brendan @brendanjohnanthony.bsky.social · 30/09/2026boxd.it/gyZpzhboxd.itA ★★★★ review of Sense and Sensibility (2026)I came for Daisy Edgar-Jones, I stayed for Marianne (not that one). 000
brendan @brendanjohnanthony.bsky.social · 30/09/2026#nw: sense and sensibility dir. georgia oakley, starring daisy edgar-jones and esmé creed-miles 100
brendan @brendanjohnanthony.bsky.social · 05/09/2026i accidentally answered the door with these on 020
brendan @brendanjohnanthony.bsky.social · 04/08/2026do you ever start a project and then simply want to die 130
brendan @brendanjohnanthony.bsky.social · 27/07/2026static.klipy.comKneecap IrelandALT: Kneecap Ireland 010
brendan @brendanjohnanthony.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Get to know your oomfs! Name: Brendan Age: 29 Zodiac Sign: Gemini Birthday: 17th June Favourite Artists: Michael Jackson, Gracie Abrams, Kneecap, The Cranberries Country: Scotland Dream Job: Film critic Favourite Colour: 🟢 Favourite Season: Winter Birth Year: 1997 120
brendan @brendanjohnanthony.bsky.social · 25/07/2026boxd.it/aspzbvboxd.itA ★★★★★ review of The Fantastic 4: First Steps (2025)There is something sacred in returning to characters from your childhood, a time you thought was buried, something silly in how much you still care. The Fantastic Four: First Steps is not simply nosta... 010
brendan @brendanjohnanthony.bsky.social · 25/07/2026brendanjohnanthony.substack.com/p/the-fantas... 100
brendan @brendanjohnanthony.bsky.social · 25/07/2026'𝘼 𝙢𝙤𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙬𝙤𝙪𝙡𝙙 𝙢𝙤𝙫𝙚 𝙝𝙚𝙖𝙫𝙚𝙣 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙝 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙘𝙝𝙞𝙡𝙙.' The Fantastic Four: First Steps one year on… the first superheroes I loved, and the ones still teaching me how to. ➃ 100
brendan @brendanjohnanthony.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Love Is a Losing Game is lament painted in mascara, Back to Black regret whispered into empty bottles… so allow her memory to be a love song forged in heartache, because Amy Winehouse was never polite, she was poetry, she was pain with a melody, and she still sings, forevermore. 000
brendan @brendanjohnanthony.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Amy will never really vanish, however, she is still here, laughing in the wrong moment, loving too hard, an echo of the voice you have on repeat in your mind because it makes you feel less alone… the hauntingly beautiful reminder of a voice that once filled that macabre silence. 100
brendan @brendanjohnanthony.bsky.social · 23/07/2026That wild, aching girlhood overflowing into womanhood… in reaching for Amy, the world perhaps only grasped her silhouette, but when she sings, you forget how to breathe, witnessing the ghost of your own grief within her, and that was Amy, a girl vanishing while everyone watches. 100
brendan @brendanjohnanthony.bsky.social · 23/07/2026And that soul was delicate, and it was furious, screaming into the void with those ethereal eyeliner eyes, laughing as though Amy understood that it would all end too soon. Humanity witnessed merely an outline of her enigmatic life, and her voice should deafen your beating heart. 100
brendan @brendanjohnanthony.bsky.social · 23/07/2026A soul in infinite dance with contradiction, a swagger that barely hid the hurt beneath… the truth of Amy might be too much, but she was forever too much, too rough, too loving, too loud, too fragile, and to mourn her is to mourn it all, she was just Amy, and she was iridescent. 100
brendan @brendanjohnanthony.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Fifteen years on… a soul who sang as though she had already lived too long to be polite about her pain. Amy Winehouse was becoming a myth, but she was more than a myth, she was human, and all she wanted to do with her gift, was fill her macabre silence, and now it fills mine. 🖤 110
brendan @brendanjohnanthony.bsky.social · 22/07/2026i wrote 1225 words on the odyssey, and if you were to read it, zeus’ law will forever be upheld between us boxd.it/fjfuS9boxd.itA ★★★★★ review of The Odyssey (2026)There is a duality to violence, the finite moment where a sword is lowered, and the infinity where it rages through bloodlines, kingdoms, song… a nomadic pliage of new souls long after the men respons... 000
brendan @brendanjohnanthony.bsky.social · 21/07/2026#TheOdyssey: The Macabre Odyssey of Man Declaring Itself the Victor Under the Judgement of the Gods ★★★★★ It was a song of all the promises I failed to keep. And it told me I don't really want to go home. boxd.it/fjfuS9 020
brendan @brendanjohnanthony.bsky.social · 08/07/2026#nw the invite (2026) with no trailer or synopsis knowledge whatsoever 100
brendan @brendanjohnanthony.bsky.social · 07/07/2026only i could walk into a kilt fitting and walk out with the original doctor who the complete first series box set 100
brendan @brendanjohnanthony.bsky.social · 28/06/2026starting to wish my local theatre put the year on their tickets because this is going to take a ✨LONG✨ time to organise 010
brendan @brendanjohnanthony.bsky.social · 28/06/2026shaking my head while i like these posts to support you so people know i do NOT agree with 010
brendan @brendanjohnanthony.bsky.social · 27/06/2026this has been the longest i have gone without consistently writing since… well, this decadestatic.klipy.comSpongebob Writing with a PencilALT: Spongebob Writing with a Pencil 010
brendan @brendanjohnanthony.bsky.social · 27/06/2026scotland his wun the world cup and it stuys it ma hoose 010
brendan @brendanjohnanthony.bsky.social · 27/06/2026please do not go to the theatre if you are ill, especially if you will obnoxiously cough and splutter the entire time, because people (me) WILL get ill 010
brendan @brendanjohnanthony.bsky.social · 26/06/2026‘𝙔𝙤𝙪’𝙧𝙚 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙢𝙤𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙢𝙚, 𝙪𝙣𝙧𝙖𝙫𝙚𝙡𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙤 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙛𝙪𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚.’ Oh, Rao… another #Supergirl viewing and subsequent unravelling of my soul is calling to me. Milly Alcock, I ✨will✨ be suing for emotional damages— wonderfully eviscerating.static.klipy.comSupergirl 2026ALT: Supergirl 2026 020
brendan @brendanjohnanthony.bsky.social · 26/06/2026well… there goes my plan to buy the sword from supergirl 010
brendan @brendanjohnanthony.bsky.social · 20/06/2026And I return, forevermore, to the effervescence of Florence Pugh, crowned in the flowers of #Midsommar, oscillating through the grief and joy of an impossible smile. There is no still in film that haunts me more, it is unbearable... and it is beautiful. 🌞 boxd.it/eS2r8Xboxd.itA ★★★★★ review of Midsommar (2019)The aurora of Midsummer cries for the finest of film history, and I offer, not horror, but a requiem of grief painted in the meadows of Midsommar, the torment of sunlight blooming upon a girl crowned ... 010
brendan @brendanjohnanthony.bsky.social · 20/06/2026I return, to #Midsommar, in the summer light, the ritual of witnessing its own ceremony, finding myself undone all over again. Every time it finds new ways to eviscerate you. I thought it was a horror, once... now it feels like a lament for the haunting beauty of beginning again. 110
brendan @brendanjohnanthony.bsky.social · 20/06/2026People were kind, but kindness is not always witness. Grief confines, and I long with Dani for a soul to hold even an echo of that with me. #Midsommar is a fantasy of witness, and that is why it haunts, a scream echoed back, to be seen in devastation, even if by the wrong family. 100
brendan @brendanjohnanthony.bsky.social · 20/06/2026I feel the weight of my own silences within #Midsommar, the moments where grief felt unshareable, when my mother died, and I was hunted by the kind of silence that consumes existence, and within its depth, the same ritualised despair that Dani dances through, a grief without end. 100
brendan @brendanjohnanthony.bsky.social · 20/06/2026That longing within grief, the suffocating isolation of a woman with an immeasurable pain that is invisible even to those closest to her... grief is transformation, the horror of #Midsommar is not the terror, but the seduction of being held in it, because the terror is belonging. 100
brendan @brendanjohnanthony.bsky.social · 20/06/2026Florence Pugh crowned in flowers, suffocating beneath her own radiance in that final shot of #Midsommar, the smile of salvation and annihilation, she has been witnessed, but the cost is unimaginable, and yet, the true horror is in the part of your soul that recognises its relief. 100
brendan @brendanjohnanthony.bsky.social · 20/06/2026#Midsommar is contemporary film at the height of immorality… Midsommarstång, Florence Pugh incandescent in white, her laughter and delirium in a dance with empowerment and manipulation, your soul bound to Dani in this world without escape, until you are left standing on nothing. 100
brendan @brendanjohnanthony.bsky.social · 20/06/2026The grief of #Midsommar is not chaotic, there is an almost choreography. every cry mirrored as though loss itself must be confined in ritual, an unsettling collective event of horror dressed as harmony, where suffering absorbs into tradition, until even atrocity feels inevitable. 100
brendan @brendanjohnanthony.bsky.social · 20/06/2026That first sacrifice, ritual as macabre grandeur... there is no release here, for Dani, for you, no shadows to soften the witness, everything is illuminated by the blinding clarity of the cruel sun. Within horror, the shadows are shield, within #Midsommar, the light is merciless. 100
brendan @brendanjohnanthony.bsky.social · 20/06/2026That lingering evisceration of Florence Pugh is not only her cries that tear through #Midsommar with biblical force, it is the quiet moments where she lets grief cascade, transcending her body into an instrument of mourning, both involuntary and eternal: grief dark as the cosmos. 100
brendan @brendanjohnanthony.bsky.social · 20/06/2026The opening suffocation of grief #Midsommar burdens you with is almost unbearable to witness, every time, like being smothered by silence, and when Dani breaks, the harrowing cries of Florence Pugh are less acting than exorcism, juxtaposing with the beautiful score in its lament. 100
brendan @brendanjohnanthony.bsky.social · 20/06/2026'It's funny, the day you lose someone isn't the worst. At least you've got something to do. It's all the days they stay dead.' #Midsommar is not a fable of the surviving, but simply, the aftermath, that paralytic vacancy within the unimaginable task of enduring the seconds after. 100
brendan @brendanjohnanthony.bsky.social · 20/06/2026The wonder within Florence Pugh is she does not paint #Midsommar in fragility, not truly, that implies something will shatter... she leads you through devastation into something both terrible and transcendent, and you follow because her pain feels like something you already know. 100
brendan @brendanjohnanthony.bsky.social · 20/06/2026Florence Pugh is the finest actor of her generation… simply, ethereal. I am eternally asphyxiated in the way she holds grief as a storm beneath those celestial eyes, the unyielding rawness that makes Dani Ardor less a character in #Midsommar, than the invocation of grief itself. 100
