Calvin Kemph

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Handbills with QR codes and images from each film on a wooden desk.

Screenings of @seattlecritics.bsky.social' PNW nominees continue! Shorts w/filmmakers at @nwfilmforum.bsky.social Nov 19 and features w/filmmakers at @siffnews.bsky.social Film Center Nov 21-23: Twinless, Wolf Land, To Kill a Wolf, WTO/99, Not One Drop of Blood. We launched with Train Dreams Oct 29.

Bugonia: Do You Want to Believe? Yorgos Lanthimos is working at the forefront of present cinematic expression. The work of the Greek auteur will not leave you indifferent. That art provokes response is so central to its value in t…

#Bugonia is a richly textured remake of a good South Korean movie that advances Yorgos Lanthimos’ credentials as one of our best working filmmakers. @seattlecritics.bsky.social

Reminder: If you use generative AI for *any of your writing tasks* you are a Slopper not a writer and should be ashamed of yourself. The end.

We don’t have to pretend Dems have real strategy and this has been a thoughtful, productive exercise.

For Arc Raiders to ride the wave of human sociability all the way to the bank, while also being so contemptuous of the thing that makes us social animals in its own workflow demonstrates a lack of artistic integrity that I find impossible to ignore.

Our review: https://bit.ly/49bVn01

Watching Our of the Past. So much beauty, in the actors' faces & bodies as well as in the photography & staging (as in a fistfight that plays out partly in the shadows combatants cast on a wall). Very adult in its understanding of attraction and how one choice can trap you for life.

They just wanna sell magazines 😜

Yes!

Which???

They call him KomproMatt because he’s the best at political Kompromising

Maybe the Mariners just need to spend more money, is the only lesson this year.

As someone who doesn't watch sports but does love human suffering, I'm having a great night

Baseball done perfectly 👌

Ballad of a Small Player: Hungry Ghosts The visual font of addiction is so often relegated to drugs and alcohol, but addiction is a spiritual malady, and its expression is equally valid in all forms of spiritual disintegration. Addiction…

Addiction is a hungry ghost, that consumes everything in its path and can never be satiated. Ballad of a Small Player explores this philosophy around addiction through sumptuous visuals and a magnetic lead performance. @seattlecritics.bsky.social

James Gunn’s American Project He is few critics’ idea of a respectable auteur, but his work is more consistently progressive than any other comic-book material today.

I wrote a piece on the work of writer and director James Gunn, who is engaged in a pretty incredible ongoing enterprise that despises bigotry and authoritarianism and reaffirms patriotism for progressives. www.vulture.com/article/jame...

"In Ballad of a Small Player, we are given the gift of Colin Farrell overdoing it. Nobody overdoes it like Colin Farrell, and to take this for granted is a disservice." -- very enjoyable piece by @djmecca.bsky.social

Making my @rollingstone.com debut writing about Monolith's incredible F.E.A.R. and how the story's meaning has kind of gotten lost over the years.

Alma isn't F.E.A.R.'s villain. Armacham and the people that made her are. She's as much a victim as anyone else, a spirit of vengeance made, not born.

Liking so you can stop 🧡

Children are so stupid!

Still reeling from this, still need a whole lotta help to cover next year, if you feel so inclined, consider a subscription?

Only if it’s not even on me 😜

Not the best at Fantasy sports cause I just want a team of players with cool sounding names.

What did he do?

How did it go for them? 😭

I will forever be upset that James Horner invented a new kind of music for Avatar and Cameron was like "it doesn't test well can you destroy all recordings and only make sci fi action movie music please"

A photo of Washington editor Brett W. Bachman sitting at his desk with film posters of MANDY and others arranged behind him.

Forget Josh O'Connor fall as Brett W. Bachman, the Washington editor behind MANDY & PIG, cut not one, not two, but six 2025 movies. For @seattletimes.com, dove into his Spielbergian origin, working with Mike Flanagan on CARRIE, recutting SHELBY OAKS, and more 📽️

www.seattletimes.com/entertainmen...

We got a bit of both ♥️

100%, they’re all complicit, even if they don’t like it.