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Kevin Lau

@ktothelau

Writer/Filmmaker/Producer of @thefilmographers.bsky.social/Reflections Critic @cinefiedcom.bsky.social. I'm what hipsters think they are and it's such a burden. https://www.kevinlaufilm.com/

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Surprising absolutely no one, I'm sure, but I occasionally read screenplays! Love it when one gets traditionally published with extra goodies.

You can follow along with everything I'm reading on @hardcover.app, a great alternative to Goodreads for those who don't want to support Amazon.

04.03.2026 02:48 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The shift from β€œart” to β€œcontent” really has been the tech industry’s greatest contribution to the downfall of humanity.

God I’m so relieved that we don’t have art anymore. We just have content and content distribution systems.

You know, like a trough for barnyard animals. Yum yum.

07.12.2025 03:55 πŸ‘ 62 πŸ” 19 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 1
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Hey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. You’re entitled to $1500 per stolen Work.

Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/

18.11.2025 07:39 πŸ‘ 3073 πŸ” 2542 πŸ’¬ 77 πŸ“Œ 135
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Opposable Thumbs by Matt Singer: 9780593540152 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books Once upon a time, if you wanted to know if a movie was worth seeing, you didn’t check out Rotten Tomatoes or IMDB. You asked whether Siskel & Ebert had given it β€œtwo thumbs up.”...

Is this all just a shameless plug for the book I wrote about Siskel & Ebert that is still available and tells the story of how that 1st episode came together 50 years ago this week?

I mean it’s not *all* just that...

17.11.2025 15:42 πŸ‘ 42 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 3
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DOUBLE INDEMNITY is a big movie, and we've got a big episode to match it!

We dig into how it got made, the behind-the-scenes drama between Billy Wilder and Raymond Chandler, and more.

Find us wherever you get your podcasts, YouTube, or best of all, Patreon.

28.10.2025 20:25 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

We just covered the movie and book on The Filmographers this week!

01.11.2025 15:58 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER is Now Playing at the Music Box, presented in 70MM!

Showtimes & Tickets: musicboxtheatre.com/films-and-ev...

05.10.2025 03:28 πŸ‘ 133 πŸ” 37 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 1

we can all get back to not watching this show while also giving our lives for its right to exist

22.09.2025 19:35 πŸ‘ 44 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
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On this episode of Cinefied - Connor, Peter, Dempsey, Kyle, and Trevor discuss their limits with body horror, how #Together ranks on their favorites of the year, and the mixed reaction to the third act...

Watch or Listen @ Cinefied.com: cinefied.com/thecinefiedpodcast

02.08.2025 21:49 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

soon: "this bird can run Doom"

28.07.2025 19:20 πŸ‘ 232 πŸ” 58 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 2
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On this episode of The Cinefied Podcast, Connor, Kevin, Cassie, and John discuss Ari Aster’s fourth film: EDDINGTON.

Listen or Watch @ Cinefied.com: www.cinefied.com/thecinefiedp...

19.07.2025 15:18 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Being a filmmaker is such an up and down journey. So many ideas just devolve into fragmented pieces of your original sculpture.

And while it’s true there is the β€œmovie you write, movie you shoot & movie you make” What we ultimately made in #Revival Ep 6 is perhaps my favorite thing I’ve ever done πŸ–€

16.07.2025 03:41 πŸ‘ 22 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1
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A β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜… review of Superman (2025) When I wear one of my Superman shirts, I’ll occasionally receive the comment, β€œSuperman is boring. Batman is cooler.” Being the insufferable nerd I am, I reply with, β€œI think Batman stories are cooler...

My β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜… review of Superman on Letterboxd boxd.it/aguyat

#LookUp

13.07.2025 00:10 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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READ Our Movie Review @ Cinefied.com: www.cinefied.com/supermanmovi...

08.07.2025 19:02 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Roche Limit: The Complete Series Deluxe Hardcover "Our destiny is the stars, and I will lead us there." Twenty years after this promise, billionaire Langford Skaargard's dream of cosmic exploration is no more. Roche Limit, a colony situated on the cu...

There's still time to snag the ROCHE LIMIT hardcover, collecting the entire series!

Patrick Rotfuss calls it: "One part detective story, one part sci-fi space adventure, one part uncanny, Lovecraftian horror...an interesting concept for a book, and solid execution in the storytelling."

05.07.2025 15:21 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Roche Limit: The Complete Series Deluxe Hardcover "Our destiny is the stars, and I will lead us there." Twenty years after this promise, billionaire Langford Skaargard's dream of cosmic exploration is no more. Roche Limit, a colony situated on the cu...

Excited to help fund the beautiful hardcover omnibus edition of ROCHE LIMIT by my pal @michaelmoreci.bsky.social & friends! zoop.gg/c/rochelimit

03.07.2025 22:35 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Episode 3 of REVIVAL airs tonight on SYFY, while Episode 2 has now dropped on Peacock! If you haven't already, please check us out. Every view counts and they are watching week to week right now very closely.

And thank you so much to all the support so far!

26.06.2025 22:49 πŸ‘ 17 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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A β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜… review of Elio (2025) Elio gets the "Got Me Crying in the Club" Movie of the Year award from me. Hard to imagine anything else coming up that will intentionally make me tear up as much. Accidentally feels like a response t...

My β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜… review of Elio (2025) on
@letterboxd.social

letterboxd.com/ktothelau/fi...

24.06.2025 22:38 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Oh wow, the Revival series nailed it (so far).

Thank fuck.

20.06.2025 22:51 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
FULL EPISODE: Don't Tell Dad | Revival (S1 E1) | SYFY
FULL EPISODE: Don't Tell Dad | Revival (S1 E1) | SYFY YouTube video by SYFY

Missed REVIVAL ep 1 last night? Well, here ya go. Full ep on Youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXfY...

13.06.2025 16:31 πŸ‘ 74 πŸ” 30 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 2

I loved this conversation! (And I love that picture of Beman--iconic!)

10.06.2025 13:18 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The real cost of AI is being paid in deserts far from Silicon Valley In Empire of AI, journalist Karen Hao writes about the rise of OpenAI and the impacts of AI around the world. Below is an extract from the book on the effects on Chile's mineral reserves and water res...

I'm thrilled that @restofworld.org has excerpted one of my favorite passages from EMPIRE OF AI. It's not about Sam Altman or OpenAI directly. It's about what their vision of scale is costing usβ€”and how we could dare to dream for a different conception of progress. 1/

restofworld.org/2025/ai-reso...

27.05.2025 15:48 πŸ‘ 64 πŸ” 28 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 2
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We not only review MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - THE FINAL RECKONING in our latest episode, but we also ranked all the movies in the franchise!

Watch us on YouTube, find us wherever you get your podcasts, or join our Patreon--the best place to find all our episodes!

patreon.com/TheFilmographersPodcast

25.05.2025 14:09 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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A β˜… review of Hurry Up Tomorrow (2025) The Weeknd tries to come to terms that his art is vastly misinterpreted. Unfortunately, the topic of the public's interpretation of art in comparison to the artists' intention has already been discuss...

My β˜… review of Hurry Up Tomorrow (2025) on
@letterboxd.social

letterboxd.com/ktothelau/fi...

27.05.2025 19:39 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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A β˜…β˜…β˜…Β½ review of Bullitt (1968) Two spectacular, minimal-dialogue sequences rising far above the sea that is the rest of the film's mediocrity. The plot is fine and sensible enough, all the emotional conflict feels more like a facsi...

My β˜…β˜…β˜…Β½ review of Bullitt (1968) on
@letterboxd.social

boxd.it/9P5qzR

#CinemaSpeculation

27.05.2025 19:37 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Netflix Keeps Ruining Action Movies | Defector Gareth Evans is the patron saint of people getting their shit wrecked. In films like Merantau, Apostle, and The Raid diptych, people get chopped by machetes, whacked with broom handles, tossed…

Netflix keeps ruining action movies: defector.com/netflix-keep...

16.05.2025 13:53 πŸ‘ 87 πŸ” 17 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 10

We'll get'em next time 😞

14.05.2025 04:07 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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'The Legend of Ochi' Review Review | An estranged couple with a bounty on their heads must go on the run with their son to avoid their former...

"Despite what the poster, trailer, and overall lack of marketing may lead you to believe, #ShadowForce is actually pretty good."

My β˜…β˜…β˜…Β½ review of Shadow Force (2025) on
@cinefiedcom.bsky.social
www.cinefied.com/shadowforcem...

14.05.2025 04:05 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Big fan of streams. Maybe a couple short videos and clips on top of that?

Also, feel free to reach out if you need another editor!

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