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Ezra Stead

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About Me

Ezra once kicked Ron Howard's ass in a barfight. He also recently published a book of poetry, short stories and essays (mostly about films), and it's available now, exclusively online at lulu.com. To preview and/or buy the book, go to lulu.com and search Ezra Stead, or simply copy and paste this URL into your browser:

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Sometimes I disagree with nearly everyone about movies:

Ezra - "Fuck the Goonies" from Justin Schell | 612 to 651 on Vimeo .

Here's the trailer for the latest from Ezra Stead and James Vogel, THE CITY, due out in Spring 2009:

The City Trailer from James Vogel on Vimeo .
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My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Saul Williams, David Lynch, Jim Jarmusch, Gaspar Noe, KRS-One, Talib Kweli, Common, Scarlett Johansson, Monica Bellucci, Robert Anton Wilson, Gary Oldman, Dan Savage, and your mom.

My Blog

TOP 20 FILMS OF 2008

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Posted by on Thu, 19 Feb 2009 13:59:00 GMT

NEW BATCH

I'm reading the news at work when Brendan comes in, a 16-year-old kid who just happens to be 21, so straight-and-narrow he makes the sun feel shady. "What can I do for you?" I know the answer bef...
Posted by on Fri, 16 Jan 2009 14:05:00 GMT

MY THREE WEEKS OF INTERNET FAME

So if you don't already know, in the last three weeks, my song and music video "One Serious Joke," popularly known as "Drill Baby Drill," has become a hotbed of controversy that has exceeded even...
Posted by on Wed, 05 Nov 2008 17:00:00 GMT

LORD OF WAR

Lord of War is an interesting and visually arresting film hampered by miscasting and sloppy storytelling. Nicolas Cage stars as Yuri Orlov, (you can already see why I might say it's miscast, right?) t...
Posted by on Thu, 09 Oct 2008 16:30:00 GMT

SINCE LAST WE SPOKE 14

American Pimp is one of the liveliest and most entertaining documentaries I've ever seen. Thus far the only foray into nonfiction filmmaking by the acclaimed Hughes Brothers (Menace II Society, Dead P...
Posted by on Sat, 19 Jul 2008 02:53:00 GMT

SINCE LAST WE SPOKE 13

Flatliners is, along with my old childhood favorite The Lost Boys, easily one of hack director Joel Shumacher's best films, which is to say it's pretty good. Tackling some very interesting spiritual q...
Posted by on Sun, 13 Jul 2008 05:40:00 GMT

SINCE LAST WE SPOKE 12

The Forbidden Kingdom is one of those movies you either have to see or couldn't care less about, depending on your level of interest in martial arts films. For those of us with even a casual interest ...
Posted by on Sun, 29 Jun 2008 01:44:00 GMT

SINCE LAST WE SPOKE 11

The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada is a gritty neo-Western that I think would have made Sam Peckinpah proud. Tommy Lee Jones's directorial debut tells the story of the forced redemption of a very...
Posted by on Sat, 21 Jun 2008 12:37:00 GMT

SINCE LAST WE SPOKE 10

Nine ½ Weeks is another in a string of sexy/sleazy '80s movies I've been watching lately (also including Body Heat and The Pick-Up Artist), and I have to say that, as much as I like sex and Mickey Rou...
Posted by on Sat, 14 Jun 2008 04:46:00 GMT

SINCE LAST WE SPOKE 9

What up Bill Murray. It's been a while since I rapped atcha, but in that time I've seen seven (count 'em, seven) movies that I wanna tell y'all about. So listen up:Meet the Parents is one of those mov...
Posted by on Fri, 30 May 2008 18:40:00 GMT