayles and Straithairn collaboration retrospective we all deserve??

NPR 'founding mother' Susan Stamberg has died Susan Stamberg, an original National Public Radio staffer who went on to become the first U.S. woman to anchor a nightly national news program, has died.

"A true humanitarian, she believed in the power of great journalism," Stamberg's son Josh said in a statement. "Her life's work was connection, through ideas and culture."

www.npr.org/2025/10/16/1...

Hey @indiewire.com , every single article of yours looks like this to me…on my phone and my laptop. Help!

Ha, I've always used it to mean 'we're locked as far as we're concerned....but notes might still be coming and we might have to do 'em...." I hope you don't get to 'locked v2' (or higher...I've gone so much higher!). Congrats!!

"*Freeze frame* Yup, that's me. You're probably wondering how I ended up in this situation." Usain Bolt looks directly at the camera while handily winning a race.

We need to start a movement that insists on skipping shows entirely if the first episode starts with something exciting and confusing and then jumps back in time to explain how we ended up in this situation. The networks are going to keep insisting on it until viewers make them stop.

I watched 2 pilots a few days ago. Both used this devise. I can’t take it any longer! It has to stop!!

In Review: It’s Not Too Late for the Movies to Reject AI A dramatic week in the AI wars made it clear that the future is far from lost, and that we can't afford to fight for it on the tech community's terms.

This, from @davidehrlich.bsky.social, is excellent.

Enough enough enough of the “you’re probably wondering how I ended up here” structure!

NYC Mass Shooting Was Nearly Impossible to Prevent, Experts Say

Holy shit, they did it. They wrote the headline.

Yes, I would definitely figure it stays in Premiere! All I'm saying is that the color work likely happens after the editing is done - there's stock footage in this sequence, so they wouldn't have brought that in with a LUT. The color look was applied after the edit was done, I'd wager :)

Not to get all nerdy, but if I had to guess this is a color look that is applied after the editing is finished, so it's a color grade, not the LUT, that gives it that look!

Naw, they definitely went straight from Final Cut 7 to Premiere.

a ½ gallon of neutral milk

They finally made the milk from that hotel

There’s this muppet on TikTok who transcribes and then scats incredibly difficult jazz solos so well and I could not possibly love a thing more

Yes, I was about to say "but in the kitchen? No problem!"

DAVE: Open the podbay doors, ChatGPT.
CHATGPT: Certainly, Dave, the podbay doors are now open.
DAVE: The podbay doors didn't open.
CHATGPT: My apologies, Dave, you're right. I thought the podbay doors were open, but they weren't. Now they are.
DAVE: I'm still looking at a set of closed podbay doors.

Look, when Sexsmith says it’s good, you’d best listen.

‘Sirens’ Review: Julianne Moore’s Crackling Netflix Mystery Is a Slick, Satisfying Sleight of Hand The Netflix show 'Sirens' follows a wayward older sibling who's scared her impressionable younger sister has fallen prey to a cult of the mega-rich.

I hope you'll all check out SIRENS, streaming now on Netflix! We had a blast making this show (I cut episodes 1 and 4) and we aimed to make it as funny as it is emotional - it was a tonal tightrope, but I think we figured it out? At any rate, I hope you like it as much as Ben Travers did...

But will there be any more long running plot points about alarm clock patents? Because if not, I'm out. (Who am I kidding, I won't miss an episode.)

ALL FLEETWOOD MAC SONGS THAT DO NOT FEATURE A STEVIE NICKS LEAD VOCAL ARE NOW TARIFFED AT 250%

I check the little screen, I check the big screen, I check the watch screen, I check the tablet screen. I check the screen that reminds me of the good times, I check the screen that reminds me of the better times.