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"The best video essay source on the web." (Roger Ebert) This is a web site built around original video essays and critical, personal writing about movies, TV, music, comics and whatever else interests its contributors. Co-founded by Matt Zoller Seitz, TV critic for New York Magazine, and Ken Cancelosi, it is published by Seitz and Cancelosi and overseen by editor-in-chief Kevin B. Lee and managing editor Max Winter.

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SLIDE SHOW: Looking back at the cultural impact of 9/11, part 3

EDITOR'S NOTE: As the attacks receded and two wars took center stage, pop culture's response grew more complicated.

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September 9, 2011 9:15 AM
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MATT ZOLLER SEITZ: The "Reincarnation" of Futurama

EDITOR'S NOTE: The sci-fi cartoon's season finale spoofs 1930s cartoon shorts, early arcade games and badly dubbed anime.

By Matthew Seitz
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September 8, 2011 10:35 AM
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SIMON SAYS: Of Zen, 3D and donkey penises

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September 8, 2011 9:47 AM
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RECAP: RESCUE ME, the series finale

EDITOR'S NOTE: This article contains spoilers for the series finale of Rescue Me. Read at your own risk.

By Matthew Seitz
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September 8, 2011 7:06 AM
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Matt Zoller Seitz | Founder & Publisher A critic, journalist and filmmaker, Matt Zoller Seitz is the staff TV columnist for Salon.com and a finalist for the Pulitzer prize in criticism. He has worked as a movie critic for The New York Times, New York Press and New Times Newspapers and as a TV critic for The Star-Ledger of Newark. His video essays about Terrence Malick, Oliver Stone, Kathryn Bigelow, Budd Boetticher, Wes Anderson, Clint Eastwood, Michael Mann and other directors can be viewed at the The Museum of the Moving Image web site. Seitz is the founder of The House Next Door, a website devoted to critical writing about popular culture. His book-length conversation with Wes Anderson about his films, titled The Wes Anderson Collection, will be published in fall, 2012 by Abrams Books.

By Matthew Seitz
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September 8, 2011 5:11 AM
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NOBODY’S BUSINESS BUT THE TURK’S #3: Of Nostalgia and Other Evils

By Ali ArikanPress Play Contributor

By Matthew Seitz
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September 7, 2011 3:12 AM
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After 90 years, "Fatty" Arbuckle's rarely-screened LEAP YEAR returns to public view

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September 6, 2011 6:56 AM
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RECAP: BREAKING BAD, Season 4, Episode 8: "Hermanos"

EDITOR'S NOTE: In a powerful Breaking Bad, Gustavo "Gus" Fring, bold businessman and master liar, is "explained" -- sort of. The following recap of contains spoilers. Read at your own risk.

By Matthew Seitz
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September 6, 2011 6:36 AM
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MATT ZOLLER SEITZ: Great shows that understand workplace politics

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September 5, 2011 6:02 AM
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SLIDE SHOW: Looking back at the cultural impact of 9/11, part 2

Remembering the years after the attacks, when everything felt filtered through one September morning

By Matthew Seitz
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September 4, 2011 10:46 AM
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