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Lamar Kukuk

@lamarkukuk.bsky.social
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Writer, actor, Texas Rangers fan, avid moviegoer, and amateur box office analyst.

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Lamar Kukuk @lamarkukuk.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
There's a separate argument to be had about what to do about the movements in narrative structure that leave us with a growing number of great movies that are impossible to promote, but for now, I encourage you to ignore the trailer and give Digger a chance. #filmsky
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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 · 28/09/2026
Krysten Ritter!
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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
Because the movies are about getting older and the fact that, yes, the real #StarTrek is the friends you make along the way, they're always interesting to revisit as I age. Spock's journey to becoming comfortable in his own skin is the most... human... part of all of TOS. #StarTrekTheMotionPicture
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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 · 03/09/2026
To go truly random, I LOVED Jack Daugherty.
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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 · 29/06/2026
FX-wise, this is the best of the 50's giant bug movies, even if it might include the most egregious "a 50-foot insect just snuck up behind me!" scene of all 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 · 01/06/2026
Give me plush bots and just take my money!!!
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Lamar Kukuk @lamarkukuk.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Bear knows it's all wrong pretty much the moment there's no easy solution, but he won't take responsibility or admit the problem to anyone else because he thinks he can live with the escalating horrors to hang on to that ever tinier hit of fantasy #obsession #filmsky
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Lamar Kukuk @lamarkukuk.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
This is just one of many bits of compelling subtext in a movie that really GETS the nightmare world of 2026, and is gonna stick with me for a while. #obsession #filmsky
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Lamar Kukuk @lamarkukuk.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Under their influence, Nikki gets hollowed out and replaced with a personality of their creation whose actions claim to be driven by obsessive love but are designed to push everyone around her into conflict and self-destruction. #obsession #filmsky
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Lamar Kukuk @lamarkukuk.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Presenting as ironically friendly hipster/stoners, they sell you a product that gives you a performative parody of what you wanted that is there 24/7 screaming in your ear. And when you complain, their response is to "spitball" how killing yourself would solve the problem. #obsession #filmsky
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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 · 02/03/2026
I love The Monolith Monsters! A perfect sci-fi disaster movie that does not get its due among the Universal classics.
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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 · 04/02/2026
Somebody hook Pearl up with a copy of Trechery & Greed on the Planet of the Apes!
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Lamar Kukuk @lamarkukuk.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
The Giant Claw
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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 · 30/11/2025
Fans of this movie (and I'm one of them) should seek out the wild late-3rd season arc on the TV series Wiseguy where they imagined what the "other" ending might have been like in a bid to reform a Sardonicus-obsessed criminal.
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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 · 08/10/2025
The ending of this absolutely haunted me when I saw it recently. There's something about this flick that feels legitimately Satanic, maybe it's just that the 70's seemed to be The Devil's Decade.
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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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