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John Singh
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Husband, son, dog father, movie lover, native Californian, PR type.
Past: Disney, Lucasfilm. Current: Author of 🏳️‍🌈 fiction for all readers.
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John Singh @jjsingh.bsky.social · Mar 5
This is for #GaySky. Or anyone else who cares to read. I don’t know that a gay man in his 50s or 60s or 70s DESERVES any sort of special treatment, any unique consideration … but it might be worth thinking about? Please don’t think I’m slighting lesbians or excluding bisexual or trans people. …
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This may sound crazy, but: The first great film of 2026 is "Nirvanna The Band The Show The Movie." In fact, I think it's something like a masterpiece. See it. And DON'T try to find out anything about it first! #MovieSky

My rating: ***** of *****

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"Nirvanna The Band The Show The Movie"
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆   Nirvanna The Band The Show The Movie  puts me in a bind. I saw it as part of AMC's "Screen Unseen" series, which presents movi...
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February 10, 2026 at 7:37 AM
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"Send Help" may not break any new ground or offer much that's really fresh, but it's a lot of fun. Its two central performances are great, too, but Rachel McAdams as Linda from, uh, well, *not* accounting really steals the show. #MovieSky
***½ of *****
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"Send Help"
☆ ☆ ☆ ½   Send Help  makes you feel at least a little sorry for Dylan O'Brien. He's a terrific actor. He was jaw-droppingly good in the ...
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February 10, 2026 at 7:25 AM
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Du bist nicht allein!
January 28, 2026 at 5:48 AM
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Oof. I really, really tried to meet "Hamnet" more than halfway. I wanted to discover that a book I didn't like had been transformed into a movie that cast a spell on me. But it didn't. There's no easy way to say this: I just don't get "Hamnet."
** of *****
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"Hamnet"
☆ ☆   "Keep your heart open," exhorts the poster for Hamnet , the wildly acclaimed, careful, quiet, and deeply earnest movie that almost...
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January 27, 2026 at 1:50 AM
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Hugh Jackman sparkles, but Kate Hudson absolutely shines in "Song Sung Blue," which may be schmaltzy, but it's effective.
My rating: ***½ of *****
#moviesky #moviereview
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"Song Sung Blue"
☆ ☆ ☆ ½   Movie screens used to be filled with films like Song Sung Blue , which exist for no reason other than to entertain a large num...
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January 23, 2026 at 5:41 PM
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"Disneyland Handcrafted" on Disney+ is a deep dive into the making of Disneyland, offering an incredible glimpse into the near-impossible task of building the place ... and the risk-taker behind it. #moviesky
**** of *****
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#Disney #Disneyland #MovieReview
"Disneyland Handcrafted"
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆   For many of us, Disneyland has always existed. Even for those old enough to have known a world without the physical theme park...
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January 22, 2026 at 5:30 AM
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If you want to know HOW Francis Ford Coppola's "Megalopolis" was made, director Mike Figgis's documentary "Megadoc" is worthwhile. If you want to know WHY ... expect no answers, just more mystery. #moviesky #moviereview
My rating: *** of *****
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"Megadoc"
☆ ☆ ☆   Moviemaking is a curious art form. Individuals are recognized as the creator of films, and yet dozens, scores, hundreds, even thou...
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January 21, 2026 at 9:55 PM
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In "Is This Thing On?" Bradley Cooper as director and Will Arnett as star proved what Steve Martin said decades ago: Comedy is not pretty. In this case, it's not even funny. #moviesky #moviereview
**½ of *****
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"Is This Thing On?"
☆ ☆ ½   At the beginning of Is This Thing On? , Alex Novak (Will Arnett) really needs a drink, because that's the only way he can think of...
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January 20, 2026 at 11:12 PM
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To my reader friends!

I'm helping out a new site called Readerful in beta testing. I've published one of my short stories. Are you willing to check it out and let me know if you encounter any problems accessing the site? And, if you're inclined, to rate my story?
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Where the Day Takes You
Emerald lives by routine. Aging and alone, she anchors herself in ordinary rituals, and takes comfort in revisiting the moments that shaped her life: love, ambition, grief, and a quiet sense of purpos...
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January 15, 2026 at 9:26 PM
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"The Secret Agent" has such Oscar buzz that I went in expecting something heavy-handed, ultra-serious and politically angry ... and came away not entirely sure of what I saw, but enjoying it quite a lot anyway.
***½ of *****
#MovieSky #MovieReview
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"The Secret Agent"
☆ ☆ ☆ ½   A man named Marcelo walks into the lobby of a popular movie theater in Recife, Brazil, in early 1977. As he does, three women emer...
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January 15, 2026 at 6:54 AM
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Timothée Chalamet just keeps going and going and going in "Marty Supreme." Some may find it visceral and exciting and even charming. I got increasingly exhausted. ***½ of *****
#MovieSky
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"Marty Supreme"
☆ ☆ ☆ ½   Those of us of a certain age remember our friends who had a certain habit — the nice word for addiction — back in the 1980s and ...
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January 7, 2026 at 5:05 AM
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"No Other Choice" is a dastardly movie, a pitch-black comedy and a squirm-in-your-seat thriller. It also gets a little too murky at times and can be a little hard to track. Still, it's often a visual wonder and ratchets up the suspense nicely. #MovieSky
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"No Other Choice"
☆ ☆ ☆ ½   In the endlessly fascinating, book-length interview between Alfred Hitchcock and François Truffaut, Hitchcock says of his work...
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January 4, 2026 at 7:49 AM
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I'll come right out and say it: I LOVED "Avatar: Fire and Ash." It may be my favorite of the three. If it has one flaw it's that it could have been even longer. Really! It's sometimes rushed and disjointed. On the whole, it's just an amazement. #moviesky
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"Avatar: Fire and Ash"
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ½   I walked into Avatar: Fire and Ash as a tired, jaded adult and walked out a 10-year-old kid, having spent three hours staring ...
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December 21, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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Agreed!
December 21, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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One of Disney's oddest and most forgotten films is also among my Favorite Films. This is the first "Favorite Films" post I've written on my blog in years. Let me know your thoughts ... on my writing, or on this unique film. #moviesky #disney
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Favorite Films: "Something Wicked This Way Comes"
As I write this, it's coming up on Christmas, and the ubiquitous A Christmas Story  has begun appearing. It's no longer limited to a 24-hour...
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December 20, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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If "Wake Up Dead Man" lacks a little of the satiric bite of "Glass Onion" or the acid-tongued humor of "Knives Out," it's still awfully fun. **** of *****
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"Wake Up Dead Man"
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ Peter Falk did it every few weeks for years. Angela Lansbury did it every Sunday night for a decade. Agatha Christie did it 75 times...
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December 17, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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The easiest way to put it is: "Train Dreams" is perfect.
#moviereview #MovieSky
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"Train Dreams"
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ Robert Grainier doesn't know who he is. He has no birthday, no parents, no hometown. He has only himself. Most of us aren't like G...
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December 12, 2025 at 5:51 AM
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Don't kill me here, but if not for the two lead performers in the climactic "For Good" number, "Wicked: For Good" wouldn't be very good at all. It constantly mistakes excess for emotion. Still, that song mostly makes it worth seeing. #moviesky
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"Wicked: For Good"
☆ ☆ ☆ Now, wait just a clock tick. On Broadway, Wicked runs 2 hours, 30 minutes with a 15-minute intermission. On film, Wicked: Part 1  an...
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November 24, 2025 at 5:49 AM
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Just when you thought Yorgos Lanthimos couldn't get any weirder...he did. Gloriously so. "Bugonia" is quite a thing to behold—glorious, bewildering, offensive, hilarious, gory, off-putting and thought-provoking, sometimes in the same scene.
***** of *****
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"Bugonia"
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ A word of warning for those about to watch Bugonia : Afterward, expect to find yourself falling down a rabbit hole of inquiry abou...
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November 20, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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"Die My Love" is a difficult challenge, a movie that all but dares you to hate it. With performances like the ones given by Jennifer Lawrence, Robert Pattinson and Sissy Spacek (among others), it's worth trying if you're brave. #MovieSky
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"Die My Love"
☆ ☆ ☆ Some people will argue (its director, Lynne Ramsay, says wrongly) that  Die My Love  is about post-partum depression. I agree with Ram...
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November 20, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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"Nuremberg" isn't a bad movie, but it will work best for those who are less familiar with World War II and the Holocaust. Russell Crowe and Rami Malek are rather badly miscast, yet it's worth seeing, if only for the real footage shown during the trial.
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"Nuremberg"
☆ ☆ ☆ It's an awful, damning truth that far too many Americans — and, based on global affairs, it can be assumed citizens of many other coun...
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November 16, 2025 at 7:14 AM
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"Roofman" is a total, disarming, wonderful little surprise. It's not the movie you might think from its marketing, which is the best thing about it. #MovieSky
**** of *****
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"Roofman"
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ There aren't many pleasant surprises in the world these days, which makes  Roofman something to cherish. It's a disarming surpri...
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November 6, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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Aziz Ansari's "Good Fortune" is charming and funny, with a truly perfect performance by Keanu Reeves at its heart, but falls shy of greatness by tacking a heavy-handed (though fortunately non-religious) "message" on to its lightweight story. #MovieSky
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"Good Fortune"
☆ ☆ ☆½ The easiest and most obvious movie to which to compare Aziz Ansari's  Good Fortune  is Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life , but th...
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November 4, 2025 at 3:42 AM
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"Frankenstein" isn't a great movie — it's far too familiar to be that — but it is a very, very good movie. Guillermo del Toro has made a grand, gothic entertainment sadly destined to be experienced in the half-attentive fog of Netflix.
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"Frankenstein"
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ More and more, the question to ask about movies isn't, "Is it any good?" but, "Can I watch it at home while doing sixteen other th...
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October 23, 2025 at 6:03 AM
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"Lurker" is a tightly wound, effortlessly entertaining movie — despite not quite sticking its landing. It's a fantastic, effective thriller, and that's about all I'm going to say...because it's one you'll want to discover fresh and spoiler-free. #MovieSky
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"Lurker"
☆ ☆ ☆ ½   There's something about the title Lurker  that implies — not quite promises, but more than suggests — a very different movie tha...
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September 8, 2025 at 5:14 AM