Melissa Tamminga

STARTERS Chloé Zhao Long Bao Cutting Through Lox Emma Scone (with Jamnet) Ethan Guac If I Had Eggs I’d Whisk You
 Kleber Mendonça Phyllo KPopcorn Demon Hunters Leonardo Pistachios
 Olives Laxe The Secret Agent Lettuce Wraps CHEESE PLATTER Edam Hawke Havarti Supreme Michael Brie Jordan Ricotta Reinsve Sent-Emmental Value MAIN COURSES Bone-In O’Brien
 Chicken Tinga Ibsdotter Lilleaas Daal Thomas Anderson F1-Pot Chili Gamey Madigan Honey-Baked Hamnet Jafar Pan-Seared Ahi Jur Aspic World Rebirth Leg of Lambnet Mr. Nobody Against Puttanesca Roast Byrne Sean Penne Spamnet Musubi Steak Diane Warren Wagyu Moura Wonton Mee Mosaku Zootopia Stew SIDE DISHES Avatar: Fire and Hash Chanterelles Fanning Corn on the Jacob Darius Congee Frankenstein and Beans Jessie Buckwheat Noodles Michael Pea Jordan Plantain Dreams Squash Safdie Stellan Skars Chard Teyana Taters Timothée Chow/Lo Mein BEVERAGES (ONE BOTTLE AFTER ANOTHER) Benicio del Taro Boba Blue Moon It Was Juice Antioxidant Joachim Beer Martini Supreme Michael Tea Jordan Que Syrah, Sirāt Ryan Cooler Teavana Taylor Zinners DESSERTS Brittle Amélie or the Character of Rain Bugonia Split Cake Hudson Melon Skarsgård Train Creams SNUBS After the Bundt Amanda Seyfries Chase Infinitea Cynthia Burrito Jay Jelly Jesse Lemons Joel Edgertongue Marinara Grande No Other Choy Paul Mezcal Sorry, Baby Greens Springsteen: De Liver Meat From Nowhere The Tasty Mint of Ann Lee Wicked: For Gouda

Behold! My 2026 Academy Awards menu, full of #Oscar-themed options for breakfast, lunch and Sinners.

As always, I'd like to thank the Academy — and my wife, for being the best editor and partner in pundom.

Omg please yes

My question exactly!

“. . . fewer Gen Z women agreed that a wife should always obey her husband (18%) and an even smaller share of Baby Boomer women (6%) held that view”

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Thrilled to say @pickfordfilmcenter.bsky.social in Bellingham, WA, will be participating! June 5-11.

Programming will be announced in April.

There are few things more satisfying than a scathing, well-written bit of dark humor. Bravo to @davidjroth.bsky.social for making me laugh at the absurdity of little men in big shoes this morning.

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!

Uh oh 😆

I had, ahem, noticed that, too.

And I’m with you!!

I’m a little flummoxed by the hate for the film, so your review was especially cathartic! :)

Terrific review of The Bride! by @moviefreaksara.bsky.social

moviefreak.com/bride-2026-m...

lol yes

I recorded a Q&A with the wonderful Suzannah Herbert earlier this week and I’m so excited for the good people of Bellingham who get to see the film tonight along with our talk.

if you can help trans kansans and their families who need to get out of kansas to stay safe, please help.

“if the gender/sex indication on the face of your current credential does not match your sex assigned at birth, you are directed to surrender your current credential” is past frightening.

There are a ton of Wiseman films available on Kanopy, but go to your library if you don't qualify for that service. They are almost guaranteed to have dozens of his films for physical rental.

Statement from Oscar-winning director Hamdan Ballal: This afternoon, nearly a year after we won the Oscar, the same settler who attacked me shortly after l returned from Los Angeles-Shem Tov Lusky-again led an attack against my home and my family. Four of my family members are currently arrested and one is in the hospital. I invite all journalists and diplomats to come visit me and my family this Tuesday, February 17, to hear about how the situation has gotten worse in the year since we won the Oscar, as it has across the West Bank. Email me to coordinate your visit: hamdanalhrane90@gmail.com Two weeks ago we managed to get a decision from the Israeli court that the area around my home is closed to non-residents, but the settlers break that order and still come with their flocks almost every day. We call the police, they do nothing. The army comes, they do nothing. Today, Shem Tov Lusky-the settler who attacked me in my home shortly after I won the Oscar last year-came with his flock to my home. My brother called the police to report the incursion. The army came first and immediately raided our house, attacking everyone inside. Then they arrested two of my brothers, a nephew, and cousin. Another brother was badly injured and is now in the hospital. The Israeli court decision was supposed to make things a bit quieter for us. But the opposite has been true. The settlers have ramped up their harassment and the Israeli authorities have done nothing to enforce the decision, and today they joined the settlers in the attack. 8 hours ago

From Hamdan Ballal, co-director of last year’s Oscar-winning documentary “No Other Land.” This is happening now.

Natchez (2025) BLACK HISTORY MONTH; A DOCTOBER 2025 SELECTION VIRTUAL Q&A WITH DIRECTOR Suzannah Herbert and FILM PROFESSOR Brandon Wilson Natchez captures an unsettling clash between history and memory in a sma...

www.pickfordfilmcenter.org/movie/natche...

Plantation weddings and pre-civil war fashion: the film that critiques the historical fantasy of Natchez A documentary about Mississippi examines competing forces: the nostalgic celebration of the old south and the refusal to sanitize the brutal history of enslavement

I programmed NATCHEZ as part of the Doctober Film Festival this past October; it’s one of the best films I saw last year. So pleased it’s getting a theatrical release now, & it’ll be coming back to the Pickford on Feb 26 w/ @geniusbastard.bsky.social moderating a Q&A w/ director Suzannah Herbert 🙌🏻

“less a screen version of the novel than a fanfic-style riff”

Yes! And that’s kinda ok with me?? And I think audiences will enjoy it. I just wish it’d gone a little more camp than it is.

Good luck have fun don’t die: Gore Verbinski’s Total Recall. It’s already the most incredible year for films since 2011 and this is just about the leader of the pack

Just wanna remind folks that Andrea Arnold made a lovely earthy adaptation of WUTHERING HEIGHTS with a non-white actor playing Heathcliff and you should watch it.

Chotiner is always so good, some jaw dropping moments are par for course, but this . . . is really something else.

And Spinotti seems to have absolutely no idea.

omg

The cover of The Art of Miyazaki's Spirited Away, showing a watercolored line drawing of the spa house in Spirited Away

We've been out of stock of this one for a while, and now it's back! The Art of Spirited Away, a coffee table book gathering hundreds of pages of art and design from the classic 2002 animated film. It's in our Miyazaki section:
mzs.press/Hayao-Miyaza...

Keep wanting to post something about Catherine O'Hara, but everything seems too small. She was so great, and she gave me incredible joy whenever she was in a film or on television. Endlessly funny from the beginning to the end and for many generations. I loved watching her *so much*.

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Challenging Official Histories in “Natchez” and “Mr. Nobody Against Putin” Two stunning new documentaries—one filmed in Mississippi, and one in Russia—examine the ways that education comes up against indoctrination.

Suzannah Herbert's documentary Natchez, opening today at Film Forum (needs to be shown nationally), turns observation into engagement—with history, its witnesses, its falsifiers, and government's crucial (and endangered) role in its preservation and transmission:
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Midnight at the Oasis - Waiting for Guffman HD YouTube video by artfilm33

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