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iamkaymichelle.bsky.social
K. Cook & Cats, Co.
@iamkaymichelle.bsky.social
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#Seattle, WA
#FilmCritic + 4 #cats
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#FilmSky #CatSky
We watch a lot of #movies & we’ve got a lot to say
Former #HoustonChron reporter/editor

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🏳️‍🌈 #queer

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iamkaymichelle.bsky.social
The mark of a quality #film 😑

#FilmSky #MovieSky

Working on our #Transformers #moviereview now, and woof. This one was worst than we remembered, if in fact we had seen this before. Still unclear.
Ruh Roh! This probably won't be good... (spoiler alert: it wasn't!)
December 4, 2025 at 1:07 AM
iamkaymichelle.bsky.social
If you can find me a worse, dumber #tagline than this one for #2Guns, I'd be fuckin shocked:

"NEVER ROB A BANK ACROSS FROM A DINER WITH THE BEST DONUTS IN THREE COUNTIES."

Great work! Taglines are hard, aren't they? 😆

Find me a worse one, #FilmSky! 🤓

#Movies #MovieSky #Film #Films #Hollywood
And I quote: "NEVER ROB A BANK ACROSS FROM A DINER WITH THE BEST DONUTS IN THREE COUNTIES."
December 4, 2025 at 12:18 AM
iamkaymichelle.bsky.social
Colombian-American actress Sofia Vergara from such hits as Modern Family and the covers of many magazines?

Other things, as well! Presumably!
Gosh! She's disarmingly pretty, to my dumb eyes. I'd better hope I don't run into her IRL, or I'd turn into a DCOM character and stumble off the side of a cliff or something.
December 3, 2025 at 4:22 PM
iamkaymichelle.bsky.social
#PeteHegseth 's sweaty non-apology has energy of a Labrador in front of a bank of microphones going, 'I don't know why it's so crazy that I'M a #warcriminal. We ALL are! And I've got their backs. And they've got mine. We're all war criminals together!"

youtu.be/mcnfZ2tIuJ4?...

#SecDEF #MAGA #MSNOW
Always so sweaty, both literally and figuratively. He's a very damp, moist boy. What's up with that? He's like Gollum, just always slick and like he'd leave something on your fingers if you touched him. Blech. Either one of them, actually.
December 3, 2025 at 4:18 PM
iamkaymichelle.bsky.social
This is kind of hilarious...

I think I'm just incapable of being content or satisfied.

Bc I was such a squeaky-wheel, I got my editorial review process accelerated, pushing my #MovieReview of #AHouseofDynamite off top/Latest #Cinemania spot an hr later when a GOSPEL-CENTERED REVIEW took 1st... 😑
Omfg, I haven't even bleeted about the actual article or promoted it yet. I just bitched, instead. Lol! It's my fault, as well! Gospel-centered. Jesus fucking Christ, it's almost enough to make you believe in God, the shit that happens to me.
December 3, 2025 at 5:55 AM
iamkaymichelle.bsky.social
🎶The waiting is the hardest part🎶

Submitted this #AHouseofDynamite #MediumStory to #Cinemania, & Gaby told me after 5th email to note some new minor correction that I should chill tf out, so now I'm JUST waiting (and still making minor changes).

I'm the worst, lol. I think the work benefits, tho!
ARGH! I'm so impatient! I love it, and want to show it to y'all, even though PRECIOUS FEW of you will read it. Whatever. We're growing, and that's encouraging...
December 3, 2025 at 12:31 AM
iamkaymichelle.bsky.social
This is what it's like being my friend 😅

#KCookandCatsCo #personallore #IBeLike

I'm actually delighted and super-flattered by 'a puppy with thumbs,' which I think is a way nicer characterization than what most people would offer, especially when pressed 🤣

I get c-word a lot, #lol 😆
K. Cook & Cats, Co. which is four cats and me, a catty person (cat-person for short). At your service 💁‍♀️🐈🐈🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛
December 2, 2025 at 11:43 PM
iamkaymichelle.bsky.social
In our forthcoming #KCookandCatsCo #MovieReview of #AHouseofDynamite, we contend that this specific #IdrisElba (shameful) moment should be a #meme, so, with that in mind, here it is for #BlueSky, also:

"I listened to this podcast," (eyes closed)

"and the guy, said, uh," (head in hands)

useful! 🤓
I intuit ALL kinds of funny uses (alllll kiiiiinds of gains) for this image, and the still freeze-frame that it captures of whatever the fuck Idris Elba was doing. One-take, for sure, given the script. You wouldn't bother with a second take, good grief. Netflix certainly wouldn't be demanding it. It's just fucking hilarious to me in a pitiful, sad way. The President of the United States of America, who has walked around saying nothing to anyone except, 'How's your jump shot, citizen?' and he drops the title of the movie, ludicrously, by introducing it with: I listened to this podcast. I doubt this movie is popular or widely known enough for this to really hit as a meme, but sometimes that's the way of it. If this image just got out in the wild... well, you know. I listened to this podcast... And, to me, this is just as funny, and an important companion piece to the other. "And the guy, said, uh..." and his head is literally in his fucking hands as he says it. He's probably trying to remember this dumb, awful line that's coming up (i've got it, too; just ask), and hoping he's able to get out of there before 3:45 pm to beat traffic. Jesus, this movie sucked. Can't wait till Cinemania publishes our review so I can share it with y'all.
December 2, 2025 at 6:55 PM
iamkaymichelle.bsky.social
Ooh, I'm listening on #YouTube! I had not realized I was not subscribed!

Go check out our buddies at @ccinemapodcast.bsky.social w/ special guest Craig Dickinson (the cock of the walk! wait, that's Bruce Dickinson).

I've got a fever, and the only prescription is more podcasting 😎

#Film #FilmSky
It's VERY early here on the West Coast, and I may have confused Bruce and Craig Dickinson in my AM confusion.
December 2, 2025 at 1:21 PM
iamkaymichelle.bsky.social
I just started (not kidding) CRYING laughing at this scene in Ep 5 of #Pluribus (the latest episode until Thurs, I think), especially when the drone DUMPS the trash all over the ground from 20 feet up...

Omg this is the funniest thing I've ever seeeeeen #lol #comedy #drama #AppleTV+ #TVSky
The pacing and editing is incredible here; like, I couldn't catch my breath I was laughing so hard. It's SO funny, y'all
December 2, 2025 at 5:17 AM
iamkaymichelle.bsky.social
Not only does it happen, just like this from this weird pervy angle (so many fetishes born right here, I'm sure of it, whether intentional or not... who's to say), but Optimus explicitly refers to it!

The line: "Bumblebee [chuckling] stop lubricating that man."

So porny & pervy. Swear to God.
December 2, 2025 at 4:14 AM
iamkaymichelle.bsky.social
HOLY SHIT, Anthony Edwards just started scuh-REAMING at his 'grandmother' (seems like it might be a #Psycho #NormanBates situation, but I'm not paying close attention tbh, & it surprised the shit out of me), & it made me laugh REALLY loud, but, like... nervously, I think 😅

#Transformers #FilmSky
He is making some CHOICES, boy. Whew!
December 2, 2025 at 3:28 AM
iamkaymichelle.bsky.social
HIGHLY sus 🤔

When I started our #KCookandCatsCo #letterboxd account a while back, I logged a bunch of #films I was pretty sure I'd seen in a few huge batches, 2-300 at a time

Have I ACTUALLY seen #Transformers? It's starting to seem... maybe not!

It fuckin BLOWS! Holy cow; worse than I thought 😬
Go follow us. No room to link it in the post above (which we call bleets), but it's, like, one of two links in our BlueSky profile. You'll figure it out.
December 2, 2025 at 3:23 AM
iamkaymichelle.bsky.social
Speaking of weird lunatics, here's #JonVoight, whom I first encountered as Nic Cage's dad in National Treasure (is that even right?) and a guy so unspeakably awful and weird to his daughter, Angelina Jolie, that she won't talk to him, and he's a #GOP trot-out, like Charlton Heston was.

Here he is 😆
I don't know that Jon Voight knows whether and when he's on film. I think he's both a method guy and an out-of-touch psychopath, so... that also reads in his performance. Do you need that in your film for some reason? He's your guy!
December 2, 2025 at 2:59 AM
iamkaymichelle.bsky.social
1st thoughts:

I'm well aware #OptimusPrime is all wrong. I can't remember what he used to be (a #Peterbilt? Maybe?) (I don't know from #trucks; you should ask 8-year-old-me, 8yo me would absolutely know), but he's not right.

& how annoying do you reckon 2006 #ShiaLaBeouf is going to be in 2025? 😆
I bet he's not gonna play well to me, but everyone else in the room will think he's hysterical and say he reminds them of themselves or some beloved fuckup relative. I'd be money on it.
December 2, 2025 at 2:47 AM
iamkaymichelle.bsky.social
Hoo, boy. Someone just put #Transformers (2007) on a shared #TV, & I'm pretty sure I've seen this, but also, maybe not.

I pretty adeptly avoided all #Bayhem after getting suckered into a #BadBoys once (fool me once... we can't get fooled again), so this may actually be my 1st viewing...

#FilmSky
Optimus Prime. He isn't right; he's wrong, based on the transforming toy I had as a child. I played with that thing so much. You think I wouldn't recognize that Optimus is all wrong? No, MIchael Bay, YOU'RE all wrong!
December 2, 2025 at 2:47 AM
iamkaymichelle.bsky.social
A truly #hilarious moment in #SurpriseInspection this month:

youtu.be/dJjaJTbrsQs?...

To photo of #SeanCombs: "Oof! You're doing worse than Hitler," as crowd reacted WAY more negatively to his photo being shown than Adolf Hitler's a moment earlier 🤣

#lol #comedy #LateNight #SethMeyers #PDiddy
I love Late Night with Seth Meyers. It's kind of replaced The Daily Show's golden era for me as, like, where I go to for that razor wit and pointed satire that also often replaces watching actual news for me, because whew, is that depressing and unrewarding.
December 1, 2025 at 8:36 PM
iamkaymichelle.bsky.social
Huh! So the Likes would suggest differently, and I'm wondering...

How many of you guys experienced my post about my dad & the #Hualapai as a whole story, like the screengrab I've included?

Or did you see it broken up and thus not get it or see any reason to investigate further? 🤔

just curious
It's sad to me that more people didn't see this (or like it? it's sad either way), because this was, like, watershed moment for me. I was like, 'oh, my family are the bad guys, huh!' and started putting distance between myself and them (I mean, they distanced, as well, lol; it was mutual distancing, for sure) pretty much immediately thereafter. Getting hit all the time didn't help, but that was pretty normal. Sensing that what was wrong with the world was living in the same home as me was new, though.
December 1, 2025 at 7:45 PM
iamkaymichelle.bsky.social
"The real secret of dramatic #storytelling is that it's basically just a series of nested, dramatic arcs."

With a cool diagram. Man, I ❤️ this channel. This is so my speed. It's in the name, #TheArtofStorytelling 🤓

youtu.be/WDZbTJGFtF0?...

This is a great #LOTR vid; I agree #theatricalcut better
All's I know is that the guy's name is Andrew, and we care about all the same stuff. We have somewhat-different takes and VERY different vibes (lol), but I see this dude, and what drives me drives him. Whew, I shit-sure can't make a diagram like that. Jesus. You'd think it'd be easy, but I'm a writer, not a fucking architect. I don't know how to do shit like this. I can't even work Excel.
December 1, 2025 at 7:41 PM
iamkaymichelle.bsky.social
RE: #PeteHegseth, #DonaldTrump & the profound need we have for busy #guillotines:

Nobody who's ever given the order, 'No survivors' doesn't deserve to die for that #warcrime. We owe it to OURSELVES to hold these men accountable and not leave it for braver folks in #TheHague 😤

#warcrimes #justice
This little guy's name is Unelector the Helpful Antifascist Guillotine, and he'd like to help us serve justice to our war criminals. Let's break glass! It's time! 😎
December 1, 2025 at 3:59 PM
iamkaymichelle.bsky.social
Dude, I am just constantly put in a position to be humiliated trying to get my #writing out in front of more 👀 (ours, technically; the #cats don't do much of it, but we share credit)

I've submitted this: medium.com/@kcookandcat...

to a #MediumPublication with 101K followers. It'll never happen 🤣
Go read it and tell me why it will never in a million years get accepted into the juggernaut Medium Publication Books Are Our Superpower (which has been, like, covered on the news and in podcasts and is a legit media presence, relative to most of the tiny, niche sparsely-read pubs on the platform), that should be a fun little engagement game lol
December 1, 2025 at 3:55 AM
iamkaymichelle.bsky.social
Hey, we just made new #podcast friends! @teambinge.bsky.social

They have really cool graphic design, too! 🤩

I think they talk #PrestigeTV like #Severance and #Pluribus, my new favorite-favorite show. I'm going to listen and see what they have to say about Rhea Seehorn's transcendent performance
Wow! That's awesome! I'm going to give them a listen. You should, too!
December 1, 2025 at 3:49 AM
iamkaymichelle.bsky.social
#Pluribus has the best first two episodes of any #television #show I've ever seen 🤩

#TVSky #TVShow #AppleTV+

#alttext 🤓
I don't want to hear a word about spoiling anything, either. You can't spoil a good story by revealing details of its plot, and besides, what the fuck does THIS reveal to you? What do you KNOW now? It's just an incredible visual that satisfyingly and climactically concludes an episode. This is perfect television. I have, like... literally no notes. I'm just loving every second of Pluribus. Ooooh, I know Carol winds up in front of a big, blue airplane that may or may not be Air Force One, now I won't watch this incredible show because it's so ruined, wah wah. ^that's what you 'spoiler alert!' idiots sound like to me One of the rarest guys in the world: a creative genius who doesn't seem to mistreat people at all and only benefits from more and more power/control/authority/freedom/responsibility. Like... let's make Vince Gilligan president this next time around, whether he wants it or not (he doesn't), and I bet he could sort a lot of shit; he'd just find it very stressful, but I bet he'd do an incredible job at that, too. I fuckin mean that! It's silly, but it's also not wrong.
December 1, 2025 at 3:42 AM
iamkaymichelle.bsky.social
omg, I hate to keep spoiling it & being a total narcissist, but frfr this #show feels like it was written for/to me 🤣

I loved her in #BetterCallSaul, but even so, #RheaSeehorn is a REVELATION to me in this show, handling essentially the feedback I get all the time w/ way more wit & charm

#Pluribus
"Must you curse so much?" It's usually not put it to me quite so eruditely, but... better believe I hear this A LOT and I have since I was about 11 or 12 and felt bold enough to speak what I felt. And then once I started, I never felt less bold or empowered to speak what I felt, lol. That's been an only-upward journey. "There is a child present." But IS there, even? You'll have to watch the show. I'm not spoiling anymore. This is obviously a terrific show, though, and you simply must watch it.
December 1, 2025 at 3:06 AM
iamkaymichelle.bsky.social
#Pluribus is incredible 🤣

In the way of #Succession, it may be simultaneously the funniest #comedy & most-impactful #drama currently 'on air'

It's early days, but in Ep2 this moment sold me as, like... this is really special.

You've GOT to watch it, you guys! Really good 🤩

#TVSky #TV #prestigeTV
LOL! Amazing. I didn't want to spoil it for others, but if you know what the premise of the show is, the Indian woman asks for a show of hands who asked the pod-people what it's like to be a pod-person, and she's making a hilarious and totally-valid point about, really, Carol's inhumanity. This show is incredible. You guys have to watch it. I won't spoil it anymore. I'm convinced it's of a very-high quality.
December 1, 2025 at 2:30 AM