@mzspress now has signed editions of film critic Melissa Anderson's paperback anthology The Hunger: Film Writing 2012-2014, gathering work from The Village Voice, 4Columns, Artforum and other cultural journals. ONLY 10 COPIES IN STOCK. Link: mzs.press/History-&-Cr...

At the risk of sounding like a dad: put a scarf on, kiddo

You can demolish the Kennedy Centre for the Arts and name it after your favourite demagogue. You can flood social media with AI “art” slop and declare artists are finished. But artists are resilient and people need authentic, human created cultural moments. Only real artists can do that.

I downloaded scans of every Rolling Stone issue published between its inception in 1967 and the end of 2007 Which means I can FINALLY share the greatest celebrity profile I've ever read: Jod Kaftan's "The Oddfather," a look at late-stage Marlon Brando that isn't available online Join me! 🧵

I'm hardly the first person to note this, but it's enormously instructive that our President and his followers saw the message "THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE" and understood it, correctly, as an attack on them

The Sermon on the Mount, by Beryl Lewis, before 1965, 📸 by @ScottStrazzante

"During In Living Color’s first season, a marketing impresario approached Fox with an idea that would stick it to CBS, the NFL rights holder and Super Bowl carrier that Murdoch had in his sights: a special episode of In Living Color that would air opposite the Super Bowl intermission."

I rarely do this, but I’m hoping I maybe have enough of a following here that someone can help: I need to get in contact with Donkey Kong. It’s urgent

“Oh Bad Bunny! You’re so wuuuuvewyyyy!” “Sí, lo sé, no puedo evitarlo!” “Oh Bad Bunny, BE MY WUUUUUUUUUV!”

David Fincher make a movie that doesn't cost $200 million challenge

Fidelio

Soon we’ll be watering the crops with Brawndo. It has electrolytes. That’s what plants crave.

Bring on the asteroid

The last true Hollywood sex symbol.

My memoir will be titled Missing Dan Hedaya

2/7/51: Robert Bresson's Diary of a Country Priest Huge infl on Schrader: www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so... More: @noelvera.bsky.social: www.sensesofcinema.com/2007/spotlig... @jhoberman.bsky.social: www.villagevoice.com/keeping-the-... @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social: www.rogerebert.com/features/emp...

"The Alabama Reflector is an independent nonprofit website covering politics and policy in our state. We look at the problems affecting Alabamians, and search for solutions." I've spent maybe a week in Alabama, tops, but I subscribed to the Reflector's Bluesky feed for links to excellent reporting.

Real journalists here

Just saw a new "book" allegedly chronicling the history of goth and deathrock by one mister "Nick Razer." Heads up: it is AI slop, as are all his books, many of which are super sus. His press quotes from @thequietus.com and NME are fake. Don't fall prey this this edgelord stupidity.

Catherine O’Hara didn’t steal scenes she just showed up and ownership automatically defaulted to her

"Job listings rarely explain what the work actually involves. 'People are hired under ambiguous labels, but only after contracts are signed and training begins do they realise what the actual work is.'"

Santa Ana, California

sometimes I feel like academic jargon is like handing a gun to a toddler

Job offer!! I’m helping a PBS series look for a social media manager/content creator for an upcoming promotional campaign. The start date is ASAP, and a project timeline that currently goes to July. This is for a series on American Muslim history, so candidates with cultural familiarity preferred!

How could they let a black actor play a woman…well…who never existed in history? In a movie where a bunch of other people who didn’t exist in real life fight a giant cyclops that never existed? It’s outrageous I tell you

This is like when law-enforcement organizations got pissy because Quentin Tarantino supported Black Lives Matter, and swore they were gonna never watch another Quentin Tarantino film. Whatever, Jimmy.

The joke is on you, lady. We already put feature film titles in quotes!

No Podcast?

I hope there's some way to decisively identify every single cowardly, sadistic perpetrator of these atrocities and indict them for anything and everything they could be indicted for

Sorry that I gatekept you by drawing in the back of math class before you were born. Sorry the books I wrote got scanned into a big computer without any permission sought or compensation given. Sorry that you'll never know what it feels like to create because you became addicted to a dopamine genie.

The fifth alien movie should've picked up where the fourth one left off, with Ripley and Call arriving on earth, then shown them going on to become celebrities, appearing on talk shows and endorsing products, leveraging all that that into a bank loan, and opening a buffet chain called Gutbursters

Nature is healing

glad mzs posted this: bsky.app/profile/matt... + clear inspiration from 70s films, Dog Day Afternoon et al, without feeling like a pastiche + great acting all around. some very funny moments. - I'm not a huge GvS fan, I don't think all the freeze frames really worked

I saw the ballet the other night and thought a lot about how one of the first things we did was move our bodies for each other, before the idea of training or expertise existed, just to make each other feel. You can’t “gatekeep” that and you certainly can’t capture it with a stolen algorithm.

pivoting to right-wingdom, where some billionaire will be your benefactor no matter how mediocre you are, is a time tested career move for the washed-up

"Powerful sociopaths mistake their self-regard and the flattery of bootlickers for proof that the world revolves around them, and mangle reality to fit their delusions. Life flows on, and in time they turn to dust." This movie is set in Iraq in the 90s, actually. www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-...

At MZS.press, we always put free goodies in with our orders, like small popcorn boxes, lollipops, and whistles, which are good for, you know, whistling Cc @mzspress.bsky.social

If the skiing thing doesn't work out as a career, he should head straight to Marvel and get work as a letterer

Iraq's entry for the international film Oscar is the story of two kids living their daily lives under the shadow of Saddam Hussein months before 1991 Gulf War. Feels like an Iranian movie from the 90s. Many neorealist touches, including a nonprofessional cast. www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-...

I don't understand why anybody would want to be friends with somebody like Jeffrey Epstein. I guess you have to be rich to understand it.

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Classic

Pour one out for every professional political pundit, writer, consultant whatever that has spent the last decade trying to pretend that the Trump phenomenon was about trade or opiates and not a big chunk of white america losing its mind over having a black president bsky.app/profile/kyle...

Eagerly awaiting the inevitable period piece about the United States during Trump's reign of terror, focusing on the fracturing of Jack Black and Kyle Gass's relationship. The theme song, already written, will be performed in a minor key by a mournful children's choir. m.youtube.com/watch?v=yq_X...

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New issue of @southwestreview.bsky.social is a stunner. It features a Needle Drops column where @meganabbott.bsky.social writes about Enya’s “Marble Halls” in THE AGE OF INNOCENCE, @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social on PLACES IN THE HEART, & much more. 6 bucks a copy. southwestreview.com/volume-110-n...

They're cooked

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@mzspress now has signed editions of film critic Melissa Anderson's paperback anthology The Hunger: Film Writing 2012-2014, gathering work from The Village Voice, 4Columns, Artforum and other cultural journals. ONLY 10 COPIES IN STOCK. Link: mzs.press/History-&-Cr...

”You liked this $20 until you learned it was counterfeit!” they chirp, confident that they have won the argument