Craig D. Lindsey
@unclecrizzle.bsky.social
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The places I write for:
@houstonchronicle.com @nashvillescene.bsky.social @chrondotcom.bsky.social @crooked-marquee.bsky.social @texasobserver.org @pastemagazine.bsky.social @avclub.com @vibemagazine.bsky.social @culturemaphou
@houstonchronicle.com @nashvillescene.bsky.social @chrondotcom.bsky.social @crooked-marquee.bsky.social @texasobserver.org @pastemagazine.bsky.social @avclub.com @vibemagazine.bsky.social @culturemaphou
Day 1: I still can’t get over how bizarre that whole movie was. www.nashvillescene.com/arts_culture...
‘Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning’ Feels Surprisingly Inert
The (alleged) last installment in the blockbuster Tom Cruise franchise opens wide this week
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December 2, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Day 1: I still can’t get over how bizarre that whole movie was. www.nashvillescene.com/arts_culture...
"We'll be showing you more of that photograph later in the program -- unless we hear from Charles or Michael."
Still one of my favorite Python sketches. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ULY...
Still one of my favorite Python sketches. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ULY...
Monty Python - Blackmail Video
YouTube video by Mark Taylor
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November 30, 2025 at 12:28 PM
"We'll be showing you more of that photograph later in the program -- unless we hear from Charles or Michael."
Still one of my favorite Python sketches. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ULY...
Still one of my favorite Python sketches. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ULY...
"BASIC INSTINCT needs bass like a coked-out heart..."
I love when @djnomi.bsky.social gets all giddy over depraved physical media. www.nashvillescene.com/arts_culture...
I love when @djnomi.bsky.social gets all giddy over depraved physical media. www.nashvillescene.com/arts_culture...
Let’s Get Physical: ‘Eephus,’ Russ Meyer and Much More
From Carson Lund’s baseball epic to a Meyer retrospectacle, here are some of the best recent physical-media releases and re-releases
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November 30, 2025 at 11:56 AM
"BASIC INSTINCT needs bass like a coked-out heart..."
I love when @djnomi.bsky.social gets all giddy over depraved physical media. www.nashvillescene.com/arts_culture...
I love when @djnomi.bsky.social gets all giddy over depraved physical media. www.nashvillescene.com/arts_culture...
I started to feel bad that my Letterboxd 2025 diary is a lot lower than my colleagues. Then, I remembered I don’t have a car and didn’t go to see shitty studio releases unless I absolutely had to.
This explains why I feel this year has been a great one for movies.
This explains why I feel this year has been a great one for movies.
November 30, 2025 at 5:54 AM
I started to feel bad that my Letterboxd 2025 diary is a lot lower than my colleagues. Then, I remembered I don’t have a car and didn’t go to see shitty studio releases unless I absolutely had to.
This explains why I feel this year has been a great one for movies.
This explains why I feel this year has been a great one for movies.
Reposted by Craig D. Lindsey
Black men age weird as well. We look about 13 until age 26. Then we look 40 around 40 for the nest 27 years. A few years as a old man and then dead.
November 30, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Black men age weird as well. We look about 13 until age 26. Then we look 40 around 40 for the nest 27 years. A few years as a old man and then dead.
I wrote this.
On this day in 2003, Miramax dropped the filthiest, funniest gift into theaters - following even more behind-the-scenes drama than usual. A look back at “Bad Santa”: crookedmarquee.com/harveys-hell...
Harvey's Hellhole: Bad Santa — Crooked Marquee
Twenty years ago, Miramax dropped the filthiest, funniest gift into theaters - following even more behind-the-scenes drama than usual.
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November 29, 2025 at 8:43 PM
I wrote this.
Post a book you love from the 80s. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky #bookchallenge #readingchallenge #readingcommunity #booktok #bookish #books
#BookSky #bookchallenge #readingchallenge #readingcommunity #booktok #bookish #books
November 29, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Post a book you love from the 80s. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky #bookchallenge #readingchallenge #readingcommunity #booktok #bookish #books
#BookSky #bookchallenge #readingchallenge #readingcommunity #booktok #bookish #books
Since SPARTACUS is playing The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston on Sunday… www.nashvillescene.com/arts_culture...
<I>Ben-Hur</i> got the Oscars, but Kubrick's <i>Spartacus</i> takes the gold for sword-and-sandal epics
After the release of the 1960 epic Spartacus, showing this weekend as part of The Belcourt's 100th anniversary salute to Universal Pictures, one thing was made perfectly clear in Hollywood:
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November 28, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Since SPARTACUS is playing The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston on Sunday… www.nashvillescene.com/arts_culture...
I wrote about ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST (playing at @belcourttheatre.bsky.social) for @nashvillescene.com. www.nashvillescene.com/criticspicks...
Critic's Pick — Restoration Roundup: 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest'
Nov. 30 & Dec. 3 at the Belcourt
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November 28, 2025 at 9:42 AM
I wrote about ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST (playing at @belcourttheatre.bsky.social) for @nashvillescene.com. www.nashvillescene.com/criticspicks...
Some weekend ish for @culturemap.bsky.social. houston.culturemap.com/news/enterta...
These are the 14 best things to do in Houston this Thanksgiving weekend
It’s Thanksgiving Day Weekend, which means that people all over will be coming together for tasty meals.
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November 28, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Some weekend ish for @culturemap.bsky.social. houston.culturemap.com/news/enterta...
“A film will speak politically whether its makers intend for it to or not, but storytellers shouldn’t be compelled to give neat, prescriptive messaging perfectly calibrated to the moral temperature of an audience.”
Finally. My big 2800 word essay about One Battle After Another and its black women characters is live. www.vulture.com/article/blac...
Black Actresses Are Carrying One Battle After Another
Teyana Taylor, Chase Infiniti, and Regina Hall propel the film’s most conflicted ideas, for better and worse.
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November 26, 2025 at 8:40 PM
“A film will speak politically whether its makers intend for it to or not, but storytellers shouldn’t be compelled to give neat, prescriptive messaging perfectly calibrated to the moral temperature of an audience.”
I talked to Uncle Dibbz for @culturemap.bsky.social. houston.culturemap.com/news/restaur...
Houston DJ-turned-TikTok star cooks up a cult following one recipe at a time
For the past month, Uncle Dibbz has been, shall we say, going ham on social media with the myriad videos of alternative Thanksgiving dishes. He’s dropped how-to clips for such recipes as Cajun-roasted...
houston.culturemap.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:48 AM
I talked to Uncle Dibbz for @culturemap.bsky.social. houston.culturemap.com/news/restaur...
“Share a 90s movie you think deserves more love”
Off the top of my head…
Off the top of my head…
November 25, 2025 at 5:54 AM
“Share a 90s movie you think deserves more love”
Off the top of my head…
Off the top of my head…
Random hot take: SPEAKERBOXX/THE LOVE BELOW is just a super-sized STANKONIA. (Still a masterpiece tho.)
November 25, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Random hot take: SPEAKERBOXX/THE LOVE BELOW is just a super-sized STANKONIA. (Still a masterpiece tho.)
I wrote about Houston record stores for @houstonchronicle.com. www.houstonchronicle.com/entertainmen...
7 record stores in the Houston area to celebrate Record Store Day
The next Record Store Day is coming up on Black Friday and these are some of the local retailers who are taking part.
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November 24, 2025 at 8:56 PM
I wrote about Houston record stores for @houstonchronicle.com. www.houstonchronicle.com/entertainmen...
Maturing is realizing this song is clearly about growing up poor, queer and Black — but no one in the ‘80s was ready for that conversation, so the general discourse just stayed at growing up poor. youtu.be/AIOAlaACuv4?...
Tracy Chapman - Fast Car (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by Tracy Chapman
youtu.be
November 24, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Maturing is realizing this song is clearly about growing up poor, queer and Black — but no one in the ‘80s was ready for that conversation, so the general discourse just stayed at growing up poor. youtu.be/AIOAlaACuv4?...
Reposted by Craig D. Lindsey
Apple TV: your one-stop shop for prestige TV shows that are extended metaphors for working for Apple
November 24, 2025 at 5:18 AM
Apple TV: your one-stop shop for prestige TV shows that are extended metaphors for working for Apple
And I’m one of them. linktr.ee/unclecrizzle
November 23, 2025 at 7:45 AM
And I’m one of them. linktr.ee/unclecrizzle
I wrote about 8 1/2 (playing at @belcourttheatre.bsky.social) for @nashvillescene.com. www.nashvillescene.com/criticspicks...
Critic's Pick — Restoration Roundup: '8½'
Nov. 21-23 at the Belcourt
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November 22, 2025 at 9:52 AM
I wrote about 8 1/2 (playing at @belcourttheatre.bsky.social) for @nashvillescene.com. www.nashvillescene.com/criticspicks...
Meanwhile, Radhika Jones is somewhere like
November 22, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Meanwhile, Radhika Jones is somewhere like
I wrote about THE WIZ’s soundtrack for @avclub.com. www.avclub.com/sounds-of-bl...
Quincy Jones was at his peak when he gave The Wiz its soul
The film that helped kill Blaxploitation, The Wiz was driven by the Oscar-nominated music of a man who transcended the genre.
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November 20, 2025 at 8:49 PM
I wrote about THE WIZ’s soundtrack for @avclub.com. www.avclub.com/sounds-of-bl...
BTW, I was turned down for a reporter job in my own town — AGAIN!
In other news, the Gummies-and-Dot’s Homestyle Pretzels Fund is up and running. PayPal.me/unclecrizzle
In other news, the Gummies-and-Dot’s Homestyle Pretzels Fund is up and running. PayPal.me/unclecrizzle
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November 20, 2025 at 8:39 PM
BTW, I was turned down for a reporter job in my own town — AGAIN!
In other news, the Gummies-and-Dot’s Homestyle Pretzels Fund is up and running. PayPal.me/unclecrizzle
In other news, the Gummies-and-Dot’s Homestyle Pretzels Fund is up and running. PayPal.me/unclecrizzle
Some weekend ish for @culturemap.bsky.social. houston.culturemap.com/news/enterta...
These are the 14 best things to do in Houston this weekend
A lot of theater kids will most likely be spending the weekend flocking to multiplexes to see Wicked: For Good, the big-screen conclusion to the Wicked saga (both Cactus Music and Sound Revolution wil...
houston.culturemap.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Some weekend ish for @culturemap.bsky.social. houston.culturemap.com/news/enterta...
Well, I heard this on the bus today:
“I’m not gay. I’m not queer. I’m not pansexual or asexual. I’m attracted to art.”
“I’m not gay. I’m not queer. I’m not pansexual or asexual. I’m attracted to art.”
November 20, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Well, I heard this on the bus today:
“I’m not gay. I’m not queer. I’m not pansexual or asexual. I’m attracted to art.”
“I’m not gay. I’m not queer. I’m not pansexual or asexual. I’m attracted to art.”