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Matt Zoller Seitz
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Author, filmmaker, book dealer. Bookstore: mzs.press. RogerEbert.com editor-at-large. New York Magazine writer.
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Writer-painter Josh Hickman, my friend since high school, wrote a powerful book about being his mother's caretaker during her decline from dementia. Reading it healed me after going through a similar experience. I recommend it to all caregivers. We carry it signed by Josh. mzs.press/SIGNED-Forge...
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What struck me watching it is how TWBA is kind of a Platonic dialogue and KB/KB2 on their own are more a series of vignettes. Which one you prefer depends on what you want out of a film.
December 5, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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in the movies this is the screensaver on the computers at the world’s most evil company
December 5, 2025 at 7:03 PM
The very last of the ridiculously cute popcorn bag purses are on sale at the store! Act now, if you wanna grab one before (1) we are too deep into the holidays and (2) other people snap them up first....
Ms Claus sent me a little gift to give you today!
So I have added 3 Black popcorn purses and 5 red ones!
These are the last of stock created. They supply is gone sadly. So get yours while you can @ mzs.press!

XOXO
Judith -
Ms Claus' sister from another mister
December 5, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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Sondheim nation rise up
December 5, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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Theater kids, it's time to get to the movie theater.
"You might’ve noticed that the verb tenses in this review are all over the place. That’s because it’s tricky to describe the architecture of a film that runs in the opposite direction from most." www.rogerebert.com/reviews/merr...
Merrily We Roll Along movie review (2025) | Roger Ebert
Magic happens.
www.rogerebert.com
December 5, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Excellent review; fascinating that Sondheim wrote his most energetic, youthful music while recovering from a severe heart attack.
December 5, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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“Only one work of cinema has ever managed to effectively recreate that uniquely Dickens magic, achieving it not so much through adaptation in the traditional sense as through the more precarious feat of transmutation.”
A Grand Yuletide Theory: The Muppet Christmas Carol is the Best Adaptation of A Christmas Carol
Only one movie has ever managed to recreate that uniquely Dickens magic, achieving it not so much through adaptation as through transmutation.
www.brightwalldarkroom.com
December 5, 2025 at 6:54 AM
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the new CBS/Paramount is clearly dominated by dim, right wing dudebros, who want to make lowest common denominator bait for other, dim, white, right wing dudebros
December 5, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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James Cameron walks to chalkboard and writes "Thou$ands of Beavers"
in the end, the future of cinema is Hundreds of Beavers
December 5, 2025 at 5:17 PM
"Whatever your feelings about Tarantino and his work, this is a tremendous visceral experience, with radiant colors, slate-somber black-and-white, and geysers of crimson blood." www.rogerebert.com/reviews/kill...
Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair movie review (2025) | Roger Ebert
This is a tremendous visceral experience, with radiant colors, slate-somber black-and-white, and geysers of crimson blood.
www.rogerebert.com
December 5, 2025 at 5:27 PM
"You might’ve noticed that the verb tenses in this review are all over the place. That’s because it’s tricky to describe the architecture of a film that runs in the opposite direction from most." www.rogerebert.com/reviews/merr...
Merrily We Roll Along movie review (2025) | Roger Ebert
Magic happens.
www.rogerebert.com
December 5, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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Anyone who uses the language of business when talking about government is, at this point, a dishonest looter and should be loudly and repeatedly mocked
December 5, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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Get a load of this. 😆
December 5, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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Would be an incredible turn of events if the EU saved Hollywood.
December 5, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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MF'er almost feels like a plant who was created to destroy joy and happiness.
December 5, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Congratulations, David Zaslav, on being the most destructive force in US entertainment in the entire history of show business
December 5, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Fuuuuuuuuuuck
Netflix has agreed to buy Warner Bros. in a deal worth $82.7 billion, a deal that would unite two of the biggest libraries in film and animation and reshape the streaming and, potentially, theatrical landscapes.
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Netflix To Purchase Warner Bros. For $82.7 Billion
The acquisition positions Netflix to absorb a century of Warner Bros. film and animation history as industry consolidation accelerates.
www.cartoonbrew.com
December 5, 2025 at 1:21 PM
AI what
Meta Platforms is planning cuts to the metaverse—an arena Mark Zuckerberg once called the future of the company—and will shift spending to AI wearables.
Meta Plans to Shift Spending Away From the Metaverse
Zuckerberg’s bet on immersive online worlds has lost the company more than $77 billion since 2020.
on.wsj.com
December 5, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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Huh. There were a lot of really great interviews in the HitFix YouTube channel. And some less great interviews! Plus all episodes of the ill-fated Firewall & Iceberg video show.

Don’t ever let anybody tell you the Internet is forever.
Great. Looks like all of the HitFix videos have been officially scrubbed from the internet. Thanks, @uproxx.bsky.social, you fucking scumbags. So good of you to buy our site simply to erase all of it as if it never existed. Glad I put all of that time and energy into the "pivot to video" era.
December 5, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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This from Indiewire is a good rundown of its (very limited) screenings until now www.indiewire.com/features/com...
Quentin Tarantino’s Best Movie Isn’t Streaming or on Physical Media, but You Can See It This Week in L.A.
The full-length Cannes cut of Tarantino's 'Kill Bill' may be his finest movie; it also isn't available on streaming or physical media.
www.indiewire.com
December 5, 2025 at 3:57 AM
The Kill Bill re-edit that's being released tomorrow has been framed for the media as a project nearly 20 years in the making. But I have this memory that it's already been released as one movie. Did I imagine this? Was it ever done officially? Or only in the form of internet-only fan re-cuts?
December 5, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Stunning. A paperback novel cover from the period in which the heroes found each other.
My official Brokeback Mountain poster was finally approved by the studios and will be released this Friday at www.codacurates.com/collections/...
December 5, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Would watch
Years (decades) ago, Writer’s Digest magazine, as one of their monthly challenges, asked for pitches for the worst possible musical adaptation. I proposed Pulp Fiction. All I remember was titling it Pulp! and suggesting a second act “Get the Gimp” ballet.
December 5, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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I've always said we had amazing customers!
But to see such a talented beauty beaming at a screening with something I curated is the best gift I could ever receive!
Thank you @akelacooper.bsky.social 💙🫂😇

I love our popcorn purses, too. I have both! 🍿👛
@mattzollerseitz.bsky.social I was at a screening tonight and I took my popcorn box purse where it just so happened they gave us complimentary popcorn!
December 4, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Behold:
Ms Claus sent me a little gift to give you today!
So I have added 3 Black popcorn purses and 5 red ones!
These are the last of stock created. They supply is gone sadly. So get yours while you can @ mzs.press!

XOXO
Judith -
Ms Claus' sister from another mister
December 5, 2025 at 2:20 AM