A unique blend of comedy, gore, horniness, tragedy, and romance, presented radically fresh, both meta and emotionally cutting; no one is making movies like Jane Schoenbrun, and the cinematic landscape is a much richer place for it #CampMiasma www.flickeringmyth.com/movie-review...

Movie Review – Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (2026)

Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, 2026. Written and Directed by Jane Schoenbrun. Starring Hannah Einbinder, Gillian Anderson, Amanda Fix, Jess McLeod, Arthur Conti, Eva Victor, Zach Cherry, Sarah…

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Much like the ice cream itself, the moments of outrageously grisly fun (following an unforgivably slow first act) in #IceCreamMan unfortunately and quickly dry up. My thoughts are also lowered learning AI was used www.flickeringmyth.com/movie-review...

Movie Review – Ice Cream Man (2026)

Ice Cream Man, 2026. Directed by Eli Roth. Starring Ari Millen, Charlie Zeltzer, Shiloh O’Reilly, Kiori Mirza Waldman, Sarah Abbott, Benjamin Byron Davis, Eli Roth and Snoop Dogg. SYNOPSIS: An idyllic...

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A special shout-out to @nickdigilio.bsky.social, Dann Gire, the showrunners, and the staff of Flashback Weekend for another terrific year of great guests, vendors, and memories #Scream #Obsession #ET

And, less than an hour after posting this, there is an apology email and an invoice being generated. It just.... should not work like this, ya know

Jason Bailey@jasondashbailey.com · 5d ago

Well, it’s invoicing day, and since they’re really apparently not going to pay me for something I wrote for them two months ago, I guess today is the day to post about how @vulture.com fucks over its film freelancers. Long (sorry) thread, with receipts:

Matt Johnson's biopics don’t feel like traditional biopics. No, they are stories that happen to be about real people while homing in on relatable circumstances without sacrificing his tremendous Nirvanna comedic sensibilities. #Tony Is no exception www.flickeringmyth.com/movie-review...

Movie Review – Tony (2026)

Tony, 2026. Directed by Matt Johnson. Starring Dominic Sessa, Emilia Jones, Leo Woodall, Antonio Banderas, Dagmara Dominczyk, Rich Sommer, Stavros Halkias, Monica Raymund, Liam Fitch, Reece Grover, Al...

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The sum of #TheSamuraiandthePrisoner yields more than its sometimes unwieldy and sluggish structure, but the third act also recontextualizes the whole into something with greater complexity www.flickeringmyth.com/movie-review...

Movie Review – The Samurai and the Prisoner (2026)

The Samurai and The Prisoner, 2026. Written and Directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa. Starring Masahiro Motoki, Masaki Suda, Yuriko Yoshitaka, Munetaka Aoki, Ryota Miyadate, Tasuku Emoto, Joe Odagiri, Yusuke…

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It’s better than some recent low-budget shark flicks, but still a tediously frustrating, nonsensical, sometimes boring experience #AboveandBelow www.flickeringmyth.com/movie-review...

Movie Review – Above and Below (2026)

Above and Below, 2026. Directed by Jesse V. Johnson. Starring Laura Marano, Christina Ochoa, Mario Tardón, Antonio Banderas, Ryan Bertroche, Jess Liaudin, Timothy V. Murphy, Louis Mandylor, and Diego…

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#SpiderManBrandNewDay is as concerned with thematic parallels and juxtapositions to these characters as it is with web-shooting spectacle. Tom Holland deserves his flowers, but it is Sadie Sink who arguably makes a bigger imprint www.flickeringmyth.com/movie-review...

Movie Review – Spider-Man: Brand New Day (2026)

Spider-Man: Brand New Day, 2026. Directed by Destin Daniel Cretton. Starring Tom Holland, Zendaya, Sadie Sink, Jacob Batalon, Jon Bernthal, Tramell Tillman, Michael Mando, Mark Ruffalo, Liza Colón-Zay...

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#SpiderManBrandNewDay - a solid entry that's in conversation and expanding on some of the themes left dangling at the end of No Way Home, even if it also feels like a lot of course-reversing. Destin Daniel Cretton also has some banger fight scenes. Sadie Sink is great in her role

"It’s two people saying, “Get off my porch, that’s mine,” and asking how far you will go for that" My interview with #BenFoster for #MotorCity www.flickeringmyth.com/interview-we...

We’re All Animals in a Cage Together: Ben Foster on Motor City – Exclusive Interview

Robert Kojder chats with Motor City star Ben Foster… Perhaps best known for uncomfortably embodying loose-cannon characters and changing up his appearance like a chameleon from movie to movie, o…

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Before he was Oppenheimer, he was Robert

Aside from being completely confused about what genre it wants to be, #72Hours mistakes shock value and pushing uncomfort as comedy. Yes, that can be funny, but this is a film dialed up to eleven, trying too hard while also being entirely cliché www.flickeringmyth.com/movie-review...

Movie Review – 72 Hours (2026)

72 Hours, 2026. Directed by Tim Story. Starring Kevin Hart, Marcello Hernández, Teyana Taylor, Andy Garcia, Mason Gooding, Kam Patterson, Ben Marshall, Kevin Dunn, Zach Cherry, Michael Mando, Anna Gar...

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One guy came across my Facebook feed deadnaming Elliot in his review, and I couldn't imagine being that much of a loser

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A bunch of right-wing chuds writing "reviews" of the Odyssey and still slamming the casting of Elliot Page "as Achilles." He doesn't play Achilles (which should have been obvious the whole time cause Achilles is DEAD by The Odyssey). But yes tell me about this movie you TOTALLY saw for real!

Strong performances, a solid premise, and striking shots can’t overcome the apparently inadvertent kumbaya-with-AI approach or deliver anything close to the dense family dynamics and layers typically found in Hirokazu Kore-eda’s works #SheepintheBox www.flickeringmyth.com/movie-review...

Movie Review – Sheep in the Box (2026)

Sheep in the Box, 2026. Written and Directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda. Starring Haruka Ayase, Daigo Yamamoto, Kuwaki Rimu, Nana Seino, Kanichiro, Hinata Hiiragi, Akihiro Kakuta, Kayo Noro, Mari Hoshino, A...

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"I was FaceTiming with my wife, and she was in Paris, and we were in Copenhagen, and I saw my daughter’s heartbeat for the first time, and then we shot that scene" - #CharlesMelton in my interview with him and #NicolasWindingRefn for #HerPrivateHell www.flickeringmyth.com/get-high-wit...

Get High with People You Like: Nicolas Winding Refn and Charles Melton on Her Private Hell – Exclusive Interview

Robert Kojder chats with Her Private Hell director Nicolas Winding Refn and star Charles Melton… Known for neon-drenched, dreamy cinema that typically oscillates between slow-burn drama and burs…

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"By giving the dead a physical shape, I’m trying to understand how we deal with death and grief" - My interview with #HirokazuKoreeda for #SheepintheBox www.flickeringmyth.com/giving-the-d...

Giving the Dead a Physical Shape: Director Hirokazu Kore-eda on Sheep in the Box – Exclusive Interview

Robert Kojder chats with Sheep in the Box director Hirokazu Kore-eda… Known for some truly beautiful, emotionally moving (and sometimes devastating) works, filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda, who has b…

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#MotorCity knows the cliches are there, eschewing dialogue to blow them up into neon-soaked, synth-heavy music-video-adrenalized maximalist displays of emotion and, at times, breathtaking, visceral carnage and apt car chases www.flickeringmyth.com/movie-review...

Movie Review – Motor City (2026)

Motor City, 2026. Directed by Potsy Ponciroli. Starring Alan Ritchson, Shailene Woodley, Ben Foster, Amar Chadha-Patel, Ben McKenzie, Lionel Boyce, Pablo Schreiber, Rafael Cebrian, Dominic Bogart, Ole...

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There is an old-school Adam Sandler feel to director Josh Greenbaum’s tennis/pickleball rivalry comedy #TheDink, ensuring it’s just funny and charming enough to work www.flickeringmyth.com/movie-review...

Movie Review – The Dink (2026)

The Dink, 2026. Directed by Josh Greenbaum. Starring Jake Johnson, Mary Steenburgen, Ed Harris, Andy Roddick, Aaron Chen, Ben Stiller, Chloe Fineman, Patton Oswalt, John McEnroe, Martin Kove, Chris Pa...

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#RosebushPruning is what happens when screenwriter Efthimis Filippou doesn’t have Yorgos Lanthimos adding layers to the deranged and perverted, but it is so knowingly and originally tasteless it's almost worth recommending www.flickeringmyth.com/movie-review...

Movie Review – Rosebush Pruning (2026)

Rosebush Pruning, 2026. Directed by Karim Aïnouz. Starring Callum Turner, Riley Keough, Jamie Bell, Lukas Gage, Elena Anaya, Tracy Letts, Elle Fanning, and Pamela Anderson. SYNOPSIS: A family struggli...

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#HerPrivateHell is stylishly hollow and abstractly aimless but occasionally pleasantly gruesome and too aesthetically interesting to outright dismiss www.flickeringmyth.com/movie-review...

Movie Review – Her Private Hell (2026)

Her Private Hell, 2026. Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn. Starring Sophie Thatcher, Charles Melton, Havana Rose Liu, Dougray Scott, Kristine Froseth, Shioli Kutsuna, Aoi Yamada, Diego Calva, Hidetoshi...

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#MattJohnson's #Tony is great and like an episode of Nirvanna except it's Anthony Bourdain trying to get the attention of Emilia Jones instead of the Rivoli

Filmmaking at its most ambitious and absorbing, Christopher Nolan seamlessly weaves his thematic fascinations into a sprawling, staggeringly immersive interpretation of a Greek epic that consistently leaves one in awe of how it was achieved #TheOdyssey www.flickeringmyth.com/movie-review...

Movie Review – The Odyssey (2026)

The Odyssey, 2026 Written and Directed by Christopher Nolan. Starring Matt Damon, Tom Holland, Anne Hathaway, Robert Pattinson, Lupita Nyong’o, Charlize Theron, Zendaya, Benny Safdie, Jon Bernth…

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I just told Nicolas Winding Refn that @hideokojimaen.bsky.kojimaproductions.jp seems like someone fun to get high with. This came up much more naturally in conversation than you might think

Matt is correct. It's also exciting and concerning that my entire supporting ballot this year for actor and actress could go to The Odyssey

Matt Zoller Seitz@mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 3w ago

Many actors in The Odyssey will be in contention for supporting awards, but I'm banking on Rob Pattinson as Antinous, a weasel who lies as easily as others breathe, is mean to animals and beggars, and otherwise merits a kiss-off death. Pattinson plays him so well, I wanted to reach up and slap him.

Not that I didn't before, but I believe everything I've read about how insanely challenging #TheOdyssey was to make. That no one died making this movie is a miracle. It is also incredibly dense, exploring themes explored in other Nolan movies. Ludwig's score is stuck in my head

No one makes movies like James Schoenbrun - #TeenageSexandDeathatCampMiasma is at once a hysterical meta takedown of studio execs and a personal journey of sexual repression, with love for 80s slashers, while turning the problematic into a reclamation. An incredible tonal balance

Love it when I see my stars pop up on a poster (bottom left). #TheInvite is now playing in wide release and you should go see it

“It sucks” – Dwayne Johnson reprising his role as Polynesian demigod Maui, saying what’s on our minds watching this lazy live-action remake of #Moana www.flickeringmyth.com/movie-review...

Movie Review – Moana (2026)

Moana, 2026. Directed by Thomas Kail. Starring Catherine Lagaʻaia, Dwayne Johnson, Rena Owen, John Tui, Frankie Adams, Jemaine Clement, Emma Puahi-Shapazian and Amaya Masoli. SYNOPSIS: Moana answers t...

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Barnburner #EvilDeadBurn is outlandishly and imaginatively gross with resonant thematic bits in conversation with 2020’s The Invisible Man, among some sacrilegious missteps like a CGI Deadite www.flickeringmyth.com/movie-review...

Movie Review – Evil Dead Burn (2026)

Evil Dead Burn, 2026. Directed by Sébastien Vaniček. Starring Souheila Yacoub, Tandi Wright, Hunter Doohan, Luciane Buchanan, Erroll Shand, Maude Davey, Victory Ndukwe, George Pullar, Greta van den Br...

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A movie about one character chasing down a celebrity crush, leaning too far into organized crime shenanigans that increasingly become less grounded, rather than saying anything about relationships through comedy is a questionable creative choice www.flickeringmyth.com/movie-review...

Movie Review – Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass (2026)

Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass, 2026. Directed by David Wain. Starring Zoey Deutch, Jon Hamm, John Slattery, Ben Wang, Richard Kind, Ken Marino, Thomas Lennon, Sabrina Impacciatore, Michael…

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