Jen Yamato
@jenyamato.bsky.social
journalist | film critic
movies, karaoke, repeat
movies, karaoke, repeat
nightmare fuel courtesy of #BringHerBack 📹 ▶️
May 6, 2025 at 10:46 PM
nightmare fuel courtesy of #BringHerBack 📹 ▶️
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
What in the cursed camcorder just showed up at my door (and should I hit play)? #BringHerBack #A24
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
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.
Give The Monkey marketing team a raise
February 20, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Give The Monkey marketing team a raise
Taking over the @lafilmcritics.bsky.social IG tonight for our 50th anniversary awards gala ✨ go follow!
February 7, 2025 at 4:34 AM
Taking over the @lafilmcritics.bsky.social IG tonight for our 50th anniversary awards gala ✨ go follow!
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
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 🦐✨🌴
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
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
pretty as a picture ❄️
December 24, 2024 at 9:45 PM
pretty as a picture ❄️
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
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
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
Available everywhere ☃️🎧 shorturl.at/iVgHQ
December 22, 2024 at 4:26 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
Available everywhere ☃️🎧 shorturl.at/iVgHQ
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)
(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
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)
(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 8, 2024 at 6:21 PM
If you watch ONE movie with your older relatives this Turkey Day…
#Thelma #filmsky #JuneSquibbForever
#Thelma #filmsky #JuneSquibbForever
November 28, 2024 at 11:19 PM
If you watch ONE movie with your older relatives this Turkey Day…
#Thelma #filmsky #JuneSquibbForever
#Thelma #filmsky #JuneSquibbForever
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
thinking of her (the Glinda-themed Lexus made to promote WICKED even though there are no cars in WICKED) tonight
When it’s award season and you’re behind on screeners but your last films watched are…
November 26, 2024 at 12:27 AM
When it’s award season and you’re behind on screeners but your last films watched are…
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
Behold: The GLADIATOR 2 (GLADIIATOR?) LA Metro bus stop… aka my Roman Empire
November 24, 2024 at 10:01 PM
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
Behold: The GLADIATOR 2 (GLADIIATOR?) LA Metro bus stop… aka my Roman Empire