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Falling a bit behind on my #reviews, but another solid #lastfourwatched for this weekend’s #letterboxdfriday

What are we watching this weekend?

#letterboxd #filmsky #moviesky #cinemasky #movies #film #justwatched #filmcriticism #filmreview #moviereview
November 7, 2025 at 12:23 AM
kevinjacobsen.bsky.social
Babygirl was really hot #filmcriticism
December 27, 2024 at 8:45 PM
andyjcrofts.bsky.social
📣 New Podcast! "#144 DAY 2 - 31 NIGHTS OF FRIGHT! | Obsession Film Review" on @Spreaker #cinemareview #darkthriller #disturbingmovies #filmanalysis #filmcriticism #filmreview #filmreviews #horror #movieanalysis #moviereview #moviereviews #obsession #obsessionfilm #obsessionmovie #suspense
#144 DAY 2 - 31 NIGHTS OF FRIGHT! | Obsession Film Review
A dark and gripping film review of Obsession, exploring its themes of desire, manipulation, jealousy and psychological obsession. We take a closer look at the story, performances, atmosphere and disturbing twists to see what makes this thriller so compelling, and whether it’s worth watching.
www.spreaker.com
October 2, 2026 at 8:50 PM
horrortree.com
🧠 Ongoing Submissions
What Sleeps Beneath

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Horror criticism, analysis, and commentary.

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From @whatsleepsbeneath.com

#HorrorCriticism #FilmCriticism
April 6, 2026 at 7:30 PM
followfocus.bsky.social
“Remembering David Bordwell: A Film Scholar Who Did More Than Anyone to Advance Academic Film Studies

Several generations of film students began their studies with his ‘Film Art: An Introduction.’ And that was just the tiniest fraction of his impact.” 🎥 🎞️ 📽️ ✍🏽 📓 📚 #FilmStudies #FilmCriticism
Remembering David Bordwell: A Film Scholar Who Did More Than Anyone to Advance Academic Film Studies
David Bordwell is dead at 76: The late film scholar revolutionized the academic study of film.
www.indiewire.com
March 2, 2024 at 10:57 AM
secondcutpod.bsky.social
Few new episodes have gone up recently. One of them was an episode we recorded a few weeks ago for Robert Duvall. Find it wherever you get your podcasts, or on YouTube right here.
#filmsky #moviesky #robertduvall #podcast #filmpodcast #moviepodcast #filmcriticism
Why Robert Duvall Was One of America’s Greatest Actors
YouTube video by Second Cut
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March 17, 2026 at 5:56 PM
andanotheronepod.bsky.social
We discuss the 1976 and 2006 The Omen Films. Links below🎙️
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Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/4n93...
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#Movies #Film #Movie #FilmCriticism #Remakes #AndAnotherOnePodcast #AndAnotherOne #Podcast #TheOmen #HorrorMovie
July 26, 2025 at 11:29 AM
jprr.bsky.social
Cinematic Collapses of Logic and Ideology: A Comparative Analysis of King Solomon’s Mines (1985) and Fountain of Youth (2025)
#KingSolomonsMines #FountainofYouth #MovieReview #Action #Adventure #Fantasy #FilmCriticism
pablohoneyfish.wordpress.com/2026/07/03/c...
Cinematic Collapses of Logic and Ideology: A Comparative Analysis of King Solomon’s Mines (1985) and Fountain of Youth (2025)
Action-adventure movies ask you to forget what is real. You trade truth for thrills. However, when a story forgets history and logic, the magic stops working. The audience sees the wires. This anal…
pablohoneyfish.wordpress.com
July 4, 2026 at 12:09 AM
jprr.bsky.social
The Burial (2023) is a crock of razzle-dazzle bullshit — a retroactively BlackLivesMatter-pandering, quote-unquote true story wherein an old white man plays the race card on another old white man.
#TheBurial #MovieReview #Drama #TrueStory #FilmCriticism
pablohoneyfish.wordpress.com/2026/10/01/t...
The Burial (2023): The Moral Hazard of Vindictive Justice
The Burial (2023) is a crock of razzle-dazzle bullshit — a retroactively BlackLivesMatter-pandering, quote-unquote true story wherein an old white man plays the race card on another old white man a…
pablohoneyfish.wordpress.com
October 2, 2026 at 12:09 AM
jprr.bsky.social
The Taking of Beverly Hills takes the “heist within a heist” formula and derails it with an economic model that defies every rule of finance, law, and basic accounting.
#TheTakingofBeverlyHills #MovieReview #Action #Thriller #FilmCriticism
pablohoneyfish.wordpress.com/2026/10/01/t...
The Taking of Beverly Hills (1991): Class Erasure & The Neoliberal Action Hero
The best part of The Taking of Beverly Hills (1991) is when the soundtrack rocks a little Faith No More. It’s even more enjoyable if you close your eyes. A lot of stuff gets blowed up real good the…
pablohoneyfish.wordpress.com
October 1, 2026 at 8:29 PM
jprr.bsky.social
Insofar as they remain a punk band, Green Day are the U2 of punk bands, and here they out-Rattle and Hum U2.
#Nimrods #MovieReview #Comedy #RoadTrip #GreenDay #ComingofAge #FilmCriticism
pablohoneyfish.wordpress.com/2026/09/24/n...
Nimrods (2025): Commodifying the Punk Ethos
Nimrods (2025) perpetuates the myth of the dumb rocker. Case in point, the recurring onscreen text specifying the current date and counting down to a future date; e.g., “December 24 – 7 Days …
pablohoneyfish.wordpress.com
September 24, 2026 at 6:18 PM
riodylan.bsky.social
Most of the people I follow on BlueSky are either friends or critics/cinephiles of one stripe of another. I know things are tough for critics right now. My dad was a film critic. I spend my days evaluating and writing criticism. I think it matters. That’s all. #critics #filmcriticism #criticism
September 9, 2025 at 8:32 PM
iamkaymichelle.bsky.social
I'm going back & adding 2024's #OscarsHomework back to my #Medium List, & stumbled onto the origin story for my style of #filmcriticism.

kcookandcatsco.medium.com/who-will-rid...

I had forgotten all of this, but it was #GladiatorII that crystallized my process 🤓

#KCookandCatsCo lore!

#FilmSky
Who will Rid(ley) me of these troublesome sequels? | Gladiator II (2024) Movie Review
Thomas Becket? Henry II? History? 📜 | #OscarsHomework
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March 16, 2026 at 7:01 PM
iamkaymichelle.bsky.social
I’m not gonna blow this guy’s spot up bc I support #writers, even insufferable ones, but I’m going to clip this.

Imagine my surprise when I clicked on what seemed to be a piece of #filmcriticism re: #cinematography & the insert shot, & found, instead 4 grafs of vibey #beatpoetry 🤣

#FilmSky #lol
The word movie suggests movement. The word novel might suggest newness. The word film might conjure the stickiness of some grimy veneer. Back to that first point. The moving movie — I’m talking of physical motion, not the evocation of emotion. Nice thought though. Movies called movies because they move us. I’ll mention one of my all time favorites: Kurosawa’s Ikiru. Now that’s what you might call a move-me. Nor am I talking about the story always moving on, an old chestnut of screenwriting dogma — as though a film has to suffer from constant St. Vitus’ dance. It doesn’t. It can breathe, resonate, generate suspense, bask in a vibe, mesmerize, captivate. PREPOSTEROUS 🤣 I love that in that 3rd graf, he thinks he’s made a point he can return to. Good grief! My stuff isn’t like this 😑
January 9, 2026 at 11:29 PM
columbiaup.bsky.social
Now available! In this book, Whitney Crothers Dilley explores the filmic and literary influences that have shaped Wes Anderson’s distinctive voice, revealing what makes him one of today’s most significant filmmakers. buff.ly/785KfT3 #WesAnderson #Cinephile #FilmCriticism #FilmStudies
Graphic for the second edition of The Cinema of Wes Anderson: Bringing Nostalgia to Life by Whitney Crothers Dilley, announcing it is now available. Quote: “A lively, informative, and essential guide to keep nearby while watching and rewatching Wes Anderson’s marvelous, truly original films.” —Michael Z. Newman, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. Save 20% with code CUP20SM at cup.columbia.edu.
August 23, 2026 at 5:15 PM
effeh.bsky.social
It’s Monday and today I finish Jesse Wente’s #memoir ‘Unreconciled’ #Indigenous #filmcriticism #Canada #booksky
July 21, 2025 at 3:39 PM
jprr.bsky.social
The Anatomy of a Cinematic Shearing: Tonal Incoherence, Visual Uncanniness, and Narrative Self-Sabotage in The Sheep Detectives (2026)
#TheSheepDetectives #MovieReview #Comedy #Fantasy #Mystery #FilmCriticism
pablohoneyfish.wordpress.com/2026/07/13/t...
The Anatomy of a Cinematic Shearing: Tonal Incoherence, Visual Uncanniness, and Narrative Self-Sabotage in The Sheep Detectives (2026)
The Sheep Detectives (2026) is the result of abandoning artistic taste for industrial hubris. Director Kyle Balda, apparently high on the fumes of his Minions success, vomited forth a flock of digi…
pablohoneyfish.wordpress.com
July 14, 2026 at 6:02 AM
jprr.bsky.social
Cinema loves the myth of the “pure genius” writer but skips the grind that actually makes books work.
#MovieReview #FilmAnalysis #Literature #Writing #FilmCriticism #Storytelling #Cinema #Books
pablohoneyfish.wordpress.com/2026/04/21/t...
The Industrial Mirage: Deconstructing Cinematic Mythologies of Authorship, Editorial Labor, and Publishing Realities
The cinematic representation of the literary industry serves as a primary site for the commodification of the “creative spark,” often at the direct expense of technical, professional, and biologica…
pablohoneyfish.wordpress.com
April 22, 2026 at 2:45 AM
theuncannycut.bsky.social
Movies are meant to be enjoyed, no matter your taste.

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#FilmLovers #Cinephile #MovieDiscussion #FilmAnalysis #CinemaCommunity #FilmCriticism #🎥 #moviesky #🎬
February 12, 2025 at 2:03 AM
jprr.bsky.social
A vegetarian, ice-breathing dragon is counterintuitive to say the least, yet that’s what DragonHeart: Vengeance (2020) gives us: an oversized, computer-generated fire extinguisher.
#DragonHeartVengeance #MovieReview #Adventure #Fantasy #FilmCriticism
pablohoneyfish.wordpress.com/2026/09/26/d...
DragonHeart: Vengeance (2020): Dragons Are Zan, Dragonesses Are Jayna
A vegetarian, ice-breathing dragon is counterintuitive to say the least, yet that’s what DragonHeart: Vengeance (2020) gives us: an oversized, computer-generated fire extinguisher. Siveth the Drago…
pablohoneyfish.wordpress.com
September 26, 2026 at 8:29 PM
jprr.bsky.social
“Saint Barnabas commands you!” Saint Barnabas? What happened to “the power of Christ compels you”? Barnabas is your go-to saint for bad weather, not demonic possession.
#TheDevilInside #MovieReview #Horror #FoundFootage #Exorcism #FilmCriticism
pablohoneyfish.wordpress.com/2026/09/30/t...
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September 30, 2026 at 9:47 PM
jprr.bsky.social
When a script stacks three unrelated killer archetypes — Child Prodigy Assassin, Late-Blooming Revenge Stalker, and Serial Body-Parts Artist — into a dude working a valet shift, the narrative unravels.
#TheRow #MovieReview #Horror #Slasher #FilmCriticism
pablohoneyfish.wordpress.com/2026/09/30/t...
The Row (2018): Motive Overkill and the Convenient Omnipresent Antagonist
The Row (2018) opens on Riley Cole’s first day at Vanternin State University, one of those colleges where all courses are elective. Riley’s soon-to-be-suspended police detective father drops her of…
pablohoneyfish.wordpress.com
September 30, 2026 at 6:32 PM
l3fthandpath.bsky.social
Here are some updates about what I have been working on, and what is in store at The Left-Hand Path this year! Link in Bio.

#filmcriticism #filmwriting #surrealism #thewierd #dalí #filmsky #moviesky
Spring Thaw
Things to Come...
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March 21, 2026 at 2:54 PM
l3fthandpath.bsky.social
New writing up! In which I discuss the train as a place of erotic potential in Silver Streak (1976), La Bête Humaine (1938), Night Train Murders (1975), Trans-Europ-Express (1966), etc. All aboard for this occasionally sleazy trip.

#lefthandpath #silverstreak #filmcriticism #trainkink #filmsky
Railways of Desire
…Train Pictures #2
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February 21, 2025 at 12:22 AM
iamkaymichelle.bsky.social
And, of course, here's the @reelrank.bsky.social review. No #filmcriticism of mine is ever complete without a #ReelRank listing 🤓

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If you ever get tired of the ads on @letterboxd.social, ReelRank has no ads ever, and is a much nicer UI/UX, imo.

#FilmSky #Movies
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Review of — 👍 Recommended, 9.0/10. Firstly, Wagner Moura should win Best Male Lead, imo. It's his to lose (I've now seen all the nominees except Ethan Hawke in Blue Moon), as far as I'm concerned, an...
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March 13, 2026 at 5:45 PM