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Modernizing Shakespeare can be bold or just awkward.
#Shakespeare #FilmCriticism #KingLear #Macbeth #Othello #Theatre #Film #Adaptations #Cinema #Literature #MovieReview
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The Architecture of Fidelity: Narrative Dissonance and Aesthetic Unity in Contemporary Shakespearean Cinema
The evolution of William Shakespeare’s dramatic works from the early modern stage to the multi-dimensional canvas of twenty-first-century cinema represents a perennial struggle between textual reve…
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February 18, 2026 at 5:12 PM
cinecastigo.bsky.social
No post today, but we have more than 50 articles, give us a chance!!!

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Hamnet (2025) - Chloé Zhao | Love is loss
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February 17, 2026 at 9:56 PM
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Check out our latest reviews and articles!!!

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February 16, 2026 at 11:27 PM
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#Hamnet #ChloeZhao #JessieBuckley #PaulMescal #CinemaDeAutor #AuteurCinema #FilmCriticism #CriticaDeCinema #OscarBuzz #IndependentFilm

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Hamnet (2025) - Chloé Zhao | Love is loss
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February 16, 2026 at 9:10 PM
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Robin Williams starred in his fair share of stinkers. Somewhat paradoxically, those with superlative titles are among the worst.
#RobinWilliams #FilmCriticism #MovieReview #DarkComedy #Cinema #Film #Screenwriting
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Robin Williams’s Superlative Paradox
Robin Williams starred in his fair share of stinkers. Somewhat paradoxically, those with superlative titles are among the worst. Who but Jason Statham in Crank or a very small child would believe y…
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February 15, 2026 at 7:41 PM
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Valentine’s Day is a glossy pile-up of famous faces and half-formed feelings, mistaking quantity for charm. It’s less about love than the idea of love — loud, marketable, and oddly hollow. A movie that keeps moving so it never has to linger
#FilmTok #RomComs #MovieThoughts #FilmCriticism #PopCulture
February 13, 2026 at 8:53 PM
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February 12, 2026 at 11:26 PM
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Take a look!!! Keep your eyes open, cause we're back on track!!!

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Surviving Desire (1992) - Hal Hartley | Among philosophy, music and Dostoiévski
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February 12, 2026 at 11:26 PM
iamkaymichelle.bsky.social
But it was more a commentary on what #filmcriticism is: bitching, hopefully with porpoise 🐬
February 12, 2026 at 2:32 PM
cinecastigo.bsky.social
Cinema was never meant to be a template. It was meant to be risk, voice, imperfection, and authorship

If you still believe cinema is art before product, this is for you.

#IndependentCinema #AuteurTheory #FilmCriticism #CinemaAsArt #directors #Films

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Open Letter to Cinema: Indies, mainstreams, Auteaur and more!
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February 11, 2026 at 7:03 PM
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“Recreating” Richard III’s voice says more about how we imagine history than about how he actually sounded.
#RichardIII #History #Documentary #Shakespeare #FilmCriticism #AI #MovieReview
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The Re-Animation of Richard III: A Multidisciplinary Analysis of Forensic Reconstruction, Linguistic Archaeology, and Cinematic Interpretation
The rediscovery of the skeletal remains of Richard III in a Leicester car park in 2012 serves as the most significant turning point in the post-medieval historiography of the Plantagenet dynasty. T…
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February 9, 2026 at 6:06 PM
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This week we discuss Troma’s The Toxic Avenger (1984) and its recent Remake (2025)! Links Below🎙️
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February 8, 2026 at 8:19 AM
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
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Silent Hill Movie: Why Reviews Are SO Divided #shorts
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February 4, 2026 at 10:55 PM
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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…
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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
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🎬 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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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
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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…
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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…
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January 30, 2026 at 2:51 AM
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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
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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 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
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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

Read more: www.thefridaytimes.com/26-Jan-2026/...

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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
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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
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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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January 25, 2026 at 5:15 AM
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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…
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January 23, 2026 at 8:03 PM