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Bryan Loomis

@bryanwhatapic.bsky.social
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Self-proclaimed Fun Uncle of Filmsky. I watch too many movies. I write film reviews for ScreenAge Wasteland and host the What a Picture Podcast. whatapicturepod.com and letterboxd.com/bryan_whatapic

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Raf Stitt @rafstitt.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Early thoughts about #TIFF2026 from myself and @bryanwhatapic.bsky.social More coverage coming soon for @sawasteland.bsky.social youtu.be/9K4cmlouCO0?...
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Wasteland After Dark | TIFF 2026 Recap
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Cinema Field Guide @cinemafieldguide.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Our first episode is live! You'll be introduced to your hosts Bryan and Felicia, and we'll give you a break down of what New German Cinema is and why we're interested in the movement. Available wherever you listen to your podcasts! (links below)
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Raf Stitt @rafstitt.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Fun convo with @bryanwhatapic.bsky.social @val-more.bsky.social @romonacomet.bsky.social about the writing process for @sawasteland.bsky.social youtu.be/DVElDvOh7Ik?...
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Wasteland After Dark | Drinking, Swearing, Writing Reviews, Screenagers Tell All in Premiere Episode
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Bryan Loomis @bryanwhatapic.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Slow Cinema crowd: keep an eye out for this one. It's good
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Jason A. Christian @jasonachristian.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Guys, this is possibly my favorite episode yet. We discussed a film that is criminally underseen, one of my favorite films of all time: Letter Never Sent (1959). If you are even a little bit curious about socialist realist cinema, check this episode out. coldwarcinema.com/s2-ep-11-let...
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Bryan Loomis @bryanwhatapic.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Josephine, the darling of this year's Sundance Film Festival, made me get all philosophical. Review for @sawasteland.bsky.social screenagewasteland.com/josephine-20...
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'Josephine' (2026) Review | Sundance Film Festival - ScreenAge Wasteland
Reading Time: 3 minutesJosephine, Beth de Araújo’s sophomore feature, follows an 8-year-old girl (Mason Reeves) who experiences something…
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Bryan Loomis @bryanwhatapic.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Ha-chan, Shake Your Booty! smooths over its plot contrivances with style and humor, while giving its theme of moving on after losing a partner the breathing room and nuance it needs. screenagewasteland.com/ha-chan-shak...
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'Ha-chan, Shake Your Booty!' (2026) Review | Sundance Film Festival - ScreenAge Wasteland
Reading Time: 3 minutesIt’s okay to be messy. That’s life, you know? Ha-chan, Shake Your Booty!‘s titular Ha-chan…
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Bryan Loomis @bryanwhatapic.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Nobody's gonna smother ME with a pillow. I could breathe right through that shit
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Raf Stitt @rafstitt.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Me and some @sawasteland.bsky.social pals talking about what will be the most essential movies from 2025 youtu.be/RwIdSKPlRWk?...
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What Are the Most Essential Movies of 2025? | The Canon Podcast
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Bryan Loomis @bryanwhatapic.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
More than half of my daughter's class is sick with the flu. This is like Weapons all over again
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ScreenAge Wasteland @sawasteland.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Bryan’s Five Favorite Films of 2025 (This article is part of our Best of 2025 series.) I'm more and more convinced that every year is a good year for movies if you know where to look. And increasingly, I'm finding myself looking outside of Hollywood to find the really good stuff. Not that it was…
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Bryan’s Five Favorite Films of 2025
(This article is part of our Best of 2025 series.) I'm more and more convinced that every year is a good year for movies if you know where to look. And increasingly, I'm finding myself looking outside of Hollywood to find the really good stuff. Not that it was all that bad a year for Hollywood, either - I thought all of…
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Bryan Loomis @bryanwhatapic.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Wrote about my five favorite films of 2025 for ScreenAge Wasteland! If you've seen all five you're super cool screenagewasteland.com/five-favorit...
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Bryan's Five Favorite Films of 2025
Reading Time: 4 minutes(This article is part of our Best of 2025 series.) I’m more and more convinced…
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Bryan Loomis @bryanwhatapic.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
My review of one of the year's best films, Sentimental Value, for ScreenAge Wasteland. screenagewasteland.com/sentimental-...
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'Sentimental Value' (2025) Review - ScreenAge Wasteland
Reading Time: 4 minutesA couple weeks ago, while discussing method acting and Marlon Brando with The New York…
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Bryan Loomis @bryanwhatapic.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Kids from 0-1 and 93+ really got fucked over by The Christmas Song
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Raf Stitt @rafstitt.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Let's Talk About 'The Thin Man' - featuring the one and only @whatapicturepod.com open.spotify.com/episode/0g9I...
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Let's Talk About 'The Thin Man' (1934)
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Bryan Loomis @bryanwhatapic.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
I'll take my seat atop the Brooklyn Bridge with a coke and a bag of chips to watch a thousand lemmings plummet just because the first one slipped
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Bryan Loomis @bryanwhatapic.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Train dreams? Trains can do that?
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Bryan Loomis @bryanwhatapic.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Yeah the jump scares in Weapons are good but what about when Jesse Plemons says "YouTube scholars" in Bugonia
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Bryan Loomis @bryanwhatapic.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Recutting House of Dynamite to end with the last five minutes of Dr Strangelove
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Bryan Loomis @bryanwhatapic.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
What a fuckin year for Benicio Del Toro
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Bryan Loomis @bryanwhatapic.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
New PTA is great and the cubs are on the playoffs, we're so back
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Raf Stitt @rafstitt.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Back with the boys @jacobholmes.bsky.social and @whatapicturepod.com talking latest buzz in the Oscars race www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nphh...
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Major Festival Shakeups See One Battle After Another's Oscars 2026 Stock Rise | Poll Position S1E4
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Bryan Loomis @bryanwhatapic.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Everybody is seeing obaa and I have to wait until tomorrow
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a man is standing in front of a red doghouse
Alt: Michael cera Charlie Brown walk
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Bryan Loomis @bryanwhatapic.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Review up for the new restoration of Four Nights of a Dreamer. screenagewasteland.com/four-nights-...
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'Four Nights of a Dreamer' (1971) Review - ScreenAge Wasteland
Bryan Loomis reviews Janus Films' new restoration of Robert Bresson’s tenth feature film, Four Nights of a Dreamer.
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Bryan Loomis @bryanwhatapic.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
fit check for my napalm era
Robert Duvall in Apocalypse Now
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ScreenAge Wasteland @sawasteland.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
The Canon Podcast | ‘The Wizard of Oz’ (1939) We're excited to announce ScreenAge Wasteland's The Canon: An Essential Movies Watchlist is back for Season 6. Everyone's favorite movie podcast returns to discuss why The Wizard of Oz is a classic. We hope you enjoy listening, screenagers! Episode 90:…
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The Canon Podcast | ‘The Wizard of Oz’ (1939)
We're excited to announce ScreenAge Wasteland's The Canon: An Essential Movies Watchlist is back for Season 6. Everyone's favorite movie podcast returns to discuss why The Wizard of Oz is a classic. We hope you enjoy listening, screenagers! Episode 90: The Wizard of Oz (1939) Follow the Canon brick road! Season 6 is off and running with an absolute classic. SAW contributor Jacob Holmes joins Raf on a wonderful trip to they magical land of Oz.
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Bryan Loomis @bryanwhatapic.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
The only conspiracy theory I believe is that Rubik's cubes are unsolvable and anyone who claims to solve them is actively trying to trick you
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Bryan Loomis @bryanwhatapic.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
The Venice documentary lineup is every bit as interesting and packed as the Venice competition lineup, which is quite good
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Bryan Loomis @bryanwhatapic.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
You should never give your phone number out to people because you never know when they might decide to become a real estate agent
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Bryan Loomis @bryanwhatapic.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Thinking about that one shot from Ordet again www.criterion.com/current/post...
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Henning Bendtsen, 1925–2011
Danish cinematographer Henning Bendtsen—whose career stretched from the 1940s to 1991, with his final film, Lars von Trier’s Europa—has died at the age of eighty-five. Bendtsen is best known, perhaps,...
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Bryan Loomis @bryanwhatapic.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Some thoughts on Dr. Strangelove and the end of the world. boxd.it/aft9Ab
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A ★★★★★ review of Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
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Jason A. Christian @jasonachristian.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
New episode of @coldwarcinema.com just dropped! I'm pretty proud of this one, so please do give it a listen.
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Bryan Loomis @bryanwhatapic.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
On this the hottest day of summer, it's a great time to read my first writeup for the Thousand Suns project on Do the Right Thing's climax. boxd.it/a5HDwr
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A ★★★★★ review of Do the Right Thing (1989)
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Bryan Loomis @bryanwhatapic.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Starting a new movies project over on Letterboxd, here's a very long explanation boxd.it/a4MX5L
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A review of Paint Drying (2016)
I’ve learned that my brain works in a strange way. This has come to a head recently because Hannah and I wrapped up Season 1 of our podcast, What a Picture, a few months back, where we covered every m...
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Bryan Loomis @bryanwhatapic.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
The only anti-science take I support youtu.be/0t7VhE5koJQ?...
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Bring Back Pluto
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Bryan Loomis @bryanwhatapic.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
On this week's What a Picture, @rafstitt.bsky.social joined us to talk shady business deals, the price of rivets, Michael Cera's surprising hotness, and more. It's Wes Anderson's latest, the Phoenician Scheme!
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What a Picture Podcast
What a Picture is a movie podcast that goes through the Sight and Sound 100 Greatest Films of All Time Critics' Poll week by week and discusses what makes a great film great.
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Bryan Loomis @bryanwhatapic.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
My big bang theory spinoff ideas that could run for 7+ seasons: Old Sheldon Gay Sheldon Two Sheldons Sheldon Pope Jock Sheldon Girl Sheldon
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Bryan Loomis @bryanwhatapic.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
I heard that all the CGI in the new lilo and stitch movie is actually hand-painted watercolor, can anyone confirm
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Raf Stitt @rafstitt.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Another fun Poll Position vid. Shoutout to @jacobholmes.bsky.social for having me and @whatapicturepod.com on to chat Cannes reactions youtu.be/l7vulDJQE3k?...
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Poll Position: Cannes Sentimental Value win Best Picture at the Oscars?
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Bryan Loomis @bryanwhatapic.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Every team needs a leader, a guy who does machines, a guy who's cool but rude, and a guy who just parties
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Bryan Loomis @bryanwhatapic.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
They used to give Best Supporting Actor to Kevin Kline for A Fish Called Wanda in this country
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Bryan Loomis @bryanwhatapic.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
This week on What a Picture, I had Seth Troyer and Marc Dottavio join me to talk David Cronenberg's latest, The Shrouds, and how it fits into his filmography as a whole. Check it out! www.whatapicturepod.com/podcast/epis...
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What a Picture Podcast
What a Picture is a movie podcast that goes through the Sight and Sound 100 Greatest Films of All Time Critics' Poll week by week and discusses what makes a great film great.
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Bryan Loomis @bryanwhatapic.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Always great to talk about essential movies with @rafstitt.bsky.social !
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Bryan Loomis @bryanwhatapic.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Intermittently muttering under my breath *I didn't have this on my bingo card*
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Bryan Loomis @bryanwhatapic.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Grand Tour has the single best moment of any film I've seen this year
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Bryan Loomis @bryanwhatapic.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
This episode is in the bag - the Black Bag, to be exact. That was really dumb but I hope you'll still listen to our episode on Steven Soderbergh's latest on the What a Picture feed: www.whatapicturepod.com/podcast/epis...
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What a Picture Podcast
What a Picture is a movie podcast that goes through the Sight and Sound 100 Greatest Films of All Time Critics' Poll week by week and discusses what makes a great film great.
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Bryan Loomis @bryanwhatapic.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
And two in competition at Cannes! O Canneser
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Bryan Loomis @bryanwhatapic.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Couldn't be me up at 5am for the Cannes announcement
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Bryan Loomis @bryanwhatapic.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
I count four Josh o Connor movies presumably coming out this year and they all sound good. It is the year o connor
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Bryan Loomis @bryanwhatapic.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
We recorded video for the latest episode of What a Picture and got it up on our new Youtube channel - which is great because you get to see the facial expressions that these four Zulawski movies elicited from us.
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Possession and Beyond: Four Films by Andrzej Żuławski (with Seth & Ben Vargas)
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