haven’t seen it like this since Trump lost

really the stuff of legends

I say this as a Lakers fan. The idea that the league wants a marquee team in a big market to lose the finals is insane. That's small market talk, guys.

People who don't work in film, don't even know what an art director does, and can't even read the complaint are really logging on to say "I love my exploitation. And yours.❤️"

What everyone infected with entrepreneur mindset fails to read in the original post is “I should have flipped it.” For a $750k feature, the union would not have renegotiated wages. It would have gained hours towards healthcare and some safeguards over working conditions.

Jacques Rivette, in "On Abjection," while excoriating Pontecorvo for the Holocaust film Kapo: "the point is that the filmmaker judges that which he shows, and is judged by the way in which he shows it." variety.com/2026/film/news/j…

if the spurs win Game 7 they gotta run the black and silver shirts that just say "ETHICAL BASKETBALL"

“Beit Lahia, Beit Hanoun, Gaza City, Jabalia, Nuseirat, Deir al Balah, Khan Younis. There are names that become inseparable from the great crimes committed there.” —Blair McClendon @__seab on With Hasan in Gaza, premiering at Metrograph from May 29.

I wrote about Kamal Aljafari's With Hasan in Gaza and the gap between archival films and history. Thanks to Kelli for having me. metrograph.com/with-hasan-in…

Stepped away from the after party for the premiere of the Mrs. dalloway adaptation and the kebab place is playing a video explaining supply chains and Iran’s battle strategy in Hormuz

Sagely, dialectically: I support both the speech rights of the protestors and the baton rights of the police officers

We're pleased to debut the trailer for Kamal Aljafari's 'With Hasan in Gaza,' one of the year's best documentaries, which opens @Metrograph on May 29: thefilmstage.com/kamal-aljaf…

Film Comment is back! and so is the archive

Our first quarterly digital issue, the Summer 2026 issue, is now live, with a cover story by Blair McClendon (@__seab) on Boots Riley (@BootsRiley)'s I Love Boosters! filmcomment.com/article/full…

Last year I was asked if I was interested in working on an adaptation of Mrs. Dalloway set in Nigeria and shot on 35. It was an easy decision. ✌️🏿

Lebanon’s Health Ministry says toll from Israeli attacks on Wednesday rises to 357 dead

Despite my general optimism it’s undeniable that the losses we have suffered are generational, the impact psychically, socially, interpersonally— we can’t even register the enormity of it all

Oman’s foreign minister says Iran agreed to “zero enriched uranium stockpiling.” Within hours, Israel hits Tehran

🚨 The final number of dead at the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls’ school in Minab, southern Iran, is 108 school girls, a spokesperson for the Iranian Red Crescent Society said — more than half of the roughly 170 students who attend the school. It remains unclear whether the strike was carried out by the U.S. or Israel. A CENTCOM spokesperson said they were “looking into” the reports. Drop Site reported from the site of the massacre, speaking with families who lost their daughters. The school was reduced to rubble, and dozens of girls were trapped beneath collapsed concrete, with residents digging with their bare hands. Parents wandered through the debris in shock, calling out their children’s names. The full report is below.