@richardfink.bsky.social
Writer for MovieWeb. Body content is likely now more Diet Coke than water.
Got to write about one of my favorite movies of 2025 for @movieweb that sadly received no love from the Academy.
Check out Sorry, Baby on HBO Max.
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#WonderMan is excellent. One of the best MCU series by a wide margin. It’s funny, has excellent characters, and works because it is basically a comedy that happens to exist in a superhero world. I hope Marvel makes more Wonder Man and more shows like it.
23.01.2026 05:52 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
As someone who went to see 2009’s Friday the 13th and Drag Me to Hell on opening day in high school, I had high hopes for Send Help and oh did it deliver. Raimi goes full Raimi and I had a blast! Can’t wait to see it again.
23.01.2026 05:45 — 👍 20 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Force Awakens, The Last Jedi, Solo, The Mandalorian, Andor, and Skeleton Crew, are some of my favorite Star Wars stories ever and all happened during Kathleen Kennedy’s tenure as the head of Lucasfilm.
I have many great memories tied to this era of Star Wars, and a lot of it is because of her.
It's obviously okay to criticize a movie; nobody should be forced to like a movie. Yet I will say some of the critiques I'm seeing are just kind of lazy, or use buzzwords to sound profound without providing any actual depth or conversation.
13.01.2026 23:55 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
2025 was grim for the movie industry…but great for movies. Here are my top 20 favorite films of the year.
31.12.2025 19:41 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Andor Season 2…with those final episodes of Skeleton Crew coming a close second.
31.12.2025 19:40 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
With the year coming to a close, I got to write up the 10 best superhero movie entries of 2025 for @movieweb.bsky.social.
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It is surreal to think The Force Awakens came out ten years ago. It is strange to think how much has changed around Star Wars since it came out. But you know what? The movie still rules. Loved it then, still love it today, will hopefully love it in another ten years.
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As someone who played so many hours of Episode 1 Racer, I will buy this on day one.
12.12.2025 04:37 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Disney's AI deal was inevitable, but it's still depressing as hell.
11.12.2025 18:20 — 👍 15 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0This news is so awful I wanted to just go back to bed and not think about today.
Truly loving in the worst timeline right now.
There isn’t a day that goes by that I don’t miss my grandma.
But this wouldn’t be her. It’s an algorithmic approximation of a person. It’s not really them so therefore it isn’t my grandma. This is downright offensive to think they can replace our loved ones and an absolute ghoulish headline.
Guess I found what’s going on Christmas morning.
06.12.2025 02:59 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I still can’t believe it.
05.12.2025 22:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Just a bleak day for the film industry. Don’t think I’ve ever been this depressed about the future of a medium I love so much.
05.12.2025 17:46 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"Paramount insiders debunk the notion that this new team is making “flyover state” films but readily admit they are building a slate focused on areas it sees as underserved by Hollywood, a move that mirrors Ellison’s work to reshape CBS News. The mogul has complained that the news business has been taken over by coastal elites out of touch with the American public, so it’s not surprising that he’s bringing the same ethos to his studio. One major emphasis is to develop broad, testosterone-laden tentpoles like a Call of Duty movie that Taylor Sheridan is writing and a $100 million-plus motorcross film directed by James Mangold and starring Timothée Chalamet, who would earn a career-high $25 million. (Mangold also has a new overall deal with the studio.) Paramount also is keen on making a Western with 1923 actor Brandon Sklenar."
the new CBS/Paramount is clearly dominated by dim, right wing dudebros, who want to make lowest common denominator bait for other, dim, white, right wing dudebros
05.12.2025 16:46 — 👍 224 🔁 39 💬 18 📌 7
Okay, rude.
I can’t believe KPop Demon Hunters and Hazbin Hotel didn’t shave this number down…unless this is the aged down number?!
Finally finished my Thanksgiving left overs. 10 turkey sandwiches in 5 days.
Till next year.
Of course, the Brainiac shortlist is revealed two days after I wrote this list.
Still, check it out and let me know what you think of these picks and who you would want to see as Superman's most famous foe who has yet to grace the big screen.
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I really wanted to like Ella McCay. I tried to meet it on every level, but the entire runtime I was left feeling baffled. It doesn’t work as a comedy or drama, and the entire film is a waste of very talented individuals. I was hoping for a James L. Brooks comeback but sadly a real whiff.
03.12.2025 06:15 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
#AvatarFireandAsh is the Return of the Jedi of the Avatar series. Even if it falls slightly below it’s predecessors, it is still REALLY good with some incredibly powerful and emotionally resonate beats that got tears out of me. Awe inspiring visuals and filmmaking. I just love these movies so much.
02.12.2025 06:51 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I decided to say something nice about The Rise of Skywalker, and a particular Star Wars quote that has been on my mind a lot lately.
09.11.2025 20:09 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched
07.11.2025 19:42 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Excellent piece about 2018's The Predator by @britthates.bsky.social
Think this movie still stands as one of the biggest disappointments I've had this past decade. I'm so glad The Predator franchise is back on track.
Alright I fucking wrote about this. It was apparently necessary to vent my rage about this this afternoon, because that took me two hours to get it all out and onto the page.
03.11.2025 23:08 — 👍 749 🔁 244 💬 8 📌 18
I lost count of how many times I fist bumped the air during #PredatorBadlands. To borrow a phrase from Blank Check “it owns bones!”
This was the Predator movie I think I’ve been waiting for since I discovered the franchise at 10 years old. Cannot recommend enough.
#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched
Clearly getting ready for Halloween
“I’m the worlds most dangerous Predator”
My Edward Cullen/Predator mashup is my most absurd costume.
Happy Halloween everyone!
Congratulations!
19.10.2025 21:33 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
