Chase 'Hutch' Hutchinson 📽️

Went on KUOW’s Soundside to talk Oscars before this nightmarishly long awards season finally ends. Will SINNERS beat ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER? Can great locally-tied gems like TRAIN DREAMS & THE SINGERS get any love? What's the one movie you must watch before Sunday? 📽️

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A reminder to those of you visiting Austin that, yes, the weather is fucking amazing. It is like this one month in the spring and one month in the fall. The other ten months are a whole thing.

Our six seasons are:
SXSW
Spring
Summer
Brown Furnace
2nd Spring
Cold Brown

Hey SXSW (I'm so tired) 📽️

WA income tax passes Senate, Ferguson expected to sign into law

The state Senate has approved an income tax on people earning more than $1 million a year. This is a developing story; check back for updates.

Grammarly Is Facing a Class Action Lawsuit Over Its AI ‘Expert Review’ Feature The feature, which Grammarly shut down Wednesday, presented editing suggestions as if they came from established authors and academics—without their consent.

SCOOP: The writing software Grammarly will discontinue its AI “Expert Review” feature, which used the names of authors without their permission to suggest edits. But parent company Superhuman is still facing a class-action lawsuit over it, brought by journalist @juliaangwin.com.

Grammarly Pulls Down Explosively Controversial Feature That Impersonates Writers Without Their Permission Shishir Mehrotra, CEO of Grammarly's owner Superhuman, has announced that the company is "disabling" a feature that impersonated journalists.

BREAKING: Grammarly is pulling down its explosively controversial feature that impersonates writers without their consent

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AI Isn’t Lightening Workloads. It’s Making Them More Intense. The technology is increasing the speed, density and complexity of work rather than reducing it, a new analysis of 164,000 people’s work activity shows.

AI Isn’t Lightening Workloads. It’s Making Them More Intense.:

"It’s not that AI doesn’t create efficiency. It’s that the capacity it frees up immediately gets repurposed into doing other work, and that’s where the creep is likely to happen."

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U.S. at Fault in Strike on School in Iran, Preliminary Inquiry Says

"An ongoing military investigation has determined that the United States is responsible for a deadly Tomahawk missile strike on an Iranian elementary school, according to U.S. officials and others familiar with the preliminary findings."

Gift link, free article: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/u...

Iran's sports minister says country cannot play in World Cup, including in Seattle

The country has a game scheduled on June 26 against Egypt in Lumen Field.

Jim Cramer suggests on CNBC that Trump could “bomb Tehran into the Stone Age” until Iran reopens the strait, citing U.S. bombings of North Vietnam in the 1970s. Carl Quintanilla points out to him that Hanoi won that war.

WA income tax passes House after 24-hour debate

The state House has approved the high-earners income tax after more than 24 hours of debate.

The U.S. Built a Blueprint to Avoid Civilian War Casualties. Trump Officials Scrapped It. The Pentagon dismantled its civilian protection mission as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth made “lethality” a top priority and the Trump administration reorganized national security around two principl...

NEW: A recently developed Defense Department program was meant to reduce civilian harm during military operations.

But months before the Iran war, the mission was dissolved as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth made “lethality” a top priority.

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Pour one out for Amanda Seyfried, Mona Fastvold, and their triumphant film THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE (now available to see on VOD) which deserved infinitely more love. If you haven't yet witnessed their vision for yourself, best do so ASAP. If you already have, no better time to revisit it than now 📽️

I’m incredibly curious about this and I’m going to try to catch it this weekend.

Breaks my heart to hear that!

Very possibly! I tend to think this is a performance that will be remembered as being great anyways, but definitely something that was still disappointing to see overlooked.

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Watch the film and you'll feel even more attacked (complimentary!)

As for The Dears over MGMT, if memory serves, there will also be something more for you in the full film.

This is a film about my late twenties and I feel personally attacked

(Would've gone with The Dears over MGMT, but alas)

Pour one out for Amanda Seyfried, Mona Fastvold, and their triumphant film THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE (now available to see on VOD) which deserved infinitely more love. If you haven't yet witnessed their vision for yourself, best do so ASAP. If you already have, no better time to revisit it than now 📽️

I'm curious to see how this will be received by my daughters, their cousins and friends, who grew up around the Mile End indie music scene and Pop Montréal.

Problem Child | Eli Cugini Pixar isn’t just dithering about diversity—it has become visibly scared of children themselves.

probably the best examination of current-day Pixar I’ve read, very good stuff

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Thank you!!!!

When people say Lynchian or whatever it's always the strobe lights and the surrealism and the whooshing ambient dread, and never that scene in Twin Peaks when Ben and Jerry excitedly eat too much bread and deliver their dialogue through gobs of gluten

‘Project Hail Mary’ review: Ryan Gosling is a wise-cracking hero in Lord and Miller’s irreverent sci-fi Phil Lord and Christopher Miller's entertaining space adventure also stars Sandra Huller

With PROJECT HAIL MARY, Phil Lord and Christopher Miller mix the grandeur of 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY with the irreverence of a buddy comedy. It mostly works.

Ghosts of Video Stores Past The Alex Ross Perry documentary ‘Videoheaven’ and an accompanying Criterion Channel series explore our sometimes fraught relationship with videotapes and the stores that rented them.

A truly excellent @kphipps3000.bsky.social rumination today on video stores, inspired by Alex Ross Perry's VIDEOHEAVEN and the Criterion Channel VHS series. Not a nostalgia piece, but a more clear-headed remembrance of a bygone era. (Also free to read!): thereveal.film/ghosts-of-vi...

This a great piece, and quite well-timed, too, given Docter's cowardly comments.

MILE END KICKS, the great second feature from director Chandler Levack starring Barbie Ferreira, just dropped its first trailer (youtu.be/nD8D89N_89I?...) and is coming out April 17. Best read my rave review below from back at TIFF to get ready for this coming-of-age classic for a new generation 📽️

Problem Child | Eli Cugini Pixar isn’t just dithering about diversity—it has become visibly scared of children themselves.

very excited for this to be out in the world: i wrote about repressed queerness in Elio, child surveillance in Inside Out 2, the post-Lasseter crisis, and the figure of the child in Pixar for The Baffler

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