Pretentious Wordsmith. Reverse Shot, Bookforum, Southwest Review, LARB, Lit Hub, Brooklyn Rail, etc. And you, you ridiculous people, you expect me to help you.
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For @LAReviewofBooks I wrote about William H. Gass's The Tunnel, one of the great American novels. I worked very hard on this. Thank you to Annie!
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I love her. She's amazing.
Amanda Seyfried says "there was no reason" for Billy Evans to "get that aggressive" during their "You Can See Everything" dinner clash, where Evans dragged her acting and defended Charlie Kirk.
“This guy has disrespected me in such a way that I was like, ‘Oh, I don’t think so, buddy,'” Seyfried told Rolling Stone. “I was in the frame of mind where this guy is disrespectful, and I’m here in his home, and I’m gonna argue this because I actually have a pretty solid stance on things. I don’t like the way he’s using this human being, his wife — the person he says he’s ‘building monuments of love’ to — as a tool. Maybe he does respect her, but he’s behaving like he does not respect her. And not only am I protective of myself, I’m just trying to set the record straight in a way where I’m trying to defend myself, too, while maintaining some kind of rapport with him, so I can stay and he doesn’t kick us out, you know?”
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I rarely judge a movie by its purposeful or incidental politics aligning or contrasting with my own. I don't love fascism and police brutality in real life, but goddamn if the Dirty Harry movies don't kick ass. (Sorry, Pauline.)
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You can tell a lot about a person from their opinions on Se7en. I don't mean right or wrong; it's just such a rich text that elucidates what you want from a Hollywood thriller.
Evening viewing recommendation? On the Criterion Channel, David Fincher's SE7EN (1995) in our From MTV to Hollywood collection! bit.ly/4eaQvdg
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In 2026, we got some mediocre horror movies get acclaim (Obsession, Backrooms) while the truly weird and daring movie, Return to Silent Hill, was greeted with vitriol.
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Finally watched Backrooms. Very much mediocre. Has brilliant parts, middling parts, bad parts that do not cohere in any interesting way. In the end, it ends up far too normal.
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This year's bylines: Bookforum, LA Review of Books, Southwest Review of Books, Reverse Shot, Lit Hub, Bright Wall/Dark Room, Flood Magazine, and Met Review in two days. Some of the writing is pretty good.
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