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Agunda Okeyo
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Writer, producer via Nairobi NYC & LA. CEO Africa Underground Prods, Creator of #SistersOfComedy Love Party Podcast 🎙️ & Loving Spoonful Newsletter ✍🏾 Agunda’s Linktree 🌳 : https://bit.ly/3OpQa97
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Hi Blue Sky Community! 👋🏾 💖 Follow me for all things politics & culture including film/tv, books, comedy & more—all from the vantage of a hopeful realist guided by a love ethic & good old critical thinking! Bon Appétit 🥐✨🧚🏾‍♀️
This week’s Succinct Cinema 🍿🥰 | Excerpt below & Continue on Substack ✨🫶🏽🤓

READ & SUB to “Succinct Cinema: The History of Sound”▫️ LINK 🔗 bit.ly/3Iv0LR2

#PaulMescal #JoshOConnor #TheHistoryOfSound #OliverHermanus #BenShattuck #romance #lbgtq #queerlove #love #lovestory #movie #moviereview #writer
September 25, 2025 at 7:47 PM
This week’s Succinct Cinema 🍿🥰 |

“With Weapons (2025), relative newcomer writer/director Zach Cregger created a compelling feature….”

READ & SUB to “Succinct Cinema: Weapons”▫️ LINK 🔗 bit.ly/4gobXLN

#JuliaGarner #JoshBrolin #ZachCregger #WeaponsMovie #horror #horrorfilm #movie #moviereview
September 11, 2025 at 9:23 PM
NEW Newsletter 💕 🗞️

“Ayo Edebiri [was] in an uncomfortable situation—a black woman having to explain why civil rights are not dependent on [the] white gaze.”

READ & SUB to “If Black Lives Don’t Matter, African Lives Don’t Exist” 🌍▫️ LINK 🔗 bit.ly/4nnsj9w

#ayoedebiri #viral #blacklivesmatter #metoo
If Black Lives Don't Matter, African Lives Don't Exist
Dearest Reader,
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September 10, 2025 at 7:44 PM
This week’s Succinct Cinema 🍿🥰

“I suspect Egger’s Nosferatu is more true to the original Gothic horror because it's pretty dark and mysterious.”

READ & SUB to “Succinct Cinema: Nosferatu”🦇✨▫️ LINK 🔗 bit.ly/46hUiBS

#nosferatu #RobertEggers #lilyrosedepp #NicholasHoult #horror #movie #moviereview
September 4, 2025 at 7:33 PM
This week’s Loving Spoonful Newsletter 🥰

“What is even happening? DEI in MAGA world now signifies anyone “other” or challenging existing power structures.”

READ & SUB to “What The Heck Is ‘Woke AI” 🤖 ▫️ LINK 🔗 agunda.substack.com

#dei #samaltman #openai #ai #artificialintelligence #imperialism
August 28, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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August 11, 2025 at 11:18 PM
This week’s Loving Spoonful 🥰 | Excerpt below & Continue on Substack ✨🫶🏽🤓

“The original series, Sex and the City, behind And Just Like That… was really special...”

READ & SUB to “Sex and the City Takes a Bow”▫️ LINK 🔗 bit.ly/4llUc0w

#sexandthecity #andjustlikethat #hbo #hbomax #movie #television
August 11, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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“More than 2,300 members of the Writers Guild of America West and East have signed the union’s open letter decrying the Trump administration’s ‘recent threats to the free press.’” #WGAStrong deadline.com/2025/08/trum...
Thousands Of Writers Sign WGA Open Letter Slamming Trump’s “Unprecedented, Authoritarian Assault” On Free Press
More than 2,300 members of the Writers Guild have signed the union's open letter decrying the Trump administration's "recent threats to the free press."
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August 5, 2025 at 11:28 PM
This week’s Succinct Cinema 🍿🥰 ✨

“Eddington immerses you into a rooted New Mexico community replete w/ strange internal dynamics exacerbated by growing intolerance to difference or change.”

READ & SUB to “Succinct Cinema: Eddington”▫️ LINK 🔗 bit.ly/41vaZXH

#eddington #AriAster #movie #popculture
August 6, 2025 at 12:07 PM
This week’s Newsletter ♥️🙏🏾 |

“On Monday two Israeli human rights organizations filed meticulous reports concluding that Israel is committing g*nocide in Gaza.”

READ & SUB to “We Lost Ourselves in Gaza”▫️ LINK 🔗 bit.ly/3UH9WjG

#gaza #palestine #humanrights #politics #ceasefireInGazaNOW #peace
We Lost Ourselves in Gaza
Dearest Reader,
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August 1, 2025 at 7:26 PM
BONUS Succint Cinema! 🍿|

“PTA was one of the youngest people I saw taking the craft deathly seriously while telling original stories.”

READ & SUB to “Succinct Cinema: Licorice Pizza” 🍕 ▫️ LINK 🔗 bit.ly/4ofxQjN

#AlanaHaim #CooperHoffman #movie #hollywood #losangeles #featurefilm #moviereview #1970s
July 30, 2025 at 7:21 PM
This week’s Succint Cinema! 🍿 | Excerpt below & Continue on Substack ✨🫶🏽

“Song’s second film takes place in NYC & tells a modern story of love.”

READ & SUB to “Succinct Cinema: The Materialists”▫️ LINK 🔗 bit.ly/3IRQTR0

#DakotaJohnson #ChrisEvans #PedroPascal #dating #romance #moviereview #movie
Succinct Cinema: The Materialists
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July 29, 2025 at 12:23 PM
This week’s newsletter 🥵 | Excerpt below ✨🫶🏽🤓

“So the merger between Paramount & Skydance presents a unique opportunity to the president to effectively capture a major network.”

READ & SUB to “Who’s Afraid of Stephen Colbert?”▫️ LINK 🔗 bit.ly/4lMPxpv

#stephencolbert #LateNight #politics #resist
Who's Afraid of Stephen Colbert?
Dearest Reader,
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July 25, 2025 at 5:35 PM
New newsletter! 🎉 | Excerpt & Continue on Substack ✨

“A Promising Young Woman is a fascinating, dark, comical exploration of female friendship, patriarchy & male predation.”

READ & SUB to “A Promising Young Woman” ▫️🔗 bit.ly/4f0apXr

#CareyMulligan #emeraldfennell #movie #feminism #moviereview
Succinct Cinema: A Promising Young Woman
Issue 5
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July 21, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Reposted by Agunda Okeyo
Breaking news: “The Late Show” with Stephen Colbert will end in May 2026, CBS said in a statement.

The announcement came days after Colbert spoke out against the $16 million paid earlier this month by Paramount, the parent company of CBS News.
Stephen Colbert’s ‘Late Show’ canceled by CBS, to end in May 2026
CBS said in a statement that it was “purely a financial decision.” The show launched with Colbert as host, executive producer and writer a decade ago.
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July 18, 2025 at 12:39 AM
New weekly newsletter! 🎉 |🤓 📚

“As one of the three liberal justices, she has become a beacon through a dark time. Her dissenting opinions provide a kind of reality-based truth telling…”

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#ketanjibrownjackson #doge #supremecourt #ice #blackexcellence #resist
Laying Down The Law: Justice Jackson Dissents
Dearest Reader,
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July 18, 2025 at 11:52 PM
BONUS Monday! Check out my thoughts on Mission Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025) NOW PLAYING 🍿 in my weekly tv/movie review series on Substack called “Succinct Cinema.” 🎥✨

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#MovieReview #movie #tomcruise #simonpegg #movienight #actionmovie #missionimpossible
Succinct Cinema: Mission Impossible - The Final Reckoning
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July 14, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Happy Monday! Check out my thoughts on Viola Davis’s new family action movie G20 (2025) in my weekly tv/movie review series on Substack called “Succinct Cinema.” 🍿 🎥✨

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#Prime #MovieReview #featurefilm #violadavis #movie #anthonyanderson #marsaimartin #movienight
Succinct Cinema: G20
Issue 4
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July 14, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Weekly newsletter! 🎉 |🤓 📚

“Whether they arguably contribute to a deadly incident like in Texas or preside over [a crash like] at DC’s National Airport or LA’s recovery from once-in-a century wildfires, they accept no responsibility.”

READ & SUBSCRIBE 🔗 bit.ly/44ml1wm

#bigbeautifulbill #doge #ice
The Big Beautiful Betrayal
Dearest Reader,
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July 10, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Happy Monday! Check out my thoughts on streaming series YOU (2018-2025) in my weekly tv/movie review series on Substack called “Succinct Cinema.” 🍿 🎥✨

READ & SUBSCRIBE 🔗: open.substack.com/pub/agunda/p...

#Drama #Netflix #TVReview #MovieReview #netflixseries #tvshow #pennbadgley #movienight
Succinct Cinema: YOU
Issue 3
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July 7, 2025 at 6:04 PM
This week’s newsletter! 🎉✍🏾

“I’m choosing to take a hopeful perspective on Zohran Mamdani’s candidacy. He is young, smart, committed, organized, charismatic, and has an actionable vision…”

READ & SUB ▫️ 🔗 agunda.substack.com

#zohranmamdani #nyc #humanrights #resist #civilrights #antiwar #antiracism
July 4, 2025 at 10:21 PM
@laurpuckett.bsky.social just sent you an email referred by Danielle James 🫶🏽✨✍🏾
May 5, 2025 at 8:09 PM
📨🔥💖 In this week’s Loving Spoonful Newsletter @agundaokeyo continues her series “DEI Boogeyman” with Part IV on DEI weaponization now.

READ & SUB to “DEI Boogeyman (Part IV): A Supremacist Sword & Shield”▫️ LINK 🔗 bit.ly/3EBCczD

#dei #diversity #equity #inclusion #civilrights #humanrights #peace
February 12, 2025 at 9:38 PM
I don’t usually pay attention to American football 🏈 but doesn’t it feel like the North just won the civil war?? Between Phili realness, Jalen Hurts & Kendrick, I’m feeling very patriotic right now. 🥹🫡🇺🇸 #eagles #superbowl #jalenhurts #kendricklamar #sza
February 10, 2025 at 3:42 AM