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Film critic @Slate/cohost @SlateCultFest. Rep'd by @CheneyAgency. Camera Man, my book on Buster Keaton, is out: https://t.co/hqgJ15dayM Work @ https://t.co/79zI40I2xR

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Popping on w/ a Blue**ky code for whoever feels ready to get off this white-supremacist site. The userbase there is growing fast & I was surprised how many mutuals I found right away. If nothing else, it's a safe place to hang out a shingle so you can be found. DM for an invite.

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Napoleon is Ridley Scott and Joaquin Phoenix’s first movie together since Gladiator in 2000. I regret to report that, despite a pair of great performances & an onslaught of dizzyingly ginormous battle sequences, this time around I was not entertained. slate.com/culture/2023/1…

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On the new Slate Culture Gabfest, Isaac Butler (he/him) joins us to discuss the new Nic Cage film Dream Scenario & classics scholar Dr Emily Wilson comes on to talk abt (& read aloud in Ancient Greek from!) her Iliad translation. Plus: the saga of Zaslav vs. Coyote vs. Acme. slate.com/podcasts/cultu…

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Think of all the 1000s of hours of collective labor that go into making a big part-animated, part-live action film like this: the music composition & performance, voice acting, animation, special effects, sound mixing. All shelved forever so the stockholders can get even richer.

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Alexander Payne's new comedy The Holdovers unites the director w/ his sardonic muse Paul Giamatti for the first time since Sideways. As Payne films go, it's a minor if endearing entry in the catalog, but it may have a future as a miserable-holiday classic. slate.com/culture/2023/1…

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Always a joy to join Slate Culture Gabfest but never so much as today—SteveM, Julia Turner & Dana Stevens interview me about my book ‘Old Town Road.’ We discuss how I came to write it, the song’s many R&B/rap+country antecedents & why made such a banger. slate.com/podcasts/cultu…

Always a joy to join @SlateCultFest but never so much as today—SteveM, @juliaturner & @thehighsign interview me about my book ‘Old Town Road.’ We discuss how I came to write it, the song’s many R&B/rap+country antecedents & why @LilNasX made such a banger. slate.com/podcasts/cultu…
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This one snuck up on me: Somehow it's November 6th & tonight at 7pm I am interviewing Karen Tongson (Karen Tongson) at the Strand Book Store about her excellent new book Normporn: Queer Viewers & the TV That Soothes Us. Tickets still available! Come out! eventbrite.com/e/karen-tongso…

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I wrote on the treatment of age-gap relationships in two new movies, Sofia Coppola's Priscilla & Todd Haynes' May December. Both films attempt to avoid either romanticizing or moralizing, but what are they trying to say? slate.com/culture/2023/1…

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Tomorrow night at the Alamo Drafthouse in Lower Manhattan, I will be interviewing Matt Singer / mattsinger.bsky.social about his new book Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever. The accompanying screenings are sold out, but you can buy Matt's great book here: penguinrandomhouse.com/books/710246/o…

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On this week's Slate Culture Gabfest we talk about Scorsese's late-period masterwork Killers of the Flower Moon; bring in Dan Kois to discuss the Buffy-reboot podcast Slayers; & wonder, along w/ Kyle Chayka, whatever happened to the Internet where you could have fun.slate.com/podcasts/cultu…

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i loved killers of the flower moon.

the excruciatingly beautiful film’s conclusion almost feels like a magic trick: euphorically floating above but grounded by its events to suggest what we watched continues into the urgent present as the consequences of evil always loom.

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I had five months to think about Killers of the Flower Moon's stunning ending. If you're still wrestling with it, this might help. slate.com/culture/2023/1…

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Martin Scorsese's Killers of the Flower Moon is a cathedral of a movie, overpowering yet intimate. The octogenarian master is still challenging our ideas of what he--and movies, and art--can & should do. My review: slate.com/culture/2023/1…

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I am still laughing almost daily over Paul Giamatti's delivery of one elaborate insult late in the movie. The Holdovers is everything you could want from a dark, retro-styled Alexander Payne Christmas comedy.

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1847 literary history was changed forever as Charlotte Bronte received her six author's copies of her new book - Jane Eyre was published! Here's my favourite edition, from 1905 it's illustrated by Edmund Dulac. Do you have a favourite Jane Eyre edition?

#otd 1847 literary history was changed forever as Charlotte Bronte received her six author's copies of her new book - Jane Eyre was published! Here's my favourite edition, from 1905 it's illustrated by Edmund Dulac. Do you have a favourite Jane Eyre edition? #JaneEyreDay
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