Eric Francisco

At New York Comic Con, seated for a panel moderated by Martin Scorsese.

Dave Gibbons contribution to the 1988 anthology AARGH!

wtf you two know each other?!

Exclusive: Why Justin Lin Returned to His Roots in 'Last Days' The celebrated 'Fast and Furious' director is drifting back to his origins—and you can watch the trailer here.

For the second time in my career, I've interviewed Justin Lin. Excited to premiere the trailer for Last Days, his first independent movie in almost 20 years, at Esquire. www.esquire.com/entertainmen...

We Asked an Entomologist to Fact-Check the Science of 'Alien: Earth' Apparently, the most unrealistic part of the FX series isn't the aliens or how they hunt.

I tracked down an entomologist and, ahem, bugged them with questions about Alien: Earth. I've done a lot of cool interviews in the past but this is easily the most fun I've had in a long time. www.esquire.com/entertainmen...

Who’s your favorite Jedi?
(wrong answers only)

This would kill as an Act 1 needledrop

I don't think a lot of younger folks realize what a bfd #MeToo was, and the deep resentment and anger felt by a certain segment of powerful men at the very idea that they shouldn't have the privilege of abusing and taking advantage of women that they'd always felt entitled to.

"Pocket sand" from King of the Hill

Disney throwing a half-baked Mando trailer to make us forget about Jimmy Kimmel

That was the most Disney+ ass trailer, you can't tell me that's for a theatrical movie

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Cowards.

I wrote about the firing of Alan Sepinwall, which is awful. And I tied it into what's happening all over in the media, why it's scary & what we can do to help. I used my words, but it's definitely Hulk Mo dialed up to 11, if that's a thing you would like to experience: www.moryan.com/on-the-firin...

Everytime it feels like this industry must surely have hit bottom, oh no here’s a lower place.

A Black man and a homeless man were found hanging from trees in Mississippi yesterday, for those who haven’t seen yet because it’s barely made it out of local news.

Speaking of, YouTube Premium happens to have a LOT of Robert Redford movies streaming right now, including the aforementioned Barefoot as well as The Candidate, Spy Game, All is Lost, Sneakers, A Walk in the Woods, and The Great Gatsby. Probably more!

My colleagues say All the President's Men and The Candidate, my bros say Captain America: The Winter Soldier, my mom says The Way We Were. But for me, my all-time favorite Robert Redford movie is Barefoot in the Park. Silly, sexy, lovely. Him and Jane Fonda together, nuclear grade chemistry.

Don't stop believing Some news, as they say

Some news: yesterday was my last at Rolling Stone. For now, I'm going solo, doing all my TV reviewing, recapping, etc., at my newsletter. I hope you'll consider subscribing. Many more details here:

It just feels kinda cruel how that counter pops up while people are trying to find the words to thank people

"I just want to say, go birds, fuck ICE and free Palestine," "Hacks" star Hannah Einbinder at the #Emmys

When I grow up I want to be like Tramell Tillman

Feel like I’m going insane with the revisionist history that Charlie Kirk fostered open debate. He chilled speech and his targeting of professors for wrongthink led to threats, harassment, and being forced out of their jobs. His legacy is chilling speech right now, about him

Pluto definitely. I have a few favorite channels on there and I turn it on for background noise as I do work around the house. Their action movie channels are an endless run of Mission: Impossible, Super 8, and Cloverfield.

This man will not be fired for calling for the murder of American citizens, yet multiple journalists/reporters/teachers lost their job for accurately reporting things Charlie Kirk actually said and stood for.

But it’s the “violent left” that’s the problem

Here’s I wrote about gamergate 11 years ago. Almost nobody major in the media got what this was or why it mattered. “Eh, it’s just nerdy Online Drama.” The difference now? The cluelessness remains, fewer publications & reporters—& gamergate took over the country. www.huffpost.com/entry/anita-...

When you publish a website that posts the names and photos of scholars who have written or said things you disagree with and encourage people to surveil and harass them, you are not, in fact, a “free speech” organization.

Inside the Brutal, Beautiful Making of 'The Long Walk,' the Gut-Wrenching New Stephen King Adaptation Actors Garrett Wareing and Charlie Plummer each documented their time on set in striking detail—and you can see their work here.

How do young men see the world? For #TheLongWalk, I had the thrill of talking to Garrett Wareing and Charlie Plummer about their collection of photos they snapped during production. I'm proud to help share them with the world. Now on Esquire.
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The iconic Twitter meme that says “this how the photos be lookin in headlines when a white man kills his entire family” and a picture of a white family riding a jet ski together

This is also the exact vibe of Charlie Kirk obituaries. Nary a mention of how he said he’d hypothetically force his daughter to deliver her rapist’s baby at age 10

Here’s why Power Rangers fell apart relatively quickly into its existence.

For the full episode with myself, @ericfrancisco24.bsky.social, @agreenriver.bsky.social and @mhwilliams.bsky.social, talking about the Rise and Fall of #PowerRangers, click here: youtu.be/NX-MeRpvg0A?...