John Jurgensen

@thewatchpod ...plus a nice shoutout to this story wsj.com/arts-culture/t…

The Agency, the new adaptation of The Bureau, comes under @thewatchpod surveillance w discussion of Martian vs Malotru, that Joy Division reference, badass doctors without borders... theringer.com/podcasts/the-w…

“As counter programming to a world on fire, we believe a wide swath of the country is ready to revel in the brilliance of June Squibb." wsj.com/lifestyle/june…

Hulu's Laughing Now, that is, which makes more sense and signals some direct competition via tagline with Netflix Is a Joke

As tipped in my Netflix story, Hulu is going in on stand-up comedy. As Jim Gaffigan just said at Disney upfront "They’re not doing it half ass, they’re doing it full ass." Gaffigan is 1st up (Nov. 22) in a series of monthly specials under the banner Laughing Now

Behind the mega #NetflixIsAJokeFest that gave us a live Brady roast and Mulaney talk show weirdness is one influential comedy nerd from Canada wsj.com/arts-culture/t…

This year's best picture winner grossed more at the domestic box office than the previous seven winners combined

You can't the see Oscar-nominated #GodzillaMinusOne in theaters or on-demand, so may I offer you 3 scenes from the film plus a breakdown by (writer, director and VFX supervisor) Takashi Yamazaki? wsj.com/arts-culture/f…

“I think history will be litigating that decision for a very long time.” - NAVALNY director Daniel Roher on the calculus behind Alexei Navalny’s return to Russia and the eventuality of imprisonment and death. wsj.com/world/russia/t…

“His standard of excellence is quiet but profound. You don’t want to let Hiro down.” - Keanu Reeves on his friend Hiroyuki Sanada, a star and (first-time) producer of the new #Shogun wsj.com/arts-culture/t…

went looking for a Westworld episode on Max before remembering the show's Westworld-like erasure from existence in the system

At those live shows there were screens showing the Netflix logo and ‘The Lunatic’s Manifesto,’ which everyone assumed was the title of the next special. Unclear when he decided to call it The Dreamer

I saw Chappelle 3 times in 2023 starting in Jan, and now I know which bits didn’t make it into his Netflix special The Dreamer (watching a Chuck Berry sex tape; visiting Floyd Mayweather’s strip club) and which bits did (a couple quoted in this story) wsj.com/arts-culture/t…

This story is cool as hell. For "Lovin On Me," Jack Harlow & Oz sampled Detroit artist Cadillac Dale's "Whatever (Bass Soliloquy)" from 1995, giving him his first charting song ever (not to mention #1), long after he'd stopped making music "This fell in my lap, man"

Peter Jackson skews more silly than somber in his music video for the Beatles' #NowAndThen youtube.com/watch?v=Opxhh9…

#YellowstoneTV scoop in here 👇 There's a new strike-adjusted premiere date for the show's return (November 2024) plus working titles for the next prequel ('1944') and the post-'Yellowstone' spinoff ('2024') wsj.com/arts-culture/t…

Now and Then is being being rolled out as something fresh yet final: 'the last Beatles song' wsj.com/arts-culture/m…

@oh_anderson @WSJMag Lovely shots!

This week in @WSJMag with interview by @johnjurg

The start of our new video series @WSJMag: The Job Interview!!! I asked Martin Scorsese about his first jobs and he told me about the camera skill he still hasn’t mastered :))) youtube.com/watch?v=56ZTVN…