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Three sci-fi movies. Infinite space. Zero curiosity. When science fiction stops asking questions, all you’re left with are shiny coffins drifting through the void.
#ScienceFiction #FilmCriticism #SciFi #PlotHoles #Passengers #Lifepod #EventHorizon
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The Vacuum of Intent: A Critical Analysis of Intellectual Incuriosity and Narrative Collapse in High-Concept Science Fiction
The trajectory of science fiction cinema in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries has often been defined by a widening chasm between aesthetic sophistication and intellectual commitme…
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January 10, 2026 at 1:00 AM
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I’m not gonna blow this guy’s spot up bc I support #writers, even insufferable ones, but I’m going to clip this.

Imagine my surprise when I clicked on what seemed to be a piece of #filmcriticism re: #cinematography & the insert shot, & found, instead 4 grafs of vibey #beatpoetry 🤣

#FilmSky #lol
The word movie suggests movement. The word novel might suggest newness. The word film might conjure the stickiness of some grimy veneer. Back to that first point. The moving movie — I’m talking of physical motion, not the evocation of emotion. Nice thought though. Movies called movies because they move us. I’ll mention one of my all time favorites: Kurosawa’s Ikiru. Now that’s what you might call a move-me. Nor am I talking about the story always moving on, an old chestnut of screenwriting dogma — as though a film has to suffer from constant St. Vitus’ dance. It doesn’t. It can breathe, resonate, generate suspense, bask in a vibe, mesmerize, captivate. PREPOSTEROUS 🤣 I love that in that 3rd graf, he thinks he’s made a point he can return to. Good grief! My stuff isn’t like this 😑
January 9, 2026 at 11:29 PM
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UPI review: ‘Greenland 2’ blends hope with hard-hitting action as the survival thriller franchise continues.

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#Movies #FilmCriticism #Greenland2
Movie review: 'Greenland 2' blends hope, hard-hitting action - UPI.com
"Greenland 2," in theaters Friday, delivers intense disasater movie action along with a hopeful message in the Gerard Butler led sequel.
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January 8, 2026 at 5:28 PM
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For our first episode of 2026 we discuss the 1972 and 2006 adaptations of The Poseidon Adventure! Link Below🎙️
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#Movies #Film #FilmCriticism #AndAnotherOnePodcast #Podcast #GeneHackman #ThePoseidonAdventure #Remake
January 8, 2026 at 7:59 AM
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Cinema loves dying girls who never get sick, never get ugly, and never disrupt the romance.
#FilmCriticism #MovieReview #TerminalIllness #PlotDevice #Cancer #Movies #Narrative #GenderPolitics #Romance #BucketListMovies #IndieFilm
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The Aestheticization of Mortality: A Comparative Analysis of Terminal Illness Narratives in Boardwalk Winter, Life in a Year, and Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
The cinematic landscape of the twenty-first century has witnessed the stabilization of a distinct subgenre of drama: the terminal illness narrative, frequently categorized within Young Adult (YA) o…
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January 7, 2026 at 7:30 PM
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Bodies move through shadow like inventory. The streets are instructional. A forensic reading of Sin City’s order. #FilmCriticism

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Sin City
A Maintenance Economy
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January 6, 2026 at 8:13 PM
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#FilmCriticism #Cinema
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Giving a review zero stars sets a dreadful precedent. But here are the one-star shockers I’d downgrade | Peter Bradshaw
A singularly horrendous TV show has crashed the star-rating review economy. But if zero stars is the new normal for critical rage, three films deserve the big 0
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January 6, 2026 at 2:04 PM
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Holocaust cinema keeps mistaking accessibility for truth. When everyone speaks English, Nazis become sitcom fools, rescuers turn into saints, and God starts playing favorites, history doesn’t get clearer—it gets cleaner.
#FilmCriticism #Holocaust #History
pablohoneyfish.wordpress.com/2026/01/04/t...
The Architecture of Reassurance: Linguistic, Moral, and Theological Erasure in Contemporary Holocaust Cinema
The evolution of Holocaust cinema has transitioned from the stark, documentary-style “atrocity films” used by Allied forces for re-education purposes after 1945 to a modern genre characterized by a…
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January 4, 2026 at 9:14 PM
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A review of #LastWeekinEndTimesCinema by #ASHamrah in the #ArtsFuse. #filmcriticism artsfuse.org/322370/janua...
January Short Fuses — Materia Critica - The Arts Fuse
Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.
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January 2, 2026 at 5:24 PM
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Two hood dramas. Zero accountability. Nineteen Summers and All Day and a Night want to indict “the system,” but keep tripping over the inconvenient fact of choice.
#FilmCriticism #HoodCinema #Narrative #SocialIssues #IndieFilm #MovieReview #Cinema
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Cinematic Determinism and the Ethics of Agency: A Comparative Analysis of Nineteen Summers and All Day and a Night
The evolution of contemporary urban cinema, specifically the subgenre often categorized as the “hood film,” has increasingly moved toward a framework of sociological determinism. This movement is e…
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January 1, 2026 at 1:33 AM
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From animation to documentaries to international cinema, the best films of 2025 delivered excellence across the board. Here’s our Best of the Best guide. buff.ly/PBdJKy5

#BestFilmsOf2025 #FilmCriticism #CinemaExcellence
December 31, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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A critic’s take on the best and worst movies of 2025, from breakout successes to high-profile misfires — and what the year says about an industry still recovering.

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#Movies #FilmCriticism #YearInReview #Cinema
Best and Worst Movies of 2025: Triumphs, Disappointments, and an Industry in Recovery
A critical look at the best and worst movies of 2025, from surprise hits like Sinners to disappointing flops that missed their potential.
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December 31, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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Young Critic: Top 10 Films of the Year + Awards
Despite an unsteady year for the industry, cinema delivered urgency, beauty, and moral weight. These films defined 2025 for Young Critic.
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#YoungCritic #BestOf2025 #FilmCriticism
2025 Awards | Young Critic
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December 31, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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From international gems to Hollywood heavyweights, these are the best films of 2025, curated by film critic Dwight Brown. buff.ly/PqVL1VA

#BestFilmsOf2025 #FilmCriticism
December 31, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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A Hard Day’s Night isn’t just joyful chaos. It’s a film about motion as obligation, humor as defense, and what it costs to be constantly seen. Still sharp. Still relevant.
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#aHardDaysNight #TheBeatles #FilmCriticism
A Hard Day’s Night and the Work of Performance
The first thing you see is not a chord, not a face, not even a name. It is motion. Four young men in suits run like they are late for their ...
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December 30, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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Best of 2025 is live.!

A personal, no-nonsense look at the films and streaming that defined the year.

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#FilmCriticism #Television #BestOf2025
Best of 2025 - Candey+
There’s a difference, and 2025 made it obvious.
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December 29, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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Here are my favorite new movies from 2025 and new-to-me from past years. Good luck in 2026, folks.

#filmwiritng #filmcriticism #filmsky #moviesky #theshrouds #theicetower #cronenberg #Hadžihalilović #serienoire #blondedeath #lamnaichoi #andmore #marioncotillard
What I saw in 2025
...a year in cinema
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December 29, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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Orang Ikan wants to be The Defiant Ones with a monster during WWII, and that’s exactly the problem.
#OrangIkan #MonsterMovie #WWII #FilmCriticism #Allegory #HistoricalCinema #CreatureFeature #WarFilms #BMovie #Cinema
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The Architecture of Historical Absence: A Cinematic and Historiographical Analysis of Orang Ikan
Orang Ikan (aka Monster Island, 2024) is The Defiant Ones-meets-Predator during World War II. You can see what the problem with that is, right? It’s possible to offer social commentary using litera…
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December 28, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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Ooh! What do you know, #PointlessHub (Cody) did another #Transformers video, and I actually think my #longoverduemoviereview of Transformers pairs nicely with it: youtu.be/4M4iWyU1kTM?...

Read my review on #Medium: medium.com/its-only-a-m...

#FilmSky #MovieSky #MichaelBay #FilmCriticism
I Ranked Every Transformers Movie For Some Reason
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December 28, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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Revisiting Cloud Atlas in 4K — a film whose themes feel even more resonant now than when it was first released.

Full review:
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#CloudAtlas #4KBluray #FilmCriticism
Cloud Atlas (2012) 4K Review | FlickDirect
Cloud Atlas remains an ambitious, cast-driven epic whose scope impresses even when its structure overwhelms.
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December 28, 2025 at 3:28 PM
jprr.bsky.social
Hallmark keeps asking us to believe in angels, dreams, destiny, and free will—then runs them all through HR, timelines, and performance reviews.
#FilmCriticism #Hallmark #MovieReview #Dreams #Angels #RomCom #ChristmasMovies #Screenwriting
pablohoneyfish.wordpress.com/2025/12/24/t...
The Bureaucratization of the Celestial and the Oneiric: A Critical Analysis of Managed Destiny in A Christmas Angel Match and My Dreams of You
Move over, Seraphim, Cherubim, and Watchers — A Christmas Angel Match (2025) introduces a brand-new angelic category: Christmas Connection Angels (CCA), who operate under the auspices of “Cloud Com…
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December 25, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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Jekyll and Hyde is not a dual role. Hyde is a disguise. Every time filmmakers forget that, Stevenson rolls in his grave—and another adaptation faceplants into gothic nonsense.
#JekyllAndHyde #FilmCriticism #LiteraryAdaptation #GothicHorror
pablohoneyfish.wordpress.com/2025/12/24/t...
The Anatomy of Fragmentation: Morphological and Philosophical Misconstructions in Cinematic Adaptations of the Jekyll-Hyde Duality
The historical trajectory of Robert Louis Stevenson’s 1886 novella, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, across the medium of cinema reveals a persistent tension between the source material…
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December 24, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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Fifty mistook weight loss for depth and autobiography for insight. All Things Fall Apart and Get Rich or Die Tryin’ are ego exercises dressed up as seriousness.
#FilmCriticism #MovieReview #AllThingsFallApart #GetRichOrDieTryin #50Cent #EgoTrip
pablohoneyfish.wordpress.com/2025/12/22/t...
The Anatomy of Transformative Narcissism: A Critical Investigation into the Cinematic Career of 50 Cent
The transition of Curtis ‘50 Cent’ Jackson from the apex of the hip-hop industry to the competitive sphere of feature filmmaking represents a distinct case study in the intersection of celebrity br…
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December 24, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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At times, Zootopia 2 feels less like a crime story and more like 90210 with predators and prey. Handsome, competent, and hesitant to take risks. Full review now. #Zootopia2 #Disney #AnimationReview #FilmCriticism
When Zootopia 2 Lacks Urgency and Bite, What’s A Rabbit to Do?
The the world of nearly every Disney movie requires a sequel, Zootopia 2 retreats from the urgency that once defined it. Cute and competent, it ultimately plays things safe in world building first and furthering the buddy cop pair's relationship second.
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December 22, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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🎬🎙️ FROM THE FE ARCHIVE

Get in the holiday spirit by listening back to our 2022 Film East Chats episode on Satoshi Kon’s unconventional Christmas classic, Tokyo Godfathers.

Listen to our full discussion of Tokyo Godfathers: youtu.be/FJV8oHf-NT0

#filmcriticism #satoshikon #filmpodcast #anime
Film East Chats... The Anti-Hallmark Christmas Movie with Tokyo Godfathers
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December 22, 2025 at 3:28 PM