I want to thank you guys for sticking around. I know I get sad a lot and I'm sorry. but it means the world to me that you engage with my words. all I am is my writing and I hope I get to write for as long as I live.

hi im okay im sorry

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We asked our regular contributors to pick a performance this year they loved, and the results capture the diversity of genre, tone, and even acting styles in the art form. Consider this a snapshot of the great acting of 2025:

I wrote about Indy the dog :) www.rogerebert.com/features/the...

I hope I made somebody proud that's all I wanted

I really don't have anyone who would want me. my friends are there but they all have partners. I walked home crying today and the pain felt like my heart wouldnt stop ripping itself apart. the feeling of being unnecessary or unwanted. actively unwanted.

I'm sorry I'm not present enough on this app, I'm not really present enough anywhere. I hope my head will start working. no good news (if any good news is even possible) to report, living day by day. hopefully something good will happen. that's all I have to report today :)

I feel like I've been a failure this year

I've been feeling like a terrible writer lately, I'm so behind, I can't make up good ideas/pitches. I feel so stupid. i can't write well

I wrote a little bit about Sorry, Baby

I'm just learning that Tom Stoppard passed away. I certainly can't say that I've read everything he's written, but I do want to say that "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead" has been a part of me for the past 12 years now, it impacts how I think and read and where I find humour. thank you Tom

my review of Hamnet if you'd like to read

disappointed in myself to admit that I think I'm having a very bad depressive episode. I feel scared I cant do the small things that I promised to do, i can't think. I feel like my brain is being squeezed through a cheese cloth

What a Piece of Work Is 'Hamnet,' How Noble in Reason!

I have secured the screener for Wadd review incoming !!!!!!!! 🙏🫰🤝🤝🤝🤝🤝😎

I reviewed Hamnet exclaim.ca/film/article...

people always stereotype Canadians as being polite, and its not true at all. We are passive-agressive weirdos who live in isolated weird places and the sooner we make peace with that the better

I slept wrong and now I can't move this is so embarrassing

do you think I have bad ideas

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I wrote this!!!! hi-femme.com/a-veritable-...

CAN I REVIEW THIS FOR SOMEBODY PLEASEEEEE

The Crow hooked me as a preteen in a crumbling Seattle theater in 1994. I've been obsessed with film ever since. The Crow will never stay buried because grief and loss are universal. Alisha's book is brilliant and personal. Get it when you can and follow @alishamgl.bsky.social #FilmSky #Movies

Alisha has been doing one marvelously original piece after another. It's a pleasure to edit and publish her work. Here's her appreciation of S.E. Hinton!

I haven't shared yet shared clips of my Hinton piece. I believe it ought to be read in full. but here's a bit of me talking, in a refracted sort of way, about a good teacher. I think we take good teachers for granted. www.rogerebert.com/features/rig...

this, on the other hand, i like a lot www.vulture.com/article/hamn...

I'm obsessed with Larry Fessenden's Habit in the way I was obsessed with the crow ....... what does this mean ..... there's so much I need to write about this movie holy moly

my current obsession is this show called "physical: asia" and team Mongolia and specifically Erdene-Ochiriin Lkhagva-Ochir who i am now in love with i guess

ive been feeling low about myself, for not writing enough, but im trying to remind myself that i've written some pretty great pieces the past year. i am so proud of all the ones i've written for rogerebert[dot]com, i put my whole soul into them and it was allowed to stay by the best editors evr

in case you missed it yesterday, i was allowed to write about my love for S. E. Hinton. this piece is about being a kid, but also about remembering when we were all kids. it's also a bit of a "thanks" to my grade eight teacher. i hope she's well :)

I love you guys 🥹🩷

"At a time when much of society looked down on a group of kids fearfully, denied them their humanity, & ignored their pains and happinesses, Hinton gave this much-maligned group a voice and an image,” writes @alishamgl.bsky.social in her ode to author S.E. Hinton’s teenage characters.

i grew up in tulsa and really, really identified with the characters in SE hinton’s novels growing up a punk, and this essay hits all the right notes and does a great job unpacking why those novels (and films) worked so well on me

im really really really proud of this one i hope you'll read it :) for @ebertvoices.bsky.social www.rogerebert.com/features/rig...

I'm worried about making money again, for the next little while.

has much been written about the idiot and hamlet? I think I could write something about the idiot and hamlet ... "the ruin of a high soul" .......

look how beautiful the handwriting is in my copy of hamlet. from 1917. I got it at a thrift store about six years ago

why didn't you guys tell me that hamnet would be my new favourite movie

I made a good sentence on the Twitter

in case you missed it :)

is everyone mad at me

great picture™️ of me!!! and one of the moon!

Richie says I did a good job so u have 2 read it 😇

Powerful piece here from @alishamgl.bsky.social, check it out.

The latest documentary from Min Sook Lee paints a stirring portrait of her mother, who died by suicide. For The Grind, @alishamgl.bsky.social spoke to the Toronto-based filmmaker about confronting her father about his wife's illness.

Autumn, Haliburton Charles Comfort 1949

I hadn't (still haven't) been able to stop thinking about "there are no words" and felt an irrepressible need to talk to Min Sook Lee about it. and so The Grind let me interview her!!! www.thegrindmag.ca/the-politica...