Kent M. Wilhelm
@thekentman.bsky.social
Film & Culture Journalist
007 Dork
Movie Trivia Guy at Syndicated
Bylines: GQ, New York Times, Esquire, Paste Magazine, Observer, Bright Wall/Dark Room, Thrillist, The Film Stage, Documentary Magazine, Esses Magazine
007 Dork
Movie Trivia Guy at Syndicated
Bylines: GQ, New York Times, Esquire, Paste Magazine, Observer, Bright Wall/Dark Room, Thrillist, The Film Stage, Documentary Magazine, Esses Magazine
Wrote up these two hunks of spunk in Harry Lighton's outstanding Pillion for @thefilmstage.com's Best Performances of 2025.
December 11, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Wrote up these two hunks of spunk in Harry Lighton's outstanding Pillion for @thefilmstage.com's Best Performances of 2025.
Wrote about the sumptuous and extremely my shit Reflection in a Dead Diamond for @thefilmstage.com's Best Cinematography of 2025. An impressionistic ode to the EuroSpy films of the 1960s shot on 16mm and streaming on @shudder.com
December 9, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Wrote about the sumptuous and extremely my shit Reflection in a Dead Diamond for @thefilmstage.com's Best Cinematography of 2025. An impressionistic ode to the EuroSpy films of the 1960s shot on 16mm and streaming on @shudder.com
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STRANGE DAYS is playing tomorrow night at 7pm for the last time this year! in gorgeous 35mm!
girl who sold out her STRANGE DAYS screening at BAM.
November 24, 2025 at 8:04 PM
STRANGE DAYS is playing tomorrow night at 7pm for the last time this year! in gorgeous 35mm!
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Calling all Abel Ferrara fans: we're thrilled to screen the ultra-rare director's cut of Cat Chaser this Sunday in NYC. Tickets now on sale!
The Film Stage Presents Ultra-Rare Director’s Cut of Abel Ferrara’s Cat Chaser at the Roxy Cinema on November 30
Most filmmakers see piracy as a scourge on their livelihood. Abel Ferrara has what one might call a more pluralistic mindset: "The only thing you need to see them is the internet. Go find the torrents...
thefilmstage.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Calling all Abel Ferrara fans: we're thrilled to screen the ultra-rare director's cut of Cat Chaser this Sunday in NYC. Tickets now on sale!
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Josh O'Connor gives an impressively fragile performance in Max Walker-Silverman's achingly poetic second feature Rebuilding. Read @thekentman.bsky.social's review:
Rebuilding Review: A Somber Reflection on the Importance of Hope
Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 Sundance coverage. Rebuilding opens in theaters on November 14. We can all feel lonely. Even if we’re constantly surrounded by people, we...
thefilmstage.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Josh O'Connor gives an impressively fragile performance in Max Walker-Silverman's achingly poetic second feature Rebuilding. Read @thekentman.bsky.social's review:
I guess I'll finally check out HBO's Rome (2005). Why not?
November 10, 2025 at 2:47 AM
I guess I'll finally check out HBO's Rome (2005). Why not?
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Ira Sachs' Peter Hujar's Day, opening Friday, is an intimate encapsulation of a queer artist’s life from a bygone era of creative vibrancy.
Read @thekentman.bsky.social's Critic's Pick review: thefilmstage.com/sundance-rev...
Read @thekentman.bsky.social's Critic's Pick review: thefilmstage.com/sundance-rev...
November 5, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Ira Sachs' Peter Hujar's Day, opening Friday, is an intimate encapsulation of a queer artist’s life from a bygone era of creative vibrancy.
Read @thekentman.bsky.social's Critic's Pick review: thefilmstage.com/sundance-rev...
Read @thekentman.bsky.social's Critic's Pick review: thefilmstage.com/sundance-rev...
With F1TV not only going away as a standalone app but also pushing a price hike I am out on watching @f1tv.bsky.social
live. Will catch highlights on YouTube. What a bummer.
live. Will catch highlights on YouTube. What a bummer.
Apple and Formula 1 have struck a five-year deal making Apple TV the exclusive U.S. home for all F1 races starting in 2026.
The agreement follows the success of "F1 The Movie," which raked in $629 million worldwide at the box office this year.
variety.com/2025/tv/news...
The agreement follows the success of "F1 The Movie," which raked in $629 million worldwide at the box office this year.
variety.com/2025/tv/news...
Apple and Formula 1 Ink Five-Year Exclusive U.S. Streaming Deal Worth About $750 Million
Apple and Formula 1 announced a five-year agreement under which all F1 races will be available exclusively on Apple TV in the U.S. beginning in 2026.
variety.com
October 17, 2025 at 4:32 PM
With F1TV not only going away as a standalone app but also pushing a price hike I am out on watching @f1tv.bsky.social
live. Will catch highlights on YouTube. What a bummer.
live. Will catch highlights on YouTube. What a bummer.
I forgot everything that happened in Making a Murderer. Nature is healing.
August 20, 2025 at 12:10 AM
I forgot everything that happened in Making a Murderer. Nature is healing.
Weekend VHS haul.
July 15, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Weekend VHS haul.
A lot of movies can take a character development lesson from Idle Hands when Devon Sawa talks about being in love with Jessica Alba and how her songs are like poetry.
And then she drops her book and he peeks in it and it all looks like this:
And then she drops her book and he peeks in it and it all looks like this:
July 15, 2025 at 3:21 AM
A lot of movies can take a character development lesson from Idle Hands when Devon Sawa talks about being in love with Jessica Alba and how her songs are like poetry.
And then she drops her book and he peeks in it and it all looks like this:
And then she drops her book and he peeks in it and it all looks like this:
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Joseph Kosinski's #F1TheMovie is a slick, glossy blockbuster that’s a feast for the senses and easy on the brain.
Read @thekentman.bsky.social's review:
Read @thekentman.bsky.social's review:
F1 Review: A Slick, Engaging Big-Budget Commercial
Sports are at their dramatic best when the improbable occurs. So are the movies that portray those implausible stories. From Rudy to Rookie of the Year, America loves a narrative that tracks the rise ...
thefilmstage.com
June 23, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Joseph Kosinski's #F1TheMovie is a slick, glossy blockbuster that’s a feast for the senses and easy on the brain.
Read @thekentman.bsky.social's review:
Read @thekentman.bsky.social's review:
Despite its shameless marketing, F1: The Movie is a pretty solid summer programmer for F1 fans and uninitiated alike. It's fast, it's slick, it's Brad Pitt being a movie star.
For the DTS crowd: (almost) all your favorites are back!
F1: The Movie: The Review for @thefilmstage.com
bit.ly/46fhbWW
For the DTS crowd: (almost) all your favorites are back!
F1: The Movie: The Review for @thefilmstage.com
bit.ly/46fhbWW
F1 Review: A Slick, Engaging Big-Budget Commercial
Sports are at their dramatic best when the improbable occurs. So are the movies that portray those implausible stories. From Rudy to Rookie of the Year, America loves a narrative that tracks the rise ...
bit.ly
June 23, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Despite its shameless marketing, F1: The Movie is a pretty solid summer programmer for F1 fans and uninitiated alike. It's fast, it's slick, it's Brad Pitt being a movie star.
For the DTS crowd: (almost) all your favorites are back!
F1: The Movie: The Review for @thefilmstage.com
bit.ly/46fhbWW
For the DTS crowd: (almost) all your favorites are back!
F1: The Movie: The Review for @thefilmstage.com
bit.ly/46fhbWW
Looking for all my Sundance 2025 coverage in one convenient thread? Of course, you are.
All reviews for @thefilmstage.bsky.social
All reviews for @thefilmstage.bsky.social
February 12, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Looking for all my Sundance 2025 coverage in one convenient thread? Of course, you are.
All reviews for @thefilmstage.bsky.social
All reviews for @thefilmstage.bsky.social
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Molly Gordon traps Logan Lerman in the unsatisfying Sundance premiere Oh, Hi! Read @thekentman.bsky.social's review:
Sundance Review: Oh, Hi! is a Good Time Gone Wrong
You ever tie someone up and then leave them there? Me either. But it sure makes an interesting inciting incident for a movie. Something much more relatable is the romantic getaway––an important milest...
thefilmstage.com
February 10, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Molly Gordon traps Logan Lerman in the unsatisfying Sundance premiere Oh, Hi! Read @thekentman.bsky.social's review:
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In #MagicFarm, Amalia Ulman takes aim at hipster media and the eccentric characters that gravitate towards it.
Read @thekentman.bsky.social's Sundance review:
Read @thekentman.bsky.social's Sundance review:
Sundance Review: Magic Farm Finds Chloë Sevigny Lost in Argentina
Remember Vice News? It was like CNN with neck tattoos and no 401K. The now-defunct outlet sent its platoon of journalists (who could have moonlighted as American Apparel models) all over the globe to ...
thefilmstage.com
February 10, 2025 at 1:53 PM
In #MagicFarm, Amalia Ulman takes aim at hipster media and the eccentric characters that gravitate towards it.
Read @thekentman.bsky.social's Sundance review:
Read @thekentman.bsky.social's Sundance review:
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In Peter Hujar's Day, Ira Sachs forges great cinematic material from Ben Whishaw and Rebecca Hall having a conversation.
Read @thekentman.bsky.social's Sundance review:
Read @thekentman.bsky.social's Sundance review:
Sundance Review: Ira Sachs’ Peter Hujar’s Day Blends Documentary with Performance to Consider the Artist’s Life
When I look at Peter Hujar’s portrait of poet Allen Ginsburg, taken on December 18, 1974, it’s strikingly nonchalant. Ginsberg is standing on the sidewalk, one hand in pocket and the other looped thro...
thefilmstage.com
January 30, 2025 at 5:47 PM
In Peter Hujar's Day, Ira Sachs forges great cinematic material from Ben Whishaw and Rebecca Hall having a conversation.
Read @thekentman.bsky.social's Sundance review:
Read @thekentman.bsky.social's Sundance review:
Just when you thought this saga couldn't get any stupider.
January 30, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Just when you thought this saga couldn't get any stupider.
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Josh O'Connor gives an emotionally fragile performance in Max Walker-Silverman's achingly hopeful second feature #Rebuilding.
Read @thekentman.bsky.social's Sundance review:
Read @thekentman.bsky.social's Sundance review:
Sundance Review: Rebuilding is a Somber Reflection on the Importance of Hope
We can all feel lonely. Even if we’re constantly surrounded by people, we can find ourselves detached or isolated—lost in our own minds. For some, that feeling is brought on by devastation. The kind t...
thefilmstage.com
January 28, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Josh O'Connor gives an emotionally fragile performance in Max Walker-Silverman's achingly hopeful second feature #Rebuilding.
Read @thekentman.bsky.social's Sundance review:
Read @thekentman.bsky.social's Sundance review:
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Sentimental without being cloying, The Ballad of Wallis Island strums a charming story of moving on. Read @thekentman.bsky.social's Sundance review:
Sundance Review: The Ballad of Wallis Island Strums a Charming Story of Moving On
You know when you hear a song and it transports you back to an era or a memory or a moment? It’s this involuntary mental reflex that can be marvelous, painful, or some combination of the two; all inte...
thefilmstage.com
January 26, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Sentimental without being cloying, The Ballad of Wallis Island strums a charming story of moving on. Read @thekentman.bsky.social's Sundance review:
There is no way this kid has ever actually been this dirty.
January 14, 2025 at 11:59 PM
There is no way this kid has ever actually been this dirty.
Jaques Audiard is not gay. He's just French.
Like does he work for Netflix what the fuck man lmao
January 8, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Jaques Audiard is not gay. He's just French.