Travis Leamons
@travisleamons.bsky.social
President of the Houston Film Critics Society.
I watch movies. I watch films. I watch cinema.
I watch movies. I watch films. I watch cinema.
@rianjohnson.bsky.social WAKE UP DEAD MAN is a divine investigation. Naughty things in the nave with a fickle flock. This third KNIVES OUT mystery is less cozy but is as locked in as ever. Benoit Blanc may not be moved by religion, he's the proper proselyte to solve a monsignor's murder.
November 18, 2025 at 4:33 AM
@rianjohnson.bsky.social WAKE UP DEAD MAN is a divine investigation. Naughty things in the nave with a fickle flock. This third KNIVES OUT mystery is less cozy but is as locked in as ever. Benoit Blanc may not be moved by religion, he's the proper proselyte to solve a monsignor's murder.
A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE makes its arrival to 4K UHD this week from @criterion.bsky.social I don't think enough people talk about it. It has the beats of a straightforward thriller but with commentary about confrontation.
It also marked a David Cronenberg renaissance with Viggo Mortensen as the star.
It also marked a David Cronenberg renaissance with Viggo Mortensen as the star.
October 23, 2025 at 1:35 AM
A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE makes its arrival to 4K UHD this week from @criterion.bsky.social I don't think enough people talk about it. It has the beats of a straightforward thriller but with commentary about confrontation.
It also marked a David Cronenberg renaissance with Viggo Mortensen as the star.
It also marked a David Cronenberg renaissance with Viggo Mortensen as the star.
For VIDEOHEAVEN Alex Ross Perry should have acknowledged that just as David Cronenberg helped usher videotape in film with VIDEODROME, his 2005 film A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE was the last major Hollywood movie released on VHS.
October 20, 2025 at 1:29 AM
For VIDEOHEAVEN Alex Ross Perry should have acknowledged that just as David Cronenberg helped usher videotape in film with VIDEODROME, his 2005 film A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE was the last major Hollywood movie released on VHS.
I can't believe @kimmorgan.bsky.social convinced @realgdt.bsky.social to use The Edgar Winter Group's "Frankenstein" over the end credits.
Brilliant.
Brilliant.
October 16, 2025 at 4:24 PM
I can't believe @kimmorgan.bsky.social convinced @realgdt.bsky.social to use The Edgar Winter Group's "Frankenstein" over the end credits.
Brilliant.
Brilliant.
Locked in. That's Paul Thomas Anderson's ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER.
Viva la revolution!
Viva la revolution!
September 24, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Locked in. That's Paul Thomas Anderson's ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER.
Viva la revolution!
Viva la revolution!
My take on why box office matters, but why movies matter more.
Listening to @scottmendelson.bsky.social on THE TOWN recently helped spur this column.
houstonfilmcritics.com/critical-out...
Listening to @scottmendelson.bsky.social on THE TOWN recently helped spur this column.
houstonfilmcritics.com/critical-out...
September 7, 2025 at 9:30 PM
My take on why box office matters, but why movies matter more.
Listening to @scottmendelson.bsky.social on THE TOWN recently helped spur this column.
houstonfilmcritics.com/critical-out...
Listening to @scottmendelson.bsky.social on THE TOWN recently helped spur this column.
houstonfilmcritics.com/critical-out...
Fun little nods in CAUGHT STEALING.
1. Takes place in New York, 1998 (the same place and year Aronofsky's debut PI was released).
2. Signage for Kim's Video was recreated for an exterior shot on Avenue A.
3. Including Griffin Dunne in the cast 40 years after AFTER HOURS.
1. Takes place in New York, 1998 (the same place and year Aronofsky's debut PI was released).
2. Signage for Kim's Video was recreated for an exterior shot on Avenue A.
3. Including Griffin Dunne in the cast 40 years after AFTER HOURS.
September 1, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Fun little nods in CAUGHT STEALING.
1. Takes place in New York, 1998 (the same place and year Aronofsky's debut PI was released).
2. Signage for Kim's Video was recreated for an exterior shot on Avenue A.
3. Including Griffin Dunne in the cast 40 years after AFTER HOURS.
1. Takes place in New York, 1998 (the same place and year Aronofsky's debut PI was released).
2. Signage for Kim's Video was recreated for an exterior shot on Avenue A.
3. Including Griffin Dunne in the cast 40 years after AFTER HOURS.
Quentin Tarantino ---> Zach Cregger
Breakouts
Reservoir Dogs
Barbarian
Sophomore Hit (not Slump)
Pulp Fiction
Weapons
Adaptation / IP
Jackie Brown (based on Elmore Leonard's novel Rum Punch)
Resident Evil (based on Capcom video game series)
Breakouts
Reservoir Dogs
Barbarian
Sophomore Hit (not Slump)
Pulp Fiction
Weapons
Adaptation / IP
Jackie Brown (based on Elmore Leonard's novel Rum Punch)
Resident Evil (based on Capcom video game series)
August 10, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Quentin Tarantino ---> Zach Cregger
Breakouts
Reservoir Dogs
Barbarian
Sophomore Hit (not Slump)
Pulp Fiction
Weapons
Adaptation / IP
Jackie Brown (based on Elmore Leonard's novel Rum Punch)
Resident Evil (based on Capcom video game series)
Breakouts
Reservoir Dogs
Barbarian
Sophomore Hit (not Slump)
Pulp Fiction
Weapons
Adaptation / IP
Jackie Brown (based on Elmore Leonard's novel Rum Punch)
Resident Evil (based on Capcom video game series)
Well played @paramountpictures.bsky.social
Get your beavers stuffed at @regalcinemas.bsky.social when you see THE NAKED GUN and order a large popcorn.
Get your beavers stuffed at @regalcinemas.bsky.social when you see THE NAKED GUN and order a large popcorn.
August 1, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Well played @paramountpictures.bsky.social
Get your beavers stuffed at @regalcinemas.bsky.social when you see THE NAKED GUN and order a large popcorn.
Get your beavers stuffed at @regalcinemas.bsky.social when you see THE NAKED GUN and order a large popcorn.
Friedkin, Fritz, and fatalism.
I take a look at two new entries from @criterion.bsky.social SORCERER and THE BIG HEAT.
#MovieSky #FilmSky #CriterionCollection
I take a look at two new entries from @criterion.bsky.social SORCERER and THE BIG HEAT.
#MovieSky #FilmSky #CriterionCollection
[Fresh on Criterion] ‘SORCERER’, ‘THE BIG HEAT’, and the fatalism of men and women
Now and again, I can draw parallels between movies that shouldn’t have a connection. It happened last year when I covered the Criterion releases of Wim Wenders’ Perfect Days and Jean-Pierre Melvill…
freshfiction.tv
July 21, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Friedkin, Fritz, and fatalism.
I take a look at two new entries from @criterion.bsky.social SORCERER and THE BIG HEAT.
#MovieSky #FilmSky #CriterionCollection
I take a look at two new entries from @criterion.bsky.social SORCERER and THE BIG HEAT.
#MovieSky #FilmSky #CriterionCollection
EDDINGTON: The most COVID of COVID movies.
This coming from a guy that saw it in an auditorium with like five other people, all of whom were at least six feet away from me.
Too bad mainstream media is concentrating on the politics of SUPERMAN and not what Ari Aster captures in his anti-western.
This coming from a guy that saw it in an auditorium with like five other people, all of whom were at least six feet away from me.
Too bad mainstream media is concentrating on the politics of SUPERMAN and not what Ari Aster captures in his anti-western.
July 19, 2025 at 9:28 PM
EDDINGTON: The most COVID of COVID movies.
This coming from a guy that saw it in an auditorium with like five other people, all of whom were at least six feet away from me.
Too bad mainstream media is concentrating on the politics of SUPERMAN and not what Ari Aster captures in his anti-western.
This coming from a guy that saw it in an auditorium with like five other people, all of whom were at least six feet away from me.
Too bad mainstream media is concentrating on the politics of SUPERMAN and not what Ari Aster captures in his anti-western.
The problem with JAWS is that it was so damn good that the inferior sequels has made @universalstudiosfl.bsky.social not resurrect the franchise.
But what if... We have OPPENHEIMER. The ship to transport the bombs was the USS Indianapolis.
We need the story of the ship and the sharks.
But what if... We have OPPENHEIMER. The ship to transport the bombs was the USS Indianapolis.
We need the story of the ship and the sharks.
July 17, 2025 at 11:16 PM
The problem with JAWS is that it was so damn good that the inferior sequels has made @universalstudiosfl.bsky.social not resurrect the franchise.
But what if... We have OPPENHEIMER. The ship to transport the bombs was the USS Indianapolis.
We need the story of the ship and the sharks.
But what if... We have OPPENHEIMER. The ship to transport the bombs was the USS Indianapolis.
We need the story of the ship and the sharks.
When do we get the Gosling/Powell "Guys II Men" project?
Gosling: Nice Guy / Fall Guy
Powell: Hangman / Hit Man / Running Man
Gosling: Nice Guy / Fall Guy
Powell: Hangman / Hit Man / Running Man
July 1, 2025 at 9:50 PM
When do we get the Gosling/Powell "Guys II Men" project?
Gosling: Nice Guy / Fall Guy
Powell: Hangman / Hit Man / Running Man
Gosling: Nice Guy / Fall Guy
Powell: Hangman / Hit Man / Running Man
After being stuck in Chicago for the better part of a week (ugh), I finally got the @secondsightfilms.bsky.social release of THE NICE GUYS.
I'm not one to usually complain about shipping, but packing this box for overseas shipment to Texas should have been better than in a case mailer.
I'm not one to usually complain about shipping, but packing this box for overseas shipment to Texas should have been better than in a case mailer.
June 21, 2025 at 12:38 AM
After being stuck in Chicago for the better part of a week (ugh), I finally got the @secondsightfilms.bsky.social release of THE NICE GUYS.
I'm not one to usually complain about shipping, but packing this box for overseas shipment to Texas should have been better than in a case mailer.
I'm not one to usually complain about shipping, but packing this box for overseas shipment to Texas should have been better than in a case mailer.
How could Mel Brooks leave out that there's been five PLANET OF THE APES movies since SPACEBALLS with the SPACEBALLS 2 announcement?
June 12, 2025 at 8:01 PM
How could Mel Brooks leave out that there's been five PLANET OF THE APES movies since SPACEBALLS with the SPACEBALLS 2 announcement?
Never forget. Today is the day in which shoeshiners everywhere remember what Tommy DeVito did to Billy Batts.
#Goodfellas #FilmSky
#Goodfellas #FilmSky
June 12, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Never forget. Today is the day in which shoeshiners everywhere remember what Tommy DeVito did to Billy Batts.
#Goodfellas #FilmSky
#Goodfellas #FilmSky
I love how #BALLERINA is just Inigo Montoya's story from THE PRINCESS BRIDE.
My name is Eve Macarro. You killed my father, prepare to die.
My name is Eve Macarro. You killed my father, prepare to die.
June 5, 2025 at 3:15 PM
I love how #BALLERINA is just Inigo Montoya's story from THE PRINCESS BRIDE.
My name is Eve Macarro. You killed my father, prepare to die.
My name is Eve Macarro. You killed my father, prepare to die.
Regardless of the type of story, a cinematographer is a director's best friend.
Watching COPYCAT again and it just looks so damn good because of Laszlo Kovacs.
He also did PAPER MOON and GHOSTBUSTERS.
Tak Fujimoto of SILENCE OF THE LAMBS also did FERRIS BUELLER'S DAY OFF.
Watching COPYCAT again and it just looks so damn good because of Laszlo Kovacs.
He also did PAPER MOON and GHOSTBUSTERS.
Tak Fujimoto of SILENCE OF THE LAMBS also did FERRIS BUELLER'S DAY OFF.
June 3, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Regardless of the type of story, a cinematographer is a director's best friend.
Watching COPYCAT again and it just looks so damn good because of Laszlo Kovacs.
He also did PAPER MOON and GHOSTBUSTERS.
Tak Fujimoto of SILENCE OF THE LAMBS also did FERRIS BUELLER'S DAY OFF.
Watching COPYCAT again and it just looks so damn good because of Laszlo Kovacs.
He also did PAPER MOON and GHOSTBUSTERS.
Tak Fujimoto of SILENCE OF THE LAMBS also did FERRIS BUELLER'S DAY OFF.
I don't like to do instant reactions, because in the afterglow your endorphins could trick your sensibilities.
Letting it simmer a few days, I have been looking at @neon-rated.bsky.social #LifeOfChuck with so much zeal for the 23 hours and 56 minutes we have in a day.
And you should too.
Letting it simmer a few days, I have been looking at @neon-rated.bsky.social #LifeOfChuck with so much zeal for the 23 hours and 56 minutes we have in a day.
And you should too.
May 30, 2025 at 3:25 PM
I don't like to do instant reactions, because in the afterglow your endorphins could trick your sensibilities.
Letting it simmer a few days, I have been looking at @neon-rated.bsky.social #LifeOfChuck with so much zeal for the 23 hours and 56 minutes we have in a day.
And you should too.
Letting it simmer a few days, I have been looking at @neon-rated.bsky.social #LifeOfChuck with so much zeal for the 23 hours and 56 minutes we have in a day.
And you should too.
I wonder if when MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - THE FINAL RECKONING comes to Paramount+ it will have a skip pop-up option to bypass the recaps.
I'm going to need you to listen to this ...
I'm going to need you to listen to this ...
May 24, 2025 at 7:09 PM
I wonder if when MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - THE FINAL RECKONING comes to Paramount+ it will have a skip pop-up option to bypass the recaps.
I'm going to need you to listen to this ...
I'm going to need you to listen to this ...
If you are around Houston's museum district this weekend come check out @neon-rated.bsky.social #ANORA in 35mm at the Museum of Fine Arts.
Playing tonight with a late afternoon matinee tomorrow.
ANORA recently won five Academy Awards and was named Best Picture by the Houston Film Critics Society.
Playing tonight with a late afternoon matinee tomorrow.
ANORA recently won five Academy Awards and was named Best Picture by the Houston Film Critics Society.
May 17, 2025 at 3:36 PM
If you are around Houston's museum district this weekend come check out @neon-rated.bsky.social #ANORA in 35mm at the Museum of Fine Arts.
Playing tonight with a late afternoon matinee tomorrow.
ANORA recently won five Academy Awards and was named Best Picture by the Houston Film Critics Society.
Playing tonight with a late afternoon matinee tomorrow.
ANORA recently won five Academy Awards and was named Best Picture by the Houston Film Critics Society.
Bryan Cranston just throwing 100 MPH on the #CinemaCon episode of #TheStudio. High AF Studio Mogul for the win!
#WeekendAtCinemaCon
#WeekendAtCinemaCon
May 17, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Bryan Cranston just throwing 100 MPH on the #CinemaCon episode of #TheStudio. High AF Studio Mogul for the win!
#WeekendAtCinemaCon
#WeekendAtCinemaCon
May 8, 2025 at 1:51 PM