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Matt Zoller Seitz
@mattzollerseitz.bsky.social
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Author, filmmaker, book dealer. Bookstore: mzs.press. RogerEbert.com editor-at-large. New York Magazine writer.
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Remember, Remember the 5th of November Sale is underway at MZS.press bookstore. Select more than $25 worth of books and/or merch and you a get FREE Guy Fawkes mask. Film & TV inventory: mzs.press/Film-&-TV-Co... Miyazaki section: mzs.press/Hayao-Miyaza... Merch: mzs.press/Merchandise-...
Cover page of MZS.Press, The Online Arts Bookstore of the Internet. The background image is black-and-white photo illustration depicting three Guy Fawkes masks. Text on the page says it was created by Matt Zoller Seitz and directed by Judith Carter. There is also a quote from author Haruki Murakami: "If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking."
November 6, 2025 at 5:55 AM
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Just in case anybody out there thinks the phenomenon of Republican politicians just making stuff up is a relatively recent development, here's a panel from an issue of Mad Magazine published 40 years ago, when Reagan was president:
From an issue of Mad Magazine circa 1984, a feature titled "Other Much-Needed Rules Named for Irksome People who inspired Them." Close-up of a panel explaining "THE REAGAN RULE," next to a caricature of President Ronald Reagan, with an ear of corn sprouting upward into the frame. The rule reads "High level members of the US government are PROHIBITED from simply " 'making up' facts to support their positions." Because of the weird way the OP cropped this image, there's also a fragment of actor John Houseman's face in the lower right hand corner.
October 25, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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Artist Mark Bryan released this painting in January, 2017, shortly before Trump's first inauguration. I think it sums up the overall mood of this period of US history. More of his art can be found on his personal website, here: artofmarkbryan.com/shop/
A painting of a gigantic pink Donald Trump octopus with a comb-over/toupee, regarding himself in a hand mirror held in one tentacle. Another tentacle holds an iPhone that's on Twitter. Yet another holds three nuclear missiles. Two others tentacles are curled around Congress and the Supreme Court. Marching into the White House in a double file line are various sinister figures, including a Boss Tweed era fat cat businessman with a pig nose and a top hat; several creepy clowns; a hooded Klansman; a man with a briefcase who has a sack of money for a head; and a Russian Cossack from 100+ years ago. Ominous clouds are building frame left above octopus Trump's head, encroaching on the right side of the image, where the sky once was blue, but won't be for very much longer.
October 23, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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A meme format joke, featuring Ice T as his hardboiled detective character on Law & Order: SVU. He's squinting and staring at his partner (off-screen) and saying: "Street name is Star Spangled Flakes. Kids try it at parties, next thing they know they're inside a giant pipe organ gettin' paid to deputize lederhosen."
October 18, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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I was married, but I'm not married anymore. Women don't like the vehicle . static.wikia.nocookie.net/wackyraces/i...
The main machine from the American 1970s Saturday morning cartoon Wacky Racers: a car that looks like a cross between a rocket ship and a steam punk Batmobile, with jet engines and back, and a yellow fin on top and on the hood.
October 17, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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My next book will be a biography of Jack Nicholson, written as an epic story of the transformation of the movie industry and modern masculinity from the 1950s to the present, with Nicholson as the main character. The title: Leading Man.
New York Times bestselling author and film & TV critic at New York Magazine Matt Zoller Seitz's LEADING MAN, the definitive biography of Jack Nicholson, casting Nicholson as the complex main character in an era of American culture spanning six decades, while shining a light on the actor’s crucial role in shaping modern masculinity, both on and off the screen, based on new interviews and original reporting, to Amar Deol at Grand Central, in an exclusive submission, by Ethan Bassoff at WME.
October 9, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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Post a fictional comedian who definitely would accept an invitation to the Riyadh Comedy Festival.
From The Sopranos, an image of a man standing onstage behind a microphone wearing a grey and white plaid sport coat, a white dress shirt with a wide and very ugly tie, and reddish-brown slacks. He his holding both arms out, palms up. He has an expression that mixes annoyance and impatience. One of his eyebrows is arched.
September 30, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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I would buy this if it were an actual hat
A red cap that reads FUCK YOU, and directly under that, MAKE ME
September 27, 2025 at 4:37 AM
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We're coming up on the 10th anniversary of this Tweet. I feel like I should buy it a birthday cake.
Tweet by Matt Zoller Seitz from January 28, 2016: "If Trump becomes president it will be because right up until the end, the media treated him as a great story rather than a potential Hitler."
September 18, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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September 10, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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What's the weirdest, most specific impression you do?

Mine is John C Reilly
September 10, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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I deleted this because I didn't wanna spend the next two days replying to people, but I wanted to be sure to preserve it for posterity
Screenshot of a series of tweets. MZS: It's finally Wednesday. Monday and Tuesday seemed like they took 10 days caemeron: I regret to inform you that it is Tuesday MZS: oh dear god
September 9, 2025 at 6:16 AM
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From left to right: Lindsey Wagner, Boston drummer Sib Hashian, Lee Majors
Set photo from the 1970s TV series the $6 million man. From left to right: Lindsay Wagner a.k.a. the Bionic Woman, Andre, the giant in costume as Bionic Bigfoot Lee Majors a.k.a. the Bionic Man
September 8, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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Behold the BAMP

[big-ass MF'ing pizza]
A big ass motherfucking pizza, with lots of cheese and pepperoni on it, sitting on top of an aluminum foil-lined cutting board, in somebody's kitchen.
September 4, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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ANNOUNCEMENT AT 2 PM
Still frame from the film The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951). Gort (left), a very tall silver robot with no face, standing on the surface of a flying saucer, next to Klaatu, the interplanetary visitor that he guards. Klaatu is wearing a full body spacesuit with a visor slit and raising his right hand in salutation. Gort is played by Lock Martin and Klaatu by Michael Rennie, respectively.
September 2, 2025 at 6:52 AM
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What kind of people are these, Henry!
Still frame from the Martin Scorsese gangster film Goodfellas: Joe Pesci as mobster Tommy DeVito, wearing a black shirt, white tie, gray sports coat and black fedora, points a revolver at the viewer
August 29, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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One of the really cool wildcard picks is In the Electric Mist, the Bertrand Tavernier film based on the James Lee Burke novel. It is only been screened theatrically in the US twice. www.rogerebert.com/mzs/when-the...
Tommy Lee Jones and James Gammon in “In the Electric Mist” (2009), a murder mystery and consideration of race relations in Louisiana. Jones, at left, is listening to gammon, playing a witness to a crime. Photo courtesy of The Museum of Modern Art, New York City.)
August 27, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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Share some of the best eyes in movies
Actress Eva Green, with pale blue eyes, pale,pink lipstick, dark hair, and a dark turtleneck, holding one finger over her mouth, as if shushing somebody
August 25, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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It's available! There are six options here, if you include Roku
Screenshot of a Google search on the independent film "a bread, factory, part one" showing six platforms where it is available to watch: Roku, Apple TV, Philo, YouTube TV, YouTube Primetime subscription, Amazon Prime Video
August 22, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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I've got no problem with this, as long as they don't light it on fire:
Bluesky notification reads "Effigy followed you"
August 17, 2025 at 4:40 AM
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We got this in L AND XL!
(That's a hard sell!)
Come get it now OR never!
(Do whatever!)

mzs.press/Schoolhouse-...
A black T-shirt with a drawing of the conductor from the old Schoolhouse Rock segment that used to run on Saturday morning, wearing light blue overalls and a tall conductor cap, with a red bandanna and holding a red lantern. Beneath him, it says "what's your function?"
August 15, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Greetings, new followers! The lovely and brilliant @mzspress.bsky.social and I have an online arts bookstore, MZS.press. Lots of books, videos, collectibles, and other fun stuff for pop culture obsessives!

Also: we have a dedicated Hayao Miyazaki section: mzs.press/Hayao-Miyaza...
Covers of the coffee table books The Art of Ponyo and Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind Images of playing card sets in their boxes. Both are themed after films of Hayao Miyazaki: Castle in the Sky and My Neighbor Tortoro Images of two merchandise items: Ensky Kiki's Delivery Service Jiji Art Crystal Jigsaw Puzzle; and Studio Ghibli Bento Cookbook. Images of two book covers: Hayao Miyazaki's World Picture by Dani Cavallaro, the cover of which shows a sixty something Hayao Miyazaki in a grey sport coat and dark blue shirt, smiling; and Hayao Miyazaki ~ Starting Point, 1979-1996, Tge first volume of the director's memoirs, the cover of which shows a line drawing of the director that he did himself.
August 13, 2025 at 3:51 AM
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"When any industry says a format is 'no longer viable,' that means “it may be better, but it costs too much.” From 2012, here's Roger Ebert writing about the industry-wide push to eradicate film. www.rogerebert.com/roger-ebert/...
Image of an out-of-focus man holding up a small cartridge of 35 mm still film in the foreground
August 12, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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From the production of Taxi Driver (1976): actor Murray Moston, one of the victims of Travis's bloody rampage at the end of the film, takes a smoke break between scenes
A man with a mustache is smoking a cigarette. His hand is bloody because he is an actor in a film shoot. A fake knife is attached to the palm of his hand and appears to come out the back.
August 9, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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I almost admire the utter shamelessness of these AI tech bros, insisting that a half-assed technology that can't even steal content well is "the future."
Close-up of a diagram of 12 presidents by Chat GPT that insists that Ronald Reagan looked like a buck-toothed melting wax statue of Reagan hey
August 8, 2025 at 5:29 PM