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People like amber heard and Blake lively have resources to combat this and still suffer terribly. Regular people have even less recourse

Inside the Secret Smear Machine That’s Targeting Hollywood A shadowy network of anonymous slander sites is attacking players in high-profile entertainment scandals — from Blake vs. Baldoni to a Rebel Wilson film fiasco to an ugly K-pop feud. Critics allege th...

Everything described here is so terrifying… I hope the various ongoing litigation described continues to expose these tactics so we can have a conversation about ending them for good. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

Will hockey’s Heated Rivalry/olympics boost benefit the February release of SHORESY on Hulu

What makes a house haunted On Sentimental Value, Sorry, Baby, and Larissa Pham's Discipline

On Substack, wrote about some recent haunted houses: Best Picture nominee Sentimental Value, Eva Victor’s Sorry, Baby, and Larissa Pham’s new novel Discipline.

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Lily meyer’s the end of romance book cover, image of a turtle with a flower in its mouth turned on its back

The End Of Romance (out today) really struck a chord for me: Meyer tests philosophical and feminist ideas against a narrative that is thoughtful and engaging. Had me turning over similar ideas as Bess Wohl’s Liberation.

Centrist imaginations A response to a bad article, a bad book, and a bad publication

Incredibly insightful & incisive writing from rayne fisher-quann on the free press ghouls: open.substack.com/pub/internet...

hope everyone keeps warm, stays safe, and takes care of each other this month ❤️

January reads and who should adapt them Belle Burden's Strangers, Madeline Cash's Lost Lambs, the new Jennette McCurdy novel and more

For my January reading wrap-up I came up with some adaptation ideas for books like Larissa Pham’s Discipline, Madeline Cash’s Lost Lambs, and the new Jennette McCurdy novel: open.substack.com/pub/thedesko...

Meredith’s palatial Boston estate…????

Grey’s Anatomy with a real “return to form” episode this week… love that Webber gets to be the one to have a mystical memory palace experience this time

The Pitt and Grey’s Anatomy are airing the same night and this week featured identical exchanges of someone saying “I don’t know how to thank you” and a doctor responding “I think you just did”

Afternoon on the couch accidentally double featuring movies about offputting guys whose mothers implanted ideas in their heads that ultimately lead to complete mental deterioration

I’m confused why Highest 2 Lowest Sounds Like That but I am happy for Dennis Duffy

Having a new Saoirse/Timothée collaboration to look forward to would make things just a little bit better

Philly mention in Stranger Things finale we stay winning

The conditions are finally correct; Gibson Girl Winter 2026 incoming. Happy New Year!

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Grace was in every story in 2025 Distilling the year's biggest theme through Frankenstein, Everybody Scream, and Wake Up Dead Man

To close out the year, I wrote a small reflection on the prevailing theme of 2025—grace—with help from the work of @realgdt.bsky.social , Florence + The Machine, and Rian Johnson. You can check it out here: open.substack.com/pub/thedesko...

Stranger Things’ addiction to showing flashbacks to something you watched maybe45 mins ago

Grace was in every story in 2025 Distilling the year's biggest theme through Frankenstein, Everybody Scream, and Wake Up Dead Man

To close out the year, I wrote a small reflection on the prevailing theme of 2025—grace—with help from the work of @realgdt.bsky.social , Florence + The Machine, and Rian Johnson. You can check it out here: open.substack.com/pub/thedesko...

Make SHOP AROUND THE CORNER your Xmas Eve watch!!!!!!!

Maybe it’s because the film isn’t out yet, but it doesn’t seem to be registering in the Timmy Chalamet discourse that he’s still kind of playing Marty. Which isn’t to say he’s being disingenuous, just that the promotional strategy is obviously calibrated to the character.

Returning to my War on Christmas to humbly offer my own failures and to take inspiration from “Lil Timmy Tim” Chalamet: open.substack.com/pub/thedesko...

I was kinda giving this movie the benefit of the doubt bc I like Michael Showalter but then there was pro-Amazon delivery driver propaganda in the middle lmao whoa

I think Oh. What. Fun. could’ve been saved if it dialed up the camp factor like 50x… need a comic actress wayyyy more insane than Michelle Pfeiffer to pull it off

Once again crazy how I have access to 8 different streamers and none of them have A Few Good Men. Same happened when I was trying to watch big-name classics from Robert Redford or Diane Keaton. It makes me mad

YouTube video by Movieclips When Harry Met Sally... (11/11) Movie CLIP - Harry Loves Sally (1989) HD

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In 2025, TV finally reflected the lingering effects of living through COVID-19 In 2025, TV finally reflected the lingering effects of living through COVID-19

Yesterday my final piece as an AV Club staff writer went up. I’ve been musing over post-pandemic tv since the beginning of the year and personally found it under discussed at the COVID 5-year mark. Really proud of how it turned out❤️ www.avclub.com/2025-tv-covi...

She had such a pure talent for outrageous but lovable side characters and everything she wrote was infused with quintessentially quirky British humor I adored. The whole universe of work she created is a remarkable achievement, but heartbreaking to lose her, esp so young.

Author Sophie Kinsella, who penned the 'Shopaholic' books, has died at 55 The author, whose real name was Madeleine Sophie Wickham, was diagnosed with an aggressive form of brain cancer in late 2022.

Really devastated to learn of the passing of Sophie Kinsella. I really fell in love with her non-Shopaholic books in the past few years. I think of the dancing scene in “I Owe You One” a lot and really appreciated the overall theme of “The Burnout.” www.npr.org/2025/12/10/n...