I'd love to try this, but I don't have an unhingable python jaw
The Wall Street JournalFrom New Jersey’s double-decker sloppy joe to Ohio’s Johnny Marzetti casserole, our food columnist got a lesson about your favorite regional dishes.
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Matt Zoller Seitz
Профиль VivelyAuthor, filmmaker, book dealer. New York and Dallas. Bookstore: mzs.press. RogerEbert.com editor-at-large. Next book: Jack Nicholson: Leading Man
I loved this guy. What a voice! What presence! What comic timing! Even if he hadn't been taller than a mighty oak tree, I think he still would have hit the big time.
TCMFanaticsTed Cassidy (July 31, 1932 - January 16, 1979) as Lurch on The Addams Family.
Yo, Adrian! We did it!
Matt Zoller SeitzIf you enjoyed this thread, consider pre-ordering The Ring Cycle, a book-length conversation between myself and @odienator.bsky.social that discusses every Rocky and Creed movie and constructs a fifty-year history of race, class, and masculinity in the United States. mzs.press/PRE-ORDER-SI...
Writers, stop using Gen AI products. In addition to the many other reasons it sucks (tech based on theft, tool of fascism, makes your brain soft) if you are found out, companies that might've wanted to republish you internationally, adapt for film/TV, etc., will label you a lawsuit risk & walk away.
Lincoln MichelMore info: "The problem: publishers and movie companies may not be able to register copyright and come away with a clear title chain if there are certain AI elements in the mix. That’s because AI-aided copy is an amalgamation of many other copyrighted works." deadline.com/2026/07/ai-q...
There are lots of barely-promoted and/or undistributed domestic and foreign films out there that are just as worthy of attention as the ones that win awards at big festivals, get a distro deal & are widely covered. What sites or critics specialize in such movies? I want to expand my field of vision.
The Gas Station Attendant is a sweet biography of Shantha Murthy, an Indian-American who grew up homeless on the streets of Bangalore and settled in Houston. His daughter Karla Murthy made it. On the PBS series POV Aug 3. Link to my @ebertvoices.bsky.social review below. www.pbs.org/pov/films/th...
The Gas Station Attendant - POVA daughter reflects on her father’s journey from the streets of India to America.www.pbs.orgMatt Zoller Seitz"Any adult viewer who has observed their own relationship to a parent evolving over time will relate to this movie." I reviewed The Gas Station Attendant, a short and sweet portrait of an immigrant from Bangalore, told by his daughter, a filmmaker. www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-...
Every relationship Trump has is the scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark where Indy's guide says, "Throw me the idol, I throw you the whip."
Human Rights Index 💙The EU and Andrew Tate now have something in common: they both thought Trump was on their side. Great minds think alike. 😂 www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ju...
"Any adult viewer who has observed their own relationship to a parent evolving over time will relate to this movie." I reviewed The Gas Station Attendant, a short and sweet portrait of an immigrant from Bangalore, told by his daughter, a filmmaker. www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-...
The Gas Station Attendant movie reviewThe moving story of an Indian man who emigrated to the United States and settled in Houston, as told by his filmmaker daughter.www.rogerebert.comWell, of course they are. They're expecting the GOP to get steamrolled.
Bud KennedyTarrant County Commissioners are considering severely cutting the number of Election Day voting locations nearly in half for the fall election. See maps here www.star-telegram.com/news/politic...
Media organizations, stop illustrating stories about the most horrible man alive with pictures that suggest Abraham Lincoln contemplating the future of the Union
The Washington PostPublicly and privately, President Trump has been musing about aging and fate after his friend Lindsey Graham’s sudden death. Trump is scheduled to deliver a eulogy for the South Carolina Republican today at Washington National Cathedral.
Folks, there's a chance that my home state might be liberated from the American Taliban
Greg PakTexas hasn't had a Democratic governor since the great Ann Richards (whom I worked for in 1990/1991)! If you care about Texas, please consider donating to @ginafortexas.bsky.social. You could be part of the greatest moment in Texas political history in a generation. ginafortexas.com
At some point, some other country is going to treat us the way Atticus Finch treated that rabid dog
Eileen Clancy 🧿Ameaka Fatima Nkempu, a Johns Hopkins University researcher in public health, was detained by ICE while boarding a domestic flight. She says she is Cameroonian in a Medium article that she authored. As of Thursday morning, the ICE Online Detainee Locator did not list where she was being held.