Noah Gittell
@noahgittell.bsky.social
Troubador. Former film critic and author. Was once seen in NYT, The Atlantic, The Ringer. Now seen at open mic night, possibly in your town.
I would be happy if Will Ferrell would star in a three-camera family sitcom. He'd make it funnier than it has any right to be, and he doesn't make good movies anymore.
November 18, 2025 at 6:05 PM
I would be happy if Will Ferrell would star in a three-camera family sitcom. He'd make it funnier than it has any right to be, and he doesn't make good movies anymore.
The problem, of course, is that he does something like this almost every single day
The political media's muted reaction to this story is an incredible "frog in boiling water" moment.
Any person in any business or organization would be immediately fired for this. No questions, no process. Just out on your ass.
Any person in any business or organization would be immediately fired for this. No questions, no process. Just out on your ass.
When asked if there was anything "incriminating" in Epstein's emails, Trump pointed a finger in a female reporter's face and snapped. 'Quiet. Quiet, Piggy.'
November 18, 2025 at 5:43 PM
The problem, of course, is that he does something like this almost every single day
I watched Rebecca Miller's SHE CAME TO ME last night, and I'm now thinking it's not that they stopped making good rom-coms, it's that we all just stopped watching them
November 18, 2025 at 3:29 PM
I watched Rebecca Miller's SHE CAME TO ME last night, and I'm now thinking it's not that they stopped making good rom-coms, it's that we all just stopped watching them
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And if you're right you'll agree
November 18, 2025 at 8:05 AM
And if you're right you'll agree
As much as I would hate to lose Pete Alonso, watching him mashing homers over the green monster would be good for baseball.
November 18, 2025 at 1:45 PM
As much as I would hate to lose Pete Alonso, watching him mashing homers over the green monster would be good for baseball.
The only question left is whether SNL will be around long enough for Glen Powell to be inducted into the Five Timer's Club. Everything else is immaterial
November 17, 2025 at 2:24 PM
The only question left is whether SNL will be around long enough for Glen Powell to be inducted into the Five Timer's Club. Everything else is immaterial
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Remember the recent middle-of-the-night apartment building raid where children were dragged outside naked & zip-tied in the street while black & Latino residents were _sorted by race_ and piled into separate vans while their apartments were ransacked & robbed? That raid? So it resulted in 0 arrests.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem should resign and be criminally charged, according to critics who seized on a report revealing that zero people who were arrested in a high-profile raid were charged with a crime.
'Noem should resign over this': Fury over alleged DHS 'child kidnapping and trafficking'
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem should resign and be criminally charged, according to critics who seized on a report revealing that zero people who were arrested in a high-profile raid were charged with a crime.ProPublica recently reported on the DHS raid on an apartment building that was al...
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November 16, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Remember the recent middle-of-the-night apartment building raid where children were dragged outside naked & zip-tied in the street while black & Latino residents were _sorted by race_ and piled into separate vans while their apartments were ransacked & robbed? That raid? So it resulted in 0 arrests.
My answer to this is always something brief. Actors who can imbue just a word or two with deep meaning take my breath away.
Albert Brooks saying "Yes" at the end of A MOST VIOLENT YEAR
Heath Ledger saying "Hi" in THE DARK KNIGHT
Kevin Spacey saying "I don't remember" in LA CONFIDENTIAL
Albert Brooks saying "Yes" at the end of A MOST VIOLENT YEAR
Heath Ledger saying "Hi" in THE DARK KNIGHT
Kevin Spacey saying "I don't remember" in LA CONFIDENTIAL
what’s your favorite line delivery
November 15, 2025 at 9:57 PM
My answer to this is always something brief. Actors who can imbue just a word or two with deep meaning take my breath away.
Albert Brooks saying "Yes" at the end of A MOST VIOLENT YEAR
Heath Ledger saying "Hi" in THE DARK KNIGHT
Kevin Spacey saying "I don't remember" in LA CONFIDENTIAL
Albert Brooks saying "Yes" at the end of A MOST VIOLENT YEAR
Heath Ledger saying "Hi" in THE DARK KNIGHT
Kevin Spacey saying "I don't remember" in LA CONFIDENTIAL
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I know this is old man yells at cloud but there is something in the constitution about this
November 15, 2025 at 2:36 PM
I know this is old man yells at cloud but there is something in the constitution about this
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ICE is a domestic terrorist organization. They are the enemy.
ICE abducted a 57 year old US Citizen and Veteran along with 11 others, outside of the Portland ICE Detention Center.
11/11/25
11/11/25
November 15, 2025 at 12:17 PM
ICE is a domestic terrorist organization. They are the enemy.
I don't think as a community we have fully reckoned with what a deranged screen presence Vince Vaughn is
November 15, 2025 at 1:28 PM
I don't think as a community we have fully reckoned with what a deranged screen presence Vince Vaughn is
I've decided I am going to the first round of the WBC this year. Hotel is booked for Miami, March 5-9. Let's goooooo.
November 14, 2025 at 7:52 PM
I've decided I am going to the first round of the WBC this year. Hotel is booked for Miami, March 5-9. Let's goooooo.
I always try to sit in an exit row on the plane so when they ask if I’m willing to assist in a state of emergency, I can respond, “Assist? No. I’ll save everyone on this goddamn plane all by myself.”
November 14, 2025 at 6:21 PM
I always try to sit in an exit row on the plane so when they ask if I’m willing to assist in a state of emergency, I can respond, “Assist? No. I’ll save everyone on this goddamn plane all by myself.”
I think the new WUTHERING HEIGHTS movie looks good, and I hope it makes a billion dollars.
November 13, 2025 at 9:40 PM
I think the new WUTHERING HEIGHTS movie looks good, and I hope it makes a billion dollars.
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Re: Epstein’s emails
November 13, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Re: Epstein’s emails
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maybe this was the real Y2K disaster all along
Sometimes you run across an old quote that stops you cold. From a Jayson Stark article in January 2000:
November 13, 2025 at 3:26 PM
maybe this was the real Y2K disaster all along
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As a former member of NYT’s finance team & the co-author of this story exposing the relationship between Epstein & Bill Gates as well as one on Epstein & JPMorgan, I am really frustrated to see people claiming that NYT sat on publishable info about Trump and Epstein 🧵 www.nytimes.com/2019/10/12/b...
Bill Gates Met With Jeffrey Epstein Many Times, Despite His Past (Published 2019)
www.nytimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:32 PM
As a former member of NYT’s finance team & the co-author of this story exposing the relationship between Epstein & Bill Gates as well as one on Epstein & JPMorgan, I am really frustrated to see people claiming that NYT sat on publishable info about Trump and Epstein 🧵 www.nytimes.com/2019/10/12/b...
The difference between being rich and poor is whether your phone screen is cracked.
November 12, 2025 at 4:28 PM
The difference between being rich and poor is whether your phone screen is cracked.
This looks weird and not very good, but I'd still rather this than a boilerplate Neil Diamond biopic.
OK, so like: what is happening here. Why did—why is this. Who made the decision to. Where did the idea.
somebody apparently hasn't seen the Song Sun Blue trailer
November 12, 2025 at 4:24 PM
This looks weird and not very good, but I'd still rather this than a boilerplate Neil Diamond biopic.
I generally oppose the use for creative work, but I do use it for cover letters and my resume, and one time I used it for a song lyric I was really struggling with.
It's a scourge on all creative industries, and if you use it once in a while, it doesn't make you an asshole. Both things are true.
It's a scourge on all creative industries, and if you use it once in a while, it doesn't make you an asshole. Both things are true.
Reminder: If you use generative AI for *any of your writing tasks* you are a Slopper not a writer and should be ashamed of yourself. The end.
November 12, 2025 at 3:37 PM
I generally oppose the use for creative work, but I do use it for cover letters and my resume, and one time I used it for a song lyric I was really struggling with.
It's a scourge on all creative industries, and if you use it once in a while, it doesn't make you an asshole. Both things are true.
It's a scourge on all creative industries, and if you use it once in a while, it doesn't make you an asshole. Both things are true.
Movies are weird. Sometimes you wake up at 5am in a Hampton Inn and throw on I LOVE YOU, MAN on your phone to try to fall back asleep, and you end up crying over your failed marriage harder than you ever have
November 11, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Movies are weird. Sometimes you wake up at 5am in a Hampton Inn and throw on I LOVE YOU, MAN on your phone to try to fall back asleep, and you end up crying over your failed marriage harder than you ever have
It's a tragedy that we have no choice but to vote for Democrats. They are the biggest bunch of ineffectual losers I've ever seen. And I'm a lifelong Mets fan.
November 10, 2025 at 3:15 PM
It's a tragedy that we have no choice but to vote for Democrats. They are the biggest bunch of ineffectual losers I've ever seen. And I'm a lifelong Mets fan.
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I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:
November 10, 2025 at 2:17 PM
I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:
Seeing Frankenstein's monster with that long brown hair had me wishing Daniel Day-Lewis had played him when he was younger and wondering what he would have done to prepare for it
November 10, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Seeing Frankenstein's monster with that long brown hair had me wishing Daniel Day-Lewis had played him when he was younger and wondering what he would have done to prepare for it
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i had a sandwich thrown at me but the jury said it wasn't deadly. i should have told them my wife made it!
November 6, 2025 at 8:05 PM
i had a sandwich thrown at me but the jury said it wasn't deadly. i should have told them my wife made it!