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iamkaymichelle.bsky.social
& ofc, last but CERTAINLY not least is @gabyfilmmaker.bsky.social, who is virtually never on #BlueSky & presumably won't see this for a month or so.

Her #MediumPublication #Cinemania is kind of our unofficial home for our #filmcriticism. Our most frequent publisher 🥰

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Cinemania
A home for conversations about all things cinema.
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February 5, 2026 at 6:11 PM
gilbertk-filmmaker.bsky.social
Silent Hill Movie: Why Reviews Are SO Divided #shorts
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February 4, 2026 at 10:55 PM
jprr.bsky.social
Relics that multiply, revelations that arrive pre-believed, clones powered by medieval fan fiction, and a pope who exists only because the narrator says so.
#FilmCriticism #Documentary #History #CriticalThinking #Religion #Myth #Faith #Cinema #MovieReview
pablohoneyfish.wordpress.com/2026/02/03/t...
The Architecture of Credulity: Narratological Laziness and Pseudohistory in Religious Media
When traditional hagiography is filtered through the lens of modern “investigative” journalism or high-concept speculative cinema, the result is frequently a synthesis of historical inaccuracies an…
pablohoneyfish.wordpress.com
February 4, 2026 at 12:29 AM
iamkaymichelle.bsky.social
I dropped a little bit of #KCookandCatsCo #cat lore in my #Bugonia review, which I am often doing.

The idea was that other cat-obsessed people might enjoy my #filmcriticism all the more bc of that shared interest.

So far, mixed results 😅

Go read it: medium.com/cinemania/bu...

#CatSky #cats
The fun fact is teed up while talking about Hamnet, and I reveal that two of the K Cook & Cats, Co cats are named for Hamlet characters. Bugonia IS a parable. Go read it!
February 3, 2026 at 3:27 PM
aoiwave.bsky.social
🎬 Bigger screens don’t always mean better cinema.
IMAX promised immersion, but at what cost to storytelling and accessibility?
Read the full critique and decide for yourself. 👀
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#Cinema #IMAX #FilmCriticism #Movies #Cinephile
IMAX Was a Mistake: How the Film Industry Chased Size and Lost Cinema
For decades, IMAX has been sold to audiences as the ultimate cinematic experience. Bigger screens. Louder sound. Crystal-clear images. A promise that movies, when enlarged to monumental proportions…
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February 2, 2026 at 10:38 AM
jprr.bsky.social
Edgar Allan Poe keeps getting buried under bad scholarship and worse adaptations.
#EdgarAllanPoe #FilmCriticism #LiteraryCriticism #GothicHorror #Adaptation #Poe #ClassicLiterature #Cinema #Horror #MovieReview
pablohoneyfish.wordpress.com/2026/02/01/t...
The Gothic Mirror: Historical Reality and Cinematic Myth in the Legacy of Edgar Allan Poe
The posthumous reputation of Edgar Allan Poe represents a unique intersection of literary genius and character assassination, a duality that has persisted for nearly two centuries. The initial “bur…
pablohoneyfish.wordpress.com
February 2, 2026 at 2:38 AM
jprr.bsky.social
From The House That Dripped Blood to modern “anthologies” in name only, this is horror that promises dread and can’t even deliver on the title.
#Horror #Anthology #FilmCriticism #CultHorror #AmicusFilms #TrilogyOfTerror #Narrative #Cinema #MovieReview
pablohoneyfish.wordpress.com/2026/01/29/t...
The Architecture of Nihilism: Narrative Abdication and Structural Decay in the Horror Anthology Film
The horror anthology film, historically designated as the “portmanteau” film, occupies a unique space in cinematic history, functioning as a bridge between the literary short story and the visual m…
pablohoneyfish.wordpress.com
January 30, 2026 at 2:51 AM
jprr.bsky.social
From Ray McKinnon’s backwoods nightmare to Auster’s Möbius-strip of chance and punishment, these films use numbers the way horror uses knives.
#FilmCriticism #SouthernGothic #TheAccountant2001 #TheMusicOfChance #PaulAuster #RayMcKinnon #MovieReview
pablohoneyfish.wordpress.com/2026/01/27/t...
The Architecture of Determinism: Systems, Numbers, and Moral Outsourcing in Ray McKinnon’s The Accountant and Philip Haas’s The Music of Chance
The cinematic exploration of systemic entrapment finds its most profound expression through the subversion of traditionally neutral frameworks, such as accounting, actuarial science, and game theor…
pablohoneyfish.wordpress.com
January 27, 2026 at 7:02 PM
upinews.bsky.social
Sundance review: ‘Frank & Louis’ finds inspiration in an unlikely friendship inside a prison, confronting aging and memory loss with restraint and care.
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#Sundance #IndieFilm #FilmCriticism
Sundance movie review: 'Frank & Louis' inspires in prison, Alzheimer's - UPI.com
"Frank & Louis," which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, offers hope for redemption in the worlds of prison and Alzheimer's Disease.
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January 27, 2026 at 3:13 PM
thefridaytimes.bsky.social
A lyrical yet limited portrait of Zia Mohyeddin—The Colour of My Heart captivates in moments but shies away from the messiness that makes genius human.
By Huzaifaa Farrukh

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#PakistaniCinema #ZiaMohyeddin #FilmCriticism #DocumentaryFilm #UrduCulture
Is The New Zia Mohyeddin Documentary A Missed Opportunity For Cinematic Depth?
While visually competent, the film avoids the human messiness that makes documentaries compelling, opting instead for rosy-eyed praise over novelistic
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January 26, 2026 at 9:06 AM
jprr.bsky.social
Ambiguity isn’t depth, and weirdness isn’t a substitute for writing. On Kinds of Kindness, Bugonia, and the cult of prestige nonsense.
#FilmCriticism #MovieReview #Art #Cinema #Absurdism #YorgosLanthimos #KindsOfKindness #Bugonia #EmmaStone #JessePlemons
pablohoneyfish.wordpress.com/2026/01/25/d...
Dead Ends and Empty Vignettes: Yorgos Lanthimos’s Crisis of Discipline
Kinds of Kindness (2024) feels like co-writer/director Yorgos Lanthimos thought to himself, “How can I make an unmistakably bizarre movie? I know! I’ll cast Willem Dafoe, Emma Stone, and Philip Sey…
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January 25, 2026 at 7:01 PM
neverseenitpodcast.bsky.social
Can a movie about speed feel painfully slow? I break down why F1 left me cold, from its bloated runtime to weak character drama, despite slick racing sequences and Brad Pitt’s star power. Like, follow, & subscribe for more movie takes.
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#F1Movie #BradPitt #FilmReview #MovieTok #FilmCriticism
January 25, 2026 at 5:15 AM
jprr.bsky.social
Some stories don’t need to be retold. They need to be re-aimed. From Good Night, and Good Luck to A Sound of Thunder, this is what happens when we mistake repetition for relevance.
#FilmCriticism #Adaptation #GoodNightAndGoodLuck #GeorgeClooney
pablohoneyfish.wordpress.com/2026/01/23/t...
The Architecture of Warning: Dissecting Media Adaptation, Historical Memory, and the Erosion of Political Conscience
The relationship between a creative work and its socio-political context is rarely static, particularly when that work is explicitly designed as an antidote to the prevailing deceptions of its time…
pablohoneyfish.wordpress.com
January 23, 2026 at 8:03 PM
filmgordon.bsky.social
#TheOscarParadox
Why are Black Oscar wins so emotional? Why does joy sometimes make the room uncomfortable? The Perception of the Oscar breaks it down. #Oscars #BlackExcellence #HollywoodCulture #FilmCriticism #CinemaConversation
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January 21, 2026 at 3:27 PM
ramprana.bsky.social
#TheBikeriders wanted to be gritty and iconic but ended up slow and hollow. Great potential wasted on a film that thinks "vibes" can substitute for a plot. Am I supposed to pretend it wasn't boring just because everyone's wearing leather and brooding? #FilmCriticism #HotTake #MovieDiscourse
January 21, 2026 at 9:55 AM
jprr.bsky.social
Two films, two failures of craft. Representation isn’t the problem. Transparency, laziness, and narrative incoherence are.
#FilmCriticism #IndieFilm #QueerCinema #TransRepresentation #Writing #Narrative #Cinema #MovieReview
pablohoneyfish.wordpress.com/2026/01/20/t...
The Dialectics of Transgender Representation in Independent Cinema: A Comprehensive Analysis of The Lyric (2022) and Secret Society (2021)
The landscape of independent cinema has increasingly served as a battleground for sociopolitical advocacy, often prioritizing the transmission of marginalized narratives over the traditional aesthe…
pablohoneyfish.wordpress.com
January 21, 2026 at 1:36 AM
mcoulombewrites.bsky.social
Meet Peggy Christie — Michigan-based writer, GLAHW co-founder, and columnist behind Drunken Monkey Movie Review for Malevolent Dark.
Read her feature on Substack ⬇️

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#HorrorWriters #FilmCriticism #AuthorInterview #substack
Peggy Christie
Many times I have a notebook with me and start scribbling.
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January 19, 2026 at 4:15 PM
filmgordon.bsky.social
#MLK97
From Selma to Rustin to Spike Lee’s cinematic dialogue between King and Malcolm X, film continues to shape how we remember Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and how his unfinished dream still confronts us today.
#MLK97 #TheDreamOnScreen #BlackCinema #FilmCriticism
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MLK '97 | The Dream on Screen - FilmGordon
From Selma to Rustin to Spike Lee’s enduring dialogue between King and Malcolm X, cinema continues to shape how we understand Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. On his 97th birthday, TheFilmGordon explores ho...
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January 19, 2026 at 4:10 PM
jprr.bsky.social
Rental Family, After Yang, The Wedding Banquet, and The Farewell ask you to excuse lies because the characters “mean well.”
#RentalFamily #FilmCriticism #Cinema #MovieReview #Film
pablohoneyfish.wordpress.com/2026/01/18/t...
The Architecture of Deception: Aestheticized Mendacity and the Ethics of Benevolent Falsehood in Contemporary Asian-Centric Cinema
The contemporary cinematic landscape has increasingly embraced a phenomenon that may be defined as “aestheticized mendacity” — a narrative strategy in which ethically grotesque behavior is sanitize…
pablohoneyfish.wordpress.com
January 18, 2026 at 8:08 PM
andanotheronepod.bsky.social
This week we discuss two adaptations of Kiss of the Spider Woman! Links Below🎙️
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January 18, 2026 at 11:36 AM
ashokdadhwal.bsky.social
Four troubled young mothers face impossible choices in the Dardenne Brothers’ most humanistic, quietly devastating film in years—empathy without sentimentality, social realism at its sharpest. Now streaming on VoD. #Cinema #DardenneBrothers #FilmCriticism #HumanStories
January 17, 2026 at 1:39 PM
tldrmovrev.bsky.social
Well #TheLongWalk is one the most brutal, emotionally raw adaptations I’ve seen in years. Cooper Hoffman and David Jonsson absolutely tear your heart out.

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#MovieReview #StephenKing #FilmCriticism
The Long Walk – Movie Review
“The Long Walk” (2025) is a brutal, emotionally charged adaptation of Stephen King’s dystopian classic, following fifty teenage contestants forced to walk to their deaths under a militarised regime…
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January 17, 2026 at 11:12 AM
jprr.bsky.social
Meet-cutes by collision, dating apps run by three people, gentrification as a buzzword, and love stories on narrative autopilot.
#RomCom #FilmCriticism #RomanticComedy #MovieReview #Hallmark #Screenwriting #IdiotPlot #Cinema
pablohoneyfish.wordpress.com/2026/01/16/t...
The Anatomy of Contemporary RomCom Trope Saturation: A Narrative and Socio-Economic Analysis
The contemporary romantic comedy, particularly those entries released between 2022 and 2023, has entered a phase of narrative homeostasis characterized by a dense accumulation of predictable tropes…
pablohoneyfish.wordpress.com
January 16, 2026 at 7:05 PM
atomiccultmedia.bsky.social
Just watched 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple. It completely ditches the survival horror formula for a feral, character-driven indie drama vibe. It’s looser than the villain's morals, but Ralph Fiennes makes it work.

Up on the channel now. 🎬 #28YearsLater #FilmCriticism
January 16, 2026 at 2:28 PM