Candice Frederick

As I am back on the job hunt (and, in the meantime, the freelance work hunt), I'm dropping a thread of some of my proudest work here for consideration. Contact info and journalism portfolio are both linked in my bio. huffpost.com/entry/future-o…

Boots Riley: ‘Theft is not outside of capitalism, it’s what it was built on’ theguardian.com/film/2026/may/…

‘Debbie Downer’ Is Enjoying an Upswing nytimes.com/2026/05/24/sty…

@GlendonPalmer Looking forward to it

@ReelTalker A favorite

On my list to finally watch

Happy birthday, Bob Dylan

@EDouglasWW 👍🏽

@ReelTalker Oh, interesting.. I gotta check out more of these. Thanks!

The Interview Nicolas Cage Made Himself a Legend. Then He Had to Live With It. nytimes.com/2026/05/23/mag…

@EDouglasWW Yeah, I typically see it for a lot of their big interviews. At least once a week

@ReelTalker Really? I've never seen a "moving photo" on the NY Times site.

@EDouglasWW Looks like their standard style to me

@ReelTalker That moving picture is.... strange... no?

Midlife Crisis–ing in the End-times Older millennials now have less money and more problems than ever before. Basically, we’re in retrograde. thecut.com/article/older-…

@anchorless757 Hmm ok. Good to know.

@ReelTalker I really enjoyed the extra minutes added.

Peacock added Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair?!! Be right back.

Rwandan drama ‘Ben’Imana’ just made history at the #CannesFilmFestival after winning the Caméra D’Or for best first film. Read our interview with Marie-Clementine Dusabejambo, where she talks about directing Rwanda’s first Cannes title and how Haile Gerima and Lee Isaac Chung helped to launch her career deadline.com/2026/05/benima…

Artificial intelligence-generated content is everywhere these days, making it increasingly difficult to separate fact from fiction, particularly when it comes to breaking news. Here are some tips for distinguishing AI-generated content from reality. to.pbs.org/47FCvVP

When writer Amil Niazi was struggling to find a job in her early 20s, she truly believed that things would work themselves out. Now, as she scours job listings in her 30s, she writes: “I’m scared for the future in a way I have never really been.” For every complaint Niazi has heard from people in their 30s and 40s across industries and caregiving responsibilities, the resentment is the same: “We aren’t supposed to *still* be struggling, to still be wondering if we’ll have our job tomorrow or if we’ll find a job that pays the bills at all. We aren’t supposed to be begging anyone in charge to tell us the plan for when we’re all allegedly going to be replaced by AI.” Niazi writes about how midlife millennials are still spinning in circles after already having to grapple with the precarity of the early aughts — from 9/11 to the 2008 financial crash — and how they can keep going anyway: nymag.visitlink.me/4jYL8G

Happy 35th anniversary to Thelma and Louise and Backdraft

Happy birthday, Steve Lacy

@JoyfulRebelFilm enjoy!

@ReelTalker So good to know. Im planning on doing a double feature at the movie theater with my friends next Saturday to see this and 'Is God Is' back to back. Im hoping they both will still be at the theater we want to go to. Should be a LOT of fun

I always appreciate Boots Riley's anti-capitalism motif as well as his surrealism, including in I Love Boosters. As with some of his past work, though, it starts to run off the tracks. A fun watch, though. The cast is a riot.

Mira Nair Finds a New Audience as Mother of Zohran Mamdani nytimes.com/2026/05/21/wor…

@Reckless_Edit Oh interesting. I didn't care for Maddie's Secret

@ReelTalker If you write about it, I’ll def check it out! I’m thinking of putting Saccharine in dialogue with Maddie’s Secret

The misguided Saccharine is a far cry from director Natalie Erika James' excellent 2020 horror Relic. A shame.