Oscar week, mercury retrograde, eclipse szn, seven million different looming deadlines, gambling or pharmaceutical ads on device I access at all times, insane discourse about EVERYTHING, big medical test for Mom upcoming next week, friends + beloveds in various states of crisis, the fucking WAR...
Liquid Death is sooooo overpriced but godDAMN their Dr. Pepper dupe Doctor Death has that Dr. Pepper je ne sais quoi like nothing else.
Another must-read from Angelica!
"You've ruined another Thanksgiving, Jim Morrison!" has lived rent free in my head for years - an absolutely platonic ideal of a goodbad movie, imo.
OMG, @amcinematheque.bsky.social is taking BLEAK WEEK global! Absolutely screamed when I saw my hometown arthouse cinema @esquiretheatre.com on the long list of participating theaters - Cincinnati, go get SAD. www.americancinematheque.com/series/bleak...
Still one of the most overlooked bands from the modern rock era: www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1oJ...
PLACES IN THE HEART is a Hagen family favorite but it HAS been kinda lost to the sands of time for no good reason! A few years ago, I dragged a reluctant friend to see it with Benton + Field at TCMFF - she was weeping by the end of the movie. Strong recommend, y'all.
Start a video store in your town, you can do it
We are really going to draw a meaningful distinction between "don't police other women's behaviors + bodies!" and "that woman is showing actual, clinical signs of malnutrition + being praised for doing so" very soon, so many people are already doing incalculable longterm damage to their bodies.
"I looked up, and up, and up, and up, until I saw Tom Noonan's face, looking down at me with a curious expression. 'What did you say your name was?' he asked." A remembrance of my friend Tom, lost too soon. www.rogerebert.com/mzs/a-beauti...
LA, don't miss Q+As with emerging legend Julia Ducournau! ALPHA is waaaaaay better than you've heard, it's just a massive fucking bummer (complimentary)
We need a proper German word for when celebrities you have a crush on also have grown adult offspring...you also have a crush on.
If you have never had the distinct pleasure of reading about this motion picture's production history, YOU'RE WELCOME. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superno...
I don't know why, but a bunch of people I follow are newly experiencing SUPERNOVA, one of the best bad studio movies ever made - come for the absolutely batshit, tonally mismatched trailer, stay for one of cinema's most embarrassing, digitally rendered sex scenes. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUdy...
As a "I have a crush on TWO boys in my beloved local band + different entanglements with each of them" survivor, I fear this motion picture is about to come for my jugular.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmVT...
They did this just for me because they know I just finished BETTER CALL SAUL + am still sick over Jimberly.
LOOK BACK is one of my favorite movies from the last decade...I am telling you now to bring the Kleenex.
After years of flops, I finally made an at-home carbonara to my liking.
Spring forward demands a gallon of cold brew.
Happy IWD.
Michael Stipe showed up in NYC tonight for the Michael Shannon/Jason Narducy show and sang @remhq.bsky.social "These Days" (!!!!) and "The Great Beyond." 😭 😍https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RiouUSsOIs
THREAD: I got laid off from NYMag/Vulture after 14 years. The family lost 75% of income + medical. Now mzs.press bookstore, once a side project. is do-or-die for Judith & I. I feel weird telling you this because others are doing much worse. But if you could like or share this, we'd be so grateful!
I’m officially “wearing glasses to play video games” years old now.
Over at @letterboxd.social Journal, I wrote about the legacy of Donna Deitch’s trailblazing sapphic western romance DESERT HEARTS for its 40th anniversary. This movie is so dear to me. This was an absolute honor to research and write.
Oh, thank you so much for helping spread the good word!!
The single greatest compliment I've ever gotten as a writer was finding out that the old, salty Playboy copy chief who had been there for FORTY YEARS loved the 20K-word version of Women, Sex + Cinema + was bummed the magazine couldn't publish the whole thing, despite never liking ANYTHING.
My most read, responded to and STILL mentioned pieces (In Search of the Last Great Video Store, Fat Grrls On Film + The Playboy Symposium on women, sex + cinema) are all over 10K words, btw.
I bought my car today ✨🚗✨The biggest big girl purchase of my life so far…she does indeed belong to me.
You get it!!
