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Angela Woolsey
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Local journalist in Northern Virginia by day, movie and TV watcher by night. I read books too. She/her.

"All we need to do is change." - ANTHEM, Noah Hawley
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My latest Criterion Collection haul has arrived. Loving that monochrome 🥰
The Criterion Blu-rays of All That Jazz, The Spy Who Came into the Cold, Nightmare Alley and Roma are arranged clockwise from the top left. All of the covers are black and white.
November 1, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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Wrapped up my Frankenstein prep with his earnestly irreverent grandson. I’m very excited to see Guillermo del Toro’s take tomorrow! #letterboxdFriday #lastfourwatched
Letterboxd recent activity shows, left to right, Young Frankenstein rated 3.5 stars, The Curse of Frankenstein rated 2.5, the 1931 Frankenstein rated 4 stars and Hangmen Also Die rated 3.5 stars.
October 25, 2025 at 3:52 AM
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It was also heartening to come outside and see a small No Kings rally 🫶
Cardboard sign on a brick sidewalk reads “No King” with a red X between the words
October 18, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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At the Middleburg Film Festival for my only scheduled movie, All That’s Left of You!
A screen reading Middleburg Film Festival 2025 with spotlights shining around an art deco-style building is at the front of a room with rows of chairs. Chandeliers hang from the ceiling.
October 18, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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Shoutout to Kelly’s Oyster House and Bar in Fairfax City for a delicious Restaurant Week meal! Sometimes nothing satisfies like good food.
A plate of penne pasta with jumbo shrimp and andouille sausage in cajun cream sauce. There’s cheese on top and a sprinkling of paprika along the edge of the plate. S’mores ice cream cake with hot fudge drizzled over marshmallow fluff on top of chocolate ice cream. On the left side of the plate, whipped cream sits in a pool of hot fudge with a blackberry and three strawberry slices.
August 30, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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A day late but who cares. I encourage people to watch None Shall Escape before it leaves Criterion Channel, if only for rabbi’s speech. A fascinating artifact, if not a great movie #lastfourwatched
Letterboxd recent activity shows, left to right, West Side Story with 4 stars, None Shall Escape with 3 stars, Crossfire with 4 stars and Days of Thunder with 3 stars
July 19, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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FWIW skimming the Letterboxd reviews made me instantly wonder if I underrated He Ran All the Way #LetterboxdFriday #last4watched
Recent activity on Letterboxd shows, from left to right, He Ran All the Way with 2.5 stars, The Rocketeer with 3.5 stars, and Rebel Ridge and The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) with 3 stars
July 11, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Back at the ballpark for the first time in years. Let’s go, Nats!
A wide shot of the field and stands at Nationals Park under cloudy skies
June 15, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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Hollywood execs are so baffled that anyone might be motivated by something other than money.
Excerpt from Vulture article “Hollywood Execs Fear Ryan Coogler’s Sinners Deal ‘Could End the Studio System’” with the final sentence highlighted in blue: …distribution scheme for Greta Gerwig’s Chronicles of Narnia adaptation which will be released in 1,000 theaters in 90 countries as well as in IMAX for a period of several weeks ahead of its streaming rollout — the largest-ever theatrical push for the platform and a move understood within the industry as Netflix giving special concessions to a billion-dollar filmmaker. As well, according to our first studio executive, who is currently attempting to set up a project with Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, the actor-producers have been pushing for a copyright-ownership arrangement through their production company, Artists Equity. “They’re making the deal almost impossible,” this person says. “They really are. Because they’re like, ‘We’ve got to own a piece of it. We’ve got to be partners with you guys. Sorry.’ They’re passing on stuff that will make money because they want to control it.”
April 19, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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What a final scene 🖤
A screenshot from Top Gun: Maverick shows a close-up of a black computer screen with white text that says “It’s time to let go.”
April 2, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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Psst studio executives, Disney's actual failure here is not supporting their actor's right to express her very correct opinion. The crap Rachel Zegler has had to put up with in just five years in Hollywood makes me punchy www.vulture.com/article/what...
Text excerpt from the Vulture article "What Hollywood Is Saying About Disney's Snow White crisis": Perhaps most problematic for Disney’s marketing apparatus, however, was then-23-year-old Zegler’s anguished reaction to President Trump’s election in November. “May Trump supporters and Trump voters and Trump himself never know peace,” she wrote in an Instagram post. “Fuck Donald Trump.” After supporters of the president responded on social media with postings such as, “Not taking my kids to see this trash after the statement you put out. @disney you need to do something about this” and “I hope you get no peace when this film BOMBS at the box office and streaming,” Zegler issued a hasty apology. But some rival studio executives ultimately feel the Mouse House made a tactical mistake in casting the outspoken Romeo + Juliet actress and failing to rein her in. “The reality is Rachel Zegler should not be playing Snow White,” one tells me.
March 16, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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Pretty pleased with this January Blu-ray haul. Go physical media! 📽️
A stack of Blu-ray cases with, from top to bottom, Wings, Spotlight, In the Heights, The Banshees of Inisherin, The Apprentice, Queen Christina, Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining, Much Ado About Nothing, Blade Runner 2049, How to Train Your Dragon, The Maltese Falcon, Sweet Smell of Success, Tótem, and Portrait of a Lady on Fire
January 24, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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Sitting in the fourth row of Udvar-Hazy’s IMAX theater to see Interstellar again, partly inspired by @badideas.bsky.social’s reaction post. Will I cry like I did last year? We shall see!
Holding a ticket for Interstellar in IMAX above a striped bag of popcorn. In the background, a purple and blue nebula is on the visible portion of a movie screen.
December 14, 2024 at 7:27 PM
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Seated at the Angelika for a rep screening of The Third Man 🚬😎
A blue screen displays a poster for the movie The Third Man. It says that the next show will start at 7 pm and has social media icons at the bottom for connecting with the Angelika Film Center.
May 20, 2024 at 11:00 PM
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It’s in the 40s and time for my first hot chocolate of the season. From Cafe de Vienna!
A cup of hot chocolate and a paper bag sit on a wooden table. Behind the table is a tree decorated with colorful lights, garlands and baubles.
November 28, 2023 at 12:50 AM
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"None of them were white. They were dagos, Negros, micks, all fighting for the right to be created equal. But equal to what?"

The "Welcome to the Alternate Economy" cold open remains an invigorating thesis statement. I wish the rest of Fargo season 4 lived up to it.
A still from the TV show Fargo's fourth season premiere. In 1949, the Fadda Family, Italians, stands on the left, while the Cannon Limited, a group of Black men, is on the right in front of Joplin's Department Store advertising a radio specialist, fair prices, electronic goods and friendly terms on maroon signs. Everyone is dressed in coats and hats. The patriarch of the Fadda family, Donatello, holds a hand out to Loy Cannon, who's wearing a dark blue coat and brown hat and played by Chris Rock.
November 18, 2023 at 10:00 PM