Matt Giles
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No amount of money ever bought a second of time…
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In this house we praise Christmas Eve in Miller's Point. #filmsky 📽️ @dlelandwhite.bsky.social
too Christmas for the arthouse, too arthouse for Christmas
Today I'm writing out of market ambition. I want you to buy Alonso's new book, the revised and expanded edition of Have Yourself a Movie Little Christmas, in which he writes about a film from 2024, Ch...
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November 12, 2025 at 7:07 PM
In this house we praise Christmas Eve in Miller's Point. #filmsky 📽️ @dlelandwhite.bsky.social
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Gonna tell my kids this was peak TV.
Watch Siskel & Ebert Do Karaoke, A Moment That Will Melt Your Brain
You won’t believe your eyes (or your ears).
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October 27, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Gonna tell my kids this was peak TV.
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“At the beginning of each little chapter you walk through a doorway. There is the detail of a coffee cup, a mirror, a pear. You must raise the hand to hold, the face to look, the mouth to drink.” Read from Patricia Lockwood’s new novel, Will There Ever Be Another You.
Will There Ever Be Another You
At the beginning of each little chapter you walk through a doorway. There is the detail of a coffee cup, a mirror, a pear. You must raise the hand to hold, the face to look, the mouth to drink. You…
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September 23, 2025 at 8:30 PM
“At the beginning of each little chapter you walk through a doorway. There is the detail of a coffee cup, a mirror, a pear. You must raise the hand to hold, the face to look, the mouth to drink.” Read from Patricia Lockwood’s new novel, Will There Ever Be Another You.
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“The death of the suburban novel…may be of interest primarily to academics and literary hobbyists. The death of the middle-class society from which it sprung, on the other hand, is a national tragedy.” —Adelle Waldman
The Life and Death of the Suburban Novel | Adelle Waldman
Remember the suburban novel? Books about attractive white families in nice houses who turn out to be miserable? Examples include Richard Yates’s
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September 8, 2025 at 3:58 PM
“The death of the suburban novel…may be of interest primarily to academics and literary hobbyists. The death of the middle-class society from which it sprung, on the other hand, is a national tragedy.” —Adelle Waldman
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For @nybooks.com, I wrote about the death of the suburban novel but really about what I think makes a lot of today's fiction unsatisfying: "it’s awkward to write novels about middle-class problems in a society that is no longer even nominally middle-class.” www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...
The Life and Death of the Suburban Novel | Adelle Waldman
Remember the suburban novel? Books about attractive white families in nice houses who turn out to be miserable? Examples include Richard Yates’s
www.nybooks.com
August 28, 2025 at 9:39 PM
For @nybooks.com, I wrote about the death of the suburban novel but really about what I think makes a lot of today's fiction unsatisfying: "it’s awkward to write novels about middle-class problems in a society that is no longer even nominally middle-class.” www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...
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I think criticism in recent years has been apt to talk a bit too much about the privilege of individual authors & too little about general material conditions and how they influence the fiction of a given period. I was very glad to try to address that by writing this.
“The death of the suburban novel…may be of interest primarily to academics and literary hobbyists. The death of the middle-class society from which it sprung, on the other hand, is a national tragedy.” —Adelle Waldman
The Life and Death of the Suburban Novel | Adelle Waldman
Remember the suburban novel? Books about attractive white families in nice houses who turn out to be miserable? Examples include Richard Yates’s
buff.ly
September 10, 2025 at 2:33 PM
I think criticism in recent years has been apt to talk a bit too much about the privilege of individual authors & too little about general material conditions and how they influence the fiction of a given period. I was very glad to try to address that by writing this.
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This review by Brian has me pretty pumped.
“Noah Hawley has done what only a few creators have been capable of doing: expanding on a well-known property that makes it feel new again while also not betraying what fans already know and love,” praises @briantallerico.bsky.social in his review of ALIEN: EARTH: www.rogerebert.com/streaming/al...
FX’s “Alien: Earth” Shatters Already High Expectations | TV/Streaming | Roger Ebert
"Alien: Earth" is like nothing else on television.
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August 8, 2025 at 3:41 PM
This review by Brian has me pretty pumped.
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Cover reveal for Attila Veres's THIS'LL MAKE THINGS A LITTLE EASIER, design by Vince Haig. If you read Attila's THE BLACK MAYBE, you already know that nothing's going to make things any easier for the characters in his cosmic horror tales. Preorder: www.valancourtbooks.com/thisll-make-...
July 27, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Cover reveal for Attila Veres's THIS'LL MAKE THINGS A LITTLE EASIER, design by Vince Haig. If you read Attila's THE BLACK MAYBE, you already know that nothing's going to make things any easier for the characters in his cosmic horror tales. Preorder: www.valancourtbooks.com/thisll-make-...
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Every word of this, from @tnyfrontrow.bsky.social: www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
In Defense of the Traditional Review
Far from being a journalistic relic, as suggested by recent developments at the New York Times, arts criticism is inherently progressive, keeping art honest and pointing toward its future.
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July 24, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Every word of this, from @tnyfrontrow.bsky.social: www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
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Oh boy, I did not enjoy the new I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER picture. www.vulture.com/article/revi...
The New I Know What You Did Last Summer Is Torture
A remake and a sequel, this new entry wants to be both funny and scary and it never manages to be either.
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July 16, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Oh boy, I did not enjoy the new I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER picture. www.vulture.com/article/revi...
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Dumbest Movie of the Year frontrunner dropping this weekend. www.rogerebert.com/reviews/i-kn...
I Know What You Did Last Summer movie review (2025) | Roger Ebert
History may have given the first film a reputation as dumb fun, but this one’s just dumb.
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July 16, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Dumbest Movie of the Year frontrunner dropping this weekend. www.rogerebert.com/reviews/i-kn...
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I am not a particularly big fan of the old I Know What You Did Last Summer movies, and I did not have high expectations going into this one, but I gotta say ... it hooked me.
‘I Know What You Did Last Summer’ Review: A Legacyquel With a Solid Hook
The new legacyquel is a surprisingly fun horror comedy.
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July 16, 2025 at 4:01 PM
I am not a particularly big fan of the old I Know What You Did Last Summer movies, and I did not have high expectations going into this one, but I gotta say ... it hooked me.
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Here I am talking about all my favorite books, especially the deranged ones.
www.elle.com/culture/book...
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Megan Abbott Reveals the ‘Deranged’ Book That Nevertheless ‘Changed My Life’
The El Dorado Drive author takes ELLE’s literary survey.
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July 2, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Here I am talking about all my favorite books, especially the deranged ones.
www.elle.com/culture/book...
www.elle.com/culture/book...
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Essay: WITHNAIL AND I - The Song Remains the Same
Last night, I accidentally wrote a short essay about Richard E. Grant doing Hamlet in the rain, running out of road, my best friend Amy I lost after college, & Bruce Robinson's WITHNAIL AND I. I'd be honored if you gave it a read.
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Last night, I accidentally wrote a short essay about Richard E. Grant doing Hamlet in the rain, running out of road, my best friend Amy I lost after college, & Bruce Robinson's WITHNAIL AND I. I'd be honored if you gave it a read.
bit.ly/4jNzKVy
June 13, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Essay: WITHNAIL AND I - The Song Remains the Same
Last night, I accidentally wrote a short essay about Richard E. Grant doing Hamlet in the rain, running out of road, my best friend Amy I lost after college, & Bruce Robinson's WITHNAIL AND I. I'd be honored if you gave it a read.
bit.ly/4jNzKVy
Last night, I accidentally wrote a short essay about Richard E. Grant doing Hamlet in the rain, running out of road, my best friend Amy I lost after college, & Bruce Robinson's WITHNAIL AND I. I'd be honored if you gave it a read.
bit.ly/4jNzKVy
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What, and I stress, the fuck
June 14, 2025 at 12:14 AM
What, and I stress, the fuck
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Please also anticipate and PREORDER @jasondiamond.bsky.social's debut novel, KAPLAN'S PLOT, out September 16! Chicago, hell yeah!
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#booksky
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#booksky
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June 10, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Please also anticipate and PREORDER @jasondiamond.bsky.social's debut novel, KAPLAN'S PLOT, out September 16! Chicago, hell yeah!
#books
#booksky
bookshop.org/p/books/kapl...
#books
#booksky
bookshop.org/p/books/kapl...
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I'm going to be on tour! Will you come out and see me? I can't wait to talk to readers IRL and commiserate. www.mariskreizman.com/events
June 10, 2025 at 12:14 PM
I'm going to be on tour! Will you come out and see me? I can't wait to talk to readers IRL and commiserate. www.mariskreizman.com/events
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In Craig Mod’s memoir of photos and prose, a 300-mile walk through rural Japan leads to heartrending meditations on loss. David Mitchell says Things Become Other Things “reads like a future classic of its genre.” [Sponsored] bookshop.org/p/books/thin...
May 23, 2025 at 5:54 PM
In Craig Mod’s memoir of photos and prose, a 300-mile walk through rural Japan leads to heartrending meditations on loss. David Mitchell says Things Become Other Things “reads like a future classic of its genre.” [Sponsored] bookshop.org/p/books/thin...
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Looking forward to the 30th anniversary of season two's finale in a few days! Do do do do do doooooo
May 17, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Looking forward to the 30th anniversary of season two's finale in a few days! Do do do do do doooooo
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It's happening! EL DORADO DRIVE book tour. Please come see me! I miss you!
May 19, 2025 at 1:15 PM
It's happening! EL DORADO DRIVE book tour. Please come see me! I miss you!
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For The Reveal, I did a pre-summer Catching Up With the Critics column, seeking out Jan-Apr 2025 films hailed by @kphipps3000.bsky.social, @manohladargis.bsky.social, @justincchang.bsky.social, @bilgeebiri.bsky.social and Wesley Morris. thereveal.substack.com/p/catching-u...
Catching Up With the Critics (Pre-Summer Edition)
With blockbuster season upon us, it's a good time to check out the early-year gems that slipped under the radar.
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May 14, 2025 at 4:09 PM
For The Reveal, I did a pre-summer Catching Up With the Critics column, seeking out Jan-Apr 2025 films hailed by @kphipps3000.bsky.social, @manohladargis.bsky.social, @justincchang.bsky.social, @bilgeebiri.bsky.social and Wesley Morris. thereveal.substack.com/p/catching-u...
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^ “Remember “Chekhov’s Gun,” the writing rule that any element that receives a significant introduction in a story should be used? This movie has Chekhov’s Beer Bottle, Chekhov’s Soul Band, Chekhov’s Nose Ring, Chekhov’s Logging Truck, Chekhov’s Sputtering Halogen Light, and Chekhov’s MRI Chamber.”
May 14, 2025 at 5:19 PM
^ “Remember “Chekhov’s Gun,” the writing rule that any element that receives a significant introduction in a story should be used? This movie has Chekhov’s Beer Bottle, Chekhov’s Soul Band, Chekhov’s Nose Ring, Chekhov’s Logging Truck, Chekhov’s Sputtering Halogen Light, and Chekhov’s MRI Chamber.”
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Incidentally, when Tony Todd died, I wrote an appreciation of his brilliance for @ebertvoices.bsky.social
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A Voice from the Great Unconscious: Tony Todd (1954-2024) | Tributes | Roger Ebert
A tribute to Tony Todd.
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May 14, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Incidentally, when Tony Todd died, I wrote an appreciation of his brilliance for @ebertvoices.bsky.social
www.rogerebert.com/tributes/a-v...
www.rogerebert.com/tributes/a-v...