Li Lai • Mediaversity is @VIFFest26
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Founder & EIC, Mediaversity Reviews | TV & films graded on diversity | 🍅 critic | Seattle Film Critics Society | Executive Editor at Common Sense Media (views her own) | 📍Seattle, WA
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‘Crazy Rich Asians’ Sequel TV Series in the Works with Constance Wu, Henry Golding, Ronny Chieng and Michelle Yeoh
HBO has officially greenlit an eight-episode ‘Crazy Rich Asians’ sequel series, with Constance Wu, Henry Golding, Ronny Chieng and Michelle Yeoh returning to reprise their roles. The series will pick ...
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Go watch each and every one of these. It’s an outstanding group of nominees. Filmmakers scheduled to attend every screening. Definitely get your tickets ASAP. My full review of AGAIN AGAIN (if you’re interested): www.sgn.org/story/166184...
SGN:: Trans filmmaker Mia Moore Marchant’s breathtaking debut Again Again
In the strikingly Queer science fiction drama Again Again, it’s the day after a time loop — a central idea so terrific, it’s impossible to believe no one else explored it before codirector, writer,pro...
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SIFF@siffnews.bsky.social · 3d agoIntroducing the five finalists of the @seattlecritics.bsky.social Pacific Northwest Awards! These films will be playing at the SIFF Film Center November 13-15. 🎥 A SIMPLE MACHINE 🎥 POWWOW PEOPLE 🎥 AGAIN AGAIN 🎥 THE JOYLESS ECONOMY 🎥 THE LIFE WE LEAVE More info & tickets: siff.info/sfcs26-bs
Introducing the five finalists of the @seattlecritics.bsky.social Pacific Northwest Awards! These films will be playing at the SIFF Film Center November 13-15. 🎥 A SIMPLE MACHINE 🎥 POWWOW PEOPLE 🎥 AGAIN AGAIN 🎥 THE JOYLESS ECONOMY 🎥 THE LIFE WE LEAVE More info & tickets: siff.info/sfcs26-bs
@seattlecritics.bsky.social announces nominees for this year's Pacific Northwest Awards (aka the *only* award to spotlight PNW filmmaking excellence): #AgainAgain #TheLifeWeLeave #TheJoylessEconomy #PowwowPeople #ASimpleMachine. Seen 'em? Have a favorite? I know mine 😏 www.siff.net/sfcs?blm_aid...
Seattle Film Critics Society PNW Awards 2026
Screenings of the five nominated films for the Seattle Film Critics Society's 2026 Pacific Northwest Filmmaking Award.
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5 films in 1 day = 🫠 In order of preference, they were #ALongWinter #ElephantsInTheFog #InAlaska #Ceremony #TurtleIslandRap #VIFF26
another VIFF banger. great documentary, currently doing the festival circuit right now and releases in north america early next year. see it if you can, incredibly uplifting i needed to experience the spirit these kids have so much rn letterboxd.com/aurahack/fil...
A ★★★★★ review of School for Defectors (2026)
Overjoyed to have had a Q&A with the director after our screening at VIFF where he told the story of how he ended up directing this, specifically to address how he felt like he'd be the wrong person t...
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Whew, #SchoolOfDefectors at #VIFF26. I cried a lot 🥹😂😭 Great doc about North Korean defectors in a South Korean boarding school. Harrowing stories, brilliant kids. Executive produced by Daniel Dae Kim.
First mid-movie walkout at VIFF ... sorry #Clarissa 😬 I was excited by the star-studded cast and Mrs. Dalloway premise, but I kept falling asleep. On the other hand, #YourMotherYourMotherYourMother blew my mind last night. I loved it 😍
Spent the morning driving up to Vancouver and I'm now seated for my first ever #VIFF screening, #FrankAndLouis 👀 Very excited for this one
NEW REVIEW — I'm kicking off my first-ever #VIFFest with Filipino Canadian docu-hybrid #FirstComesLoveNakabingwit, a heartfelt look at the trials of tribulations (and compassion) that comes from being in an interracial relationship, premiering tomorrow: www.mediaversityreviews.com/film-reviews...
First Comes Love: Nakabingwit — Mediaversity Reviews
“ First Comes Love: Nakabingwit challenges people from a place of caring.”
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@seattlecritics.bsky.social is presenting a screening of GREEN ROOM on Oct 14 at @nwfilmforum.bsky.social as part of our SFCS at 10 series. Featuring a virtual interview with JEREMY SAULNIER and other surprises. Come through! Tickets and information: nwfilmforum.org/films/sfcs-1...
Very happy with my Oct 1 addition to the kitchen
Not to hijack this beautifully written #NAZA review by @812filmreviews.com, but this line made me go YES: "How many stories must be told from the wolf’s perspective before it stops hunting?" Basically the entire reason I started Mediaversity (and why the rating system is the way it is)
Robert Daniels@812filmreviews.com · last wk.I wrote about Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor’s knotty documentary NAZA and the complexity of putting this film’s narrow POV at this moment. My review via @ebertvoices.bsky.social
Lovers of weird, eclectic, & thoughtfully-programmed cinema rejoice! @nwfilmforum.bsky.social, Seattle’s nonprofit independent art house cinema, is making a big expansion: starting Monday, they’ll be open for all seven days of the week📽️ My story @thestranger.com: www.thestranger.com/arts/the-nor...
A deeply profound post from @lizhynes.bsky.social primarily addressed to cishet men, but words that should be read and processed by all. Screenshotting just the ending here, but those words hit the hardest if you've read the ones that lead up to it. lizhynes.substack.com/p/free
i thought about this old tweet tonight and how nothing has ever aged better
We opened AYE CAESAR, my play about AI & Elder loneliness. A dream come true to have my words on stage. People laughed, snickered and, yes, even wiped some tears! It's a short run. 9 shows left. 2 shows tomorrow, Monday for our theatre friends & creatives. Don't miss it! eldritchtheatre.ca/ayecaesar
The film is written, directed, and co-stars Hitoshi Ozawa, a legendary Yakuza actor who is a villain in Yakuza 0, who got his fellow legends involved. This was his passion project inspired by one of his best friends, a trans woman, and he worked with the community for representative casting.
Justin Decloux@declouxj.bsky.social · 8mo agoTHE CLANS HEIR IS A TRANS WOMAN (2013) is like Steven Seagal decided to Write/Direct/Star in a love letter to his trans friends, but it looks and feels like every action movie he's made... except Hitoshi Ozawa is way way way way cooler than Seagal.
More grid memes 🥲 From @nytimes.com, The 100 Best TV Shows of the 21st Century: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
"It’s the kind of movie about evil billionaires that evil billionaires would enjoy, which makes it the worst kind of movie about evil billionaires." @williambibbiani.bsky.social is one of the greats
Candice Frederick@candicefrederick.bsky.social · 2w ago‘Digger’ Review: Tom Cruise Gives 110% in This Powerless, Self-Adulating Claptrap www.thewrap.com/creative-con...
‘Digger’ Review: Tom Cruise Gives 110% in This Powerless, Self-Adulating Claptrap www.thewrap.com/creative-con...
‘Digger’ Review: Tom Cruise Gives 110% in This Powerless, Self-Adulating Claptrap
Tom Cruise give his all in "Digger," Alejandro González Iñárritu’s smug, self-aware social commentary that's like bad "SNL."
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NEW REVIEW — #PracticalMagic2 has its issues, but it doesn't deserve a 36% splat on Rotten Tomatoes. @josesolismayen.bsky.social shares his thoughts, the good and the bad: www.mediaversityreviews.com/film-reviews...
Practical Magic 2 — Mediaversity Reviews
“The Owens might be cursed, but whiteness haunts the Practical Magic films just as fully.”
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Ideas for my midlife crisis: -Become swift like a coursing river -Develop force like a great typhoon -Build all the strength like a raging fire -Mysterious like the dark side of the moon
![Is this how you want to go out, with a show that gets smaller and smaller until it’s gone?
Maybe that’s O.K. I think you have more of a problem with that than I do. [Laughs.] At this point in my career, I could go out with a grand, 21-gun salute, and climb into a rocket and the entire Supreme Court walks out and they jointly press a button, I’m shot up into the air and there’s an explosion and it’s orange and it spells, “Good night and God love.” In this culture? Two years later, it’s going to be, who’s Conan? This is going to sound grim, but eventually, all our graves go unattended.
You’re right, that does sound grim.
Sorry. Calvin Coolidge was a pretty popular president. I’ve been to his grave in Vermont. It has the presidential seal on it. Nobody was there. And by the way, I’m the only late-night host that has been to Calvin Coolidge’s grave. I think that’s what separates me from the other hosts.
I had a great conversation with Albert Brooks once. When I met him for the first time, I was kind of stammering. I said, you make movies, they live on forever. I just do these late-night shows, they get lost, they’re never seen again and who cares? And he looked at me and he said, [Albert Brooks voice] “What are you talking about? None of it matters.” None of it matters? “No, that’s the secret. In 1940, people said Clark Gable is the face of the 20th Century. Who [expletive] thinks about Clark Gable? It doesn’t matter. You’ll be forgotten. I’ll be forgotten. We’ll all be forgotten.” It’s so funny because you’d think that would depress me. I was walking on air after that.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qnyq7wies2uc56bzqmfz4q25/bafkreief4hu7c6hd6ymgqnsaejlaipfuj7fq4ka2tkix72pionkb3dkkdy)
