Eric Francisco
@ericfrancisco24.bsky.social
Associate Entertainment Editor at Esquire. Bylines: Inverse, Rolling Stone, Vulture, THR, IGN, Men's Health, Observer, Daily Beast, GamesRadar, AV Club, Nerdist, Kotaku. Rutgers alum. TCA member. I like my sugar with coffee and cream. https://boxd.it/7IdbX
Bad Bunny's halftime show was joyful and true. He invited you, a stranger, into his world like family. So it was strange to also watch the sterile and impersonal Turning Point counterprogram with Kid Rock lip syncing and pointless rants about wokeness. www.esquire.com/entertainmen...
The Best Thing I Can Say About Turning Point USA's Halftime Show Is That It Happened
As Bad Bunny electrified the Super Bowl, Kid Rock croaked in front of a cheap smoke machine somewhere in Atlanta.
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February 9, 2026 at 9:44 PM
Bad Bunny's halftime show was joyful and true. He invited you, a stranger, into his world like family. So it was strange to also watch the sterile and impersonal Turning Point counterprogram with Kid Rock lip syncing and pointless rants about wokeness. www.esquire.com/entertainmen...
Had a very slow morning due to NJTransit nonsense. But last Thursday I had a last-minute interview that turned out to be one of my favorites: a chat with Jason Alexander, about his sitcom-flavored Super Bowl ad for Dunkin'. Now on Esquire: www.esquire.com/entertainmen...
Jason Alexander Told Us How Dunkin' Pulled Off Its '90s-Charged Super Bowl Commercial
"God bless them, they got me back to my thirties," the 'Seinfeld' legend says.
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February 9, 2026 at 7:36 PM
Had a very slow morning due to NJTransit nonsense. But last Thursday I had a last-minute interview that turned out to be one of my favorites: a chat with Jason Alexander, about his sitcom-flavored Super Bowl ad for Dunkin'. Now on Esquire: www.esquire.com/entertainmen...
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I think one of the best things about Bad Bunny’s performance is that it was so *specific*. It so clearly had a point of view coming from real lived experience and actual emotion, actual heart, not cynical calculation. Just beautiful.
February 9, 2026 at 1:36 AM
I think one of the best things about Bad Bunny’s performance is that it was so *specific*. It so clearly had a point of view coming from real lived experience and actual emotion, actual heart, not cynical calculation. Just beautiful.
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Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous
February 9, 2026 at 1:38 AM
Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous
Imagine choosing Kid Rock over that
February 9, 2026 at 1:36 AM
Imagine choosing Kid Rock over that
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On a similar note, as Mamdani continues to notch W after W you’re going to start seeing opinion pieces about how this could never work in any city other than New York, etc., etc. Do not engage! It’s just entrenched power bullshit and that’s all! Don’t let them make that a conversation!
February 6, 2026 at 7:04 PM
On a similar note, as Mamdani continues to notch W after W you’re going to start seeing opinion pieces about how this could never work in any city other than New York, etc., etc. Do not engage! It’s just entrenched power bullshit and that’s all! Don’t let them make that a conversation!
Years ago I sat in a theater and felt Kogonada's Columbus sweep me away. Last month, I had the joy of talking to one of its stars, Haley Lu Richardson, about her new role in the excellent Peacock show Ponies and her reunion with Kogonada. Now on Esquire.
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Haley Lu Richardson on Her ‘Ponies’ Breakout, Battling Emilia Clarke, and New Sundance Movie
“I was in the right place at the right time,” the 30-year-old star says of her hit Peacock series.
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February 4, 2026 at 9:34 PM
Years ago I sat in a theater and felt Kogonada's Columbus sweep me away. Last month, I had the joy of talking to one of its stars, Haley Lu Richardson, about her new role in the excellent Peacock show Ponies and her reunion with Kogonada. Now on Esquire.
www.esquire.com/entertainmen...
www.esquire.com/entertainmen...
Ashamed to say I dig movies like Masters of the Universe. I don't even care for the IP, I just love action movies with big swords. But while chuds are losing their shit over a pronouns gag, I'm concerned how the movie wants to appeal to those dudes exclusively. www.esquire.com/entertainmen...
The 'Masters of the Universe' Trailer Looks Great. But Something's Off.
I'm torn between admiring the self-awareness of the '80s reboot or concerned who I'll be sitting next to in theaters come June 5.
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January 23, 2026 at 4:07 PM
Ashamed to say I dig movies like Masters of the Universe. I don't even care for the IP, I just love action movies with big swords. But while chuds are losing their shit over a pronouns gag, I'm concerned how the movie wants to appeal to those dudes exclusively. www.esquire.com/entertainmen...
Giggling a little more because these are my local theaters. The Brunswick Square theater is really that tiny.
I've seen some people posting screenshots of poor ticket sales for MELANIA in the liberal hellscape of New York City, but out here in the suburbs things are a lot different.
Make no doubt about it -- Americans have MELANIA-Mania!
Make no doubt about it -- Americans have MELANIA-Mania!
January 23, 2026 at 3:43 PM
Giggling a little more because these are my local theaters. The Brunswick Square theater is really that tiny.
This went up earlier this week and only sharing it now, but the 2016 throwback trend left me wondering: Why don't we think about 2016 in movies too much? Answer: It was a pretty bad fuckin' year. www.esquire.com/entertainmen...
Why Is the 2016 Nostalgia Trend Forgetting the Movies?
It's not that we were inundated with bad films a decade ago—there's something else at work.
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January 23, 2026 at 2:54 PM
This went up earlier this week and only sharing it now, but the 2016 throwback trend left me wondering: Why don't we think about 2016 in movies too much? Answer: It was a pretty bad fuckin' year. www.esquire.com/entertainmen...
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This is why I find it depressing that people seek out media coverage/criticism from podcasters who have zero journalistic know-how. Just give your (informed) opinion and let the chips fall where they may, don’t do this disingenuous, opportunistic shit
feels both depressing and inevitable, and the thing i find most fascinating about it is the decision and then commitment to performing wild enthusiasm anyhow. you hate this, and yet you understand the very real monetary benefit of championing it
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Empty Netters host called Heated Rivalry 'trash,' producers 'losers' - Outsports
As he publicly praised 'Heated Rivalry,' one 'Empty Netters' host privately trashed the show. Outsports has seen the texts.
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January 22, 2026 at 6:24 PM
This is why I find it depressing that people seek out media coverage/criticism from podcasters who have zero journalistic know-how. Just give your (informed) opinion and let the chips fall where they may, don’t do this disingenuous, opportunistic shit
More than the thrill of watching artists apply their craft, making-of docs inspire people. They let you see how cool it is to make stuff that you'll want to make stuff too. I don't think I'd be writing about movies today if I didn't devour the BTS extras on the Batman Begins DVD over Christmas 2005.
January 16, 2026 at 5:30 PM
More than the thrill of watching artists apply their craft, making-of docs inspire people. They let you see how cool it is to make stuff that you'll want to make stuff too. I don't think I'd be writing about movies today if I didn't devour the BTS extras on the Batman Begins DVD over Christmas 2005.
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This feels like little consolation at this exact moment, but I've genuinely never been prouder of anything in my entire life than what we did at Inverse. We were always a scrappy little team doing incredible stuff with increasingly less resources. The work we did meant something.
January 16, 2026 at 4:52 PM
This feels like little consolation at this exact moment, but I've genuinely never been prouder of anything in my entire life than what we did at Inverse. We were always a scrappy little team doing incredible stuff with increasingly less resources. The work we did meant something.
I fucking love The Rip. But I hate that it's a January Netflix dump. It's not a big crowdpleaser so I doubt its box office prospects, but the ongoing cannibalization of Hollywood is clear in movies like The Rip being buried by the algorithm. www.esquire.com/entertainmen...
'The Rip' Absolutely Rips
I have serious questions about Netflix dumping a killer Ben Affleck and Matt Damon joint on the platform in the middle of January.
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January 16, 2026 at 3:49 PM
I fucking love The Rip. But I hate that it's a January Netflix dump. It's not a big crowdpleaser so I doubt its box office prospects, but the ongoing cannibalization of Hollywood is clear in movies like The Rip being buried by the algorithm. www.esquire.com/entertainmen...
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Still recovering from another heart surgery, I dragged myself to a picket line to back the 15k nurses on strike in NYC, including at my longtime hospital, New York-Presbyterian. www.progressreport.news/p/give-the-s...
January 13, 2026 at 3:28 AM
Still recovering from another heart surgery, I dragged myself to a picket line to back the 15k nurses on strike in NYC, including at my longtime hospital, New York-Presbyterian. www.progressreport.news/p/give-the-s...
Extremely funny to soundtrack Stellan Skarsgård's Golden Globe win to Usher's "Yeah"
January 12, 2026 at 1:21 AM
Extremely funny to soundtrack Stellan Skarsgård's Golden Globe win to Usher's "Yeah"
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Renee Macklin Good's wife, Becca Good, released a statement and it moved me to sobbing tears:
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January 9, 2026 at 4:40 PM
Renee Macklin Good's wife, Becca Good, released a statement and it moved me to sobbing tears:
archive.is/ur35j
archive.is/ur35j
One of my 2026 resolutions is to post more. Sounds unhealthy I know, but I've been doing work I'm very proud of at Esquire, but between some false modesty and serious insecurities on my part, I didn't think I was worth updating everyone on everything all the time. This year I'm yapping more online.
January 9, 2026 at 4:32 PM
One of my 2026 resolutions is to post more. Sounds unhealthy I know, but I've been doing work I'm very proud of at Esquire, but between some false modesty and serious insecurities on my part, I didn't think I was worth updating everyone on everything all the time. This year I'm yapping more online.
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TCA EOY Spotlight | @ericfrancisco24.bsky.social
"As a Star Wars fan with some knowledge of French from high school, my ears perked when I heard the Ghorman language. Lucasfilm enthusiastically pointed me to dialect coach Marina Tyndall, and I learned how #Andor invented a language from scratch."
"As a Star Wars fan with some knowledge of French from high school, my ears perked when I heard the Ghorman language. Lucasfilm enthusiastically pointed me to dialect coach Marina Tyndall, and I learned how #Andor invented a language from scratch."
December 28, 2025 at 12:51 PM
TCA EOY Spotlight | @ericfrancisco24.bsky.social
"As a Star Wars fan with some knowledge of French from high school, my ears perked when I heard the Ghorman language. Lucasfilm enthusiastically pointed me to dialect coach Marina Tyndall, and I learned how #Andor invented a language from scratch."
"As a Star Wars fan with some knowledge of French from high school, my ears perked when I heard the Ghorman language. Lucasfilm enthusiastically pointed me to dialect coach Marina Tyndall, and I learned how #Andor invented a language from scratch."
Finally solved my computer's TPM issues and upgraded to Windows 11 at last.
December 22, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Finally solved my computer's TPM issues and upgraded to Windows 11 at last.
Trying to think about the life and work of Rob Reiner over the cruelty of his death. First time I saw This Is Spinal Tap left me wheezing. I've heard "The Princess Bride is my comfort movie" infinity times. He journeyed through genres and made the best in all of them.
December 15, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Trying to think about the life and work of Rob Reiner over the cruelty of his death. First time I saw This Is Spinal Tap left me wheezing. I've heard "The Princess Bride is my comfort movie" infinity times. He journeyed through genres and made the best in all of them.
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In the latest installment of Tokusatsu Now, @ericfrancisco24.bsky.social, @mhwilliams.bsky.social and I chat about Project R.E.D and the other tokusatsu to expect in 2026, but also discuss Kill Bill and Quentin Tarantino’s connection to the genre.
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Watch the full episode: youtu.be/Dsy0ut7AHwk?...
December 9, 2025 at 11:37 AM
In the latest installment of Tokusatsu Now, @ericfrancisco24.bsky.social, @mhwilliams.bsky.social and I chat about Project R.E.D and the other tokusatsu to expect in 2026, but also discuss Kill Bill and Quentin Tarantino’s connection to the genre.
Watch the full episode: youtu.be/Dsy0ut7AHwk?...
Watch the full episode: youtu.be/Dsy0ut7AHwk?...
lol. lmao. deadline.com/2025/10/netf...
Netflix Co-Chief Greg Peters Says Warner Bros. Discovery Acquisition Bid Is Unlikely: “Big Media Mergers Don’t Have A Great Track Record”
Netflix Co-CEO Greg Peters heavily downplayed recent speculation that the streaming giant could be interested in bidding on Warner Bros. Discovery.
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December 5, 2025 at 2:52 PM
lol. lmao. deadline.com/2025/10/netf...
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It’s hard to not see the Netflix/WB news as a sort of doomsday scenario. The constant mergers and large scale absorptions of brands might be good for business, in theory, but they are bad for art; they are bad for creators; they are bad for preservation. Which makes it bad for us.
December 5, 2025 at 1:10 PM
It’s hard to not see the Netflix/WB news as a sort of doomsday scenario. The constant mergers and large scale absorptions of brands might be good for business, in theory, but they are bad for art; they are bad for creators; they are bad for preservation. Which makes it bad for us.
I’m going to miss movie theaters.
December 5, 2025 at 1:09 PM
I’m going to miss movie theaters.