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Matt Jacobs
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writer & whatnot
I promise Sissy Spacek gushing about Shelley Duvall and Robert Altman will soothe your weary soul
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Sissy Spacek Answers Every Question We Have About 3 Women
The Oscar winner broke a bone on set and may or may not have thrown up after chugging a beer, but she also shared a special bond with Shelley Duvall.
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November 20, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Mary Bronstein had two muses for If I Had Legs’ doozy of an ending: Virginia Woolf and David Cronenberg
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‘It’s Not a Happy Ending. It’s a Hopeful One.’
Director Mary Bronstein explains the frenzied, feverish ending of her brilliant dark dramedy If I Had Legs I’d Kick You.
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October 12, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Talked to Regina Hall about the “psychic” nature of One Battle After Another, screaming into the void, and whether Scary Movie 6 will be an A24 parody

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This Isn’t Your Typical Regina Hall
Playing a revolutionary decades into the fight gave the One Battle After Another actress a new understanding of idealism.
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October 7, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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Paul Thomas Anderson’s fun and fizzy adaptation views its Molotov cocktail as half-full. Yes, it says, the struggle for liberation continues. But isn’t it inspiring that there are still people willing to fight?

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Review: The revolution gets energized in Paul Thomas Anderson's dynamite 'One Battle After Another'
Paul Thomas Anderson's brutally hilarious political thriller brings together Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn, Teyana Taylor, Benicio del Toro and newcomer Chase Infiniti.
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September 24, 2025 at 8:12 PM
"I was talking to someone who wanted to write something for me, and I said, 'How about I’m an assassin?' I think that’d be a hoot. The least likely assassin you’d ever find in your life."
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June Squibb Is Always the Leading Lady
“I was talking to someone who wanted to write something for me, and I said, ‘How about I’m an assassin?’ I think that’d be a hoot.”
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September 22, 2025 at 5:58 PM
He went out on such a high note
September 16, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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maybe the sexiest a man has ever been in a movie
September 16, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Collected some Alien war stories from Veronica Cartwright, who thought she was playing Ripley until being summoned for her costume fitting
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Veronica Cartwright Answers Every Question We Have About Alien
Fainting actors, a claustrophobic set, a rebelling crew, and a casting bait and switch. “I was pissed off,” remembers the actor who played Lambert.
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August 26, 2025 at 4:07 PM
I asked Ari Aster all the important questions about Eddington, like what he thinks of the motion picture Ma
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Ari Aster Explains the ‘Very Strong Politics’ of Eddington
The director’s polarizing new film comes after the commercial failure of ‘Beau Is Afraid.’ He’s not not worried.
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July 18, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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25 things we’ve learned in this glorious quarter-century. www.esquire.com/news-politic...
25 Harsh Truths About the 21st Century (So Far)
The more innocent 1999 versions of ourselves would never believe what we've experienced.
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July 15, 2025 at 2:36 PM
EMMY NOMINEE JEFF HILLER
July 15, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Good time to mention one of the 2010s’ most egregious Oscar snubs
June 11, 2025 at 5:48 PM
MaMa Mia! Here We Go Again
Octavia Spencer is on board for more Ma.

Blumhouse announced that a sequel to the psychological horror thriller is in development at the company bit.ly/4dLvQei
June 4, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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I’ve never believed in cultural decline! But throughout the 2020s, the arts have been in a strange state that does look a lot like malaise.

I spent the last year learning the causes for pessimism, trying to see if another story could be told.

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Is This the Worst-Ever Era of American Pop Culture?
Meet the critics who believe the arts are in terminal decline.
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May 5, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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‘Death of a Unicorn’ and ‘Warfare’ star Will Poulter on the two poles of his spring A24 roles — sweaty military fatigues here, pleated white shorts there.
Will Poulter on the Two Poles of His Spring A24 Roles
‘Death of a Unicorn’ and ‘Warfare’ star Will Poulter on the two poles of his spring A24 roles — sweaty military fatigues here, pleated white shorts there.
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April 1, 2025 at 5:55 PM
My favorite film genres

5. Something's up in suburbia
4. She brought a small town to its feet and a huge corporation to its knees
3. Character does not understand the world they live in
2. Female psychodrama
1. Sad comedy
My favorite film genres

5. Much ado about a thing that underlines human futility
4. Putting on a show to save the barn
3. Everyone is hot and evil
2. Siblings!
1. A woman self-actualizing
My favorite (in fact, the five best) genres:

5. Multigenerational family saga
4. Womanhood? It’s complicated!
3. The opera they’re seeing is surprisingly relevant to the present circumstances
2. Gotta go back to where the traumatic thing happened
1. We are so rich oh no someone has been murdered
March 11, 2025 at 2:53 AM
"They always say don’t meet your idols. Meet your idols if they’re David Lynch."

I talked to Patrick Fischler about Winkie's.
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Patrick Fischler Answers Every Question We Have About Mulholland Drive
On David Lynch’s passing, and memories of the diner scene: “The dread just came to me. I can feel it in my chest right now.”
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January 27, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Diane Ladd on David Lynch 💔
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January 16, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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"I think 'Inception' was pretty technically innovative because I managed to go and fuck with the very fabric of time." Here, Hans Zimmer reveals his most unusual and underrated scores: www.vulture.com/article/hans...
January 16, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Gena Rowlands and David Lynch in a six-month span is a lot to take
January 16, 2025 at 7:43 PM
May you all have the pleasure of hearing Hans Zimmer joke about wanting to write a porn score
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Hans Zimmer on His Most Unusual and Underrated Scores
“I managed to go and fuck with the very fabric of time.”
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January 16, 2025 at 3:12 PM
He's doing his statistics rap, right?
Timothée Chalamet will be the host and musical guest on SNL January 25th.
January 10, 2025 at 8:33 PM
We wish you a dairy Christmas
December 25, 2024 at 4:24 PM