Jen Yamato
banner
jenyamato.bsky.social
Jen Yamato
@jenyamato.bsky.social
journalist | film critic
movies, karaoke, repeat
nightmare fuel courtesy of #BringHerBack 📹 ▶️
May 6, 2025 at 10:46 PM
What in the cursed camcorder just showed up at my door (and should I hit play)? #BringHerBack #A24
April 25, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Belated SXSW appreciation post! It was an honor to join @aishaharris.bsky.social & @timgrierson.bsky.social on the 2025 Documentary Feature jury, awarding our jury prize to Benjamin Flaherty’s SHUFFLE and special jury awards to THE PYTHON HUNT & REMAINING NATIVE. Great films, fascinating subjects.
March 18, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Give The Monkey marketing team a raise
February 20, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Taking over the @lafilmcritics.bsky.social IG tonight for our 50th anniversary awards gala ✨ go follow!
February 7, 2025 at 4:34 AM
In 2021, Kristen Wiig & Annie Mumolo’s sublime BFF fantasia #BarbAndStarGoToVistaDelMar saw its theatrical release cancelled due to COVID. Last night director Josh Greenbaum channeled Edgar’s prayer introducing its first Q&A screening to a full house at the Egyptian w/ @lafilmcritics.bsky.social 🦐✨🌴
January 31, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Thrilled for tender-hearted Grace Pudel today (and director Adam Elliot and the team that spent 8 years making bits of clay, paint, wire, and paper into the now Academy Award-nominated stop-motion wonder that is MEMOIR OF A SNAIL) #Oscars
January 23, 2025 at 3:25 PM
ONYX STORM in hand… please hold my calls (unless dragon-related) #booksky
January 21, 2025 at 7:41 PM
pretty as a picture ❄️
December 24, 2024 at 9:45 PM
Almost time to bid farewell to Woody the Talking Christmas Tree, who came out of hibernation to talk to children / receive Cinnabon tributes from his mall lair last month and disappears once more for the winter after Dec. 23
December 22, 2024 at 10:02 PM
Cozy up and listen to the Movies & Chaos podcast as I join Serena and @markpalermo.bsky.social to talk HOT FROSTY, the Hallmark/Netflix Xmas Cinematic Universes, film criticism in the Letterboxd age, and a few end-of-year tidings and movie recs.

Available everywhere ☃️🎧 shorturl.at/iVgHQ
December 22, 2024 at 4:26 PM
Well, time to break out the shirt of the season

(Do seek out writer/director Payal Kapadia’s beautiful Mumbai-set #LAFCA winner ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT — it’s out in limited release now)
December 9, 2024 at 1:39 AM
🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨
December 8, 2024 at 11:44 PM
Best Animation ~ FLOW 💓 #LAFCA 🐈‍⬛🦮🦢🦫🐒🐋
December 8, 2024 at 7:53 PM
Day 1 of LAFCA Conclave

pray for us @lafilmcritics.bsky.social
December 8, 2024 at 6:21 PM
If you watch ONE movie with your older relatives this Turkey Day…

#Thelma #filmsky #JuneSquibbForever
November 28, 2024 at 11:19 PM
The Toretto #family table blessing for use/dramatic recitation as needed, this and any holiday season 🙏
November 28, 2024 at 12:02 AM
thinking of her (the Glinda-themed Lexus made to promote WICKED even though there are no cars in WICKED) tonight
November 27, 2024 at 12:59 AM
When it’s award season and you’re behind on screeners but your last films watched are…
November 26, 2024 at 12:27 AM
While I’m here I think I’ll share a taste of the random sights & sounds & bits & bobs of the often zany, occasionally inspired, frequently random life of a film culture writer/lover in LA

Behold: The GLADIATOR 2 (GLADIIATOR?) LA Metro bus stop… aka my Roman Empire
November 24, 2024 at 10:01 PM