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Radheyan Simonpillai @justsayrad.bsky.social · 1d

So who told Derek Cianfrance to lighten up? www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/film/re...

Review: Channing Tatum hits a cinematic ceiling with charming but manipulative Roofman

The movie, based on a true story, has to play with the truth to keep its lead character likeable

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Radheyan Simonpillai @justsayrad.bsky.social · 5d

Talking the disappointment of The Life of a Showgirl (and Actually Romantic, especially) for the pop culture column. www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

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Radheyan Simonpillai @justsayrad.bsky.social · 5d

A good read on The Life of a Showgirl. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...

Taylor Swift’s Charli xcx hit job misses the point – and underscores her tedious obsession with conflict | Laura Snapes

Sixteen months after Charli used Brat to air her anxieties about Swift, the US star’s graceless response is a missed opportunity for growth – and betrays her vengeful side

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Radheyan Simonpillai @justsayrad.bsky.social · 10d

One more time on One Battle After Another: its beautifully messy politics, towering artistry, where it stands in PTA's work and how I hope it will be a gateway drug back to Inherent Vice. Listen here: www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

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Radheyan Simonpillai @justsayrad.bsky.social · 11d

Went longer on One Battle After Another on my CBC pop culture column. www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

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Radheyan Simonpillai @justsayrad.bsky.social · 12d

This was a really great conversation on One Battle After Another, digging into its radical and sexual politics, with @elamin.bsky.social, El Jones and @jacksonweaver.bsky.social. www.youtube.com/live/5_r2lj2...

One Battle After Another, and the release of the thriller series The Savant is delayed

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Radheyan Simonpillai @justsayrad.bsky.social · 13d

Love that One Battle After Another stars Chase Infiniti.

Too fitting for a chase movie obsessed with time - how nothing changes over time, how its main character can't crack a secret password that revolves around time, how the only way to measure time passing is through her character!

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Radheyan Simonpillai @justsayrad.bsky.social · 13d

My two favourite movies of the year are in conversation with each other in interesting ways. That's a conversation for another day.

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Radheyan Simonpillai @justsayrad.bsky.social · 13d

I'm thinking you'll love it. Kind of a best of both PTAs scenario.

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Radheyan Simonpillai @justsayrad.bsky.social · 13d

Very common divide. For me, The Master, Inherent Vice and Phantom Thread aren't just his best movies but among my fave films of the past 30 years.

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Radheyan Simonpillai @justsayrad.bsky.social · 13d

Introduced my teen son to Inherent Vice this week and he gave it a 7/10, which I think is a perfectly fine first response.

Now to get him to watch it again, which is when he'll realize Inherent Vice is so sublime that it exists on a transcendent spectrum where rational numbers don't belong.

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Radheyan Simonpillai @justsayrad.bsky.social · 16d

I don't know that I ever gave anything five stars in The Guardian before. The Lowdown deserves. tinyurl.com/4kfxrdhp

The Lowdown review – Ethan Hawke is terrific in playful neo-noir series

Reservation Dogs creator Sterlin Harjo’s excellent crime caper has the actor on top form as a journalist taking down Tulsa’s bad guys

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Radheyan Simonpillai @justsayrad.bsky.social · 16d

I don't know that I ever gave anything five stars in The Guardian before. The Lowdown deserves. tinyurl.com/4kfxrdhp

The Lowdown review – Ethan Hawke is terrific in playful neo-noir series

Reservation Dogs creator Sterlin Harjo’s excellent crime caper has the actor on top form as a journalist taking down Tulsa’s bad guys

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Radheyan Simonpillai @justsayrad.bsky.social · 18d

We're definitely in agreement on best.

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Radheyan Simonpillai @justsayrad.bsky.social · 18d

5 years ago, I wrote about how PTA rankings get me in my feelings, because Inherent Vice rarely gets its due among Anderson's best. It's an achingly beautiful & melancholic tragedy, which I think is superior to One Battle After Another (which I also really love). www.gamesradar.com/inherent-vic...

Is it just me, or is Inherent Vice the most underrated film of the past 10 years?

A Total Film writer on why it's a mystery that PTA's movie doesn't get more love...

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Radheyan Simonpillai @justsayrad.bsky.social · 20d

Kogonada, Colon Farrell and Margot Robbie make it hard to completely dismiss what they're up to in A Big Bold Beautiful Journey. www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/film/re...

Review: Margot Robbie and Colin Farrell lead A Big Bold Beautiful Journey to nowhere in particular

Robbie’s and Farrell’s characters say and do things we rarely believe, but we go along with them anyway, because the stars make things so cozy

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Barry Hertz @hertzbarry.bsky.social · 21d

Hate to admit, but Warner Bros. was right not to take ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER to festivals. It would have thoroughly crushed any other film, instantly rendering the rest of the programming null and void. Rather considerate of PTA to let everyone else breathe for a moment or two.

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Radheyan Simonpillai @justsayrad.bsky.social · 22d

Not like the world didn't already know but ... www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, says UN commission of inquiry

Report cites scale of killings and aid blockages and accuses Benjamin Netanyahu of inciting commission of genocide

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Radheyan Simonpillai @justsayrad.bsky.social · 23d

Best American movie of the year. Hoping the fun action and humour and contemporary relevance make One Battle After Another the gateway drug to Inherent Vice, which is still the more brilliant and emotional version of this story.

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Radheyan Simonpillai @justsayrad.bsky.social · 23d

One Battle After Another: Remember when people said this was gonna be a mess. 😅 (Also, updated PTA ranking) boxd.it/Fi4pK

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Radheyan Simonpillai @justsayrad.bsky.social · 25d

The Voice of Hind Rajab: As devastating as you'd expected. There's also really smart and heartfelt filmmaking (like moments when actors just listen and process the audio from real life) in a film mapping out the different ways people helplessly push back against calculated indifference. #TIFF50

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Radheyan Simonpillai @justsayrad.bsky.social · 25d

There's a whole TIFF in 12 playlist helping you plan your final festival weekend y'all.
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Radheyan Simonpillai @justsayrad.bsky.social · 25d

On @ctvyourmorning.bsky.social talking movies that made a splash at #TIFF50 and who's gonna dig the final Downton Abbey and The Long Walk. youtu.be/WzQbXo-7qt0?...

Movie Reviews With Rad: Sydney Sweeney Stars in “Christy” | Your Morning

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Radheyan Simonpillai @justsayrad.bsky.social · 27d

Yesterday's TIFF in 12: Teri and I get into the Canadian highlights. youtu.be/rZkQfbcdlhc?...

Blue Heron among this year's Canadian stand-outs at TIFF

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SJFB @mamacita.bsky.social · 27d

Thanks to @justsayrad.bsky.social for offering insight into this screening.

Radheyan Simonpillai @justsayrad.bsky.social · 28d

Spoke about how the Barry Avrich movie at TIFF (The Road Between Us) is ultimately here to manufacture consent for genocide.
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TIFF in 12: The Road Between Us - a controversial film gets its world premiere

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