Leninhawk
@leninhawk.bsky.social
Mostly concerned about movies and politics. I have a BA in Film Studies. My cat is very poofy. Celluloid Fetishist.
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#JayKelly - Oof, this did not work for me. A film about a a prick who half-heartedly attempts to NOT be a prick by continuing to act like a prick in a slightly different way, lacking any true empathy for those he hurt. Tone-deaf at best.
My review: letterboxd.com/leninhawk/fi...
My review: letterboxd.com/leninhawk/fi...
A ★★ review of Jay Kelly (2025)
Every year there are one or two movies that get critical acclaim and Oscar buzz or other awards consideration that I just cannot fathom why anyone is connecting with them. This year, outside of my obl...
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December 6, 2025 at 4:02 PM
#JayKelly - Oof, this did not work for me. A film about a a prick who half-heartedly attempts to NOT be a prick by continuing to act like a prick in a slightly different way, lacking any true empathy for those he hurt. Tone-deaf at best.
My review: letterboxd.com/leninhawk/fi...
My review: letterboxd.com/leninhawk/fi...
December 5, 2025 at 4:06 PM
December 5, 2025 at 3:30 PM
December 3, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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Watch the first trailer for Ready or Not 2: Here I Come, starring Samara Weaving and Kathryn Newton 🩸
In theaters April 10, 2026.
In theaters April 10, 2026.
December 3, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Watch the first trailer for Ready or Not 2: Here I Come, starring Samara Weaving and Kathryn Newton 🩸
In theaters April 10, 2026.
In theaters April 10, 2026.
#SentimentalValue - While I think "The Worst Person in the World" is far superior, I highly enjoyed this story of a family who are seemingly incapable of connecting with one another without intermediaries.
My review: letterboxd.com/leninhawk/fi...
My review: letterboxd.com/leninhawk/fi...
A ★★★½ review of Sentimental Value (2025)
Hey, kid's gotta learn about "Irreversible" sometime, right? "Sentimental Value" is about a family that seems unable to directly confront their emotions regarding one another, or have direct connectio...
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December 2, 2025 at 3:15 PM
#SentimentalValue - While I think "The Worst Person in the World" is far superior, I highly enjoyed this story of a family who are seemingly incapable of connecting with one another without intermediaries.
My review: letterboxd.com/leninhawk/fi...
My review: letterboxd.com/leninhawk/fi...
#Eternity - A very funny and emotional high-concept film that I found engaged my heart and my brain. Clever and imaginative, made me tear up a couple of times. Very mainstream accessible if you want something that isn't that shitty witch movie.
My review: letterboxd.com/leninhawk/fi...
My review: letterboxd.com/leninhawk/fi...
A ★★★½ review of Eternity (2025)
"Eternity" is a high-concept romantic comedy that takes a basic love triangle narrative and expands it into something deeper and more interesting than we normally get from it. It's also not a typical ...
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November 28, 2025 at 4:24 PM
#Eternity - A very funny and emotional high-concept film that I found engaged my heart and my brain. Clever and imaginative, made me tear up a couple of times. Very mainstream accessible if you want something that isn't that shitty witch movie.
My review: letterboxd.com/leninhawk/fi...
My review: letterboxd.com/leninhawk/fi...
November 28, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Rewatching the faux "Thanksgiving" trailer from "Grindhouse" gets me to 500 films watched in 2025.
November 27, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Rewatching the faux "Thanksgiving" trailer from "Grindhouse" gets me to 500 films watched in 2025.
#WakeUpDeadMan - Less goofy than "Glass Onion" but still funny. Great character work and performance from Josh O'Connell. Works as a murder mystery and a political statement on right-wing weaponization of religion.
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A ★★★½ review of Wake Up Dead Man (2025)
I love how Rian Johnson is using his Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) detective series as a vehicle to attack everything he sees as wrong with present day America. Both "Knives Out" and "Glass Onion" attac...
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November 26, 2025 at 3:29 PM
#WakeUpDeadMan - Less goofy than "Glass Onion" but still funny. Great character work and performance from Josh O'Connell. Works as a murder mystery and a political statement on right-wing weaponization of religion.
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November 21, 2025 at 3:12 PM
#Keeper - An artsy Folk-Horror film that's also a slow burn and includes mild elements of surrealism? Yeah, no wonder normies dislike it. Not sure why people have such a hate boner for Osgood Perkins, but I really liked it.
My very spoilery review: letterboxd.com/leninhawk/fi...
My very spoilery review: letterboxd.com/leninhawk/fi...
A ★★★½ review of Keeper (2025)
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November 15, 2025 at 4:31 PM
#Keeper - An artsy Folk-Horror film that's also a slow burn and includes mild elements of surrealism? Yeah, no wonder normies dislike it. Not sure why people have such a hate boner for Osgood Perkins, but I really liked it.
My very spoilery review: letterboxd.com/leninhawk/fi...
My very spoilery review: letterboxd.com/leninhawk/fi...
November 14, 2025 at 2:59 PM
#TheRunningMan - Would have preferred a different tonal take on the material (full cynical Carpenter or full satirical Verhoeven...or even the "Escape from LA" route), but it's a fun time at the movies. 87 version still better. Oh, and the ending is ASS.
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A ★★★ review of The Running Man (2025)
Edgar Wright always seemed like an odd choice to do a more faithful adaptation of Stephen King's novella "The Running Man" considering Wright was mostly known for his comedic work. Sure, "Last Night i...
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November 14, 2025 at 2:32 PM
#TheRunningMan - Would have preferred a different tonal take on the material (full cynical Carpenter or full satirical Verhoeven...or even the "Escape from LA" route), but it's a fun time at the movies. 87 version still better. Oh, and the ending is ASS.
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November 7, 2025 at 2:50 PM
#PredatorBadlands - Why did they make a film that apes every trend in mainstream studio entertainment which has polluted multiplexes and lowered the bar for what normies expect out of the movies? We deserve better! Don't settle!
My review: letterboxd.com/leninhawk/fi...
My review: letterboxd.com/leninhawk/fi...
A ★★ review of Predator: Badlands (2025)
I'm not disappointed that "Predator: Badlands" is PG-13, nor am I disappointed that it went in a new direction for a Predator story. No, what I am disappointed by is that this is the most Marvel-ass, ...
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November 7, 2025 at 2:32 PM
#PredatorBadlands - Why did they make a film that apes every trend in mainstream studio entertainment which has polluted multiplexes and lowered the bar for what normies expect out of the movies? We deserve better! Don't settle!
My review: letterboxd.com/leninhawk/fi...
My review: letterboxd.com/leninhawk/fi...
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November 6, 2025 at 7:20 PM
#ItWasJustanAccident - Serendipitous bit of timing to see this the day Dick Cheney died. Great film about justice, revenge, morality, the efficacy of tactics in fighting oppression, and how responsible individuals are for systemic evils.
My review: letterboxd.com/leninhawk/fi...
My review: letterboxd.com/leninhawk/fi...
A ★★★★ review of It Was Just an Accident (2025)
I obviously didn't plan it this way, since my ticket was reserved days in advance, but seeing "It Was Just an Accident" on the day Dick Cheney, the biggest cheerleader and spokesperson for the US tort...
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November 5, 2025 at 4:32 PM
#ItWasJustanAccident - Serendipitous bit of timing to see this the day Dick Cheney died. Great film about justice, revenge, morality, the efficacy of tactics in fighting oppression, and how responsible individuals are for systemic evils.
My review: letterboxd.com/leninhawk/fi...
My review: letterboxd.com/leninhawk/fi...
del Toro's #Frankenstein - Wish it was shot on film versus digital, but an interesting take where Victor is an avatar for everything wrong with MANkind in 2025 (sort of a proto-incel) and argues, much like "Superman", that kindness is the real punk rock.
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A ★★★½ review of Frankenstein (2025)
There are some many aspects of Guillermo del Toro's "Frankenstein" that are faithful to the novel, or at least more faithful than most film adaptations are, that I found myself focusing on what was ch...
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November 1, 2025 at 2:47 PM
del Toro's #Frankenstein - Wish it was shot on film versus digital, but an interesting take where Victor is an avatar for everything wrong with MANkind in 2025 (sort of a proto-incel) and argues, much like "Superman", that kindness is the real punk rock.
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letterboxd.com/leninhawk/fi...
October 31, 2025 at 2:13 PM
#Bugonia - One of the few English-language remakes I think improves upon the original, but it still inherits some of the problems I had with "Save the Green Planet!" Very good, but my least fav of Lanthimos's Emma Stone movies.
My review: letterboxd.com/leninhawk/fi...
My review: letterboxd.com/leninhawk/fi...
A ★★★½ review of Bugonia (2025)
Two months ago I watched "Save the Green Planet!" for the first time, and I found it to be a very good movie with muddled messaging. With "Bugonia", I was hoping Yorgos Lanthimos and screenwriter Will...
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October 31, 2025 at 2:14 AM
#Bugonia - One of the few English-language remakes I think improves upon the original, but it still inherits some of the problems I had with "Save the Green Planet!" Very good, but my least fav of Lanthimos's Emma Stone movies.
My review: letterboxd.com/leninhawk/fi...
My review: letterboxd.com/leninhawk/fi...
#DreamEater - Sophomore stumble for The Horror Section as the film features poor dialogue and even worse performances, alongside several formal issues (non-diegetic music? mystery B-roll?) that break the found footage style.
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My review: letterboxd.com/leninhawk/fi...
A ★½ review of Dream Eater (2024)
A certain amount of suspension of disbelief is necessary for most found footage films because at some point it's hard to justify why the characters continue to film. At one in "Dream Eater", Alex (Ale...
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October 29, 2025 at 2:09 PM
#DreamEater - Sophomore stumble for The Horror Section as the film features poor dialogue and even worse performances, alongside several formal issues (non-diegetic music? mystery B-roll?) that break the found footage style.
My review: letterboxd.com/leninhawk/fi...
My review: letterboxd.com/leninhawk/fi...
#AHouseOfDynamite - I am BEGGING Kathryn Bigelow to move away from films about the military and intelligence community. The film is ultimately schlock with a coat of Oscar-bait paint on it. Weirdly outdone by an episode of "Paradise" on Hulu.
My review: letterboxd.com/leninhawk/fi...
My review: letterboxd.com/leninhawk/fi...
A ★★★ review of A House of Dynamite (2025)
I am BEGGING Kathryn Bigelow to move away from films about the military and intelligence community. While I don't think "A House of Dynamite" is propaganda like some detractors are claiming, it does g...
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October 25, 2025 at 3:44 PM
#AHouseOfDynamite - I am BEGGING Kathryn Bigelow to move away from films about the military and intelligence community. The film is ultimately schlock with a coat of Oscar-bait paint on it. Weirdly outdone by an episode of "Paradise" on Hulu.
My review: letterboxd.com/leninhawk/fi...
My review: letterboxd.com/leninhawk/fi...
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Also, in the aftermath of the HFBS situation, I asked Kathy Kennedy if LFL had ever turned in a finished movie script for greenlight to Disney and had it rejected. She said no, this was a first.
October 22, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Also, in the aftermath of the HFBS situation, I asked Kathy Kennedy if LFL had ever turned in a finished movie script for greenlight to Disney and had it rejected. She said no, this was a first.
October 24, 2025 at 2:20 PM