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Lamar Kukuk @lamarkukuk.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Finally saw Digger for myself and, wow! What an original and thought-provoking movie, as much about the role the arts play in our lives as our collision course with environmental doom (although it's very much about both). #filmsky

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Lamar Kukuk @lamarkukuk.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

#InTheMouthOfMadness is one of the most unique horror movies ever made, and John Carpenter's last masterpiece. Hadn't seen it in a while before Regal theaters showed it today, and I was struck by how Sutter Cane's books now play as a metaphor for the transformative effect reality TV had on our world

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Lamar Kukuk @lamarkukuk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

@rifftrax.com Can you tell me what time of day the MST3K Rifftrax Experiments videos will become available? Planning an afternoon Deathsport watch party for 10/23, just want to make sure I'm not too early.

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Lamar Kukuk @lamarkukuk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

14 years ago, the #TexasRangers played Game 162 with a chance to win the division and an #Athletics win finished them off. Today, an A's win over the Astros while the Rangers beat the Twins is the only chance they've got. Baseball's funny that way...

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Lamar Kukuk @lamarkukuk.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Kicked off the #60thAnniversay #StarTrek theatrical run last night with #TheMotionPicture. It's long, boring and a blatant ripoff of 2 TOS episodes, but it also includes perhaps the most important subplot ever for any of these characters, Spock finally coming to peace with his dual nature. #filmsky

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Lamar Kukuk @lamarkukuk.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Buddy is quite a unique creation, and intriguing deconstruction of kids' TV, a potent parable about growing up with abusive authority figures, and a wild bit of candy colored nightmare world building. The best year I can remember for original low-budget horror rolls on. #filmsky #BuddyMovie

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Lamar Kukuk @lamarkukuk.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

#CoyoteVsAcme somehow did live up to the hype, delightfully remixing #LooneyTunes antics with a story whose resonance sneaks up on you until I'm crying about the Road Runner! Three cheers for Ketchup Entertainment for getting this out into the world! #filmsky

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Lamar Kukuk @lamarkukuk.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Just saw #ItEnds as the Regal #MondayMysteryMovie and... wow! Never seen another movie quite like it. Totally captures so much of how I've been feeling about the world lately. #filmsky

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Lamar Kukuk @lamarkukuk.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

*SPOILER ALERT* in #TheEndOfOakStreet test audience objections seem to get addressed in real time, as a character saves one person and leaves everyone else to die, followed immediately by obvious reshoots where other characters addess an interviewer to say "we too were saved." #filmsky

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Lamar Kukuk @lamarkukuk.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Really enjoyed #TheBrinkOfWar. The Angel Guild and I probably disagree on many things, but we do have common ground on the kind of movies I wish we saw more of, which they mix in nicely with the more meat & potatoes Angel Studios stuff. Super-excited for Runner next month. #filmsky

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Lamar Kukuk @lamarkukuk.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Reflecting on how incandescent Monica Barbaro is in Will Gluck's fun (if ideologically confused) #OneNightOnly, it occurs to me that the answer to "Where did all the movie stars go?" is "We stopped making romcoms," the genre that most demands pure unfiltered star power to work. #filmsky

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Lamar Kukuk @lamarkukuk.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I saw Obsession a few days after it came out, then again today. I was struck by how it moves from one scene I've been thinking about since I saw it to the next and then it's over. If the old axium is that a movie should have 3 great scenes & no bad ones, this is just all amazing scenes. #filmsky

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Lamar Kukuk @lamarkukuk.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

#MinionsandMonsters is squarely in that Joe Dante lane of highly-referential Looney Tunes kids movie anarchy that I love but tends to fall flat at the box office. For my money, this is the best movie to feature the Minions, and I hope it will find its cult over time. #filmsky

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Lamar Kukuk @lamarkukuk.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

I suspect in a few years, I will love #MastersOfTheUniverse even more than I did tonight. It's so much fun, but slowly reveals real depth, a movie not just to entertain our inner child, but about it too. I can't wait to see it again and give it deeper thought than I imagined needing to. #filmsky

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Lamar Kukuk @lamarkukuk.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

*** #Obsession spoilers to follow *** Everyone assumes Nikki's now headed straight to prison, but if she was awake enough to hear about Ian's billion dollars (which no surviving person knows about), they would pay for one hell of a legal defense. #filmsky #GreatSequelIdea

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Lamar Kukuk @lamarkukuk.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

One thing about #Obsession that people are sleeping on is how the people selling the One Wish Willows are the first great metaphorical movie representation of the corrosive presence of Silicon Valley in our lives. #filmsky

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Lamar Kukuk @lamarkukuk.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

#Obsession is like a gift from Heaven to SAG in its battle against AI, a hit movie built on the thrill of watching an actor work at a level you can't believe you're witnessing. I literally can't say enough about how good #IndeNavarrette is in this movie, and how deeply her work shook me. #filmsky

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Lamar Kukuk @lamarkukuk.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

#TopGunMaverick is one of my favorite movies of this decade, yet I must confess having never seen the original and having no interest in doing so. #filmsky

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Lamar Kukuk @lamarkukuk.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

I've always loved the idea of the #MortalKombat film series, superpowered martial artists doing Enter the Dragon for the fate of the world, but only now, on the 4th try, has #MortalKombat2 told that story to my satisfaction. #filmsky

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Lamar Kukuk @lamarkukuk.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

I'm doing the Regal #MondayMysteryMovie double feature, starting with #Hokum, which you should absolutely see if you get a chance. Brilliant screenplay, and a perfect vehicle for Adam Scott. Sadly, there's a 50-minute gap before the next Mystery is revealed. #filmsky

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Lamar Kukuk @lamarkukuk.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Hot Take: #TheMist is the greatest horror movie of all time. #filmsky

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Lamar Kukuk @lamarkukuk.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

The greatest trick The Devil ever pulled was convincing us other people's opinions of our favorite movies mean anything. #filmsky

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Lamar Kukuk @lamarkukuk.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

#ReduxRedux took me back to that feeling of going to Blockbuster, picking a sci-fi VHS about which I knew almost nothing off the shelf and having it turn out to be really great. Even the guy selling tickets at my theater had never heard of it, so catch this one while you can! #filmsky

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Lamar Kukuk @lamarkukuk.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

There's nothing better than a satisfying surprise, but in its absence, give me a proven cliche over a deflating twist any day. #ColdStorage gets that, leading a great, game cast through plot beats we've all seen before, just never in exactly this combination. I had a very familar blast. #filmsky

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Lamar Kukuk @lamarkukuk.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

As the kids say, Casablanca hits different in 2026. If you haven't seen it lately, especially in a theater, I recommend you check out one of today's special screenings. #filmsky

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Lamar Kukuk @lamarkukuk.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

I loved #IronLung more than I understood it, but wow was that ever a hell of a thing to see in a theater! Didn't know Markiplier or the game on the way in, but he's certainly both an actor & filmmaker to watch. #filmsky

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Lamar Kukuk @lamarkukuk.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Seeing a revival showing of Titanic with an audience that starts sniffling on "I'm sorry I didn't build you a stronger ship" and doesn't stop until Celine Dion's done is its own kind of immersive 3D experience. Theaters rule. #filmsky

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Lamar Kukuk @lamarkukuk.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

This weekend's #BoxOffice saw 7 different movies make $10m or more for the first time since the pandemic, and the highest grosses for the titles finishing in the #6, 7, 8, 9 AND 10 positions since we reopened. It's easier said than done, but a diverse set of good movies still draws a crowd #filmsky

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Lamar Kukuk @lamarkukuk.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

#Spirited is probably my favorite streaming movie (certainly the only one whose soundtrack I own on vinyl), and the holiday season isn't complete without me giving it a watch. Now those songs will be in my head for at least a week! #filmsky

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Lamar Kukuk @lamarkukuk.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Last night I watched the #Sorcerer episode of #StrangerThings5 and was struck by how another thing we've lost in the way most shows drop on streaming is the glory of a blow-out Fall Finale. I'm so excited to watch the Duffer Brothers land this plane in a movie theater on 1/1/26. #StrangerThings

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Lamar Kukuk @lamarkukuk.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Happy 100th birthday to Dick Van Dyke! Seriously, has there been any science done on why all the 40's-60's TV comedians lived so long? I think there's something there!

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Lamar Kukuk @lamarkukuk.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

The point of Tarantino's self-imposed 10-movie limit was so no one would ever see him as a pathetic old shadow of his young cool self. Sadly, he didn't anticipate podcasts would give him a platform to punch down and rage at the clouds while probably leaving many great movies unmade. #filmsky

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Lamar Kukuk @lamarkukuk.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

#GoodFortune is a pretty incredible movie. The most I've laughed in a theater in years, also gets pretty real about the state of our haves/have nots world. Perfectly cast: could anybody but Keanu have given that performance? #filmsky

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Lamar Kukuk @lamarkukuk.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

#GoodBoy is not just one of the most unique horror movies you'll ever see, but also as true an independent film as you'll ever catch in a theater. Don't dream of not staying for the brief but indespensible post-credits documentary! #filmsky

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Lamar Kukuk @lamarkukuk.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

It is an absolute cinematic crime that #TheLostBus, one of the best movies of the year, did not receive a wider theatrical release. Of all the streaming-ajacent studios, Apple makes the best movies, but seems to have no good sense of which ones deserve theatrical play & which ones don't.

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Lamar Kukuk @lamarkukuk.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

I saw #DeadOfWinter as tonight's Regal #MondayMysteryMovie. it's a great thriller with strong performances by Emma Thompson & especially Judy Greer. The ending just wrecked me. I found myself crying in the bathroom on the way out, which I haven't done in years. Highly recommend. #filmsky

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Lamar Kukuk @lamarkukuk.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

I wish studios would see the most important thing that makes the Conjuring franchise stand out: the same kind of strong heroic protagonists franchises in other genres are built around, not just a returning antagonist structure that doesn't really play for the general audience. #filmsky #boxoffice

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Lamar Kukuk @lamarkukuk.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

So much talk about how #DisneyPlus helped amplify #InsideOut & Moana as franchises last year, I can't help but wonder if new fans also discovered the Conjuring & #FinalDestination franchises on streaming, helping set up the shocking #BoxOffice on new installments. #filmsky

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Lamar Kukuk @lamarkukuk.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

5 years ago today, my local @flagshipcinemas.bsky.social reopened during COVID, and I went to see #NewMutants, my first indoor movie since March. Unwilling to sit with other people I didn't know, I'd stalk seating charts for empty showings & do private rentals with family until Memorial Day #filmsky

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Lamar Kukuk @lamarkukuk.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

No one is talking about how #KPopDemonHunters opening in theaters long after its streaming debut is a significant departure from past Netflix policies, always using theaters to promote upcoming drops. Pretty sure they've never done this before, & I'd love to know why they're doing it now. #BoxOffice

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Lamar Kukuk @lamarkukuk.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

If you're looking for a movie this weekend, let me recommend two I caught as Regal's #MondayMysteryMovie. Relay is a smart 70's-flavored thriller powered by a great Riz Ahmed. And Ron Howard's Eden spins a historical murder mystery into a fun soapy all-star drama about how people pretty much suck.

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Lamar Kukuk @lamarkukuk.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

Lots of movies play at "what if a famous sci-fi franchise was real," but none has ever done it better than the Kaiju Attack docudrama #ShinGodzilla. It's a privilege to see it in a theater again. #filmsky

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Lamar Kukuk @lamarkukuk.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Not only was the @rifftrax.com treatment of Timecop hilarious, but it gave me a chance to see that movie, which I unironically love, in a theater for the first time in 31 years!

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Lamar Kukuk @lamarkukuk.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Thanks to my local revival house, saw #SinginInTheRain for the first time ever. A very funny comedy, not really my kind of musical, but fascinating to see a 1952 movie being nostalgic for the 20's like us talking about Y2K. It's even a jukebox musical; those old-timey songs were already old #filmsky

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Lamar Kukuk @lamarkukuk.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

If Hollywood is ever to get back to pre-COVID box office numbers, they've got to revive comedy as a bankable genre. Saw #TheNakedGun with about a dozen people who laughed at most of the jokes, you don't even need a packed house for other laughing people to be its own kind of 4DX. #filmsky

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Lamar Kukuk @lamarkukuk.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Sue Storm (Vanessa Kirby) has a speech in #FantasticFourFirstSteps that I've waited my whole moviegoing life to hear. Just hate how studio movies use family as a license for selfishness rather than challenging characters to find a way to look out for others while looking out for their own. #filmsky

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Lamar Kukuk @lamarkukuk.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

I don't know that it's possible to make a good movie whose mission statement is to "start a cinematic universe". #IronMan and #ManOfSteel depict events that are the Big Bang of movie universes, but neither of them are trying to sell you a ticket to the next one in the lobby.

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Lamar Kukuk @lamarkukuk.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Why are people having this "why does original animation fail?" conversation like you can't line up stills from the recent flops next to ones from Toy Story, Cars, etc & see they're not remotely the same thing. Selling animation is all about love at first sight with the character designs #filmsky

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Lamar Kukuk @lamarkukuk.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Ballerina struggles with the usual issues of these world building brand extension movies, but that flamethrower battle at the end is one of the coolest fight scenes I've ever seen in a movie #JohnWick #filmsky

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Lamar Kukuk @lamarkukuk.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Caught #KarateKidLegends at a theater in Delaware, the 9th state where I've seen a movie (just 41 to go!). It's not really the movie the ads promise, and went through the weed whacker to get down to 95 minutes, but it was a lot of fun. Few movies have so many scene-stealing side characters. #filmsky

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