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Angelo Muredda

@amuredda.bsky.social

I teach English and write about movies and disability | Cinema Scope, Film Freak Central, TVO, SHARP Magazine | Reviews editor, Humber Literary Review

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Father Mother Sister Brother (2025) - FILM FREAK CENTRAL **Β½/****starring Tom Waits, Adam Driver, Mayim Bialik, Charlotte Ramplingwritten and directed by Jim Jarmusch by Angelo Muredda When Alexander Payne’s Venice jury awarded Jim Jarmusch’s Father Mother ...

FFC review: FATHER MOTHER SISTER BROTHER (2025), by Angelo Muredda (@amuredda.bsky.social). filmfreakcentral.net/2026/01/fath...

21.01.2026 01:46 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

(And they’re all good)

16.01.2026 04:09 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It’s the best one

16.01.2026 04:06 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Wondering how the lone wheelchair user gets by in the extremely stair-heavy campus of Starfleet Academy

I hope they sue!

16.01.2026 03:53 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

28 YEARS LATER is the best 2025 British folk movie about parenthood, plague, and mourning rituals, with references to HAMLET, and it’s not close

13.01.2026 04:39 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

She’s coming right for me

11.01.2026 03:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Is it safe to like THE PITT the normal amount and recognize its characters as characters here?

11.01.2026 02:54 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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TIFF '25: The Testament of Ann Lee - FILM FREAK CENTRAL Ann Lee***/****starring Amanda Seyfried, Thomasin McKenzie, Lewis Pullman, Tim Blake Nelson, Christopher Abbottwritten by Mona Fastvold and Brady Corbetdirected by Mona Fastvold by Angelo Muredda Spea...

THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE opens today. It's wild! @amuredda.bsky.social reviewed it at TIFF. filmfreakcentral.net/2025/09/tiff...

26.12.2025 17:55 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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Peter Hujar's Day (2025) - FILM FREAK CENTRAL ***/****starring Ben Whishaw, Rebecca Hallscreenplay by Ira Sachs, based on the book Peter Hujar’s Day by Linda Rosenkrantzdirected by Ira Sachs by Angelo Muredda Celebrated New York portrait photogra...

FFC review: PETER HUJAR'S DAY, by Angelo Muredda (@amuredda.bsky.social). filmfreakcentral.net/2025/12/pete...

13.12.2025 21:54 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Ep. 185 Chloe Zhao's Hamnet with Angelo Muredda - Seventh Row Film Podcast On the podcast, we dig into Chloe Zhao's Hamnet as a work of adaptation of Maggie O'Farrell's novel and why the film left use dry-eyed.

HAMNET left @amuredda.bsky.social and me dry-eyed, so we dug into why it didn’t work, how it adapts Maggie O’Farrell’s novel, and why some passing knowledge of Shakespeare might hinder rather than help your appreciation of the film:

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Is Wake Up Dead Man the best Knives Out yet?
YouTube video by Commotion with Elamin Abdelmahmoud Is Wake Up Dead Man the best Knives Out yet?

Getting into Wake Up Dead Man, the movie and the memo to Tarantino with @roxana-hadadi.bsky.social, @amuredda.bsky.social and @jacksonweaver.bsky.social .

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12.12.2025 21:07 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

She meant a lot to me and to everyone who had the opportunity to work with her or even just talk with her.

15.11.2025 07:28 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

When I complained, idly I thought, about Criterion forgoing disability perspectives on their Tod Browning set, she immediately reached out and offered me a platform to write about FREAKS for the Disability Visibility Project. She took people seriously and fought for them.

15.11.2025 07:26 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I’m so saddened by the loss of Alice Wong, truly one of the good ones, to whom community-building came naturally. A great writer, activist, and person. bsky.app/profile/sesm...

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An old man in a wheelchair looking at a book saying β€œI check everyone out, Detective”

An old man in a wheelchair looking at a book saying β€œI check everyone out, Detective”

Found myself represented on Law & Order

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Life After (2025) - FILM FREAK CENTRAL ***Β½/****directed by Reid Davenport by Angelo Muredda β€œI’ve done what I can, and the quality of my life is over,” 26-year-old disabled woman and assisted dying cause cΓ©lΓ¨bre Elizabeth Bouvia says in a...

Reid Davenport's fascinating LIFE AFTER premieres on PBS tonight. Here's @amuredda.bsky.social's review of it from last spring. filmfreakcentral.net/2025/05/life...

03.11.2025 20:22 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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TIFF '25: Blue Moon - FILM FREAK CENTRAL ***Β½/****starring Ethan Hawke, Margaret Qualley, Bobby Cannavale, Andrew Scottwritten by Robert Kaplow, inspired by the writings of Lorenz Hart and Elizabeth Weilanddirected by Richard Linklater by An...

BLUE MOON, by Angelo Muredda (@amuredda.bsky.social). filmfreakcentral.net/2025/09/tiff...

24.10.2025 17:02 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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After the Hunt (2025) - FILM FREAK CENTRAL **/****starring Julia Roberts, Ayo Edibiri, Andrew Garfield, Michael Stuhlbargwritten by Nora Garrettdirected by Luca Guadagnino by Angelo Muredda SPOILER WARNING IN EFFECT. β€œIt happened at Yale,” an ...

FFC review: AFTER THE HUNT, by Angelo Muredda (@amuredda.bsky.social). filmfreakcentral.net/2025/10/afte...

18.10.2025 01:55 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Nothing in my academic history of looking at obscure disability representation prepared me for THE UGLY, which does cutesy Austin Powers body-obscuring bits with a facially disfigured character in addition to a separate thematic thing with a blind man’s perception of beauty

15.10.2025 23:57 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Closing my TIFF coverage a respectable month late with this look at THE UGLY and THE FURIOUS, a pair of disability-centric genre movies bsky.app/profile/flmf...

15.10.2025 23:50 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I reviewed Christian Petzold’s very good MIROIRS NO. 3 for @flmfrkcentral.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/flmf...

09.10.2025 19:00 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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TIFF '25: Blue Moon - FILM FREAK CENTRAL ***Β½/****starring Ethan Hawke, Margaret Qualley, Bobby Cannavale, Andrew Scottwritten by Robert Kaplow, inspired by the writings of Lorenz Hart and Elizabeth Weilanddirected by Richard Linklater by An...

Wrote about BLUE MOON for @flmfrkcentral.bsky.social’s TIFF coverage. It’s good! filmfreakcentral.net/2025/09/tiff...

25.09.2025 20:35 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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TIFF '25: Blue Moon - FILM FREAK CENTRAL ***Β½/****starring Ethan Hawke, Margaret Qualley, Bobby Cannavale, Andrew Scottwritten by Robert Kaplow, inspired by the writings of Lorenz Hart and Elizabeth Weilanddirected by Richard Linklater by An...

FFC #TIFF25 review: BLUE MOON, by Angelo Muredda (@amuredda.bsky.social). filmfreakcentral.net/2025/09/tiff...

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TIFF '25: The Smashing Machine - FILM FREAK CENTRAL **/****starring Dwayne Johnson, Emily Blunt, Ryan Bader, Bas Ruttenwritten and directed by Benny Safdie by Angelo Muredda The early narrative on Dwayne Johnson’s starring role as veteran mixed-martial...

FFC #TIFF25 review: THE SMASHING MACHINE, by Angelo Muredda (@amuredda.bsky.social).
filmfreakcentral.net/2025/09/tiff...

17.09.2025 04:44 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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TIFF '25: The Testament of Ann Lee - FILM FREAK CENTRAL Ann Lee***/****starring Amanda Seyfried, Thomasin McKenzie, Lewis Pullman, Tim Blake Nelson, Christopher Abbottwritten by Mona Fastvold and Brady Corbetdirected by Mona Fastvold by Angelo Muredda Spea...

FFC #TIFF25 review: THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE, by Angelo Muredda (@amuredda.bsky.social). filmfreakcentral.net/2025/09/tiff...

13.09.2025 19:02 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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TIFF '25: The Fence - FILM FREAK CENTRAL ***/****starring Isaach De Bankolé, Matt Dillon, Mia McKenna-Bruce, Tom Blythscreenplay by Claire Denis, Suzanne Lindon, and Andrew Litvack, based on Black Battles with Dogs by Bernard-Marie Koltèsdir...

I wrote about Claire Denis’s THE FENCE for @flmfrkcentral.bsky.social filmfreakcentral.net/2025/09/tiff...

10.09.2025 16:24 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Haven’t read yet but I will be revisiting once I have πŸ‘€

09.09.2025 17:08 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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A β˜…β˜… review of Hamnet (2025) ChloΓ© Zhao’s MY GIRL. It’s a handsome movie and everyone is working very hard (Emily Watson, good to see you), but this felt counterfeit to me and left me completely cold β€” no sense of what draws Agne...

Some scribblings on ChloΓ© Zhao’s HAMNET letterboxd.com/amuredda/fil...

09.09.2025 17:01 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I did

08.09.2025 21:05 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Bang on, and sorry for whatever must be happening in your mentions

08.09.2025 17:59 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

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