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Emma
@emmacas.bsky.social
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ain’t that just the way | she/her
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What a combo 🧛💃
#letterboxd #filmsky
First watch: Nosferatu (Jan 2), Last watch: Dirty Dancing (Dec 31)
January 4, 2026 at 4:12 PM
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Nervously dipping my toe into music criticism in my review of Virgin, the new #Lorde album
#music #review

offonatangent.substack.com/p/virgin-2025
Title reads: “Virgin (2025), Lorde’s newest album let’s go of perfection” Below reads: “If you’ve ever watched Lorde perform or give an interview, you’ll know she’s kind of an off kilter person (said with love and admiration). It’s a side of her that’s been noticeably absent in…” Background is an image of Lorde sitting in a stark empty room
July 14, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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Hope everyone had a good pride weekend 🏳️‍🌈 -- please enjoy this month's grab bag of recommendations, which accidentally is all about getting involved in your local community
offonatangent.substack.com/p/june-grab-...
Text reads: June Grab Bag Happy pride! Turns out being in community with people is good What a whirlwind of a week! A heat dome, an exciting time in NYC politics and pride weekend, all packed into seven days. Writing this tanned and tired from a day out at a pride block party... Background image is an X-Ray image of a pelvis (art for Lorde's album Virgin)
June 30, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Just vibes, not ranked lol -- really made me self reflect on if maybe I only like horror and fantasy movies? Much to think about
Reader's Choice: My Ballot Bottoms (2023) Pan's Labyrinth (2006) Sinners (2025) The Handmaiden (2016) Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) Lilo & Stitch (2002) Parasite (2019) Get Out (2017) The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) Spirited Away (2002)
June 24, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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June’s review! Ironically a couple weeks delayed because I got waylaid by the most bonkers plane/travel issues last week ✈️
#therehearsal #hbo

offonatangent.substack.com/p/the-rehear...
June 23, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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Things took a tonal shift towards the end of the week
#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched
Row of movie posters recently watched: 28 Days Later (3 and 1/2 stars) Sweethearts (3 stars) Lilo and Stitch (5 stars, rewatch) The Wild Robot (3 stars)
June 20, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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May's grab bag! Lots of kitschy action movies and niche YouTube videos in this one
offonatangent.substack.com/p/may-grab-bag
#FilmSky #Letterboxd
Title text reads: May Grab Bag: On the joys of plane movies, vampires, and the post office Preview text reads: Writing this while in a miserable book rut where I keep reading things that are just OK. I’d take even a real stinker over just blandly all right at this point. I tried requesting the new... Over the poster of the movie Freaky Tales
May 26, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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My April list of recs! Includes @nerd4cities.bsky.social's city visit videos on Auckland and Melbourne, some new and old music I'm enjoying, and the concept of fresh blackberries
offonatangent.substack.com/p/april-grab...
April 21, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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Happy #LetterboxdFriday! My #LastFourWatched somehow alternates between animation and offbeat scifi/fantasy fare -- maybe a pattern I should try and keep up?

I'll admit I probably had the most fun with a Goofy Movie.
My most recent watched films: Mickey 17 (rated three stars), A Goofy Movie (three stars, heart, rewatch), Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person (3 1/2 stars, heart), and Flow (four stars, heart)
April 11, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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My defense of #Opus, a perfectly good movie I think has been unfairly maligned
offonatangent.substack.com/p/opus-2025
#filmsky #film #review
April 7, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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Monthly roundup of recs! Includes a music review from @hearingthingsco.bsky.social, video essayist @kendragaylord.bsky.social, and other stuff you'll have to click through to find out yourself :)
offonatangent.substack.com/p/march-grab...
March 24, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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Thought I'd share my belated thoughts on this little known underawarded movie called #Anora
offonatangent.substack.com/p/anora-2024
Text: "Anora (2024): A loud movie with a lot of quiet moments. Not to be a hater but I've never been a big fan of the concluding line of Hustlers, delivered by former stripper Ramona (Jennifer Lopez): "This city, this whole country, is a strip club..." Background: Anora (Mikey Madison) dancing at a party
March 10, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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This month's grab bag includes a wild overheard conversation, @mckinneykelsey.bsky.social's new book (I love gossip!!), and a general love for whatever #ChappellRoan is doing at any given time
offonatangent.substack.com/p/february-g...
February 25, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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An accidental theme of red/pink in the posters 💗🍎
#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched
Posters for Companion (rated 3 and half stars), I Used to be Funny (4 stars), Conclave (4 stars) and West Side Story (3 and a half stars)
February 21, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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Where I make the argument that Caroline Lindy's Your Monster is the ideal #ValentinesDay movie 💖
offonatangent.substack.com/p/your-monst...
#Film #Filmsky #review #romcom #horror
Foreground text reads: Your Monster (2024), My Pick for your Valentine's Day date night movie. Romantic comedies are allegedly "having a comback" but very few capture what I love about the genre, often too self conscious about their cheesiness with characters too self aware to fall in... Background image is of a woman dressed as the bride of Frankenstein dancing with a Beauty and the Beast-looking monster
February 10, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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What things did I watch/read/eat in January that I want to talk about? Find out in my latest newsletter :)
Things include: #movies The Fall Guy and Pleasantville, new music from #LucyDacus, #scifi series The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells 🤖
offonatangent.substack.com/p/january-gr...
Text: "January Grab Bag: Things from this month I enthusiastically or vaguely or complicatedly recommend" over a still image from Lucy Dacus' "Ankles" music video where she is in a medieval gown on a bus with a woman in a suit sitting next to her
January 27, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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I always prefer when films take themselves too seriously, over making a joke of their own existence. My review of #Nosferatu (2024) out now! Subscribe for monthly reviews
#Film #Filmsky #Horror
offonatangent.substack.com/p/nosferatu-...
Overlaid text reads: Nosferatu 2024 Review, The film's commitment to the bit allows it to shine (in a really goth, dark way) In the background is an image of Ellen Hutter (played by Lily Rose Depp in Nosferatu) screaming and ripping her dress open.
January 13, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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Definitely did a double take seeing this on my Letterboxd feed — when did paddington get such fancy hair! 💇🏽‍♀️
#letterboxd #letterboxdfriday #filmsky
A poster of Paddington’s face and Elle, with long hair at the edge next to one another, making it look like paddington has long hair.
December 13, 2024 at 5:16 PM
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Guess this is one way to introduce myself 👋 #LastFourWatched #Letterboxd
Last four films watched: Jennifer's Body (four stars, rewatch), Inside Out 2 (two and a half stars), That Thing You Do! (four stars, rewatch), and My Cousin Vinny (five stars, rewatch)
November 15, 2024 at 6:43 PM