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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 6h

Please enjoy this photo of a dog in a ghost costume:

Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 6h

Check out our Halloween BOOO-nanza sale, created by my partner @mzspress.bsky.social. Some of our best loved books are (briefly!) being offered at horrifyingly low prices (50% to 70% off). Order more than $100 and we'll throw in a free A24 cap! [THUNDERCLAP; LIGHTNING] mzs.press/BOOO-nanza-S...

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Matt Bickey @abidetowin.bsky.social · 5h

Great stuff in here.

Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 6h

Check out our Halloween BOOO-nanza sale, created by my partner @mzspress.bsky.social. Some of our best loved books are (briefly!) being offered at horrifyingly low prices (50% to 70% off). Order more than $100 and we'll throw in a free A24 cap! [THUNDERCLAP; LIGHTNING] mzs.press/BOOO-nanza-S...

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John Paul @johnpaulhi.bsky.social · 5h

I’m on it, Matt!

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 5h

We've gotten a great response to this sale, so we're gonna keep it going! People are loading up for the holidays. I've packed boxes containing as many as 6 books for less than it would cost to get 2 on Amazon.

Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 6h

Check out our Halloween BOOO-nanza sale, created by my partner @mzspress.bsky.social. Some of our best loved books are (briefly!) being offered at horrifyingly low prices (50% to 70% off). Order more than $100 and we'll throw in a free A24 cap! [THUNDERCLAP; LIGHTNING] mzs.press/BOOO-nanza-S...

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 6h

We have 3 remaining copies of The DePalma Decade, Laurent Bouzerau's engrossing account of the director's run of films in the 1970s mzs.press/The-De-Palma...

The De Palma Decade: Redefining Cinema with Doubles, Voyeurs, and Psychic Teens by Laurent Bouzereau (Hardcover, NEW)

Journey with award-winning filmmaker and author Laurent Bouzereau through acclaimed director Brian De Palma’s renowned—and controversial—horror and thriller films that redefined cinema in the 1970s an...

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 6h

I believe they played a role in it!

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 6h

Please enjoy this photo of a dog in a ghost costume:

Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 6h

Check out our Halloween BOOO-nanza sale, created by my partner @mzspress.bsky.social. Some of our best loved books are (briefly!) being offered at horrifyingly low prices (50% to 70% off). Order more than $100 and we'll throw in a free A24 cap! [THUNDERCLAP; LIGHTNING] mzs.press/BOOO-nanza-S...

BOOO-nanza Sale

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 6h

Check out our Halloween BOOO-nanza sale, created by my partner @mzspress.bsky.social. Some of our best loved books are (briefly!) being offered at horrifyingly low prices (50% to 70% off). Order more than $100 and we'll throw in a free A24 cap! [THUNDERCLAP; LIGHTNING] mzs.press/BOOO-nanza-S...

BOOO-nanza Sale

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 6h

We just added a very special item to the store: signed copies of Horror in Haddonfield, Andew Grevas' splendidly researched book on all 13 Halloween movies. We have 5 copies on hand, but if you miss your shot, preorder it--we can get more! Info here: mzs.press/SIGNED-Horro...

SIGNED Horror in Haddonfield: Halloween’s Untold Stories by Andrew Grevas (Paperback, NEW)

Happy Halloween, Michael. Horror in Haddonfield: Halloween’s Untold Stories, by Horror Obsessive founder and crackerjack fright geek Andrew Grevas, unmasks the secrets behind all thirteen of the films...

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J Hoberman @jhoberman.bsky.social · 1d

Ken Jacobs (1933-2025)

A great artist, a wonderful teacher, & speaking personally, a close friend for over 50 years. Linking to a piece I wrote to mark his 80th birthday.

www.nytimes.com/2013/05/19/m...

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Peter Steinberg @peter23.bsky.social · 6h

This is fantastic.

Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 17h

Vanity Fair asked me to talk about visual effects, and it was my great honor to show off some of ILM’s terrific work over the years.

Todd Vaziri on Vanity Fair VFX
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ILM's VFX Secrets Behind Star Wars, Transformers & More | Vanity Fair

YouTube video by Vanity Fair

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 6h

Which is bizarre, considering that Republicans will paint him as personally responsible no matter what he does!

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 6h

This guy looks like one of those youth pastors who drives an unmarked white van

Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 1d

Panicked Curtis Yarvin—JD Vance's neo-fascist guru—plans to Flee USA.

“I feel that I personally have to start thinking realistically about how to flee the country.”

www.thenerdreich.com/panicked-cur...

Panicked Curtis Yarvin—JD Vance's guru—plans to flee USA

‘I feel that I personally have to start thinking realistically about how to flee the country.’

www.thenerdreich.com

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 7h

Did the tiny lady from Poltergeist charge money because if so I think they deserved at least a partial refund.

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 6h

"The Windy City—imperfect, amazing, frustrating, beloved—has long been a punching bag of the right, not least because it’s a multicultural tapestry that is largely welcoming to newcomers. Now, though, we must be made an example of." -- @moryan.bsky.social

Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 17h

🔥 As you may have seen, in recent days, I've been going to the Broadview ICE facility near where I live. For @vanityfair.com I wrote about those protests & the hell that the Chicago area is being put through thanks to ICE/DHS. I hope you'll read this & share it. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...

Postcard From Chicago: There’s an ICE Facility in My Backyard

Chicago was not a war zone when Trump’s Operation Midway Blitz began. DHS and ICE have made it one.

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 7h

Enjoy the hell out of this, but I must take issue with the idea that the Jurassic Park series unrealistically presents businesspeople trying to do the same dumb thing again after getting a bunch of folks killed!

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 7h

Thank you!

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Sean Howe @seanhowe.bsky.social · 7h

This is a great essay; read it!

Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 20h

Blast from the past: a piece I did in 2006 about a trio of notoriously ultra-violent, politically reactionary movies from 1971: The French Connection, Dirty Harry, and Straw Dogs

MidCenturyCinema @midcenturycinema.bsky.social · 21h

10/7/71: The French Connection (D Friedkin/DP Roizman)
w/Hackman, Scheider, Rey
More:
@pulpcurry.bsky.social: crimereads.com/50-years-rea...
@kphipps3000.bsky.social: www.avclub.com/the-french-c...
We favor, but @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social w/must-read dissent: www.slantmagazine.com/film/caveman...

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 7h

They had to buy the Post, gut the newsroom, and restaff with reactionary grifters that don't deserve to carry their predecessors' dirty socks; that was the only way to remake the paper, because they were never gonna get through the front door on merit.

Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 7h

This little twerp, who’s been there a few months, axed two of the lions of WaPo??

Fisher is an investigative champion and had been at The Post for 39 years. Hoffman had been there for 42, and he won a Pulitzer LAST YEAR.

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 8h

Last week, new WaPo opinion editor Adam O'Neal quietly carried out another purge of staffers, cutting editors and major names like Marc Fisher and David Hoffman, among others.

Meanwhile, he welcomed three conservatives to the section.

Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/washington...

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 8h

I don't know what he looks like, so that didn't register!

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 9h

Honest to goodness: midway through the screening I had this thought, "the reaction this movie is probably gonna be like the reaction to Speed Racer in 2008." Which is to say, the consensus is that it sucks, but 10 years later, people are gonna be doing oral histories.

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 9h

I suspect it will!

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 9h

That's not accurate

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 9h

So apparently, I'm not just the only critic in the country who gave this film such a high rating, I'm one of a handful that even liked it!

That's fine with me.

Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 18h

"A rave of a movie that acts as its own hallucinogen, best experienced on a huge screen with a state-of-the art sound system. If they’d played it again right after I saw it for the first time, I would have gladly stayed in my seat." My **** review of TRON: Ares. www.rogerebert.com/reviews/tron...

TRON: Ares movie review & film summary (2025) | Roger Ebert

“TRON: Ares” is spectacularly designed, swiftly paced, thoughtfully written, and directed within an inch of its neon-hued life.

www.rogerebert.com

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