@angelicabastien.bsky.social and i answer the question of the moment: "what does "sinners" record-breaking oscar nomination haul mean?" for the academy? everything. for the future of black film? history tells us it won't change much. for @vulture.com.

Hey Toronto COVID-safe(r) friends! This month’s Masked at the Movies is family-friendly with a screening of A GOOFY MOVIE. It’s on Sunday afternoon and I hope to see you there! Details, accessibility info, and free registration all at the link! 💕 www.eventbrite.ca/e/1983826064...

Hey Toronto COVID-safe(r) friends! This month’s Masked at the Movies is family-friendly with a screening of A GOOFY MOVIE. It’s on Sunday afternoon and I hope to see you there! Details, accessibility info, and free registration all at the link! 💕 www.eventbrite.ca/e/1983826064...

“During COVID” (and other respiratory transmitted infections) would be now. Wastewater released today for Ontario. Screen shots of Ontario in general and Toronto specifically. wwater.ca/Ontario

Just say you don’t want to reckon with the ongoing effects of COVID and move on. Don’t act like your decision to stop caring is based on scientific evidence when it isn’t. There are thousands of studies showing just how dangerous this virus is. We are not wrong, we are just early.

Masked at the Movies is back this month for a screening of all-time banger SUNSET BOULEVARD on February 17 🎞️ Free to attend but please register. All info and accessibility deets at the link! www.eventbrite.ca/e/1982244160...

Toronto: MASKED AT THE MOVIES is back on Tuesday with a screening of cult musical LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS. Details and registration here! www.eventbrite.ca/e/1979310140... Spread the word to all your COVID-cautious friends!

Hello COVID-cautious/aware/safer Toronto friends! Just over a week until Masked at the Movies returns with a screening of cult musical LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS at Innis Town Hall. Tickets are free, but please register: www.eventbrite.ca/e/1979310140... 🪴

Two weeks until the first MASKED AT THE MOVIES of 2026. And we’re kicking off the new year with cult comedy musical LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS. All details & accessibility info at the link. Hope to see you there! 💚🌱 www.eventbrite.ca/e/masked-at-...

Two weeks until the first MASKED AT THE MOVIES of 2026. And we’re kicking off the new year with cult comedy musical LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS. All details & accessibility info at the link. Hope to see you there! 💚🌱 www.eventbrite.ca/e/masked-at-...

Time to share my story too! Long story short, I was offered a monthly column creating a deep cuts watchlist since they are my specialty. Everything was going great, I was given a platform to talk about my favorites. Now how it all ended…

Black women film critics and writers have a hard enough time in this space doing their actual jobs. I’m so proud of my friend for speaking up and loudly about her experience working for this horror outlet. Note: though she’s offering this for free, support her and add funds while you’re there.

I had to start somewhere because I am drowning in receipts. Here’s why I quit though: buymeacoffee.com/sharai/why-i...

Turner Classic Movies is airing an 11-film exploration of trans identities in movies hosted by the authors of Corpses, Fools, & Monsters (great recent history of the topic) starting tomorrow at 8

If you can EVEN believe it, I've finished all twelve illustrations for the Lynch calendar! As usual I started losing my mind a little at the end so Inland Empire turned out unexpectedly wacky. I'll be placing the print order soon, please order now if you def want one! www.etsy.com/listing/4366...

Toronto! Just over a week until Masked at the Movies presents FACES PLACES, an incredibly warm and thoughtful doc. Free to attend & accessibility info at the link below. Excited for this one 💕 www.eventbrite.ca/e/masked-at-...

COVID-safe(r) folks in Toronto! TWO WEEKS until Masked at the Movies presents the wonderful and warm FACES PLACES. Free to attend, but please register. Help me spread the word! 💕 www.eventbrite.ca/e/1947406738...

COVID-safe(r) folks in Toronto! TWO WEEKS until Masked at the Movies presents the wonderful and warm FACES PLACES. Free to attend, but please register. Help me spread the word! 💕 www.eventbrite.ca/e/1947406738...

🆄🅽🆂🅰🅵🅴 🅸🅽 🆃🅷🅴 🆆🅾🆁🅺🅿🅻🅰🅲🅴 how the CBC forced me to resign over COVID and why we’re all worse off for it—especially our kids a 🧵 (on the occasion of my son’s [5th] and the CBC’s [89th] shared birthday, nov. 2) 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼 [links to referenced articles in ALT text]

Toronto friends! Masked at the Movies is back on November 25 with the charming, life-affirming, wholesome FACES PLACES. Hope to see you there! 💕 Free tickets and details 👇

This is what I mean when I say that present-day covid denialism is right wing. It was a plan born of corporatists and wholly adopted by centrists and even leftists eager to pretend the pandemic was over, which should immediately give anyone thinking about it pause.

TCM published an article about @cadenmgardner.bsky.social and I's upcoming program on their website. www.tcm.com/articles/Pro...

Toronto friends! Masked at the Movies is back on November 25 with the charming, life-affirming, wholesome FACES PLACES. Hope to see you there! 💕 Free tickets and details 👇

Toronto friends! The film is still TBD but please put Nov 25 on your calendar for the next Masked at the Movies! 🥰

Hey, if you’re attending #TIFF50 next week, please consider wearing a high quality mask (like a KN95). I don’t want to get sick and I don’t want you to get sick! Let’s keep each other safe from airborne illness this year. Cool? COOL! I promise you no one will care. Always happy to give mask recs! 😷

I wasn’t going to say anything else beyond my original reply about the event last night but conflating this with what’s happening in Palestine is so out of pocket. Unbelievable.

The person was an employee at the venue. I’m sorry they said that to you. Ultimately, it’s only respirator-mandatory for attendees as it’s a public space - and all attendees were in respirators the entire time. Going forward, I will be clear that folks may encounter unmasked ppl/surgicals inside.

Toronto friends, Masked at the Movies presents CHICAGO is tomorrow (June 29!) at Innis Town Hall ✨ Doors open at 6, film starts around 6:45. There will be vendors with mask chains and art! FREE to attend! Register below 🫡 www.eventbrite.ca/e/1391840906...

Toronto friends, TWO WEEKS until Masked at the Movies presents CHICAGO 🎹 Musicals are one of my greatest joys and I can’t wait to see Cell Block Tango on the big screen for the first time since 2002!!! 🔪 FREE TO ATTEND, register here: www.eventbrite.ca/e/masked-at-...

COVID-safe Toronto friends!! Masked at the Movies is back on June 29 with a little extra razzle dazzle for Pride month! 🎹🕺🎷🎶 Free!! www.eventbrite.ca/e/masked-at-...

It is consistently wild to see this rash of pieces on Covid that are all about its origin and its politics, by people continuing to steadfastly ignore that it’s still here, it’s still killing people, there’s a rising mass of disabled people from it, and that all of that is preventable.

We're screening not one, but TWO '90s queer cinema classics at Toronto's Revue Cinema this June 💅🏻🏳️‍🌈📽️ Join us for INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE (screenplay by Anne Rice) June 8 and TO WONG FOO, THANKS FOR EVERYTHING! JULIE NEWMAR (dir. Beeban Kidron) June 12. Both screenings are over 60% sold out!

Sorry to "well actually" you, my dearly beloved Fango, but I have to tell you there IS a directory of all the remaining video stores in the world, kept up by yours truly + last updated in January. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Writing on the back of this photo from my collection says “General Nuisance. Summer 1954”.

being covid-aware and keeping myself safe has me so worn down y’all like I feel like I’m moving through cement to do literally anything 😭 it’s so tempting to just give up (I won’t) but holy hell this gets harder by the day! sending resolve and strength to everyone 💕

Get ready to rock n' roll all night with our screening of THE DECLINE OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION PART II: THE METAL YEARS (dir. Penelope Spheeris)! 👨🏼‍🎤🔥 This Thursday at Toronto's Revue Cinema! Get tix: revuecinema.ca/films/we-rea...

dude please just wear a mask… giving into social pressure is soooooo embarrassing for you!

I wrote about Reid Davenport’s funny and infuriating disability and assisted dying doc, LIFE AFTER, for @flmfrkcentral.bsky.social filmfreakcentral.net/2025/05/life...

Good movie alert: Back at TIFF, I wrote about David Cronenberg’s THE SHROUDS, now playing in an urban crypt near you, for @flmfrkcentral.bsky.social filmfreakcentral.net/2024/09/tiff...

There’s a cardinal on my street that yaps all day every day and its evil pew-pewing sounds are slowly driving me into madness

Gonna be vulnerable on main and say as an anxiously attached person, losing so many friends because they stopped caring about COVID has been some very fucked up exposure therapy 🫥

If you're new - my name is Niko. I once came second in a Chicken McNugget eating competition, and I wrote a book called The Dad Rock That Made Me a Woman. It comes out on May 6. You can pre-order it anywhere you buy books. Okay, love you, bye. utpress.utexas.edu/978147733148...

HOT STUFF ALERT 🔥🥵 @comeasyouareco.bsky.social has generously given us two sexy prize packs to give out at our MARY JANE’S NOT A VIRGIN ANYMORE screening (this Thursday at Toronto's Revue Cinema)!!! We can’t show you what’s in them, but we promise you’ll be satisfied.

Less than two weeks until our screening of Sarah Jacobson's two best-known films: MARY JANE'S NOT A VIRGIN ANYMORE + I WAS A TEENAGE SERIAL KILLER! 🍿😱 Don't miss this *rare chance* to see these films on the big screen. Get your tickets via the Revue Cinema today: revuecinema.ca/films/we-rea...

Come hang out with some cool people who believe that your social life doesn’t end when you slap a respirator on your face!

Wish there was a feminist counterpart to CLERKS? There *is* and we're screening it at the Revue Cinema in April!! 👀 On April 10, join us for MARY JANE'S NOT A VIRGIN ANYMORE. revuecinema.ca/films/we-really-like-her-mary-janes-not-a-virgin-anymore-i-was-a-teenage-serial-killer-double-feature/

TORONTO: MASKED AT THE MOVIES IS SO BACK 🩷😷🎬 www.eventbrite.ca/e/masked-at-...

TORONTO: MASKED AT THE MOVIES IS SO BACK 🩷😷🎬 www.eventbrite.ca/e/masked-at-...