Simon Abrams
@simonsaybrams.bsky.social
Film Critic at Roger Ebert dot com, New York Times, New Yorker, Hollywood Reporter, Village Voice, The Wrap, Vanity Fair, and so on. Author of THE NORTHMAN: A CALL TO THE GODS (Insight Editions). Alt weekly kid. Let the monkey drive.
My style icon: Tatsuya Nakadai in the terrific 1975 Natsume Soseki adaptation I AM A CAT.
November 11, 2025 at 1:51 PM
My style icon: Tatsuya Nakadai in the terrific 1975 Natsume Soseki adaptation I AM A CAT.
Is that St Ann’s Warehouse in that one scene (Evans’s play)
November 11, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Is that St Ann’s Warehouse in that one scene (Evans’s play)
I took my dad to Japan Society on Halloween the year they showed THE FACE OF ANOTHER. It was sold out and we had no idea why (didn’t pay attention). Turns out Nakadai was doing a post screening Q&A. He owned the room, as usual; we were all star struck. I hoped we’d have another interview.
November 11, 2025 at 3:09 AM
I took my dad to Japan Society on Halloween the year they showed THE FACE OF ANOTHER. It was sold out and we had no idea why (didn’t pay attention). Turns out Nakadai was doing a post screening Q&A. He owned the room, as usual; we were all star struck. I hoped we’d have another interview.
Same. I see that there are February dates though, so maybe I'll take Jene...
November 10, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Same. I see that there are February dates though, so maybe I'll take Jene...
Have you tried showing some leg...?
November 10, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Have you tried showing some leg...?
IRL Todd Solondz character.
November 10, 2025 at 11:37 PM
IRL Todd Solondz character.
Also, I wasn't sad about missing the opera version of Kavalier and Clay until I read Geoffrey O'Brien's review. Now I'm sad.
November 10, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Also, I wasn't sad about missing the opera version of Kavalier and Clay until I read Geoffrey O'Brien's review. Now I'm sad.
Day 1 is almost done! Just returning the van to U-Haul!
November 10, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Day 1 is almost done! Just returning the van to U-Haul!
Reposted by Simon Abrams
a script from @indivisible.org! (I'm probably going to add how harmful this will be in Ossoff's reelection campaign, bc we'll be blaming the entire party when people's healthcare premiums are so high they can't afford insurance)
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indivisible.org
November 10, 2025 at 2:58 PM
a script from @indivisible.org! (I'm probably going to add how harmful this will be in Ossoff's reelection campaign, bc we'll be blaming the entire party when people's healthcare premiums are so high they can't afford insurance)