Roxana Hadadi

The King and Queen of Confrontational Cinema Ronald Bronstein is the co-writer of ‘Marty Supreme,’ and Mary Bronstein is the director of ‘If I Had Legs I’d Kick You.’ After two decades of trudging through the indie film world, husband and wife are both nominated for Oscars at the same time.

Ronald Bronstein is the co-writer of ‘Marty Supreme,’ and Mary Bronstein is the director of ‘If I Had Legs I’d Kick You.’ After two decades of trudging through the indie film world, husband and wife are both nominated for Oscars at the same time.

Avatar: Fire and Ash—Dreamwalking and the Book of Eywa Avatar: Fire and Ash—the end of one trilogy and the potential beginning of another—is the darkest, most complex, and personal of the three.

I wrote 6,000 words on AVATAR for @brightwalldarkroom.com, diving into how James Cameron's stereoscopic dreamland is a conduit for a radical, transportive empathy that harkens back to the origins of cinema itself:

www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2026/03/02/d...

loved talking to THE lorraine ashbourne about S4 of BRIDGERTON:

“If you want to know how it feels to have slaves, in the modern world – and not be blamed openly for this desire – visit Dubai.”

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uhhhhhhh

I know many of you already know this because it’s obvious but you can absolutely take a survey of an opinion desk’s output over time and pretty accurately surmise the views—or at least the intentions—of the people who are in charge of deciding what gets published. I thought we were all adults here

Wonder if the “Campus left” or Thomas Friedman was more correct about the outcomes of the Iraq or Afghan wars? 🤔

Perhaps we should base who we listen to on their previous track record.

Giving this one last wee push! There’s an electric bill I’d love* to get comfortably paid 💜

*I’d love living in a world where no one else knew anything at all about my electric bill more, but, alas

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I saw this and at first thought "no, there's no way 'we definitely had alternative leadership in mind for Iran but I blew them up alongside the schoolgirls using AI' is what the White House is actually saying, that's too clueless and evil to be real"

if you think polymarket bets on war are bad, wait til you find out how many in Congress are invested in defense contractors

This guy is a corrupt, wannabe Trump who’s bullied his way into a position of prominence within the Iranian diaspora so of course MAGA CBS is fluffing him.

Screenshot of text: First, it’s a mistake to say that Trump got America into war on Saturday. What he did was respond to a war that Iran has been waging against the United States since 1979.

Cool hey did anything happen *before* 1979 between the United States and Iran

shockingly people are capable of simultaneously,

1. Hating their government

2. Hating the people who bomb and sanction their country, making regular life impossible and murdering members of their family, even more

"The Islamists oppose women getting an education," I mutter, as I aim my missile at the girls school

This is basically legalized insider trading

Shortly after the first set of explosions, Iranians received bursts of notifications on their phones, not from the government advising caution, but from a prayer timing app called ‘BadeSaba Calendar’ which has been downloaded 5 million times from the Google Play Store. The messages arrived in quick succession over a period of 30 minutes, starting with the phrase ‘Help Has Arrived’ at 9:52 am Tehran time. No party has claimed responsibility for the hacks. Screenshots shared with WIRED Middle East show messages urging Iranian military personnel to surrender their weapons with the promise of amnesty. It also urged army personnel to join “the forces of liberation” and to “defend your brothers.”

Airborne leaflet propaganda in 2026: hacked push alerts from a prayer timing app

www.wired.me/story/hacked...

indiscriminately bombing Iran is not a distraction of the Epstein files, it is a validation of their significance as more than a sex pest hunt. this is what elite impunity for morons looks like. a school turned to rubble on a whim.

There should be an Earth for people who don't hate all living things

Today’s military strikes on Iran — carried out by the United States and Israel — mark a catastrophic escalation in an illegal war of aggression. Bombing cities. Killing civilians. Opening a new theater of war.

It’s crazy that it’s basically just a combination of the single worst most disastrous parts of every administration in history

Please keep writing about Nurul Amin Shah Alam.

They killed this man. It's a system wide problem that resulted in his death. Every step of the way it was a travesty of justice.

This is how immigration law intersects with criminal law. ICE and CBP.

Read this and ask why do we fund this? Why?

“Roughly $24 billion of Paramount’s takeover financing is coming from the Middle East, including Saudi Arabia. [The] journalist-killing kingdom is poised to become a part-owner of one of the world’s most influential news organizations.”

I don’t think it will be immediately, but the absolute worst part of this WB Paramount deal is how many layoffs they’ll have to make with all their debt, and their new management’s anti DEI ideology. Some of best, smartest executives & studio head I ever worked for already got canned at Paramount.

YouTube video by Gorillaz Gorillaz - The Mountain, The Moon Cave and The Sad God (Trailer 1)

guys.. GUYS!

Gorillaz has released two trailers in anticipation of their new album's only music video.

It will be an 8-minute animated film titled "The Mountain, The Moon Cave, and The Sad God" ENTIRELY HAND-DRAWN ANIMATION. I'm talking techniques from The Jungle Book!

youtu.be/c7UotLxLSU8?...

One family is about to control CBS, CNN, HBO, and TikTok. They’ll buy Warner Brothers with $24 billion from Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Abu Dhabi. To win over Trump, they canceled Colbert, blocked a 60 Minutes CECOT investigation, and blocked Talarico. Much more will follow. Block this rotten deal.

This is a fucking disaster on so many levels.

Film Festivals Have Always Been Political No matter who pretends otherwise. Just look at the winners of this year’s Berlinale.

Some thoughts on the Berlinale, on film festivals as political spaces, and reviews of YELLOW LETTERS and SALVATION, the two films by Turkish directors that took Berlin's two top prizes. www.vulture.com/article/film...

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They are in an arms race against Americans