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Thomas Ricard
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Aspiring film critic, proud father and fiancé. You can read my film reviews here:

https://letterboxd.com/thomasricard199/films/reviews/
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What better way to start a new month than to announce that my short story, "The Electric Ghostwriter", has been published in Allegory Volume 48/75! #writing #WritingCommunity #sciencefiction

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Allegory | The Electric Ghostwriter
Biannual Online Magazine of SF, Fantasy & Horror
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November 1, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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The 2022 film version of #matildathemusical softens the edges of Roald Dahl's creation even more than the musical itself, but its attunement to Matilda's intellectual and emotional frustrations keeps its spirit alive.

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A ★★★ review of Roald Dahl's Matilda the Musical (2022)
It’s not exactly a secret that Roald Dahl’s enduring appeal among children lies in the fundamentally dark mean-spiritedness at the heart of so many of his stories. Matilda is perhaps the quintessentia...
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October 14, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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A quick review of #earwig in which Lucile Hadžihalilović confirms her singular vision as a filmmaker without quite yet reaching the heights I know she is capable of.
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A ★★★ review of Earwig (2021)
Lucile Hadžihalilović is a thoughtful, intelligent and elegant filmmaker whose sparse output gives the impression, with every film, of a continuous progression towards a truly great film that has not ...
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October 9, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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A quick review of #shesaid and how Maria Schrader's sober, concise style makes it work.

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A ★★★½ review of She Said (2022)
What separates She Said from the shallow girlboss fauxminism of Bombshell and the tepid hand-holding of Confirmation is its dogged insistence on treating its viewers like adults. No lectures, no impas...
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October 6, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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A quick word on why I liked Will Smith slavery drama #emancipation despite - and, in a certain way, because of - its stylistic contradictions.

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A ★★★ review of Emancipation (2022)
What a curious experience it is to enjoy a film in such conflict with itself. Very loosely based on the escape of a slave known only as Peter, who would become known to the world as the subject of the...
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October 2, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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A quick word on the Emmett Till lynching drama #Till and how reverence towards a subject can do more harm to it than good.
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A ★★½ review of Till (2022)
Till is handsome, grave, earnest and reverent in exactly the wrong ways. Writer-director Chinonye Chukwu, working alongside Michael Reilly from co-screenwriter Keith Beauchamp’s heavily-documented wor...
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September 29, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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Reading Mr Men & Little Miss books to my daughter with a head cold is an interesting experience. The Patricia Routledge voice I usually put on as Little Miss Splendid turned into an uncanny impression of Peter Ustinov as a pantomime dame. #dadlife
September 26, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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Giving this another push, as it is this coming weekend.
September 25, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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my mom is out of the halfway house and needs some cash to get on her feet in her new living situation. she already has a job. for those who don’t know, she got out of jail pretty recently and was facing deportation this summer. the goal is $2000.
September 20, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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Looks like I'm going to be moving into my own place fairly soon, so I need this ASAP, if anyone can help
September 13, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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My friend is doing a charity fundraiser, if you want to help! (Posted with his permission) www.justgiving.com/page/andrew-...
Andrew's fundraiser for Annabelles Challenge
Help Andrew Latham raise money to support Annabelles Challenge
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September 11, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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I've said it before, I'll say it again:

Don't. Adapt. The Games.

Just tell a story set in the same universe and timeline. Maybe throw in the odd major character cameo but, and I can't stress this enough:

NEVER

SHOW

SHEPARD.

#MassEffect
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After Fallout Success, Amazon Sets Mass Effect Series Filming Date — Though It's Unclear if It'll Be a Canon Adaptation of the Trilogy - IGN
Amazon plans to film its Mass Effect TV series at the end of 2026, according to a new update on the project's production plans.
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August 26, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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All of this phasing out of criticism, this terrible devaluing of it. I’m sad for myself as a lover of it, someone whose life has been enriched by it, but also, how are young people going to learn to really engage with art, to think and feel deeply about it, make connections between it and the world?
August 19, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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A review of 60s-set abortion drama #CallJane, a film that gets frustratingly close to human truth only to back away at the last minute.
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A ★★½ review of Call Jane (2022)
Call Jane is an unusually frustrating film. I say this not so much because of the intensity with which it frustrates me but because of the specific ways it keeps adventuring itself on truly expressive...
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August 18, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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Do you like coffee and/or robots? Then you'll love my flash fiction piece "STR1K3BR34K3R" that's just been published by Androids and Dragons! #writing #scifi #sciencefiction #coffee

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STR1K3BR34K3R
By R.J. Breathnach
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August 18, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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Mostly film people but in no particular order:

S. Craig Zahler
Clint Eastwood
Mel Gibson
Oliver Stone
Jean-Luc Godard
D. W. Griffith
Claude Autant-Lara
Cecil B. DeMille
John Wayne
James Woods
Roald Dahl
and (sigh)
J. K. Rowling
opinionhaver.bsky.social William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · Aug 9
Here’s a question: who is the artist with politics you disagree strongly with, whose politics *do* (in your view) influence their art, that you still think is talented and whose work you enjoy?
August 9, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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#happygilmore2 is a film I wanted to like, but its conceptual flaws all but condemn it to mediocrity despite Adam Sandler's efforts.
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A ★★½ review of Happy Gilmore 2 (2025)
The opinion that Happy Gilmore is the best Adam Sandler comedy not directed by Paul Thomas Anderson isn’t exactly original so I’ll understand if you find my credibility somewhat diminished by the fact...
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August 4, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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At long last, a much longer-than-expected review of Alice Diop's magnificent #saintomer and the exquisite mysteries contained within Guslagie Malanda's revelatory performance.
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A ★★★★ review of Saint Omer (2022)
Late at night, a woman walks alone on a beach, cradling her sleeping baby in her arms as she stares forward, her face only partially visible in a shoulder-level medium close-up and her surroundings bl...
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August 3, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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Great concept of a character that really should have been developed in his own film, preferably one set in the same universe but not involving Woody and the gang.
lindsayellis.bsky.social Lindsay Ellis @lindsayellis.bsky.social · Aug 1
this might be my spiciest take to date but I think Forky is wasted in Toy Story 4
August 1, 2025 at 6:15 AM
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I know pickings are slim, but I’m actively looking for staff writing and film programming positions. been freelancing since 2018 and would like some stability for a bit, even if it’s just 6 months to a year
July 31, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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THE GRAY MAN would be a good candidate. An ugly, empty, boring, lazy, stupid, artless industrial product whose only merit is to synthetize everything wrong with the direct-to-streaming model of filmmaking. Ryan Gosling looks rightly embarrassed to be in it.
josheberley.bsky.social Josh Eberley @josheberley.bsky.social · Jul 20
Worst movie you’ve seen in the last 10 years?
July 20, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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…that it brings to that viewing experience, through which that experience is viewed and filtered and considered. It can’t, then, write about what a film means to itself as an individual in the context of what it is to be human, our capacity to love each other or to destroy. It can’t do any of that.
July 10, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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Whenever I read a great film review or indeed any kind of writing that stirs me at all, I realize once again that AI can never do those things, can never come close to doing this. It can’t even see a film, not really, not as a human being with memories and lived experiences and political ideals…
July 10, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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A quick paragraph on #GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol3 in anticipation of James Gunn's #Superman.
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A ★★★½ review of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023)
James Gunn’s farewell to the Marvel Cinematic Universe is a fitting conclusion to a saga whose blend of self-aware comedy, grossout Troma-trained sensibilities and unexpectedly earnest pathos has ende...
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July 6, 2025 at 11:54 PM