Brice Ezell
@briceezell.bsky.social
Writer, critic (@PopMatters), teacher. ATL.
PhD in English, University of Texas.
Modern drama, theatre, and philosophy.
Writing a book on Tom Stoppard.
Also a denizen of debate-land.
https://boxd.it/1rEO5
PhD in English, University of Texas.
Modern drama, theatre, and philosophy.
Writing a book on Tom Stoppard.
Also a denizen of debate-land.
https://boxd.it/1rEO5
I get why studios think they can put out slop in the theatres when this is the kind of box office return you can get from a movie whose only reviews I’ve read are “this is one of the worst things ever made”
November 26, 2025 at 4:06 AM
I get why studios think they can put out slop in the theatres when this is the kind of box office return you can get from a movie whose only reviews I’ve read are “this is one of the worst things ever made”
Ok, maybe there is such a thing as take addiction
November 25, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Ok, maybe there is such a thing as take addiction
My one indulgence in this year’s B&N Criterion sale, a masterpiece of our time.
November 25, 2025 at 1:30 AM
My one indulgence in this year’s B&N Criterion sale, a masterpiece of our time.
Color theory ppl: my favorite color in the world is the way these kind of streetlamps look when they hit water. Anyone got a name for the hue? (EP cover by my favorite band as example)
November 16, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Color theory ppl: my favorite color in the world is the way these kind of streetlamps look when they hit water. Anyone got a name for the hue? (EP cover by my favorite band as example)
Increasingly, I feel like a lot of Great Books crowd in the US feels like Father Lacroix from Bolano's BY NIGHT IN CHILE, who ine one memorable passage spends the entire Pinochet coup reading Thucydides and Aristotle, and then at the end of the coup says:
November 15, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Increasingly, I feel like a lot of Great Books crowd in the US feels like Father Lacroix from Bolano's BY NIGHT IN CHILE, who ine one memorable passage spends the entire Pinochet coup reading Thucydides and Aristotle, and then at the end of the coup says:
Been following Frey's writing since the fracas at the U of Tulsa's Honors College (where Frey was sacked, despite doing incredible work there), and I gotta say: if this is the genuine belief of the Great Books crowd, they really gotta start getting anticapitalist. baylorlariat.com/2025/11/11/d...
November 15, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Been following Frey's writing since the fracas at the U of Tulsa's Honors College (where Frey was sacked, despite doing incredible work there), and I gotta say: if this is the genuine belief of the Great Books crowd, they really gotta start getting anticapitalist. baylorlariat.com/2025/11/11/d...
A superb, analytically rigorous review of another one of these books that tries to be “trad” feminist, which, as it turns out, says little substantively at best and at worst provides cover for more insidious thinking. www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/1...
November 13, 2025 at 5:58 PM
A superb, analytically rigorous review of another one of these books that tries to be “trad” feminist, which, as it turns out, says little substantively at best and at worst provides cover for more insidious thinking. www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/1...
Medievalists will be pleased to know that Atlanta Vintage Books has Greenblatt’s THE SWERVE filed under fiction.
November 9, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Medievalists will be pleased to know that Atlanta Vintage Books has Greenblatt’s THE SWERVE filed under fiction.
As a film in its own right, undeniably stunning and emotionally powerful. As an adaptation: kind of a failure. The pros undeniably outweigh the cons, but part of me wonders if there’s an unadaptability to Denis Johnson’s novella.
November 9, 2025 at 2:09 AM
As a film in its own right, undeniably stunning and emotionally powerful. As an adaptation: kind of a failure. The pros undeniably outweigh the cons, but part of me wonders if there’s an unadaptability to Denis Johnson’s novella.
This excellent line by @hamrahrama.bsky.social about a film I didn't like encapsulates in part what I, a guy who perhaps masochistically got a PhD in English on this kind of dramatic literature, love about Yorgos in the last decade. KINDS OF KINDNESS is straight up theatre of the absurd.
November 3, 2025 at 4:32 AM
This excellent line by @hamrahrama.bsky.social about a film I didn't like encapsulates in part what I, a guy who perhaps masochistically got a PhD in English on this kind of dramatic literature, love about Yorgos in the last decade. KINDS OF KINDNESS is straight up theatre of the absurd.
This is, for my money, the best run of movies by a living director at the moment.
November 3, 2025 at 4:30 AM
This is, for my money, the best run of movies by a living director at the moment.
"It's RIDICULOUS and SOCIALISM to ask that the GOVERNMENT get involved in health care... unless I need it pwetty please!"
November 3, 2025 at 1:36 AM
"It's RIDICULOUS and SOCIALISM to ask that the GOVERNMENT get involved in health care... unless I need it pwetty please!"
It’s Warren Zevon time on Wheel
October 29, 2025 at 11:08 PM
It’s Warren Zevon time on Wheel
I see The Daily Wire is trying to corner the market on "American 'Catholics' who are actually Protestants and just use 'trad' Catholic optics to legitimize their own beliefs"
October 29, 2025 at 9:06 PM
I see The Daily Wire is trying to corner the market on "American 'Catholics' who are actually Protestants and just use 'trad' Catholic optics to legitimize their own beliefs"
This is a new one for the scam text playbook: “invite your mark to become the protagonist of a gothic novel”
October 27, 2025 at 8:34 PM
This is a new one for the scam text playbook: “invite your mark to become the protagonist of a gothic novel”
Here’s my PTA rank now that I’ve seen all of his movies (PUNCH-DRUNK my one missing piece). 4-6 a logjam that could change at any time.
October 26, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Here’s my PTA rank now that I’ve seen all of his movies (PUNCH-DRUNK my one missing piece). 4-6 a logjam that could change at any time.
These guys’ brand of noodle prog wore on me after COMA ECLIPTIC (PARALLAX II being the fly in the ointment moment for me), but at times, they really do still Got It
October 14, 2025 at 9:47 PM
These guys’ brand of noodle prog wore on me after COMA ECLIPTIC (PARALLAX II being the fly in the ointment moment for me), but at times, they really do still Got It
I am excited to see the film adaptation of Denis Johnson's TRAIN DREAMS but, not gonna lie, having a hard time imagining how the film will adapt the final paragraph, my favorite in all of fiction.
October 2, 2025 at 3:31 AM
I am excited to see the film adaptation of Denis Johnson's TRAIN DREAMS but, not gonna lie, having a hard time imagining how the film will adapt the final paragraph, my favorite in all of fiction.
Watching the Democrats once again talk about needing to sell out core social values, I’m reminded of this amazing moment from the E1 Joe Biden saga. “you’ve performed liminal spaces in bodies, jack”
October 1, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Watching the Democrats once again talk about needing to sell out core social values, I’m reminded of this amazing moment from the E1 Joe Biden saga. “you’ve performed liminal spaces in bodies, jack”
And here's some of his California/Central Valley photography, the best of its kind.
September 27, 2025 at 1:27 PM
And here's some of his California/Central Valley photography, the best of its kind.
He was one of the people who made the short-lived MTV News writing vertical (the one prematurely killed by the “pivot to video) a must-read. This hilarious piece rebuts the “millennials and avocado toast” gripe from the older generations. web.archive.org/web/20190219...
September 27, 2025 at 12:51 PM
He was one of the people who made the short-lived MTV News writing vertical (the one prematurely killed by the “pivot to video) a must-read. This hilarious piece rebuts the “millennials and avocado toast” gripe from the older generations. web.archive.org/web/20190219...
“We woke up one morning, and fell a little further down. For sure it’s the valley of death.”
September 25, 2025 at 12:41 AM
“We woke up one morning, and fell a little further down. For sure it’s the valley of death.”
I already had good reason to suspect the guy that wrote the Cormac McCarthy Vanity Fair piece had suspect literary taste and talent, but seeing this.. yeah. I didn't even like INFINITE JEST but, c'mon man
September 18, 2025 at 2:27 AM
I already had good reason to suspect the guy that wrote the Cormac McCarthy Vanity Fair piece had suspect literary taste and talent, but seeing this.. yeah. I didn't even like INFINITE JEST but, c'mon man
The hippo speaks the truth.
September 12, 2025 at 4:24 PM
The hippo speaks the truth.
Talked a little Prefab Sprout with @jessehawken.bsky.social today, and was reminded of the delightful little tribute show I saw at the HiFi in NYC back in 2016, with the likes of Sondre Lerche and Skylar Spence contributing. Here's the setlist from the evening.
September 9, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Talked a little Prefab Sprout with @jessehawken.bsky.social today, and was reminded of the delightful little tribute show I saw at the HiFi in NYC back in 2016, with the likes of Sondre Lerche and Skylar Spence contributing. Here's the setlist from the evening.