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Senior writer at Vulture and New York Magazine.

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Nate Jones @kn8.bsky.social · 10h
A 28-minute video podcast where a bunch of Vulture staffers talk about their MFL teams -- now I've seen everything! www.vulture.com/article/vult...
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Vulture Writers Show How (or How Not) to Draft Your Movies Fantasy League Team
Our first Roster Roundtable hits on all the big questions: The Odyssey vs. Avengers: Doomsday? Obsession vs. The Debut? Who’s going to win Best Actor?
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Nate Jones @kn8.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
No one will ever sum up DIGGER than @bilgeebiri.bsky.social remarking that the movie feels "like being stuck inside a tuba for two hours." www.vulture.com/article/revi...
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Digger Is a Brazen Act of Self-Sabotage
The Tom Cruise-starring climate change satire is a torturous experience — sometimes purposefully so, often unintentionally so.
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Nate Jones @kn8.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Manifesting a Skyler Gisondo Oscar campaign: www.vulture.com/article/osca...
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9 Oscar Campaigns We’d Love to See This Season
If any of these nominations come to fruition, know that we’ll be taking all the credit.
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Vulture @vulture.com · 25/09/2026
Here are the 2026 movies and performances we’d love to see get a big Oscars push. Some are festival titles (like ‘Possible Love’), others are early-season films (like ‘Send Help’). All of them deserve voters’ attention.
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9 Oscar Campaigns We’d Love to See This Season
Here are the 2026 movies and performances we’d love to see get a big Oscars push. Some are festival titles (like ‘Possible Love’), others are early-season films (like ‘Send Help’). All of them deserve voters’ attention.
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Nate Jones @kn8.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Miles Teller was the golden boy of my college class, so I can't tell you how weird it is to see him play a middle-aged dad in PAPER TIGER. Even worse, he has been groomed and styled to look disturbingly like ... me!
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Nate Jones @kn8.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The Holy Trinity
Peter Hook of Joy Division and New OrderPaul Simonon of The ClashAlex James of Blur
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Nate Jones @kn8.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
A movie that asks: What if we calibrated every decision for maximum annoyance, on purpose?
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Nate Jones @kn8.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Lansdale mentioned.
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Vulture @vulture.com · 22/09/2026
Stephen Morris, founding member of Joy Division and New Order, discussed the highs of his career: ‘I love watching people dance to our music. It becomes like a superpower.’
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Stephen Morris on Joy Division and New Order’s Most Legendary Music
Stephen Morris, founding member of Joy Division and New Order, discussed the highs of his career: ‘I love watching people dance to our music. It becomes like a superpower.’
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Nate Jones @kn8.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Javis ... Bola Negra ... I liked it!
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Todd in the Shadows @shadowtodd.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
"I am not complicit" I love it I'm putting it on a shirt
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Nate Jones @kn8.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I wrote about my favorite films at Venice, including the accidental trilogy about Thatcherism: INK (thesis), QUEER EDWARD II (antithesis), and OASIS: DON'T LOOK BACK IN ANGER (synthesis) www.vulture.com/article/the-...
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The 10 Best Movies We Saw at Venice This Year
As promised, it was the most political Venice lineup in years and a very strong one at that.
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Nate Jones @kn8.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
How it started / How it's going
A newborn baby shrieks in agony at the terror of existence, in a manner the resembles Munch's The Scream.The same baby absolutely annihilates a birthday cake at their first birthday party.
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Nate Jones @kn8.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
There was one moment near the end that made me go, "If Florian Zeller is indeed a total hack, here is how the next five minutes will go." And then the next five minutes went exactly as I feared.
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Nate Jones @kn8.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Blur forgive me, I cried watching the Oasis documentary: www.vulture.com/article/oasi...
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The Biggest Tearjerker at Venice Is … the Oasis Documentary?
At the Lido, Don’t Look Back in Anger is sparking waterworks.
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Nate Jones @kn8.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I thought this was going to be Lee Chang-dong's THE INVITE, but it turned out more like Mike Leigh's PARASITE.
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Nate Jones @kn8.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
You see how this looks, right? www.vulture.com/article/prim...
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Primetime Might Be Robert Pattinson’s First Real Shot at an Oscar
Pattinson gives a performance of such repellent charisma that, come January, it may be the Academy’s acting branch who invites him to “take a seat.”
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Vulture @vulture.com · 04/09/2026
Are you ready for John Malkovich’s Best Actor campaign? After a triumphant Venice Film Festival premiere, Martin McDonagh’s ‘Wild Horse Nine’ is the season’s first major 2027 Oscar contender.
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Wild Horse Nine Looks Like Fall’s First Oscar Contender
Are you ready for John Malkovich’s Best Actor campaign? After a triumphant Venice Film Festival premiere, Martin McDonagh’s ‘Wild Horse Nine’ is the season’s first major 2027 Oscar contender.
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Vulture @vulture.com · 03/09/2026
At Venice, honorary Golden Lion winner George Clooney is living out the end of ‘Jay Kelly’ in real life.
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At Venice, George Clooney Lives Out the End of Jay Kelly in Real Life
At Venice, honorary Golden Lion winner George Clooney is living out the end of ‘Jay Kelly’ in real life.
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Nate Jones @kn8.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
George Clooney's career achievement montage at the Venice opening ceremony began with footage of him watching a similar montage in JAY KELLY and ended, bizarrely, with him drifting off into space to die in GRAVITY.
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Vulture @vulture.com · 02/09/2026
Eleven movies we’re lining up to see at Venice this year, starting with the opening-night film, Danny Boyle’s ‘Ink,’ an adaptation of a play about Rupert Murdoch.
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11 Movies We’re Lining Up to See at Venice This Year
Eleven movies we’re lining up to see at Venice this year, starting with the opening-night film, Danny Boyle’s ‘Ink,’ an adaptation of a play about Rupert Murdoch.
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Nate Jones @kn8.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Forgot to mention, but: I'm in Venice! Here is a selfie I took in the bathroom this morning.
A photo of George Clooney looking impossibly handsome and healthy, which is basically the opposite of how I felt yesterday.
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Nate Jones @kn8.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
There are few better moments in American music than when Dolly lets it rip on "Light of a Clear Blue Morning": youtu.be/RfinvuRolR0?...
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Light of a Clear Blue Morning
YouTube video by Dolly Parton - Topic
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Vulture @vulture.com · 25/08/2026
The Vulture Movies Fantasy League is back for season six! Here’s all the info you need to spend your fake money wisely.
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Every Film You Can Draft in the 2026–27 Movies Fantasy League
The Vulture Movies Fantasy League is back for season six! Here’s all the info you need to spend your fake money wisely.
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kyle 中和 turner @tylekurner.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
back at @avclub.com asking the important questions, like, why do movies look like that now? spoke to a bunch of cinematographers, colorists, and editors to try to figure out what is going on: www.avclub.com/why-do-movie...
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Why do movies look like that now?
Cinematographers, colorists, and camera ops explain how shifting technologies and business expectations are making movies look like that.
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Nate Jones @kn8.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
The conductor on this Amtrak train just told us that passengers in the cafe car must have their shoes on at all times, which felt pointed.
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Ryan Lee @ryanjlee7.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
well, congratulations @kn8.bsky.social for being right.

IP Guys

Good reviews and awards attention are add-ons here; this tier is all about bankability. These are high-level hired guns who generally won’t demand creative control. Or as a rep puts it, “The go-to guys when you need to make a shit-ton of money.” 36. Shawn Levy
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Mitch Goldich @mitchgoldich.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
There’s some renewed interest in The Process, so here’s my timeline refresher. The Sixers are currently in what I call late-stage Process. It doesn’t end until Embiid is gone. Welcome LeBron. It’s been a journey.
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Nate Jones @kn8.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Today we finally published a big list I'd been working on for months; The 100 Most Powerful Directors in Hollywood (as determined by me, with help from a handful of producers, publicists, agents and executives). www.vulture.com/article/100-...
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The 100 Most Powerful Directors in Hollywood
10 years ago, franchise producers dominated the movies. In 2026, the buzziest deals belong to auteurs.
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Maddie @maddiewhittle.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Immediate entry in the canon of greatest threads of all time
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Nate Jones @kn8.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Today we finally published a big list I'd been working on for months; The 100 Most Powerful Directors in Hollywood (as determined by me, with help from a handful of producers, publicists, agents and executives). www.vulture.com/article/100-...
vulture.com
The 100 Most Powerful Directors in Hollywood
10 years ago, franchise producers dominated the movies. In 2026, the buzziest deals belong to auteurs.
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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
"No other ranking got as much pushback from Hollywood insiders as putting Gerwig in the top five," hmm, I wonder why
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Nate Jones @kn8.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
I've got a GREAT LIST! And you've got your head ... ALL THE WAY UP IT! www.vulture.com/article/100-...
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The 100 Most Powerful Directors in Hollywood
10 years ago, franchise producers dominated the movies. In 2026, the buzziest deals belong to auteurs.
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Nate Jones @kn8.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
It is breaking my brain that live footage can now be color graded like this. I can't tell what's real and what's a bit!
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Nate Jones @kn8.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
"No weapon formed against me shall prosper" --the baby, ripping apart the napkins we are trying to use to clean her face
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Nate Jones @kn8.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Posting this on Bluesky is like walking into a Philly sports bar and talking about how you've always liked Dak Prescott.
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Nate Jones @kn8.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
The Swiss manager looks like Javier Bardem playing Mads Mikkelsen.
Swiss manager Murat Yakin
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Nate Jones @kn8.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Jude Bellingham got out of England just in time before he could be infected by loser energy. In the future we need to send all teenage phenoms to the Bundesliga ASAP
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Nate Jones @kn8.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I'm the one who jinxed it by looking up prices for retro England jerseys
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Nate Jones @kn8.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
There's something poetic about the three World Cup host countries all going out in the same round: Canada humbly, Mexico heroically, and the US after a weeklong media controversy that subsumes the game itself.
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Nate Jones @kn8.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
When I see the opening weekend box-office for The Pope's Exorcist
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Nate Jones @kn8.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Me at the beginning of that match | Me now
Prince William in the year 2000Prince William now
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Nate Jones @kn8.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
The most interesting thing about this to me is that the musical Hamilton has negatively polarized conservatives into a favorable opinion of Aaron Burr.
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Nate Jones @kn8.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
I can't explain it, but there's something so Philadelphian about Mbappe. He looks like his last name should be Detweiler.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
love to my trans friends. fuck SCOTUS.
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Nate Jones @kn8.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
I haven't seen Protestant-on-Protestant violence like this since the Thirty Years' War. 🇳🇱🇸🇪
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Nate Jones @kn8.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Actual Germans reading FreddyLA7's Tweets:
The Inglorious Basterds "three fingers" meme.
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