Nicole “loose critic” Veneto

Incoming 7 minute long Nicole rant about the connection between Emerald Fennell’s latest cinematic travesty and how BookTok is making women sub-literate slop fiends.

The idea that it’s misogynistic to suggest women should not just read more challenging prose and works of fiction, but be able to read above a grade-school level as I’ve seen many imply through the dreaded “let girlies enjoy things” line of defense! Girlie-popping ourselves into the sun.

“At least people/women are reading” READING WHAT!? Sub Hop on Pop prose??? Fucking god.

Hamnet: boring, overwrought, constantly hitting a C# as if screaming and yelling makes a performance compelling.

The Bride!: messy, deranged, campy, Snatch Game-esque, insane to see in a major motion picture of this budget in 2026.

Standing my ground that even if Rose Byrne (likely) looses Best Actress for If I Had Legs, history will hold her performance as one of the greats, a’la Gena Rowlands for Woman Under the Influence, while Buckley’s win will be overshadowed by The Bride!, ironically a better performance than Hamnet.

If Lydia Lunch made a Troma movie. Come on out if that or the mere idea of women making provocative underground cinema of transgression excites you. 🍦🍬🍭

boston underground film festival

Alright New England genre film fans here’s why I think you that’s right YOU should check out at least one of the shorts programs at @bosunderground.bsky.social !

If you don’t need any convincing, buy your tickets now here: brattlefilm.org/film-series/...

Looking forward to seeing Knuckles join the IDF in Sonic 4.

All of these movies and several shorts programs with tons of super special guests? Yes, really! bsky.app/profile/kunt...

Guess what? Tickets are now on sale to the general public for the @bosunderground.bsky.social! Let’s sell out some screenings and support independent and underground genre cinema. brattlefilm.org/film-series/...

Shinji's face superimposed on Misato's W E L I V E I N S I D E A D R E A M

Neon Genesis Evangelion
Episode 3
The Silent Phone
A Transfer

There’s a very hilarious detail about Buckley’s character that’s conveniently left out of all trailers and marketing for the movie and it’s either gonna filter you or make the movie wildly more entertaining of a watch.

Embargo lifted. I am pro-The Bride!

In general I support the idea that the internet should have stopped developing after 2013 but if any film merited BBS-only web spaces it’s TV Glow.

Maddie’s buried alive monologue being followed up by a Liberty Mutual commercial so the viewer maxes out on tonal whiplash.

CinemaScore now including the letter H for “hell fucking yes.”

I’ve never looked forward to a RT score unveiling the way I am with The Bride!

YouTube video by Chud37 Vine Jesy Nelson Jamaican Accent

Also Jessie Buckley in The Bride! youtu.be/IEpHswmkisQ?...

It can be possible 💁‍♂️

This is a glowing endorsement by the way.

Jessie Buckley in The Bride!

Funny thing: I have become significantly less tolerant of the way women (especially young women, both real and fictional) are fetishized online in geek/nerd communities in the years since — the moe-ification of women’s image is a uniquely infantilizing form of fetishization. It’s gross!

From the Archives - The Face That Launched a Thousand Shitposts: Boxxy, Chan Girls, and Affective Relations Towards Girls and Women on 4chan Or, that time I wrote an entire final paper for graduate school on Boxxy and the sick, sad, and disturbing phenomenon of chan girls.

Pulled another grad school paper from nearly 7 years ago out of my Google Drive and threw it up on my Substack. Yes, I did in fact write a final paper on chan girls and Boxxy. Yes, it was written in 2019. Yes, you can finally read it, unedited warts and all. open.substack.com/pub/nicoleve...

Castration Movie nation continues to grow.

RELIEVED I can finally talk about specific titles lol it’s been killing me not to scream from the rooftops that we’re playing the new Alice Maio Mackay movie!! Also you all gotta come for Cramps! A Period Piece, it’s a gosh darn delight