Ed Gonzalez

Editor and Co-founder @Slant_Magazine.

[Ed Gonzalez @certified_ed]

She left the caps lock key at the border.

[M.I.A. ⊕ II II II @MIAuniverse]

I WROTE ILLYGAL ON THE MAYA LP A SONG FROM 2010.
I STARTED THIS INTRO TO THE SONG WITH THE STATEMENT SAYING I'M ILLYGAL, AND I SAID MY TEAM HASN'T GOTTEN VISAS YET. THEN PLAYED A SONG THAT HAD LYRICS SAYING "FU&% THE LAW", WHICH I STILL BELIEVE, IF THE LAW IS UNJUST F@%& IT.

DO NOT GAS LIGHT MY WORDS. THAT IS THE WORK OF SATAN.

I WROTE BORDERS AND ILLYGAL AND PAPER PLANES BEFORE YOU THOUGHT IMMIGRANT RIGHTS WERE COOL. I'VE HAD THSES BATTLES BY MYSELF WITHOUT THE HELP OF MILLIONS OF FANS BACKING ME . I DON'T NEED THIS VIRTUE SIGNAL ERA TO ALL OF A SUDDEN ERASE AN ENTIRE LIFE I'VE LED. JESUS WAS AN IMMIGRANT AND A REBEL. I HAVE NO APPOLGY FOR THE JUDGEMENTAL THE WICKED AND THE IGNORENT, FOR THOSE ARE SPIRITS THAT WE MUST OVER COME IN OUR LIVES AND IN THIS WORLD.

JESUS RETURNS TO LEAD THE WORLD JUSTLY BECAUSE THERE IS INJUSTICE IN THIS WORLD . IM PROUD OF THOSE WHO FIGHT FOR IT EVERYDAY. GOD BLESS YOU. 🙏🏽
GO LISTEN TO M.I.7.❤️

[Slant @Slant_Magazine]

Read our talk with David Lowery about MOTHER MARY, the creative uncertainty that led him to write it, directing Anne Hathaway and Michaela Coel, and working with Charli XCX on the soundtrack. https://t.co/JIZCcFYcHd

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Four humans are about to fall into a 10,000°C wall of plasma at 25,000 mph with a heat shield NASA knows is flawed. Tomorrow evening. Off the coast of San Diego.

Orion hits the atmosphere at 36 times the speed of sound. The air can't move out of the way fast enough, so it compresses into a shockwave twice as hot as the surface of the Sun. The plasma ionizes the surrounding air and blocks all radio signals. For several minutes, the crew is falling faster than any humans have ever traveled inside a spacecraft, and nobody on the ground can talk to them.

The heat shield is 186 blocks of a material called Avcoat glued to a titanium skeleton. It works by charring, melting, and disintegrating on purpose. The destruction of the outer layer is the cooling mechanism. There is no backup system. No redundancy. The heat shield works or the crew doesn't come home.

The Artemis I heat shield came back with over 100 locations where chunks had ripped off. NASA spent two years figuring out why, concluded it was gas pressure building up inside the material during reentry, and decided not to replace the shield. They changed the flight path instead. Steeper angle, less time in the danger zone. NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman said publicly that this approach "is not the right way to do things long term."

The capsule will slow from 25,000 mph to 17 mph in thirteen minutes. Parachutes don't even deploy until the last four. Everything before that is managed by a curved piece of titanium and glue entering air twice as hot as the Sun.

Tomorrow at 5:07 PM Pacific, San Diego might hear a sonic boom. That sound is four people betting their lives on NASA's math being right.

[Marshall Shaffer @media_marshall]

"Editing one of these films is thinking about the human behavior that you have captured on film, its implications and consequences."

Still feels like I shouldn't have been allowed to interview Frederick Wiseman. What a gift, what a loss. https://t.co/a2a14ms3By

[david ehrlich @davidehrlich]

unambiguous gestapo shit. Our tax dollars paying for cowardly racist thugs to terrorize American streets with impunity. Anyone who says otherwise is complicit.

[Slant @Slant_Magazine]

"These films celebrate the tremendous range of human expression that’s vital to our understanding the context of the age we live in." Presenting our list of the best films of 2025. #BestOf2025 https://t.co/Mj1IQ6unwL

[Ed Gonzalez @certified_ed]

@gustaf Gustaf, I know I'm repyling to an old message but if you read this, I'm curious to know about your personal experience with @StampsCom. I recently learned they've been stealing $ from me for five years. filed a claim through BBB, but they're refusing to refund me the full amount.

[How Many Days Until Mel Brooks Turns 100? @BrooksTurns100]

No

[Yuval Abraham יובל אברהם @yuval_abraham]

When this mayor uses the word antisemitism to silence us, Palestinians and Israelis who proudly oppose occupation and apartheid together, fighting for justice and equality for all, he is dangerously emptying it out of meaning. Once you witness Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Masafer Yatta it becomes impossible to justify it, and that’s why the mayor is so afraid of our film. It won’t work. Banning a film only makes people more determined to see it.

[Ed Gonzalez @certified_ed]

Not saying you should read this piece on ÉL, maybe my favorite film by my favorite filmmaker, because I wrote it in my early 20s and it's a miracle I never took it down in embarrassment, but you SHOULD very much go see the new restoration @FilmForumNYC! https://t.co/IN0lQjkPQJ

[Slant @Slant_Magazine]

Read our interview with Gints Zilbalodis about FLOW, composing the score for the film as he wrote the screenplay, and what he hopes people will make of the film’s ambiguities given its pointed lack of exposition. https://t.co/LkzGgNiVJT

[Ed Gonzalez @certified_ed]

I wish I could post the review spoiler warnings for this season without fear of public execution.

[Corey Jacob @coreytimes]

The White Lotus writers are despicable for this gay incest storyline. Portraying such abhorrent and morally corrupt behavior in the current political climate is detrimental to the LGBTQ+ community. I can’t wait to watch them kiss

[John Carpenter @TheHorrorMaster]

I got to be friends with David Lynch when we were both at Universal years ago. A very kind man, he was a fan of Bob's Big Boy. So was I. I'm going to miss him. R.I.P. David.

[♕ @alovetrilogy]

actually pop music wouldn’t exist without HER

[Slant @Slant_Magazine]

There’s evocativeness and then there’s lack of context, and it feels as if THE DAMNED's cinematography and Odessa Young’s performance are trying to deflect attention from the latter. Read @certified_ed's review. https://t.co/2zYPfUrhw8

[Slant @Slant_Magazine]

For all their looking back, our favorite films of the year don’t engage in thoughtless nostalgia for an earlier time. #BestOf2024 https://t.co/SaN39ItBpK

[Martin @viceroymartin]

My sexuality is Isabelle Adjani saying “Jaws”

[Slant @Slant_Magazine]

Amy Nicholson's HAPPY CAMPERS is an empathetic celebration of the sense of community that can be fostered off the beaten path. Read @certified_ed's review. https://t.co/bpyAjN6GJV

[Farran Nehme 🇱🇧 @selfstyledsiren]

Farewell to the unforgettable, singular Shelley Duvall.

[Ed Gonzalez @certified_ed]

I wrote about music in my 20s, and I dug it.

[Slant @Slant_Magazine]

The Streets's sensationally cinematic concept album 'A Grand Don't Come for Free' was released on this day 20 years ago! Revisit @certified_ed's review. https://t.co/sTq3WCgtJ7