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A ★★★½ review of Marty Supreme (2025) Kept wanting to yell at my screen TO WHAT END??? -- a similar reaction I had to the first few episodes of The Bear (which, to be fair I did end up liking before it too fizzled out post season 2). Like...

Oh Marty Supreme. I hovered between 3.5 and 4 stars for this one but ultimately felt like it was a lot of chaos in service to a sort of paper thin idea. I'll admit to liking it a lot more than I thought I was going to.
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A ★★★½ review of Sentimental Value (2025) This review may contain spoilers. Visit the page to bypass this warning and read the review.

I loved Worst Person in the World, did not connect with Sentimental Value in the same way. Kind of left it without having any thoughts about it at all (other than about architecture): letterboxd.com/emmacasley/f...

A ★★★★ review of One Battle After Another (2025) hmmmm....I feel both like this is clearly a very well made movie and also like it was maybe just not for me at the same time? I appreciate what it's going for and there were definitely moments and seq...

One Battle After Another! Really wrestled with my feelings on this one. Maybe it's simplest to say it's both very good and not quite for me.
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A ★★★★ review of Bugonia (2025) Really feels like an excuse to just let Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons act their butts off -- and I'm not complaining! I'm not totally sold on some of the plot points but overall found the themes it was...

Enjoyed Bugonia! If only because who doesn't love to watch Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons play off each other for two hours: letterboxd.com/emmacasley/f...

A ★★★★½ review of Sinners (2025) I'm losing my mind this was so good. The story sort of slowly envelopes you and I lost myself in the 2+ hour screen time. It's visceral, it's tactile. You feel it in your bones. You leave the theater ...

Sinners!! I've watched it four times since my original review and have loved it every time: letterboxd.com/emmacasley/f...

Trying to make an effort to actually watch all the #Oscars best picture noms this year! Creating a thread of my #Letterboxd reviews as I get through them here... (spoiler alert Sinners is my favorite by ten thousand miles)
#filmsky #LetterboxdFriday

This weeks theme: catching up on Oscar noms and reddish-orange-yellow movie posters ❤️🧡💛
#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched

One Battle After Another (2025) I make it no secret that I love melodrama and sentimentality. While I can appreciate the merits of a quirky indie comedy, more interested in observing its characters like specimens under a microscope,...

Ahead of the #oscars, I reviewed One Battle After Another, a movie I respected more than I liked
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I generally like mysteries and thrillers but will throw in a good haunted house book now and again

February 2026 Grab Bag Hello from the snow kingdom NYC has become these past few weeks! Writing to you when the weather is a “balmy” forty degrees and soaking up every warm moment of it. The second it hits fifty I’ll be out...

List of February recommendations! Got really into Robert Jackson Bennet’s #TheTaintedCup — a great plane read imo. Plus a cute picture of a pair of mourning doves on my window sill 🐦
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…a film that I think does have a lot to say about what beautiful things can be achieved when you believe in the care and dedication required to build community. Which is not irrelevant to These Current Times!

The Testament of Ann Lee (2025) I’m not religious but I love to dance. I don’t want to pretend like they’re the same thing but I do sometimes feel like I ascend to some kind of blissful heavenly plane amidst a sweaty crowd with a pu...

It does feel frivolous to self promote my little reviews in the context of our political moment, but here’s my review of The Testament of Ann Lee… (1/2)
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Pluribus, Season 1 Watching the first episode of Pluribus is like laying down to get a professional massage after years of clumsy backrubs. One scene in and you’re like what a fucking relief to finally be in good hands ...

My (spoiler free!) review of Pluribus 🙂 — love to just unabashedly gush over a show
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#Pluribus #AppleTV #review #television

What a combo 🧛💃
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My Letterboxd 2025 year in review! I watched 87 movies this year, and liked a lot of them
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Also in a moment of sincerity, thanks to all who have read or even casually perused my writing this year ❤️ best wishes to you all in 2026

Best of 2025 Not only is it the end of 2025, this is also the first full year of my (revamped) newsletter! Thank you for coming along on this journey of mine as I practice my review writing craft. I truly apprecia...

The best part of having your own newsletter is getting to gush about your favorite movies of the year as if you have any sort of cultural taste making cachet
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#bestof2025 #filmsky

November Grab Bag Between getting COVID last month, daylight savings once again being thrust upon us this month, and that weird week where we had Tuesday off work for Veteran’s Day I’ve been feeling a little atemporal ...

Please enjoy November’s round up of recommendations! This months grab bag includes survivalist stories, grapplings with the rise of AI, and some good old fashion comforting fall soup
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#books #film #filmsky #letterboxd #fall

It's once again getting overstimulated and shutting down at a holiday craft market season 🎄

Frankenstein (2025) Recently I watched Satan’s Rhapsody (1917), the first silent film I’d seen in a while, and I was struck by how the lack of dialogue forced ambiguity into the story. The medium prevents any complex plo...

I (mostly) loved Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein, especially when it’s at its most vibe-y
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Halloween Movie Spectacular Last week I got COVID (still recovering but definitely on the mend!) which meant I missed my self-imposed deadline of last Monday for my newsletter. So change of plans: instead of doing a long review ...

This month I did a round up of all the horror movies I’ve been watching this Halloween season: emmacas.digitalpress.blog/halloween-mo...
I was sick with COVID for a number of these so feel free to take my opinions with a grain of salt!
#filmsky #film #halloween #horror

two girls are sitting on a couch eating pizza and one has a shirt that says " raw metal rules " ALT: two girls are sitting on a couch eating pizza and one has a shirt that says " raw metal rules "

Happy 25th anniversary to Gilmore Girls

September Grab Bag Happy first day of Fall! It’s been beautiful weather in NYC and I am dedicated to watching silly horror movies and reading spooky books for the rest of the season. Would love recommendations of either...

September Grab Bag, featuring new hosting platform, the state of heterosexuality, and A Good Art
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#halloween #filmsky #fall

September: Man's Best Friend (2025) Two lines I hate and two lines I love from Sabrina Carpenter's new album

My review of Sabrina Carpenter’s Man’s Best Friend — a mostly great album that has a few elements I can’t stand
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A ★★★½ review of Oh, Hi! (2025) Fun performances! Fun concept! Often funny! Feels a bit like it loses its way towards the end but overall happy with where everything ended up. Side note: I've been listening to Sabrina Carpenter's Ma...

Had a fun time with Oh, Hi this weekend! Really made me think about Sabrina Carpenter's new album, weirdly (p.s. maybe keep an eye out for some writing about Man's Best Friend soon 👀)
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August Grab Bag Talkin bout pop music

What I found interesting in August — nerding out about pop music, cool nyc maps (thanks @puddingviz.bsky.social!), dancing at weddings etc. 💃🏽
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KPop Demon Hunters (2025) A great idea let down by Netflix

Was more mixed on KPop Demon Hunters than most folks — but I blame Netflix more than I blame the creatives behind the film
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#film #kpopdemonhunters #filmsky #review

A ★★★ review of The Bubble (2021) Beautiful cinematography (I loved the shots of Florida wildlife in comparison to the manicure of the retirement community), and the way it captured each of its subjects as unique characters. But there...

Loved the subject matter of this documentary maybe more than the film itself, but still a compelling watch
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A ★★★★ review of Killers of the Flower Moon (2023) I know Marty is Mr. Cinema but this really had the feel of a prestige crime drama miniseries (has Scorsese seen Mare of Easttown? inquiring minds want to know). The catchy, almost hypnotic music sting...

A Friday evening alone with nothing to do meant I finally had time to sit down with this three and a half hour film — the pace and the length really made it feel like Marty’s take on a prestige crime drama miniseries
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a woman in a gray dress holding a cat and saying we must be over the rainbow Alt: Dorothy from the wizard of oz holding her dog toto saying "we must be over the rainbow"

Definitely the cutest audience reaction I've witnessed was at a screening of WIZARD OF OZ. When they're escaping the Wicked Witch and Toto comes to the rescue, a little kid, while gripping the rails of the balcony, shouted "jump Toto, jump!!"