The 2025 Festival of Books lineup is here! The nation’s largest literary festival returns to USC April 26 and 27 with more than 600 of your favorite authors, artists, celebrities, musicians, poets, volunteers and exhibitors! Our 30th anniversary festival will feature a special

Connect these actors in Six Degrees or less: Bill Murray 👉 Halle Berry 🎞 #cinephilegame

Connect these actors in Six Degrees or less: Willem Dafoe 👉 Angela Bassett 🎞 #cinephilegame

Connect these actors in Six Degrees or less: Pam Grier 👉 Robert Redford 🎞 #cinephilegame

A new video store is opening in Williamsburg, like an 'uncanny valley Blockbuster' gothamist.com/arts-entertain…

LOS ANGELES: Join us Sunday April 13th for another exciting evening of movie trivia @academymuseum! Mingle with fellow movie buffs as you show off your knowledge all-things-Oscars®! 🍿 academymuseum.org/en/programs/de…

Connect these actors in Six Degrees or less: Laura Dern 👉 Robert DeNiro 🎞 #cinephilegame

Laura Dern in Wild At Heart with Diane Ladd. Ladd with De Niro in Joy.

Connect these actors in Six Degrees or less: Jackie Chan 👉 Jennifer Jason-Leigh 🎞 #cinephilegame

Jackie Chan 👉🏼 AN ALAN SMITHEE FILM: BURN HOLLYWOOD BURN (1997) 👈🏼 Billy Bob Thornton 👉🏼 THE MAN WHO WASN’T THERE (2001) 👈🏼 Jennifer Jason-Leigh 🎞️#cinephilegame

Connect these actors in Six Degrees or less: Naomi Watts 👉 Denzel Washington 🎞 #cinephilegame

Naomi Watts in The International with Clive Owen. Owen in Inside Man with Denzel Washington. #ThisAintNoBankRobbery

LOS ANGELES: Join us this weekend April 26-27th at the LA Times Festival of Books! We'll have our entire line of lilcinephile 🎥🍿 books as well as Cinephile 🎞️. Come say hi. Booth 821 in the Green Zone LA Times Festival of Books 🍿 events.latimes.com/festivalofbooks

Connect these actors in Six Degrees or less: Frances McDormand 👉 Jim Carrey 🎞 #cinephilegame

Frances McDormand in Almost Famous with Zooey Deschanel. Deschanel with Carrey in Yes Man.

Connect these actors in Six Degrees or less: Sylvester Stallone 👉 Susan Sarandon 🎞 #cinephilegame

I'm moderating this conversation with Alan Siegel about his excellent new SIMPSONS book on June 12 at Skylight Books. Come hang. skylightbooks.com/event/skylight…

Got a chance to talk about one of my favorite actors on one of my favorite podcasts, Ryan Gosling The B-Side. Discussing his 2011 breakout year, the two Goslings and his attempts to find a Scorsese/DiCaprio partnership with Refn, Chazelle and Cianfrance. 🎧 thefilmstage.com/the-b-side-ep-…

Sean Fennessey, Mina Kimes, and holmes joined me for the best middle school lunch table conversation of 1994. It's THE SIMPSONS draft. (And yes, I know I look like I'm trying to copy Murray Bartlett's look in White Lotus.) youtube.com/watch?v=g0IFWO…