Corey Atad
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Freelance writer @ The Star, GQ, Defector, The Baffler, Gawker, Esquire, Hazlitt. Air Bud admirer. Favourite cheese: Gouda. coreyatad@gmail.com / www.coreyatad.com
watching screeners for the second season of a show so weird, and whose mawkishness should completely sink it, yet it's also oddly one of the most compelling and moving things on TV
February 9, 2026 at 3:13 AM
watching screeners for the second season of a show so weird, and whose mawkishness should completely sink it, yet it's also oddly one of the most compelling and moving things on TV
still high on this one
A Poet: went to see this film basically on a lark, having half paid attention to a trailer i thought looked amusing in a Napoleon Dynamite kinda way.
turns out it’s a fucking incredible movie. starts as the funniest film of the year and morphs into one of the most moving.
turns out it’s a fucking incredible movie. starts as the funniest film of the year and morphs into one of the most moving.
February 9, 2026 at 1:38 AM
still high on this one
was just watching the Weapons trailer again to remind myself how good that trailer was, and it just made me wanna watch Weapons again, which proves the case
February 9, 2026 at 1:18 AM
was just watching the Weapons trailer again to remind myself how good that trailer was, and it just made me wanna watch Weapons again, which proves the case
doing commercials used to be a shameful thing that you had to go to Japan to do
matthew mcconaughey, bradley cooper, and parker posey should be in movies, not doing uber eats commercials. pathetic
February 9, 2026 at 1:01 AM
doing commercials used to be a shameful thing that you had to go to Japan to do
Fincher hasn’t been held to a high enough standard
February 9, 2026 at 12:15 AM
Fincher hasn’t been held to a high enough standard
i have finally seen K-Pop Demon Hunters, which was perfectly fine, though unsettling as propaganda for a pretty ugly industry and insidious consumerism, but god damn how did Sony execs watch that movie and decide to sell it off?? all-time Hollywood ball fumble.
February 8, 2026 at 11:26 PM
i have finally seen K-Pop Demon Hunters, which was perfectly fine, though unsettling as propaganda for a pretty ugly industry and insidious consumerism, but god damn how did Sony execs watch that movie and decide to sell it off?? all-time Hollywood ball fumble.
TIFF playing ads for Botox before movies is… 😙👌🏻
February 8, 2026 at 9:04 PM
TIFF playing ads for Botox before movies is… 😙👌🏻
A Poet: went to see this film basically on a lark, having half paid attention to a trailer i thought looked amusing in a Napoleon Dynamite kinda way.
turns out it’s a fucking incredible movie. starts as the funniest film of the year and morphs into one of the most moving.
turns out it’s a fucking incredible movie. starts as the funniest film of the year and morphs into one of the most moving.
February 8, 2026 at 8:30 PM
A Poet: went to see this film basically on a lark, having half paid attention to a trailer i thought looked amusing in a Napoleon Dynamite kinda way.
turns out it’s a fucking incredible movie. starts as the funniest film of the year and morphs into one of the most moving.
turns out it’s a fucking incredible movie. starts as the funniest film of the year and morphs into one of the most moving.
asked Siri to play the next podcast in my queue, but it played Alanis Morissette’s Hand in My Pocket instead, which was also the correct choice
February 8, 2026 at 6:12 PM
asked Siri to play the next podcast in my queue, but it played Alanis Morissette’s Hand in My Pocket instead, which was also the correct choice
yep, and while pressure from lower classes sorta spurred the robber barons’ sense of civic duty, the reality is their idea of elitism was copying a fantasy of European aristocracy
the new age robber barons successfully convinced the world that it’s okay for CEOs to wear hoodies at business meetings
the new age robber barons successfully convinced the world that it’s okay for CEOs to wear hoodies at business meetings
The Gilded Age 2.0 robber barons, unlike their Industrial Revolution predecessors, do not have the same motivations to fund libraries, the arts, and other cultural institutions. Certainly they don't give a good goddamn about taste. David Rubenstein is like a billionaire woolly mammoth in that regard
February 8, 2026 at 5:16 PM
yep, and while pressure from lower classes sorta spurred the robber barons’ sense of civic duty, the reality is their idea of elitism was copying a fantasy of European aristocracy
the new age robber barons successfully convinced the world that it’s okay for CEOs to wear hoodies at business meetings
the new age robber barons successfully convinced the world that it’s okay for CEOs to wear hoodies at business meetings
Ed Harris saying he wants to play the former husband of Gladys from Weapons instantly made me reconsider my opposition to Cregger doing a prequel
February 8, 2026 at 5:04 PM
Ed Harris saying he wants to play the former husband of Gladys from Weapons instantly made me reconsider my opposition to Cregger doing a prequel
really need to get back to eating right, except that would require shopping for groceries, which for me would mean walking outside for more than 10 minutes, and it’s basically hell frozen over out there
February 8, 2026 at 4:41 PM
really need to get back to eating right, except that would require shopping for groceries, which for me would mean walking outside for more than 10 minutes, and it’s basically hell frozen over out there
the film adaptation is also aces
If you’re into books written by people instead of assembled by AI slop, I just finished this one, which is about a Black guy who quits the CIA to train Black freedom fighters in Chicago, and I can’t stop thinking about it.
February 8, 2026 at 4:26 PM
the film adaptation is also aces
no idea how i missed this, but it’s great
A new ‘SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE’ sketch imagines a toy commercial for ‘ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER’ action figures.
#SNL #OneBattleAfterAnother
#SNL #OneBattleAfterAnother
February 8, 2026 at 4:07 PM
no idea how i missed this, but it’s great
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Christopher Nolan is clearly a massive 10 THINGS I HATE ABOUT YOU (1999) fan.
February 8, 2026 at 6:47 AM
Christopher Nolan is clearly a massive 10 THINGS I HATE ABOUT YOU (1999) fan.
TIFF playing K-Pop Demon Hunters today? hmm, maybe i’ll go and finally check it out. why not.
February 8, 2026 at 3:14 PM
TIFF playing K-Pop Demon Hunters today? hmm, maybe i’ll go and finally check it out. why not.
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I've been thinking about Julia Loktev's MY UNDESIRABLE FRIENDS since yesterday. One of the powers of long cinema in a theatre (324 minutes here) is that it can completely saturate your thinking/imagining space. And it's a shared experience, shared with the temporary community in the theatre.
February 8, 2026 at 2:26 PM
I've been thinking about Julia Loktev's MY UNDESIRABLE FRIENDS since yesterday. One of the powers of long cinema in a theatre (324 minutes here) is that it can completely saturate your thinking/imagining space. And it's a shared experience, shared with the temporary community in the theatre.
there’s only one real flaw with A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: it should’ve had a fun theme song
February 8, 2026 at 2:18 AM
there’s only one real flaw with A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: it should’ve had a fun theme song
this is NOT a pairing i ever would have predicted
though, as Safdie suggested, Marty Supreme and Mr. Bean have some things in common
though, as Safdie suggested, Marty Supreme and Mr. Bean have some things in common
Marty Supreme FYC | Josh Safdie in conversation with Richard Curtis
YouTube video by Nolan Archives
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February 8, 2026 at 12:49 AM
this is NOT a pairing i ever would have predicted
though, as Safdie suggested, Marty Supreme and Mr. Bean have some things in common
though, as Safdie suggested, Marty Supreme and Mr. Bean have some things in common
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MY UNDESIRABLE FRIENDS PART 1, d. Julia Loktev @juliaofelbow . Urgent, superb, vitally alive filmmaking. Portraits of brave, brilliantly analytical Russian independent journalists, all women, whose oppositional journalism in authoritarian Russia turns into real time emergency professionalism ... 1/
February 8, 2026 at 12:02 AM
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btw, Bugonia, great movie. has sat well, and was actually better the second time. fwiw and all that.
February 7, 2026 at 4:43 AM
btw, Bugonia, great movie. has sat well, and was actually better the second time. fwiw and all that.
"She's perfect, but you know how I abhor perfection in anyone but myself."
February 6, 2026 at 3:31 PM
"She's perfect, but you know how I abhor perfection in anyone but myself."
your morning dose of Phoenix
Phantom Of The Paradise - Special To Me (Jessica Harper "Phoenix")
YouTube video by KELEO2000
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February 6, 2026 at 3:18 PM
your morning dose of Phoenix