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Lisa Laman
@lisalamanfilmfan.bsky.social
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I watch a lot of movies! Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, Critic's Choice Association/GALECA member. Writer for outlets like The Spool, Looper, Pajiba, Dallas Observer, and others. Love movies, puns, karaoke, Carly Rae tunes. Autistic. She/Her trans lady.
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lisalamanfilmfan.bsky.social
Over on @looperhq.bsky.social , I broke down the absolute worst movie moments of 2025! Behold my breakdown of unforgettable (for all the wrong reasons) scenes like Gal Gadot rapping!
www.looper.com/2043521/wors...
12 Worst Movie Moments Of 2025 - Looper
2025 brought a new batch of iconic scenes to screens worldwide. These handpicked 12 are not those ones. Instead, these are the worst movie moments of the year.
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December 7, 2025 at 11:51 PM
lisalamanfilmfan.bsky.social
Warner Bros., please, put Spike Lee's American Utopia in theaters, even if it's just for two days through Fathom, I must experience one of 2020's greatest cinematic triumphs with a crowd, so we can all tap our toes to those beautiful versions of "This Must Be The Place" and "Road to Nowhere."
December 7, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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edmorrish.bsky.social
it might seem surprising that the people who said “look, let trans people live their lives, but i have Reasonable Concerns about sports and toilets” aren’t up in arms about this, but what you have to remember is that those people who said that are liars who were lying
December 6, 2025 at 12:40 PM
lisalamanfilmfan.bsky.social
One of my great privileges of 2025 was writing this essay for the outstanding publication ScarleTeen. So honored they'd highlight it!
scarleteen.com Scarleteen @scarleteen.com · 3d
@lisalamanfilmfan.bsky.social says it loud and clear in her latest: the humanity of autistic people is not up for debate, no matter the lies institutions of power spread. Autistic readers, let this piece be a reminder of all you offer to this world by existing.
www.scarleteen.com/read/hey-a...
Text: "God knows there’s only so much energy in a day, and autistic folks have much better things to do than use those finite resources to correct every ableist thing emerging from people’s mouths. All I can do is tell you, autistic readers, what I wish somebody had told me when I was young: you’re not alone, you don’t need to be cured, and you and your brain are more than enough. - Lisa Laman,” behind is a cream background watermarked with Scarleteen's logo.
December 5, 2025 at 9:49 PM
lisalamanfilmfan.bsky.social
I had some thoughts about the impending Netflix/WB merger, how all corporate mergers are evil, and what we can do to help each other in these dark times where Silicon Valley knuckleheads run amuck
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There Are No Good Corporate Mergers
It's the late 60s. Per the Stephen M. Silverman book The Fox That Got Away: The Last Days of the Zanuck Dynasty at Twentieth Century-Fox ,  ...
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December 5, 2025 at 3:49 PM
lisalamanfilmfan.bsky.social
There are no good corporate mergers in the world of film. Warner Bros/AOL, DreamWorks/Paramount, Disney/20th Century Fox, Paramounts/Skydance, they create fewer jobs, ensure fewer movies get made, and offer fewer choices for audiences. There's no way Netflix/WB doesn't continue this trend.
December 5, 2025 at 2:15 PM
lisalamanfilmfan.bsky.social
I know this is like comparing Princess Mononoke to Pooh's Heffalump Movie, but watching Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair and Five Nights at Freddy's 2 over 28 hours really solidified how we just forgot how to shoot/light/visualize movies over the last 22 years.
December 4, 2025 at 2:21 PM
lisalamanfilmfan.bsky.social
This book is tremendous, art this good should be cherished and supported endlessly!
charliejane.bsky.social Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 5d
My novel Lessons in Magic and Disaster makes a fantastic holiday gift. It's a queer mother-daughter story about healing and learning to see each other more clearly. With bonus 18th century literature secrets!

(Thanks to the Booksmith for letting me take photos there.)
A trans woman with pink hair wearing a blue dress with desserts on it and a lavender sweater holds a copy of Lessons in Magic and Disaster (a book with a bright purple cover) in a bookstore surrounded by books. A trans woman with pink hair wearing a lavender sweater and blue dress stands in a bookstore holding up the cover of Lessons in Magic and Disaster, with purple cracked earth and daisies pushing up through the dirt
December 3, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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prisonculture.bsky.social
This is a profoundly anti-Black country. Not just racist but ANTI-BLACK. It is foundational and everpresent.
December 3, 2025 at 10:02 PM
lisalamanfilmfan.bsky.social
There are so many Paul Dano performances I adore, but his soft-spoken yet impactful turn in The Fabelmans is especially exquisite. His subtly nuanced portrait of a stand-in for Steven Spielberg's father realizes our parents as they truly are: multi-faceted human beings.
December 3, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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Stellan Skarsgård agrees that Netflix films shouldn't qualify for the Oscars without a full theatrical run

"That’s the only way to make the theaters survive ... Without cinema, you don’t have any Netflix"

(via Variety)
December 2, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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caseyexplosion.bsky.social
Either you understand that there is an organized campaign to push trans people out of public life with the explicit end goal of "morally mandating us out of existence" that is backed by some of the wealthiest individuals to have ever lived, or you're simply not equipped to grasp what's happening.
December 1, 2025 at 6:02 PM
lisalamanfilmfan.bsky.social
Just three installments into this franchise, the Avatar saga delivers its own Star Trek Into Darkness/Jurassic World Dominion/Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire with Avatar: Fire and Ash. A total rehash of prior installments right down to which musical leitmotifs factor into the finale.
December 2, 2025 at 1:41 PM
lisalamanfilmfan.bsky.social
What you've heard is true: Marty Supreme is indeed that good. Here's my review of the new Josh Safdie feature, a chaotic modern screwball comedy full of captivating failure and precisely-realized imagery. Balls of Fury found dead in a ditch, in other words
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Marty Supreme plays an engrossing and chaotic game only director Josh Sadie could realize
Marty Mauser (Timothée Chalamet) wants to win. Badly. This 23-year-old makes his income as a shoe salesman in New York, harbors a secret rel...
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December 1, 2025 at 5:13 PM
lisalamanfilmfan.bsky.social
WB doesn't have any new wide releases in December, they should bring One Battle After Another back into 2,000-ish theaters on Dec 19, make tickets $8 all day for two weeks, entice people to catch up on it on the big screen. I know they'll re-expand it in late January after the Oscar nominations drop
November 28, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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nytpitchbot.bsky.social
I lost my job, I can't afford turkey or pie, and my kids have measles. But at least I'm not seeing any trans people in the Macy's parade.
November 27, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao
screenshot of a tumblr post from user “wildmansters” The thing that really boils my potatoes about Al in general is that I have been a creative professional for over a decade now and the devil has ALWAYS been in the details. Big and small, I've had single-person businesses rip me to shreds over how their colors turned out on newsprint, and have worked with huge companies with THICK brand guidelines with every detail of their brand identity laid out and enforced with an iron fist. But I guess all of that stuff doesn't matter anymore? Who gives a fuck if this Al generated baby has six fingers, that mom-and-pop shop is still going to use it. That rug from Temu says Happy Thanksgivirg? Oh well haha it's just a silly funny thing now (nevermind that you never would have given a B-grade item from a craft show the same consideration). I don't actually care that the Al Coca-cola ad has a truck that changes size every scene, but I can't help but think about how, if it had been some poor underpaid artist, they would have been laughed out of the building. I don't really know how to put it in a succint way but it just feels all the more obvious how much more grace and flexibility has always been possible but never offered.
November 28, 2025 at 3:28 AM
lisalamanfilmfan.bsky.social
Zootopia 2 opens in theaters today for Thanksgiving weekend, but when did Disney Animation begin dominating this holiday frame? I decided to research this and explore how and when Disney turned Thanksgiving into a Frozen/Toy Story launchpad
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Why and When Did Animated Disney Movies Start Dominating Thanksgiving Weekend?
Zootopia 2's arrival on November 26, 2025 marks the latest in a long line of films in the Walt Disney Animation Studios canon to open in w...
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November 26, 2025 at 4:32 PM
lisalamanfilmfan.bsky.social
I got a piece published on Queerty! And it's an essay about one of my favorite actresses, Janet Gaynor! Thank you to Queerty for publishing this, you can read it below!
www.queerty.com/before-judy-...
Before Judy, Barbra & Gaga, this closeted A Star is Born actress lived out a gay fantasy - Queerty
Where would the movies be without Janet Gaynor?
www.queerty.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:46 PM
lisalamanfilmfan.bsky.social
It always ALWAYS comes down to hatred of Black women.
chadstanton.blacksky.app Doghouse Reilly @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 15d
Yep, one of the biggest drivers of the elite panic around “wokeness” was the increasing prominence of Black people and particularly Black women in their fields and we’re seeing that coalition rewarded with the targeting of Black workers.
devawo.bsky.social Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 15d
Since February, according to my latest analysis, almost 600,000 Black women have been economically sidelined. The November 20, 2025, Jobs Report makes clear this isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. That is not a recovery. It is a redistribution of opportunity.
November 24, 2025 at 2:14 PM
lisalamanfilmfan.bsky.social
Avatar: Fire and Ash, it's on to you to push this Letterboxd list to three entries
November 24, 2025 at 2:13 PM
lisalamanfilmfan.bsky.social
🎵She looks so perfect
Standing there
In my Elphaba sex cardigan🎵
November 24, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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mmasnick.bsky.social
The party that promised "free speech on campus" has made sure there can be no free speech on campuses.
littlebadger.bsky.social Darcie Little Badger @littlebadger.bsky.social · 18d
This week, I withdrew from a speaking engagement at a public university because they sent me a list of prohibited “words & concepts.” I will not humor this censorship. It does a disservice to the stories I’m discussing & the audience, who deserve unfettered access to information & conversation.
“Prohibited words and concepts: Equity, diversity, & inclusion; anti-racism; Bias; Critical race theory; implicit bias; oppression; intersectionality; prohibited discriminatory practices; racial privilege; promoting stereotypes based on personal identity characteristics.”
November 21, 2025 at 4:25 AM
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maggietokudahall.bsky.social
It is genuinely incredible to me how much evidence there is to support investing in the public good and how much animus there is to do this simple, effective thing.
November 18, 2025 at 3:00 AM
lisalamanfilmfan.bsky.social
Dallas writer here, I'm looking to cover the opening of the Netflix House experience in Dallas for a cool outlet! I bring to the table the unique perspective of a lifelong Dallas resident and someone whose written extensively about Netflix in the past. If your outlet is interested, reach out via DMs
November 21, 2025 at 10:35 PM