Pat Mullen
@patmullen.bsky.social
Writer on the movie beat and publisher of @povmagazine.bsky.social, Canada's documentary magazine. Veep @torontofilmcritics.bsky.social.
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I was so confused as to what outlet 'Narrator' was. 🤦♂️
November 13, 2025 at 10:01 PM
I was so confused as to what outlet 'Narrator' was. 🤦♂️
Fellini is loving the first snow! ☃️
November 9, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Fellini is loving the first snow! ☃️
Love the full page FYC ad in Variety for the dog in Good Boy. But where is Bing's campaign??? 🐕
October 30, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Love the full page FYC ad in Variety for the dog in Good Boy. But where is Bing's campaign??? 🐕
Quick video of Julia Roberts on her performance in #AftertheHunt at NYFF, and embracing ambiguity in this cancel culture parable. www.instagram.com/reel/DPF5bSm...
September 27, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Quick video of Julia Roberts on her performance in #AftertheHunt at NYFF, and embracing ambiguity in this cancel culture parable. www.instagram.com/reel/DPF5bSm...
Out of Africa is a favourite for obvious reasons. Although tbh he and JLo did not get enough praise for An Unfinished Life!
September 19, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Out of Africa is a favourite for obvious reasons. Although tbh he and JLo did not get enough praise for An Unfinished Life!
That's a wrap for #tiff50!
Top picks for the fest:
1. Hamnet (the people are correct!)
2. The Tale of Silyan
3. Cover-up
4. EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert
5. Below the Clouds
6. The Voice of Hind Rajab
7. The Secret Agent
8. Love + War
9. Levers
10. A Simple Soldier
Top picks for the fest:
1. Hamnet (the people are correct!)
2. The Tale of Silyan
3. Cover-up
4. EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert
5. Below the Clouds
6. The Voice of Hind Rajab
7. The Secret Agent
8. Love + War
9. Levers
10. A Simple Soldier
September 15, 2025 at 12:26 AM
That's a wrap for #tiff50!
Top picks for the fest:
1. Hamnet (the people are correct!)
2. The Tale of Silyan
3. Cover-up
4. EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert
5. Below the Clouds
6. The Voice of Hind Rajab
7. The Secret Agent
8. Love + War
9. Levers
10. A Simple Soldier
Top picks for the fest:
1. Hamnet (the people are correct!)
2. The Tale of Silyan
3. Cover-up
4. EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert
5. Below the Clouds
6. The Voice of Hind Rajab
7. The Secret Agent
8. Love + War
9. Levers
10. A Simple Soldier
Enjoyed #tiff50 opener John Candy: I Like Me. The festival's struggled with opening night selections, but this one strikes the right now of heat, humour, and Canadiana to kick off the 50th edition. 🇨🇦
September 5, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Enjoyed #tiff50 opener John Candy: I Like Me. The festival's struggled with opening night selections, but this one strikes the right now of heat, humour, and Canadiana to kick off the 50th edition. 🇨🇦
Two more Best International Feature Oscar submissions for your #TIFF50 schedule!
Sweden submits Eagles of the Republic 🇸🇪
Iceland submits Palm Dog winner The Love that Remains 🇮🇸
Sweden submits Eagles of the Republic 🇸🇪
Iceland submits Palm Dog winner The Love that Remains 🇮🇸
August 27, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Two more Best International Feature Oscar submissions for your #TIFF50 schedule!
Sweden submits Eagles of the Republic 🇸🇪
Iceland submits Palm Dog winner The Love that Remains 🇮🇸
Sweden submits Eagles of the Republic 🇸🇪
Iceland submits Palm Dog winner The Love that Remains 🇮🇸
🚨A few Best International Feature submissions to catch at #TIFF50: Palestine submits historical drama PALESTINE 36, while Thailand opts for possessed vacuum cleaner romance A USEFUL GHOST, which won the Critics' Week at Cannes.
August 20, 2025 at 4:16 PM
🚨A few Best International Feature submissions to catch at #TIFF50: Palestine submits historical drama PALESTINE 36, while Thailand opts for possessed vacuum cleaner romance A USEFUL GHOST, which won the Critics' Week at Cannes.
Fine, everyone else is doing it. Best films of the century so far! 📽️
June 24, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Fine, everyone else is doing it. Best films of the century so far! 📽️
Binged Sirens. What a big first to last episode drop. Episode one had me feeling like I was watching some very exciting 'Palm Royale meets Get Out' thing. And then it quickly became... not that...just a strange vehicle for great interior decorating. Fun performances by Fahy/Moore though. Hey, hey. 🐦⬛
May 23, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Binged Sirens. What a big first to last episode drop. Episode one had me feeling like I was watching some very exciting 'Palm Royale meets Get Out' thing. And then it quickly became... not that...just a strange vehicle for great interior decorating. Fun performances by Fahy/Moore though. Hey, hey. 🐦⬛
It took over two years, but it looks like Milisuthando -- the best damn documentary of 2023! -- finally has distribution and is opening theatrically in the US this week. Canada next, please. 🙌 www.instagram.com/p/DJpsCmKtY5...
May 15, 2025 at 1:43 AM
It took over two years, but it looks like Milisuthando -- the best damn documentary of 2023! -- finally has distribution and is opening theatrically in the US this week. Canada next, please. 🙌 www.instagram.com/p/DJpsCmKtY5...
Shout out to everyone who paid thousands of dollars to tweet about this early at Cannes! 👀
May 13, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Shout out to everyone who paid thousands of dollars to tweet about this early at Cannes! 👀
This note in the Conservative platform about funding the *first* Canadian documentaries about World War efforts = 🤯
Thank you for your sacrifice, Fields of Sacrifice.
Thank you for your sacrifice, Fields of Sacrifice.
April 23, 2025 at 12:53 AM
This note in the Conservative platform about funding the *first* Canadian documentaries about World War efforts = 🤯
Thank you for your sacrifice, Fields of Sacrifice.
Thank you for your sacrifice, Fields of Sacrifice.
Some new tea on Jeff Skoll and Participant!
March 19, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Some new tea on Jeff Skoll and Participant!
Had fun doing jury duty at Kingston Canadian Film Festival for their inaugural juried prizes. Big congratulations to Shepherds for winning Best Canadian Feature (with an honourable mention to So Surreal: Behind the Masks) and to The Last Meal for winning Best Canadian First Feature! 🍁
March 3, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Had fun doing jury duty at Kingston Canadian Film Festival for their inaugural juried prizes. Big congratulations to Shepherds for winning Best Canadian Feature (with an honourable mention to So Surreal: Behind the Masks) and to The Last Meal for winning Best Canadian First Feature! 🍁
Added Anora to the ranked listed of Best Picture Oscar winners. It's fun to see how much the list shifts over the years with rewatches/aging. letterboxd.com/patmullen/li...
March 3, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Added Anora to the ranked listed of Best Picture Oscar winners. It's fun to see how much the list shifts over the years with rewatches/aging. letterboxd.com/patmullen/li...
#Oscars cocktail: The Brut-alist. Monumental! 🥂
📝: 10-year-old scotch, apple cider, honey, pear bitters. Top with bubbly and gold flakes. Served with (Fernanda) Torres chips. Santé!
📝: 10-year-old scotch, apple cider, honey, pear bitters. Top with bubbly and gold flakes. Served with (Fernanda) Torres chips. Santé!
March 2, 2025 at 11:51 PM
#Oscars cocktail: The Brut-alist. Monumental! 🥂
📝: 10-year-old scotch, apple cider, honey, pear bitters. Top with bubbly and gold flakes. Served with (Fernanda) Torres chips. Santé!
📝: 10-year-old scotch, apple cider, honey, pear bitters. Top with bubbly and gold flakes. Served with (Fernanda) Torres chips. Santé!
Caught Canadisn Stage's take on Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? A Superbowl of ACTING. 👏👏
February 9, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Caught Canadisn Stage's take on Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? A Superbowl of ACTING. 👏👏
$20 says that Mother's Instinct will one day be the 2024 film that achieves certified cult status. Actresses actressing, Hitchcockian camp, bitch slaps, day-drinking with vintage glassware, dead children--this movie's got it all. If only they'd submitted as a comedy. 🌭
January 11, 2025 at 1:56 AM
$20 says that Mother's Instinct will one day be the 2024 film that achieves certified cult status. Actresses actressing, Hitchcockian camp, bitch slaps, day-drinking with vintage glassware, dead children--this movie's got it all. If only they'd submitted as a comedy. 🌭
First film of 2025: Bonjour Tristesse! 📽
January 1, 2025 at 9:04 PM
First film of 2025: Bonjour Tristesse! 📽
2024 was rough, but: some positives!
I think the highlight was Jackie Shane on the cover of POV. This was the craziest issue ever, redoing it mid-layout and not knowing if Hot Docs was even happening. But this cover story by Gesila was a reminder why we still do this povmagazine.com/the-beautifu...
I think the highlight was Jackie Shane on the cover of POV. This was the craziest issue ever, redoing it mid-layout and not knowing if Hot Docs was even happening. But this cover story by Gesila was a reminder why we still do this povmagazine.com/the-beautifu...
December 31, 2024 at 7:58 PM
2024 was rough, but: some positives!
I think the highlight was Jackie Shane on the cover of POV. This was the craziest issue ever, redoing it mid-layout and not knowing if Hot Docs was even happening. But this cover story by Gesila was a reminder why we still do this povmagazine.com/the-beautifu...
I think the highlight was Jackie Shane on the cover of POV. This was the craziest issue ever, redoing it mid-layout and not knowing if Hot Docs was even happening. But this cover story by Gesila was a reminder why we still do this povmagazine.com/the-beautifu...
Picking the best films of 2024! 🎾🎾🎾
December 28, 2024 at 3:40 PM
Picking the best films of 2024! 🎾🎾🎾