Excited for another year's coverage at @fantasiafestival.com this year for @cinapse.bsky.social–I'll be covering remote while the lucky @dantabor.bsky.social hits up Montreal in person! Take a peek at our most anticipated films of the 30th Fantasia, which kicks off NEXT WEEK July 16th-August 2nd!

Hi folks! If you're an editor at a publication for criticism or entertainment journalism, I'd love to get in touch. Always looking for new folks to work with, especially as we enter Film Festival Fall. You can find my work and more about me here: www.siddhantadlakha.com/writing

it's very cool that i (and many many of my talented friends) had to leave journalism in order to consistently pay my rent and now it's full of people who actually hate writing

i hate that sundance started this "feature debut" thing and that outlets keep on running with it because casper kelly has literally directed two feature films prior to this. you can literally buy one of them on home video right now.

Somehow managed to hit 3.6K followers! It’s always a gift getting to chat about weird and wonderful movies with y’all every day. 😁

My review of #EvilDeadBurns over at @cinapse.bsky.social Fans of bleaker horror will find much to appreciate. Those favoring the more gonzo approach of the originals less so. @atxfilmcritics.bsky.social @ofcs.bsky.social cinapse.net/2026/07/evil...

Evil Dead Fizzle. All of the IP, none of the color or whimsy. So concerned with being so damn serious and being taken seriously which saps its darker themes of any real weight and renders anything fun ill-fitting. Flashes of promise (that bathroom fight!) buried under so much drab. A leaden miss.

Evil Dead Burn (2026)

RIP to a cinematic force for good. Tony Rayns’ writing and especially his commentary tracks were such a gateway into Asian cinema for me. His tracks on A Brighter Summer Day and Ugetsu are essential, as is his tangentially related Vampyr track.

The National Enquirer got a photo of dead Elvis and published it two days after he died, but no one can verify if a US Senator is alive or dead? Fuck NBC and CNN. Call in the tabloids.

Still my favorite meme. Hands off my em dash stupid AI, et. al.

Now watching!

Every disc you bring home is a statement of purpose.

"The Texas attorney general appears to have used an address where he did not live while voting in six elections in the past two years — despite his warning voters that 'it is illegal to misrepresent your residence on election records.'" www.propublica.org/article/ken-...

"please please please don't overuse that clip of John Oliver mocking a southern accent" Me:

Finished it up. I loved THE BEAR. What a show. Empathizes with its characters at their lowest points, then pushes them kicking and screaming into doing the work to be happier, healthier people. It has this unerring faith not just that we should care about each other and the work to get there...

There's a really special bonus feature that hasn't made it to any edition of Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Cure in Western countries–it's the feature-length making of "CORE OF CURE" by director and Kurosawa protege Mari Asato. It's chock-full of amazing BTS footage that looks like it was shot yesterday.

To be fair, the dog bed did free up

The idea that the US was gonna beat anyone in Magritte kits was always a pipedream

This is fucking insane, man

This would be the funniest outcome

If roughing up a girlfriend and locking her in a room was a virile, authentic a rejection of “smoothgroined” “HR lady” politics, but a rape is too far, then what’s at stake is not a principled rejection of violence against women but a cynical assessment of how much violence a man can get away with.

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Just a reminder... James Talarico is an earnest youth pastor who listens to Taylor Swift. Zohran Mamdani is an A/V geek with theater kid energy. YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE A BIG, MACHO HE MAN TO SELL PROGRESSIVE POLITICS!!!! Here endth the lesson.

There's nothing else I can say that other people haven't said better. A victim's choice to come forward is always their own. A crushing amount of reactions are showing why too few victims do. When they do come forward, believe them. But also, Day One for many should've been the Nazi tattoos.

"The Iraq and Afghanistan war veteran has linked some of his behavior to mental health struggles and alcohol abuse." This will come as big news to all the traumatized war veterans and people in recovery who have never committed a sex crime.

let this be a lesson to deal with your feelings of gender anxiety and masculine inadequacy with a hobby or therapy or something and not a high stakes senate election

Life's weird. Way back when, my first feature was extensively rewritten w/o my involvement. It was hard but I let it go to vanish into the indie ether. Some the crew later exploded–like Jasmine Cephas Jones originating Peggy in Hamilton. Just realized the composer was Alex Weston of The Novice.

Okay, so, here's the playbook: STEP 1: Platner drops out, giving a speech saying that this movement is bigger than him and the moment is too critical for these distractions. He endorses Shenna Bellows or another young-ish Dem. STEP 2: Platner fucks all the way off. STEPS 3-1,000: Repeat Step 2.

This is why fact checkers are vital. The amount of corroborative contemporaneous evidence is damning.

Today’s had several hell yeah news but this is the biggest hell yeah I’ve said today

1. Oppenheimer 2. The Prestige 3. The Dark Knight 4. Dunkirk 5. Inception 6. Interstellar 7. Tenet 8. Memento 9. Batman Begins 10. Insomnia 11. Following 12. The Dark Knight Rises

oh did he lie to everyone about there being no additional damaging stories again? I am shocked, you are telling me this for the first time

This would be hilarious if it wasn’t so terrifying.

Absolutely co-signed. Ashkal is a wonderfully creepy slow burn.

What horror movie image haunts you? (Makes for a fun zoom-in)

Woke up to the news that my Bill Gunn piece for @nighttidemag.bsky.social made it into the This Is Horror 5 Must Read Articles for last week. Always honored to be highlighted and especially for pieces celebrating the overlooked legacies of Black creatives. www.thisishorror.co.uk/5-must-read-...

Falling ill and being out for nearly the entire week before a three day nat’l holiday makes these Sunday Scaries particularly so

Really intrigued by the Takashi Shimizu double feature at Fantasia this year (2 of 4 completed unreleased features!) One title, The Mouths, adapts a novelette by Sesuji, whose About a Place in the Kinki Region was gangbusters last year working with Koji Shiraishi. This year’s fest has my number.

One of the reasons why the ongoing meltdown about Zohran asking people to set their A/C to 78 bothers me is that it seems to be a symptom of post-COVID unwillingness for individuals to do anything for the common good, and if we don’t have that we’re in a very bad place as a society.

yeah hi hire me to talk or write or draw or just be cute I'm starting to get a little desperate there are like, no jobs that don't have an AI component and I refuse

This kinda reiterates why physical media is so important. Because if all our history books become digital, they can change records of the truth on a whim.

Ichikawa / Kudo

Bawwwwawawaeawwwwww I’m a song from the 60s

Empire collapse under the weight of metaphors.

I think one accomplishment we can be absolutely jingoistic about is the Americans with Disabilities Act. Traveling abroad immediately teaches you what a massive impact this legislation has had

“ceausescu”. it’s an ancient word but a beautiful word.

Never forget that most of the rage and fear we are swimming in was deliberately manufactured to control us

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