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3 days ago | thefilmstage.com | Matt Zoller Seitz |Christopher Schobert

With summer time upon us, it is fitting to begin with the most sun-drenched feature of Wes Anderson’s career, followed by a gem from J. Hoberman, an essential biography of James Gandolfini, and plenty more to read while working on your tan. The Wes Anderson Collection: Asteroid City by Matt Zoller Seitz (Abrams)The Wes Anderson Collection from Matt Zoller Seitz and the folks at Abrams is, quite simply, an indispensable series for film lovers.

1 month ago | rogerebert.com | Matt Zoller Seitz

Impressive and exasperating in its determination to squeeze every previous iteration of this story into one huge glimmering chunk of lore.

1 month ago | vulture.com | Matt Zoller Seitz

Cheers’s opening theme song said the eponymous bar was where everybody knows your name. But only one of its regulars was beloved enough to have his name shouted in unison every time he walked into the place.

1 month ago | vulture.com | Matt Zoller Seitz

The Succession creator’s next act is a farcical TV movie about four tech-bro billionaires he created in less than a year. Mountainhead debuts on HBO May 31. Jesse Armstrong and Steve Carell on set earlier this year. Mountainhead debuts on HBO May 31. Jesse Armstrong and Steve Carell on set earlier this year. I’m in a seven-story mansion in the Wasatch Mountains of Utah that looks like a ski lodge commissioned by Tony Stark.

1 month ago | rogerebert.com | Matt Zoller Seitz

Ours is an extended family with a lot of tragedy in it, but Jan Dawson's was unique. Jan was the mother of two daughters, Jen, the mother of my two biological children, and Nancy, who had three children by a previous marriage. I was married to both of the sisters at different points in my life. They both died young-Jennifer at 35 of a previously undiagnosed heart problem, and Nancy at 53 of metastatic breast cancer. They passed on the same day, fourteen years and just a few minutes apart.