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Senior Editor at The Week plus NYU prof. Bylines: Village Voice (rip), Uproxx, Vulture, Guardian, Metro (rip), Philly Weekly. mattprigge at gmail dot com https://www.mattprigge.com

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Fair enough

24.02.2026 04:25 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Revisiting Taxi Driver for the first time in an awfully long time and instead of taking Betsy to the dirty Swedish movie (at the Lyric Theatre, which now houses the Harry Potter play), Travis, had he been smart, could have taken her across the street to Clint’s The Eiger Sanction

24.02.2026 04:16 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

A long time ago I swore I saw Tom Noonan in the East Village but I wasn’t sure it was him. A friend said, β€œIf you think you saw Tom Noonan, you saw Tom Noonan.” RIP

18.02.2026 14:08 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Frederick Wiseman spent 1967 on, some six decades, wandering America and the world filming how it works (and, often, doesn’t), retreating to an editing room, then going back out and doing it all over again. What a life! RIP to one of the actual greatest

16.02.2026 21:34 β€” πŸ‘ 24    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

That’s another

13.02.2026 21:53 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Phil Collins solo albums are wild because they’ll have a minimalist, menacing, anguished masterpiece followed immediately by the lamest, most vanilla track ever recorded. I’m especially thinking of β€œDo You Know, Do You Care?” into β€œYou Can’t Hurry Love” off Hello, I Must Be Going

13.02.2026 20:42 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Someone do a rep series of W. Somerset Maugham film adaptations and call it Mars Needs Maughams

01.02.2026 00:15 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

I liked Marty Supreme a lot but preferred the one where someone hates living a panic attack existence over the one where someone thrives with it

31.12.2025 16:05 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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An absurdly mixed bag year! Emergency spinal surgery over the summer made it an ordeal, but I still managed to watch new movies and cross off plenty of oldies off my to-see-list. Thanks to all who helped me get through 2025 and may 2026 be considerably less garbage

31.12.2025 15:53 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

TIL: We could have gotten David Lynch’s American Beauty

30.12.2025 21:10 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Revisited Broadcast News and the part where the news head jokes to Nicholson that the layoffs would be less brutal if he shaved a million or so off his salary, then spends a solid 30 seconds apologizing to him and swearing he was just kidding, is my new favorite part

23.12.2025 14:52 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Belatedly made Metropolitan a staple of my holiday movie repertoire starting in 2022 and it’s become one of my favorite Yuletide traditions

22.12.2025 01:22 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Once I interviewed Rob Reiner and asked about his incredible work in Wolf of Wall Street. He said, "I don't know what was more unbelievable: that I was DiCaprio's father or that DiCaprio was a Jew." An incredibly lovely and funny man. This news is beyond awful

15.12.2025 04:28 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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This is arguably the wildest aspect of David Lynch’s Dune

14.12.2025 16:21 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Because of their Marty Supreme getup in the big window of AMC Lincoln Square 13, New York finally has the giant head of Abel Ferrara looking down upon it

13.12.2025 19:52 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

My half-filled theater included a row of people who snickered throughout at this movie from a bygone era, but then enthusiastically discussed how it was unusually insightful about specific concerns plaguing us today, so I don’t know what to think! (I mostly liked it)

12.12.2025 04:18 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Ella McCay: I enjoyed this kooky movie and its plethora of faults and its far more plentiful pleasures. Very nice seeing a comedy in the year 2025 that repeatedly pauses so characters can cry while sad music plays. That Soike Fearn guy is intense

12.12.2025 03:13 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Is it good

26.11.2025 21:08 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Is β€œchicken bake” even a thing or a CostCo invention? Also never been here before and was horrified/impressed by five pounds of Hershey’s and 50 pounds of powdered sugar

26.11.2025 21:01 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Would watch a sitcom about Roberto Rossellini bringing a kangaroo home to Ingrid and the kids

15.11.2025 17:23 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Trier has this annoying habit of mercilessly tackling specific-to-me anxieties, this one hitting two of them

10.11.2025 01:39 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I didn’t buy it either, but that’s because Gustav is actually not that terrible a person, even if he’s forever flighty with people, which makes for an overall stronger movie (that I had problems with too, but the thing got to me)

10.11.2025 01:31 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Was heartened at my UWS screening of Sentimental Value when a little jokette about Gaspae Noé’s 23-year-old Irreversible got the film’s biggest laugh

10.11.2025 01:21 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Stoked to never have to think about Andrew Cuomo again for the rest of my days

05.11.2025 02:22 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Caught up with Pret-Γ -Porter before it skedaddled from Criterion Channel and this crash zoom into Stephen Rea doing a face is among the wackiest shots in the Altman canon

01.11.2025 19:23 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Look what the fuck someone did to my lock to steal my bike. I’m almost impressed

01.11.2025 14:09 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Fuckin’ A

31.10.2025 22:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

No one has ever wanted to steal my shitty bikes!

31.10.2025 20:06 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Every other cyclist in the world after I finally have a bicycle stolen

31.10.2025 19:57 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0