Bring on the asteroid

@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...

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!

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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

Only 10 copies on hand

@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

Remember, sneering works. It’s working now. That’s why the lowliest AI fan and the CEO of Microsoft are trying to get us to stop saying “slop.” AI art is supposed to be its flashy flagship and treating it as disposable rubbish (which it is) ruins everything

We got some wonderful stuff here-- and we're going to be adding some amazing vintage magazines later tonight!

Context: this speech is from SIR THOMAS MORE, a history written, as near as scholars can tell, in the early 1600s by 6 or 7 people including Dekker, Heywood, Chettle, Shakespeare, and Munday. It was never performed, because Jacobean England was a police state and it was banned by the censor.

And where the host can break out into Shakespeare right along with them. youtu.be/yz3beIwH-Co?...

I think this might be the last US talk show in existence where an actor can break out into Shakespeare and not a single person in the audience is surprised

Turned in my 500th article for @bloody-disgusting.com: It's a revisit to Trinity, South Carolina, in the Sam Raimi-produced and Shaun Cassidy-created horror TV series, AMERICAN GOTHIC (1995). Starred Lucas Black, Gary Cole, Paige Turco & Jake Weber. An underseen, great show.

Cheers and tears for the unexpected Catherine O'Hara tribute at the Westminster Dog Show in NYC. A Doberman Pinscher named Penny, from 🇨🇦 no less!, won Best In Show #CatherineOHara #WestmnsterDogShow #BestInShow www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/cathe...

Washington Post is shuttering its book section, part of the ongoing war against literacy & knowledge. We at Current Affairs want to pick up the slack by expanding book reviews. Writers: pitch us anytime! And if you subscribe/donate we'll use the funding to commission book coverage.

Real journalism that meets the moment

"The agency’s general counsel said the goal is to dramatically compress the timeline in which transportation regulations are produced. That should be possible, he said, because 'it shouldn’t take you more than 20 minutes to get a draft rule out of Gemini.'" www.propublica.org/article/trum...

I have The Gun. It’s a brilliant book and CJ is a great writer