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“After the Hunt” is a slippery study of our desire to wield power In Luca Guadagnino’s timely drama, Julia Roberts is out for millennial blood at a steep cost.

ahead of opening night at #nyff, i wrote about ‘after the hunt,’ a mercurial and cruel provocation that tests its audience’s wits and questions the modern desire to define heroes from villains in a ceaseless search for answers. i absolutely loved it. www.salon.com/2025/09/25/a...

On this note, I absolutely endorse this @salon.com review of the now Emmy-winning Adolescence by @colemanjspilde.bsky.social

www.salon.com/2025/03/18/a...

"Oh, Mary!" star Cole Escola manifested their Tony win the old-fashioned way The smash-hit play is the result of Escola's uncompromising vision and flair for the absurdly strange.

"Escola didn’t catch up to the culture; the culture caught up to them. Their win and ongoing success are fate manifested, a testament to the power of hard work and uncompromising vision. Sometimes, the right things still happen."

Read the story by @colemanjspilde.bsky.social ⬇️

YES

In "Bonjour Tristesse," Chloë Sevigny and Lily McInerny try to capture beauty before it slips away The stars of Durga Chew-Bose's remake find languid, new resonance in the most beguiling film of the year.

Chloë Sevigny and Lily McInerny star in "Bonjour Tristesse," a lush, haunting remake from Durga Chew-Bose. In an interview with Salon's @colemanjspilde.bsky.social, the stars open up about fleeting beauty, aging, creativity and the ache of feelings we can’t quite name.
www.salon.com/2025/05/02/i...

how remarkable that you can go to a movie theater and see a fascinating, bracing, unusual film by perhaps our greatest living filmmaker. an invitation to think and feel (and laugh! maybe even cry) and the cost is only the price of admission. run don’t walk etc

With "The Shrouds," cinema's great body horror auteur goes for something a little lighter: grief Perhaps the greatest living filmmaker, Cronenberg's latest — a flawed, dynamic look at loss – doesn't disappoint.

david cronenberg has a very singular, special way of addressing the humor in our mortality and the deeply ironic pain of living and losing. wrestled with that for my review of ‘the shrouds,’ his prickly, agonizing, and hilarious latest. www.salon.com/2025/04/19/w...

Salon's @colemanjspilde.bsky.social praises Lady Gaga's Coachella performance:

"A striking vision like Gaga’s is critical in proving that beauty is not lost; it’s just harder to find, and her Coachella masterpiece makes our world all the more beautiful just by existing."

Lady Gaga's Coachella spectacle makes a case for beauty in an ugly world The superstar's second headlining show in the desert is a magnificent display of artistry when we need it the most.

nurse, he’s out! ahead of coachella weekend two, i wrote 2440 words on lady gaga’s “the art of personal chaos,” a magnificent live spectacle where the superstar reminds us beauty is not lost, just harder to find. www.salon.com/2025/04/16/l...

coleman getting back in bluesky

should i try to get back on here. i’m trying to get back on here. i’m also trying to get off social monday to friday. girl i’m trying to go full 2004 i want two hours of screen time a day and to only use it to play cartoon network dot com games

Val Kilmer, Hollywood's oddball bad boy, was the real deal until the end Dead at 65, Kilmer spent his life in pursuit of wonderful things, even if it meant rubbing others the wrong way.

Really lovely tribute to Val Kilmer here from @colemanjspilde.bsky.social www.salon.com/2025/04/02/v...

OH.

it’s almost like journalism has long since been overtaken by a media industry centering the perspectives of the establishment as the default for ‘neutrality’ & any deviation from that ruse gets you fired & shunned.

even if you do speak up you can only go so far within their ‘decorum’ boundaries.

David Lynch's films pull back the red curtain on our shared reality Though surreal and sometimes impenetrable, Lynch's films lead us down dark roads to curious, new possibilities.

scraped my soul to write about david lynch’s radically empathetic filmmaking by examining my favorite recurring image in his work: the long road in the dead of night.

would mean a lot to me if you read it. i’m so grateful to have the platform to share it. www.salon.com/2025/01/25/d...

i have been horribly neglectful of this platform which i hope to change in 2025. but first, here’s jlo’s brilliant mind singing a mashup of auld lang syne and live it up.

well….

(sorry i accidentally deleted the original post. doing great here!) i’ll be covering culture at large along the way (i’m nosy!), but no matter what, i promise to bring you pieces that will make you think, laugh, fume, smile, and maybe even cry, right here: www.salon.com/writer/colem...

personal news! next week i’m joining the culture team @salonnewsroom.bsky.social as a senior staff writer, where i’ll be tightening the scope of my criticism and analysis to film. i’m so grateful and even more excited to keep writing with empathy and wit about my favorite art form in the world.

i’ll be covering culture at large along the way (i’m nosy!) but the opportunity to explore, explode, and expand cinema is a dream come true. i’m going to bring you pieces that will make you think, laugh, fume, smile, and maybe even cry, right here: t.co/aC8w2xgrzX

i’ll just be sad you won’t be there to exchange looks with from across my desk!

THANK YOU KING MATT!!!! ❤️

it’s ridiculously serious

is bluesky a place that will be responsive to my latest crush aka this guy i saw hosting an hgtv show my boyfriend’s mom was watching

had a productive meeting and filed a review (assuming everyone has already marked their calendars for monday when i announce news) and though those both brought me great joy, nothing can compare to taking in the latest lindsay lohan holiday “spectacular” on the couch with a beloved friend

we never kissed the belle mehus wall but once i saw a production of dracula there on a seventh grade school trip and i was just getting out of my i’m-really-scared-of-vampires phase from childhood so that plus the belle being haunted had me on edge the whole time it was awful. miss it every day

every day proud to have been born and raised in the greatest city on earth

‘wicked’ manages to be both fun and insightful without veering into storytelling that’s corny or preachy. it smartly dissects who has power and how it’s wielded, with a fantastic comedic turn from ariana grande and a solid emotional center in cynthia erivo www.salon.com/2024/11/19/w...

"Wicked" is a bewitching spectacle that smartly probes who has power in a beloved fairy tale Cynthia Erivo is moving while Ariana Grande delights in an entertaining holiday event film that defies expectations

‘wicked’ has its shortcomings (that consistently baffling lighting design!) but entertainment value isn’t one of them. it’s a bewitching, timely holiday movie spectacle, made with plucky earnestness that’ll charm fans and newcomers alike. my review for salon: www.salon.com/2024/11/19/w...