DEMON SLAYER: INFINITY CASTLE is a stunning, bloody animated spectacle that continue to make bank and Oscar talk. I chatted with the animation studio at Ufotable on their first of three films to conclude the epic saga. My Gold Debut interview debut: www.goldderby.com/film/2025/de...

Josh Safdie’s MARTY SUPREME in which i discuss how it’s possibly the most timely NY movie ever made. A raw & chaotic ode to the insatiable working-class desire to fulfill an ultimate destiny and its pursuit. An absolute SCHWEP. #MartySupreme Read my 4.5-star review:

Met MIRA NAIR at a IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT reception tonight (she loved it). Got starstruck for both THE NAMESAKE and her son becoming our mayor. Thanked her both.

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thinking of her today

Girl just give Oscar already. And Grammy. It’s Joever. Hell Macy’s Parade is not even a competition and yet EJAE, Rei, and Audrey won. This performance ate so hard, I fear everyone who performs after. Wow.

Wait they just announced Skyler Gisondo and Marcello Hernandez as Shrek & Fiona’s sons Fergus & Farkle alongside Zendaya’s Felicia for Shrek 5. Like that wasn’t even announced anywhere. Did I just get new movie news via Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade?!

Perfidia Beverly Hills, I love your work!

I don’t know how else to say this but Lil Jon doing Turn Down For What on a Toys R Us float in 2025 is such a recession indicator.

Didn't expect a Shaggy medley in my #MacysParade. Also love that it's a series of "can we sing this with a TVPG rating?"

damn girl we see them

ZOOTOPIA 2 is undeniably the best Disney Animation sequel to date. Bigger, sharper, and so darn funny. Nick and Judy got that 'Mulder and Scully' level of hot tension going on and I hate how I need them to kiss. Disney got me going feral on main now. My review: www.rendyreviews.com/movie-review...

ZOOTOPIA 2 is undeniably the best Disney Animation sequel to date. Bigger, sharper, and so darn funny. Nick and Judy got that 'Mulder and Scully' level of hot tension going on and I hate how I need them to kiss. Disney got me going feral on main now. My review: www.rendyreviews.com/movie-review...

ICYMI, I launched an awards interview series for Rendy Reviews subscribers. Doubling down on my site is a bold new step for me, esp after being pushed out of this harsh freelancer journalist climate. But we need your help. #fundindependentjournalism rendyreviews.com/subscription

I had a wonderful chat with SINNERS' Miles Caton (SAMMIE!). He shares how brought his city-kid experience to Preacher Boy, embodying the film’s central themes, and co-writing "Last Time (I Seen the Sun)" with Ludwig Göransson and Alice Smith. Exclusively for Rendy Reviews Subscribers:

WICKED: FOR GOOD - whatever magic that flying broom had to propel itself into the air in PART ONE hits only severe turbulence throughout this final chapter. All before crashing onto a yellow-brick tarmac. What an unintelligible, ugly mess. My review: www.rendyreviews.com/movie-review...

WICKED: FOR GOOD - whatever magic that flying broom had to propel itself into the air in PART ONE hits only severe turbulence throughout this final chapter. All before crashing onto a yellow-brick tarmac. What an unintelligible, ugly mess. My review: www.rendyreviews.com/movie-review...

A rural generational house of sorrow is no den for a wild stallion. Was enthralled by Jennifer Lawrence's primal performance in Die My Love. Not my favorite Ramsey, but had me think about derealization when out of our element. My review: www.rendyreviews.com/movie-review...

“LAST SAMURAI STANDING … seamlessly integrates some of the most intricate action filmmaking to be seen on television in years with a beating human heart that makes us care,” says @rendy.bsky.social about the Netflix show.

And for my next trick, I'm going to give NOW YOU SEE ME: NOW YOU DON'T a four star rating. www.rendyreviews.com/movie-review...

'Predator: Badlands' Review: Thrilling and Violent Predator Entry Finds Evolution in Humanizing Tale www.rendyreviews.com/movie-review...

With awards season in full swing, I’m back in the Oscar prediction ring. Weekly, I'll be sharing my forecast in the race for the next Oscar nominees. Our 2026 Oscars prediction page is live. Oh, and Stay tuned. Big things happening at Rendy Reviews. www.rendyreviews.com/2026-oscar-p...

Sydney Sweeney tries so hard to punch through CHRISTY’s overwhelming conventionality and she just can’t do it. (Watch the Untold: Deal with the Devil doc on Netflix instead. It’s the biopic’s blueprint fr) My review: www.rendyreviews.com/movie-review...

Inshallah, bitches.

Having such a bad case of New Yorker main character syndrome. Had to catch myself from questioning all my friends from other states posting their 'I Voted' stickers, "Wait, how do you get to vote for Zohran too? You don't live here."

After growing up with bitch mayors who used fear-mongering as a means to turn NYC into a prison, especially in marginalized, working-class communities, it’s exciting to, by today, have a mayor who cares about his people and not exploiting us for his pockets. Let’s go Zohran.

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QUEENS OF THE DEAD is the most campy and queer horror fun you'll have in a theater this Halloween. For @autostraddle.bsky.social, I chatted with director Tina Romero about her DJ-to-director debut experience, drag names, and faux Bushwick culture. Go see it! www.autostraddle.com/tina-romero-...

HAZBIN HOTEL S2 drops today. While I can't discuss the new tunes just yet — they're all bangers, omg, just you wait for "🐍🍒❤️" and "📺⭐️🦈"—I did do a ranking for season 1's tunes. My latest via @autostraddle.bsky.social: www.autostraddle.com/hazbin-hotel...

Guillermo del Toro’s FRANKENSTEIN captures the queer virtue of belonging, which no iteration has done before. For @autostraddle.bsky.social, I discussed the queer resilience subtext via the creature’s tale, generational trauma, and familial acceptance. Read here www.autostraddle.com/frankenstein...

CHAINSAW MAN — THE MOVIE: REZE ARC is strictly for the fans — but a nice entry point for newcomers. Nevertheless, Denji's leap to the big screen explodes with romantic, complex poignancy, and beautifully animated bloody violence. My review: www.rendyreviews.com/movie-review...

If there was a bar for frustrating postmodern apolitical American apocalyptic stories, A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE just arrived and sat right next to Alex Garland’s CIVIL WAR. #FilmSky Read my review here: www.rendyreviews.com/movie-review...

Love being validated by critic peers that bad Colleen Hoover books are also bad movie adaptations. She truly is our new Nicholas Sparks.

CHAINSAW MAN — THE MOVIE: REZE ARC is strictly for the fans — but a nice entry point for newcomers. Nevertheless, Denji's leap to the big screen explodes with romantic, complex poignancy, and beautifully animated bloody violence. My review: www.rendyreviews.com/movie-review...

Not seeing much chatter about this week was a gut punch to marginalized voices in media journalism got me feeling crazy. The purging of NBC verticals, VIBES merging with RS and Black reporters getting laid off, corporate restructurings leaving freelancers like me in the dust. Support indie outlets.

Once again, i'm imploring you guys, especially ones who migrated to here for the umpteenth time, engage with the articles by journalists. This is the most crucial time than ever as many are getting laid off and our livelihoods are upended to hell. Repost, bookmark, just give a single click helps.

The Cinemaniax podcast is back with an episode on #TIFF50 chrisreedfilm.com/2025/10/14/c... Film critic @rendy.bsky.social joins me to discuss the fest, after which I interview filmmaker Siyou Tan about her debut feature, AMOEBA. #filmsky @tiffnet.bsky.social

AFTER THE HUNT went nationwide today......ICYMI, I despised it. Good cast, bad direction, obnoxious screenplay that would've been prime for 2019. Acts like it's new to the "dark-sidedness of MeToo" conversation in 2025 while being Diet TÁR. My review: www.rendyreviews.com/movie-review...

Once again, i'm imploring you guys, especially ones who migrated to here for the umpteenth time, engage with the articles by journalists. This is the most crucial time than ever as many are getting laid off and our livelihoods are upended to hell. Repost, bookmark, just give a single click helps.

I'm deeply embarrassed that IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT is my first Jafar Panahi film because it is the boldest movie I've seen this year. A sublime thriller about the moral quandaries of Iran's oppressed — made guerilla-styled, son! My review: www.rendyreviews.com/movie-review...

Just finished an assignment and turned it in, only to learn that my editor atthat said site no longer works there. LOL. This week is crushing my spirit and I'm so close to losing it.

Evergreen

SCARLET is proof that grounded Mamoru Hosoda is gone. He's deep in his maximalist phase. More accessible than BELLE, this supernatural, gender-swapped riff on Hamlet is stunning yet on-brand overambitious. I liked it well enough though. My #NYFF63 review: www.rendyreviews.com/movie-review...

There’s a nor’easter in NYC and my ceiling, which the super (that robbed me) was supposed to fix ages ago, is leaking. I want to hit up the landlords but still have to finish paying rent so they can handle it. Please help if you can. I’m so tired. www.gofundme.com/f/help-cover...

Lmao at NYCC not shifting their commercial programming on their family Sunday because tell me why the they’re playing the smiling friends trailer before this PHINEAS AND FERB PANEL?!

My favorite thing about #NYCC is watching the ASL translators at panels. Sometimes more expressive than the panelists. The way you should’ve seen the woman translating the “Gravity” clip at the Hazbin Hotel panel. She was jamming while translating like she was at a Warped tour.

TRON: ARES is an expensive ass 404 Error. If you can afford subwoofers for the Nine Inch Nails soundtrack that's a better investment than seeing this chaotic flashy noise-fest with a Chat GPT-type script on a big screen. My review: www.rendyreviews.com/movie-review...

TRON: ARES is an expensive ass 404 Error. If you can afford subwoofers for the Nine Inch Nails soundtrack that's a better investment than seeing this chaotic flashy noise-fest with a Chat GPT-type script on a big screen. My review: www.rendyreviews.com/movie-review...