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kcookandcatsco.bsky.social
I got fired from an #AMC, as well. My story is a little less noble…

I get into it in my review of The Brutalist: kcookandcatsco.medium.com/its-brutal-l...

#theaters #movies
September 12, 2026 at 5:50 PM
bomani-hamletcook.bsky.social
Oh, it would be lovely to get the #Oscaround folks involved. We love that tool, and use it to chart out our #OscarsHomework watches every year (for the last two years, and likely many more) 😽
August 20, 2026 at 2:38 AM
kcookandcatsco.bsky.social
Oh, man, you should read my Conclave review...

medium.com/@kcookandcat...

It's not winning any awards from me, that's for sure 🙂‍↔️

Otherwise, I guess I must see I Saw the TV Glow, currently a #KayHasn'tSeen, before I award any.

(Look, this was from back before I figured out @medium.com images 😅)
Every God Crazy ‘Bout a Sharp-Dressed Pope | Conclave (2024) Movie Review
Gettin’ Jesus-y Wit It ✝️ | #OscarsHomework
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August 18, 2026 at 7:26 PM
iamkaymichelle.bsky.social
I fucking hate Bob Dylan so much lolol

Read all about it: kcookandcatsco.medium.com/a-complete-p...

And I’m a musician and writer. I know an inartistic, coattail-riding, self-obsessed dickhead when I see one 😤
August 12, 2026 at 8:36 PM
iamkaymichelle.bsky.social
lol, I love how on board you are with the kayfabe. Bowie totally *would* out me for something embarrassing, but I was just looking for a link 😆

Here! I’ve written about it before: kcookandcatsco.medium.com/in-aid-for-w...

The 1st 8 grafs tell the story of how when I 1st started watching VHSs by…
In Aid for What | Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl (2024) Movie Review | #OscarsHomework
A movie review sadly not by DJ Snake & Lil Jon 🐍👑
kcookandcatsco.medium.com
July 29, 2026 at 4:18 PM
iamkaymichelle.bsky.social
I can’t even talk about Secretary Bird 😭

And WHALE!! 😭😭

I wrote about it. My handwritten notes were tear-stained, so I won’t tell you it’s an easy watch, but it’s worth it, I think.

kcookandcatsco.medium.com/weve-made-a-...
We’ve Made a Huge Mistake | Flow (2024) Movie Review
We’re pleased to announce Flow is also now #MiaouscarsHomework 🐈‍⬛ | #OscarsHomework
kcookandcatsco.medium.com
May 23, 2026 at 12:24 AM
iamkaymichelle.bsky.social
The runtime VERY MUCH put me off lol 🤣

This is also a fun meta-story about AMC wrongfully terminating me. My The Brutalist review is kind of a seminal #KCookandCatsCo moment 🤓

medium.com/@kcookandcat...

It is still a #Miaouscar winner, though the one that explicitly squeaked in last year.
It’s Brutal(ly Long) | The Brutalist (2024) Movie Review
“punishingly hard or uncomfortable,” defines the OED. Mmmhm… 🙂‍↕️ | #OscarsHomework
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March 28, 2026 at 7:23 PM
iamkaymichelle.bsky.social
I’m going through and bookmarking and collating old reviews and writing, and I’m reminded that #ADifferentMan was 1 of the 7 inaugural #ACatemyAward winners, what we call The #Miaouscars.

Are y’all familiar? Kinda flew under the radar 🤓

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Funniest of 2024 🤓
March 21, 2026 at 3:48 PM
iamkaymichelle.bsky.social
Here's where we left off last night (bc I don't take work home with me; the #cats would not abide it), about 1hr10m into #Weapons, paused on James' reaction to having stabbed Paul in the face with 3 syringes 🤣

It's still cracking me up. #ACAB 😆

#FilmSky #LiveSky #MovieSky #OscarsHomework
Lol. He's just realizing who it is and what he's done, and he instinctively (and insincerely) says, "I'm sorry!" to any situation in which he's done wrong, and you can see him mouthing it here. BY THE WAY, it's not *just* that I'm a bloodthirsty cop-hater (though I am); this is literally structured as a joke/comedic beat, and the writer (who is also the director, Zach Creggar) also agrees that this is a funny moment, because jokes are used to break the tension after a false-start jump scare like this, and have been throughout the film. If this isn't at all funny to you, then you're arguably the weird one.
March 19, 2026 at 3:19 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 feel great about these @reelrank.bsky.social awards 🤩

I didn't make it through all of #OscarsHomework, but I certainly got far enough to be fairly definitive & conclusive about these 8 awards.

www.reelrank.net/awards/KCook...

#Hamnet is the #Movie of the Year for #KCookandCatsCo 🤓🐈‍⬛🐈🐈‍⬛🐈

#FilmSky
Here's the full slate of 6 awards for 2025! If you can't see it, here's how it broke down: Best Design: Hamnet Best Music: The Secret Agent Best Editing: Train Dreams Best Directing: Hamnet (Chloé Zhao) Best Visuals: Train Dreams Best Acting: Hamnet Best Writing: Bugonia Best Film: Hamnet And having seen all 10 Best Picture noms, and a handful of the other nominees, I feel very good about that class of winners. Some folks are more visual learners, and here, the movie posters accompany the awards, which you have read on the other alt-text. Hamnet appears four times (makes sense; it was, by far, my favorite), Train Dreams awarded twice, and Bugonia and The Secret Agent both awarded once, and again, that feels very right based on the mouth feel and apparent qualities of those films.
March 15, 2026 at 4:54 PM
iamkaymichelle.bsky.social
And I didn't manage to get to everything, & had to @letterboxd.social & @reelrank.bsky.social some of these, as well

#ReelRank: www.reelrank.net/user/KCookan...

#letterboxd: letterboxd.com/KCookandCats...

That's #OscarsHomework (more or less). Hope this helps your experience 🤓

#FilmSky #MovieSky
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March 15, 2026 at 3:16 PM
iamkaymichelle.bsky.social
Here's the #F1 #BlueSky #moviereview, which is one of my favorites. I get soooo exasperated, and I think I spied a bombshell moment of scene-breaking that just got left in the #movie.

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#FilmSky #MovieSky #OscarsHomework
iamkaymichelle.bsky.social K. Cook & Cats, Co. [Old] 👵 @iamkaymichelle.bsky.social · Jan 27
"If you lose that lead, I'll KILL you."

#LOL

That's Brad Pitt's character (who cares) to A TEAMMATE.

#F1 reads almost like #parody or #satire of its genre, it's so on-the-nose, unsubtle & inelegant

How tf did this get nommed for #BestPicture? That's literally insane 🤯

#FilmSky #MovieSky #Film
He's SO unlikeable, lol. This movie is, like, 15-20 years too late to do all of this shit and have us fall for it, I feel.
March 15, 2026 at 3:16 PM
iamkaymichelle.bsky.social
I have never cried harder in a #film than #Hamnet, both absolutely wrecked by the tragedy midway through, and then buoyed by the most uplifting and beautiful conclusion to a #movie than I've ever seen.

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This is my favorite of all the #OscarsHomework.

#FilmSky #MovieSky
iamkaymichelle.bsky.social K. Cook & Cats, Co. [Old] 👵 @iamkaymichelle.bsky.social · Jan 31
Next up in #OscarsHomework watch (& we're getting a jump on things, bc #TheAcademyAwards is March 15) is #ChloeZhao #BestPicture & #BestDirector nominee #Hamnet.

My eldest #cat @bomani-hamletcook.bsky.social is literally named for the #Shakespeare character. This = my wheelhouse 😤

#FilmSky #CatSky
Why, hello! You're the type of discerning BlueSkier that reads the alt-text, and good on you. That's where I really cook, because the character limit is, like, 2k in here. If you're just trying to get an idea of what image I've chosen, it's a horizontally-oriented movie poster for the movie Hamnet, directed by Chloe Zhao. I'm hearing nothing but good things, and F1 was literally the worst Best Picture nominee I've seen since Crash. Jesus. Sometimes, #OscarsHomework is a bit of a drag and an endurance game, and how I parcel out these homework-films plays a huge part in how many I'll manage to see and review and how comprehensively I will know this year's round of Awards-Season films going forward. Of course, you can always do Oscars Homework. Anyway, I'm glad you're bothering with the alt-text. Occasionally, I'll exhort other people with a hashtag to give it a glance, but they hardly do. You guys, I know, are special, because I hadn't even mentioned the alt-text. Y'all are just here. Good on you.
March 15, 2026 at 3:16 PM
iamkaymichelle.bsky.social
All of these #BlueSky #moviereviews are also embedded in the #Medium articles from the #OscarsHomework list, but I'll also post them here in case you don't do Medium (yet).

bsky.app/profile/iamk...

#KPopDemonHunters was one of the most fun #movies I've seen all year.

#FilmSky #MovieSky
iamkaymichelle.bsky.social K. Cook & Cats, Co. [Old] 👵 @iamkaymichelle.bsky.social · Feb 18
Listen...

I'm hip! I'm cool & fun! I'm *definitely* not young, but I'm youthful!

I'm probably gonna love this, right? 🤔

Maybe @hexnology.bsky.social will take me off that List for this 1 😅

We're watching #KPDH!

I know *nothing* about this #movie. Like, less than nothing.

Here goes!

#FilmSky
This is what I imagine, like, maybe four to six people who follow me are feeling, seeing this.
March 15, 2026 at 3:16 PM
iamkaymichelle.bsky.social
#TrainDreams was a beautiful and contemplative experience, though I nearly couldn't handle the tragedy midway through. I don't tweet much about that, bc I was too busy sobbing.

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I think this is the best-looking #BestPicture nominee.

#OscarsHomework #FilmSky #MovieSky
iamkaymichelle.bsky.social K. Cook & Cats, Co. [Old] 👵 @iamkaymichelle.bsky.social · Mar 8
I'm not live-tweeting this one, bc I just didn't feel like it (& it's a lot of work; I'm honestly still exhausted from One Battle After Another), but I am LOVING #TrainDreams.

It looks incredible; I was already a big Felicity Jones fan; the score is brilliant. It's just all good, so far.

#FilmSky
Train Dreams! I knew I'd remember it. I totally buy this relationship, and they're both giving really rich, nuanced performances even in the early going here. Very pastoral and enviable. Even the lighting here is so perfect and idyllic. Loving this movie. It looks AMAZING.
March 15, 2026 at 3:16 PM
iamkaymichelle.bsky.social
I give myself a C+ for #OscarsHomework 😅

kcookandcatsco.medium.com/list/oscarsh...

If you need to catch up before #TheOscars tonight, this 🧵 may help!

First, I've written at length about #KPopDemonHunters, #Hamnet, #OneBattle, #Bugonia & #F1 on #Medium, featured in this list.

#FilmSky #MovieSky
List: #OscarsHomework | Curated by K. Cook & Cats, Co. | Medium
#OscarsHomework · Doing your Oscars Homework? Me, too! Here are all the films I've covered that will be considered for the 98th Oscars March 15, 2026. · 6 stories on Medium
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March 15, 2026 at 3:16 PM
iamkaymichelle.bsky.social
Ask me about this year's #BestPicture nominees 🤓

My #OscarsHomework watch progress!
Best Pic 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Best Actress 🟩🟩⬛🟩⬛
Best Actor ⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩
Sup. Actress 🟩🟩🟩🟩⬛
Sup. Actor 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Best Animated ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
Best Int'l ⬛🟩⬛🟩⬛
Directing 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
#oscaround
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#Hamnet & #Bugonia are my 2 favs 🤩

#FilmSky
This is kind of a tier thing for me. S Tier: Hamnet and Bugonia are two incredible films. I'd be thrilled for either to win Best Picture, but probably neither is. A Tier: Sinners, The Secret Agent, Train Dreams and Frankenstein are all worthwhile and substantive films that just didn't hit quite as hard as the S Tiers. B Tier: F1 and Marty Supreme are both bad movies that don't deserve to be here, and if you like either of those films a lot, you probably suck. F Tier: One Battle After Another is one of the worst things I've ever seen, and if you like that movie, you should look into counseling or art therapy or something. Like, seriously.
March 13, 2026 at 10:46 PM
iamkaymichelle.bsky.social
Well, there is now only 1 #BestPicture nominee remaining, so anyone who has been paying any attention could probably name what's up next.

Here's a hint:

#OscarsHomework #KCookandCatsCo #FilmSky
It's Sentimental Value, obviously. We've watched the other 9.
March 13, 2026 at 5:50 PM
iamkaymichelle.bsky.social
I feel like I might get a lot of use out of this #TheSecretAgent screenshot.

I can envision using it in ALL kinds of scenarios 😆

I'm about to call it a day and head home, but if you want to catch up with my review so far, it's pinned to my profile.

#FilmSky #MovieSky #OscarsHomework
"Cool, man."
March 13, 2026 at 2:34 AM
iamkaymichelle.bsky.social
I think we can definitively say, especially with this year's crop, that 10 is too many #BestPicture nominations.

I fully hated #MartySupreme, #OneBattleAfterAnother & #F1, and don't think they were good #movies, besides.

AND #Superman still got left off 😑

#TheOscars #FilmSky #OscarsHomework
March 12, 2026 at 10:11 PM
iamkaymichelle.bsky.social
I immediately like something about the #TheSecretAgent a lot.

... it sure isn't its 161m runtime, but even in just the first minute, the vibes are right in this #film, especially amidst what's been a VERY hit-or-miss #OscarsHomework run.

I've heard nothing but good things 🤓

#FilmSky #MovieSky
Idk what it is, but it feels like a 'real' film right away. Part of it might be Wagner Moura, whom I adore from his work on Narcos. I'm excited to see him cook here.
March 12, 2026 at 9:23 PM
iamkaymichelle.bsky.social
Fuck!

I completely forgot about #TheSecretAgent. I was thinking #SentimentalValue was my last piece of #BestPicture #OscarsHomework.

NOPE!

😮‍💨

#FilmSky #MovieSky
I've seen Bugonia, F1, Frankenstein, Hamnet, Marty Supreme, One Battle After Another, Sinners and Train Dreams. I still have yet to see Sentimental Value and The Secret Agent. Graphic from Oscaround.com.
March 10, 2026 at 7:54 PM
iamkaymichelle.bsky.social
I've hated other #OscarsHomework more, for big-picture philosophical reasons, but #MartySupreme is a uniquely torturous experience. Maybe in all of #film, actually.
March 10, 2026 at 6:24 PM
iamkaymichelle.bsky.social
I did love Hamnet, but my watches are dictated by #OscarsHomework at the moment, until The Miaouscars 🤓
March 10, 2026 at 1:03 PM