Blue Heron is out this weekend in select theatres and is expanding next week. It was by far my favourite movie I saw last year, and I can’t wait to share that with the rest of the world (I didn’t work on the movie at all I just love it so much). open.substack.com/pub/billiela...

Every year (I started last year) I make a Tik Tok edits Oscar preshow and force all my friends to watch the best edits of the year. Does anyone have a favourite edit of the year?

“The disappointment here is not prudishness. It is the sense that something braver was promised and something safer was delivered.” Read my thoughts on Wuthering Heights here: open.substack.com/pub/billiela...

I wrote about authorial intent, representing revolution(aries), and One Battle After Another. Read my thoughts here: substack.com/home/post/p-...

Wrote about logistics, commiting to the bit, and my love of Toronto. Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie comes out next week, read my thoughts first! open.substack.com/pub/billiela...

I'm teaching a digital rhetoric class this semester and these are my slides over the past three weeks

Time for another round of my top 10 films of 2025! Today's coverage is about loving Kleber Mendonça Filho. open.substack.com/pub/billiela...

I'm counting down to my favourite movie of the year this week and next on my Substack! One movie a day for ten days. Check out #10 here: billielanderson.substack.com/p/top-10-of-...

While I write lovingly, longinly, and a little lengthy about my favourite movies of 2025, I'd love for you to subscribe to my new Substack! I've got weekly articles coming out for the time being. Last week, I wrote about The Testament of Ann Lee. billielanderson.substack.com/p/in-defense...

The Testament of Ann Lee is out today—I wrote about why director Mona Fastvold asks us to consider faith seriously. Read my thoughts here: substack.com/home/post/p-...

I’m looking for a new publication to write film reviews and festival coverage for, ideally a Canadian outlet! I’ve covered TIFF and other festivals and am especially interested in contemporary, indie, and international cinema.

And of course. Very normal collection

MJ's @billieanderson.bsky.social says, "DUST BUNNY is cute and deranged in equal measure." #DustBunny is now playing in theaters

MJ's @billieanderson.bsky.social says, "HAMNET holds you in its grief and its beauty, showing that surrender isn’t weakness..." #Hamnet is now playing in theaters

MJ's @billieanderson.bsky.social wraps up her coverage of HAL & HARPER and says, "The finale hit me like a truck." #Hal&Harper is now streaming on #mubi #TVJawn

MJ's @billieanderson.bsky.social says, "As the finale swiftly approaches, HAL & HARPER gives its audience an emotional break. In a Cooper Raiff kind of way." #Hal&Harper is now streaming on #Mubi

MJ's @billieanderson.bsky.social says, "Chloe Zhao’s HAMNET reminds us that art is not optional. It’s how we survive." #Hamnet opens in select theaters Friday and wide on December 12.

MJ's @billieanderson.bsky.social says, "Six episodes in, HAL & HARPER has built one of the most complete portraits of a family I’ve seen on television." #Hal&Harper is now streaming on #Mubi

MJ's @billieanderson.bsky.social says, "Reinhart’s performance here is the best she’s given yet." Catch up on episode 05 of HAL & HARPER, now streaming on #mubi. #TVJawn #Hal&Harper

MJ's @billieanderson.bsky.social says, "FRANKENSTEIN is Guillermo del Toro at the pinnacle of his craft." @realgdt.bsky.social's #FrankensteinMovie is now streaming on @netflix.com.

One of my favourites of the year has a trailer! Read my thoughts on Ann Lee for @moviejawn.com www.moviejawn.com/home/2025/10...

I was, and I wish I was joking, genuinely asked this question during my PhD defence

MJ’s @billieanderson.bsky.social shares thoughts on the latest episode of HAL & HARPER. #HalAndHarper is now streaming on Mubi

MJ's @billieanderson.bsky.social shares thoughts on episode 03 of HAL & HARPER. #Hal&Harper is now streaming on Mubi.

BLUE HERON from debut filmmaker Sophy Romvari: “But this isn’t just a family drama. Romvari layers memory, fiction, documentary, and meta-cinema together, creating something that feels closer to time travel than storytelling.” Review from Billie Anderson @billieanderson.bsky.social out of #TIFF50

Lived in Toronto for over 6 years time to do something about this I guess

MJ’s @billieanderson.bsky.social says, “Television might be the perfect medium for Raiff, or maybe the most dangerous.” Check out Billie’s thoughts on the first two episodes of Cooper Raiff’s HAL AND HARPER. #HalAndHarper is now streaming on Mubi.

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"It is here, in the intersection of gothic spectacle, moral inquiry, and deep psychological insight, that Del Toro proves why he is unmatched as a chronicler of monsters." Billie Anderson @billieanderson.bsky.social reviews FRANKENSTEIN, the latest from director Guillermo Del Toro.

MJ's @billieanderson.bsky.social thinks IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT is necessary viewing. #ItWasJustAnAccident is in theaters Friday.

MJ's @billieanderson.bsky.social says, "We’re lucky to live in a world where DEAD LOVER exists—a film disgusting, hilarious, heartfelt, and entirely itself." #DeadLover premiered at #TIFF2025 and will screen @brooklynhorror.bsky.social October 18.

MJ's @billieanderson.bsky.social says, "I walked out of THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE dazed or shaky in a way I usually only feel after leaving a long concert where the sound has reverberated through my chest." #TheTestamentOfAnnLee plays at #BFIFilmFest tomorrow, opens in theaters December 25.

“Every gag is a mini miracle of guerrilla filmmaking, a perfect storm of timing, stunts, hidden cameras, and sheer audacity. It’s cinematic anarchy at its finest: hilarious, chaotic, and deliberately crafted.” Billie Anderson @billieanderson.bsky.social reviews NIRVANNA THE BAND THE SHOW THE MOVIE.

I loved Frankenstein (2025), but my enjoyment aside, it also does something really important: humanizes the monster. Read about my thoughts here: theconversation.com/in-guillermo...

"TIFF this year was, in a word, weird, and I mean that in the best possible sense." MJ's @billieanderson.bsky.social shares four weird flicks she caught at this year's #TIFF25. #BadApples #Roofman #GoodBoy #FuckMySon

MJ's @billieanderson.bsky.social shares a snapshot of her favorite Canadian films from this year's TIFF. #Tiff2025 #NormalFilm #YouHadToBeThereMovie #HoneyBunch #MileEndKicks

I’ve created a substack! I want to space to think through my more casual movie thoughts (esp. context I’m watching the movies in). Subscribe if you want to know why I watch the ways I watch 🫶 billielanderson.substack.com/p/this-showi...

I’m at TIFF friends! I’ve been too busy to post anything, so here’s a thread of my week so far. #TIFF50

MJ's @billieanderson.bsky.social shares "three buzzy titles" and "two wonderfully weird Canadian" flicks she can't wait to watch at #Tiff2025. Tiff 2025 kicks off September 4 until 14th.

The rumours are true! I’ve successfully defended my PhD and am now and forever Dr. Anderson. I’ve spent the last week sleeping (and have many plans to do more) and am happy to continue my time in the Disability Studied department at King’s in the fall. More soon!

Some good snags at @baystreetvideo.com birthday sale

It's syllabus season! This year, my students in Disability and Popular Culture will be watching Joker (2019), The Fly (1986), Mad Max: Fury Road (2016), and A Different Man (2024) among other great (terrible) movies about disability.

My glowing review of THE FANTASTIC FOUR: FIRST STEPS for @moviejawn.com is, like the film, a love letter to the King of comics: www.moviejawn.com/home/2025/7/...

I’m back baby! #TIFF50

Love a Canadian movie. Love how much Canadians love car crashes :)

I guess sometimes you submit the last chapter of your dissertation on a random Tuesday at noon

MJ's @billieanderson.bsky.social says, "APRIL strips away all artifice to confront us with something far more terrifying: reality." #AprilMovie is in theaters Friday.

I wrote about the Death of the author, ambiguity, and Alex Garland’s new movie Warfare for MovieJawn www.moviejawn.com/home/2025/4/...

MJ's @billieanderson.bsky.social says, "A war film that has “no point” isn’t profound—it’s a missed opportunity, or worse, a quiet endorsement of the status quo." #Warfare is now playing in theaters.

I’m a big Grace Glowicki and and Ben Petrie fan, what’s new?