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2 weeks 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.

2 weeks 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.

3 weeks 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.

1 month ago | rogerebert.com | Matt Zoller Seitz

Val Kilmer died last week of pneumonia after a long struggle against the cancer that took his voice. He left behind an extraordinary body of work and a reputation for being a difficult, sometimes volatile performer. Kilmer attempted to address both facets of the legend in "Val," a documentary-apologia that sanded off a few of the actor's rough edges but shone a spotlight on others. Writer-director Oliver Stone might have been the director who was most on Kilmer's wavelength.

2 months ago | rogerebert.com | Matt Zoller Seitz

Annapurna Sriram's feature debut "Fu*cktoys," about a sex worker earning a living while undoing a curse, is farce, psychodrama, theological inquiry, softcore, satire, and tragedy, all at the same time. And in an era when nearly everyone has gone digital, it's been shot on 16mm color film by Cory Fraiman-Lott (another name film buffs should write down), cropped to CinemaScope dimensions, then seemingly pushed in developing so the colors seem to explode.