Brice Ezell
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Brice Ezell
@briceezell.bsky.social

Writer, critic (@PopMatters), teacher. ATL.
PhD in English, University of Texas.
Modern drama, theatre, and philosophy.
Writing a book on Tom Stoppard.
#COYS
https://boxd.it/1rEO5

Sir Tom Stoppard is a Czech-born British playwright and screenwriter. He has written for film, radio, stage, and television, finding prominence with plays. His work covers the themes of human rights, censorship, and political freedom, often delving into the deeper philosophical bases of society. Stoppard has been a playwright of the National Theatre and is one of the most internationally performed dramatists of his generation. He was knighted for his contribution to theatre by Queen Elizabeth II in 1997. .. more

Art 49%
Philosophy 16%
Pinned
Humanities academic job seekers wondering if the job market is worth your time: it isn't.

Pinning this to the top of my profile in the hopes that this data helps people who are seeing so much hard work go unrewarded. I thought I'd have a rougher time post-market. This data explains why I haven't.
The results of my 2024-25 academic job market experiment are in, and the numbers should be instructive to anyone considering university employment these days: don't. It's not worth your time, even if you've done all the work to get a PhD, even if it seems like a dream job.

Results breakdown below.

"This one's for Harambe," the tiger said with its final bite.

Reposted by Tom Stoppard

Man dies after entering tiger enclosure at Yorkshire Wildlife Park
Man dies after entering tiger enclosure at UK zoo
A man has died after being attacked by a tiger at Yorkshire Wildlife Park, police say.
www.abc.net.au

Hit a pause in my Verneuil watchthrough because I’ve about exhausted everything available in easily accessible physical/streaming media form. ICARUS sits near the top of his filmography for me. boxd.it/TKr3k
Ranking Verneuil
Unfortunately, as of April 2026 maybe 25 percent of Verneuil's filmography has a US physical release of some kind. But the run from The Body of My Enemy to A Thousand Billion Dollars quickly establish...
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Woulda pulled the trigger just for the cover alone, but seeing it has a @brofromanother.bsky.social visual essay made this an instant pre-order (despite already owning the Kino). A great conspiracy classic, a must for JFK fans, and a testament to the absolute heater Verneuil was on in the 70s.
UK: After the President is assassinated, all accept the theory of a lone gunman – except for one Prosecutor (Yves Montand) who reopens the case, in I... FOR ICARUS.

A UK Blu-ray premiere, this release features a new visual essay by @brofromanother.bsky.social and writing by Mark Asch.
“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books

STELLA MARIS is totally of a piece with his “novels in dramatic form.” THE PASSENGER structurally, in the Bobby chapters, is a photonegative of SUTTREE.

I get that they are Not For Everyone, but as a diehard fan of Cormac McCarthy’s final two novels I do find it annoying that supposedly serious people are denying his authorship largely on grounds of, “they’re weird.”

"Wait, you mean this was just about making an elite tranche of society even more money, this whole time?!"

Another entry in "what no materialism does to a mfer"

Conservative man finally forced to reckon with the actual political agenda of modern American conservatism, Exhibit A