Sam Bodrojan

A game so good it pulled me away from books, movies, silksong, the new geese album, and online shopping

Hello you should play CONSUME ME!! CONSUME ME is a perfect work of art and one of the best games in the past decade!! There are hundreds of games that fail at the exact things this game does right, yet there is nothing else quite like it

This Is What It's Like Now: On "One Battle After Another" some words re: the defining motion picture of the 2020s

ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER is a messy, savvy work of populist entertainment, and the defining film of the 2020s:
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Hades 2 Review: A Fun Sequel That Takes Some Missteps Supergiant's first-ever sequel is plenty of fun, but additions to the Hades formula yield mixed results

Very happy to have this review of Hades II by Cole Kronman, IMO one of the most engaging and stimulating critics writing about games today (though not often enough!), on Kotaku. kotaku.com/hades-ii-the...

Yayyyyyy

All Hail Blippo+ A celebration of the world's best FMV game/video art/TV network hybrid

I chatted to a few of the creatives behind the best video art/FMV game/TV Network hybrid of all time, the weird and miraculous BLIPPO+. I think this is just about the coolest thing ever
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ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER review will be up Thursday. It is not the best PTA movie or the best movie of the year, but it's very good. a few stretches are all-timers. it has both the worst performance of the year and the best. It is de facto the best American movie with a six-figure budget in 15 years

Silksong is The Most Catholic Game Of All Time

five minutes into Ann Lee you see this shot and it’s like yay. :) but then it’s over and you’re like damn I wish I could see that shot again. and then like 30 minutes later they show it again and it’s like yayyy :)))

Movie of the year, also

The War on Trans Art Politics and aesthetics have an uneasy alliance. Too often, trans expression is on the losing end.

For @newyorker.com I wrote about the censorship of trans art. I spoke to many of my favorite artists from Puppies Puppies to Creighton Baxter, thought about strategic opacity, Amy Sherald, and whether or not we have had great trans artists.

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The theater for my screening of THE SECRET AGENT last night on Brazilian Independence Day is awesome. Every time someone onstage during the intro said anything about Brazil the entire audience started hooting and hollering.

MADDIE’S SECRET is extraordinary, like if Douglas Sirk made TV movies in the 90s. My favorite American indie in god knows how many years. I got choked up just writing this review.

My @indiewire.com.web.brid.gy review out of #TIFF25:

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Sentimental Value is fantastic. It can take a lot of restraint to make a good movie that corny. I’d happily watch it four more times this week

BLUE HERON is extraordinary obviously but the child performances in particular are really stellar

Hello cc:helmetgirl readers! I will not get a TIFF diary up for next Thursday. I will hopefully get one out early the following week! I am sorry to disappoint you, thank you for understanding!

Are u here?!? Plz say hi if u see me!!

If you’re gonna put Isaach de Bankolé in a movie you have to give him something to do. You can’t just have him stand there.

My flight is, of course, taking off literally five minutes before Silksong releases.

lmao that new Dakota Johnson movie rules "Splitsville" is evil and awesome

The *other* Dakota Johnson rom-com, SPLITSVILLE, begins playing nationwide tonight. It is evil millennial dad propaganda. It’s also fucking awesome

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Hang out w me !!!

I think it’s very beautiful of me to bring my running shoes to TIFF. like carrying around a reborn doll

re: the self-imposed austerity of being a transgender woman in "the real world"

PLEASE play @vulture.com's Movie Fantasy League w me. It's free and takes 10 min to join if you aren't a nerd. Use the phrase "cchamnetgirl" to be part of my mini league.
I want to be clear I am not being paid to promote this. I just think it'd be rly fun moviegame.vulture.com

laying perpendicular on one another's stomachs On Grace Byron's "Herculine"

On @emotrophywife.bsky.social's excellent and upsetting Herculine, and the false dichotomies of being a trans woman:
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in the new mario kart game the stat screen not only doesn't have stats for multiple aspects it also displays weird averages of the stats so the screen is basically useless and you have to pull up a communal spreadsheet to see the best combos per track

Hello! I will be at TIFF this year as press! Please say hi if you see me! I will writing for Reverse Shot and Indiewire (and my newsletter)! I am extremely excited!

This is obviously true but I think sometimes people lose sight of this is in discussions of trans healthcare as a “wedge issue.” The government is coaxing trans children into suicide. That’s the endgame here

Blocking gender affirming care for children is state sanctioned mass murder