Murtada Elfadl @mesays.bsky.social · 08/12/2024Hey A24, your screeners are unwatchable because the watermark in inexplicably in the MIDDLE of the frame 090
Reposted by Murtada ElfadlBrandon 👻 @bstanwyck.bsky.social · 06/12/2024This @mesays.bsky.social review captures what makes Evil Does Not Exist so spellbinding. Will definitely need to revisit it somedayavclub.comEvil Does Not Exist review: A complicated moral mystery that's both thriller and fableEvil Does Not Exist review: A complicated moral mystery that's both thriller and fable 051
Murtada Elfadl @mesays.bsky.social · 19/11/2024They should do the actor on actor interview together 1160
Reposted by Murtada ElfadlMIX NYC @mixnyc.bsky.social · 15/11/2024Announcing the MIX FEST 2024 lineup! After a 5 year hiatus, the longest-running Queer film festival in New York City is being reborn. Join us at Quad Cinema from November 21-23 for 3 nights of Queer experimental films with Q&As after the screenings, followed by afterparties located near the cinema! 168
Murtada Elfadl @mesays.bsky.social · 16/11/2024New York don’t miss this brilliant Palestinian film today 430pm at DOC NYC www.docnyc.net/film/yalla-p...docnyc.netYALLA PARKOUR - DOC NYCWORLD PREMIERE When filmmaker Areeb Zuaiter lost her Palestinian mother, she lost her connection to Gaza. With all the memories from her childhood 070
Reposted by Murtada Elfadlhaunted girlfriend @sliceofwife.bsky.social · 15/11/2024sex workers were here first. if you don’t want to see porn don’t change your settings to show you porn dumbass 3884891363
Murtada Elfadl @mesays.bsky.social · 20/12/2023Hallelujah my freelancer check cleared before Christmas. I now believe in miracles 050
Murtada Elfadl @mesays.bsky.social · 20/12/2023Sorry Oprah please forgive me. I didn’t like this new version of The Color Purple www.avclub.com/the-color-pu...avclub.comThe Color Purple review: An American classic gets yet another lookThe latest adaptation of the beloved story is an uneven affair, although Danielle Brooks delivers a star-making turn 010
Murtada Elfadl @mesays.bsky.social · 20/12/2023Andrew Haigh’s All Of Us Strangers is absolutely my favorite film of the year, here’s my review www.avclub.com/all-of-us-st...avclub.comAll Of Us Strangers review: A fantastical, cathartic love storyAndrew Scott, Paul Mescal, Jamie Bell, and especially Claire Foy deliver stirring and sincere performances for director Andrew Haigh 040
Murtada Elfadl @mesays.bsky.social · 13/12/2023American Fiction’s satire started well but it tries to do too much, ending with much less than it could’ve…. My review www.avclub.com/american-fic...avclub.comAmerican Fiction review: Jeffrey Wright is both hilarious and solemnJeffrey Wright delivers his best film role since Basquiat, but first-time filmmaker Cord Jefferson undermines the promising satire 020
Reposted by Murtada ElfadlRen "Stop Israel’s Murder of Palestinians” Jender @renjender.bsky.social · 06/12/2023Bring it on! From @mesays.bsky.social and Be Kind Rewind the takedowns I've been waiting for. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/g...podcasts.apple.comThe Izzy and Murtada Picture Show: Getting Salty about Saltburn and Maestro on Apple PodcastsShow The Izzy and Murtada Picture Show, Ep Getting Salty about Saltburn and Maestro - Dec 6, 2023 021
Murtada Elfadl @mesays.bsky.social · 06/12/2023not a slight on the actor (she’s great) but the writing of Da’Vine Joy Randolph’s character in The Holdovers is so obvious, teetering on the edge of the “magical negro” trope 230
Murtada Elfadl @mesays.bsky.social · 29/11/2023I reviewed EILEEN www.avclub.com/eileen-movie...avclub.comEileen review: Anne Hathaway shines in a weird, stylish thrillerWilliam Oldroyd's adaptation of Ottessa Moshfegh's novel will enthrall and frustrate in equal measure 010
Murtada Elfadl @mesays.bsky.social · 25/11/2023Iron claw is a movie in search of an actor to give it the lead performance it deserves; alas the search continues till the very last frame 010
Murtada Elfadl @mesays.bsky.social · 20/11/2023with the film now on Netflix, here's my review for Stamped from the Beginning for Variety variety.com/2023/film/re...variety.com‘Stamped From the Beginning’ Review: Netflix Doc Goes Back in Time to Explore the Origins of Ant...In adapting Ibram X. Kendi’s book, 'Stamped From the Beginning,' Roger Ross Williams relies on testimony from Black female scholars for authenticity. 011
Murtada Elfadl @mesays.bsky.social · 20/11/2023Lost 25 pounds since April and it’s the least i weighed in a decade. The first 15 were stress after war broke out in sudan, the rest were planned. No vanity photo because I detest them 020
Murtada Elfadl @mesays.bsky.social · 10/11/2023www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/11...aljazeera.com‘Corpses on streets’: Sudan’s RSF kills 1,300 in Darfur, monitors sayThe mass killing might be the largest in the civil war that erupted in April, based on reports from monitors. 000
Reposted by Murtada ElfadlRen "Stop Israel’s Murder of Palestinians” Jender @renjender.bsky.social · 09/11/2023As reported in @xtramagazine.bsky.social Diana Nyad no longer believes trans women should be kept out of women's sports. I still probably won't see it, but this from @mesays.bsky.social and Be Kind Rewind (Izzy) is a really fun conversation about why you should see "Nyad."podcasts.apple.comThe Izzy and Murtada Picture Show: NYAD: Netflix’s Nautical Grand Guignol on Apple PodcastsShow The Izzy and Murtada Picture Show, Ep NYAD: Netflix’s Nautical Grand Guignol - Nov 8, 2023 121
Reposted by Murtada ElfadlRen "Stop Israel’s Murder of Palestinians” Jender @renjender.bsky.social · 23/10/2023You have only one more day to catch the films streaming as part of NewFest, so what’s stopping you? I reviewed three of the best ones on INTO. www.intomore.com/entertainment/film…intomore.comNewFest Online offers fresh looks at queer culture from the insideThis year's NewFest offers an embarrassment of queer riches... 011
Murtada Elfadl @mesays.bsky.social · 20/10/2023Reviewed Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon www.avclub.com/killers-of-t...avclub.comKillers Of The Flower Moon review: Martin Scorsese's American tragedyLeonardo DiCaprio and Lily Gladstone star in an epic drama that shines an overdue light on the Osage murders of the 1920s at the hands of duplicitous white men 021
Murtada Elfadl @mesays.bsky.social · 12/10/2023Saw Killers of the Flower Moon again, so that’s almost 7 hours. Take that running time fascists !! 140
Murtada Elfadl @mesays.bsky.social · 12/10/2023it pains me to say that the latest Almodovar is slight despite a few joys ..... my review www.avclub.com/review-of-et...avclub.comStrange Way of Life review: Ethan Hawke and Pedro Pascal equal no heatPedro Almodovar's latest short—after his acclaimed, Tilda Swinton-starring The Human Voice—is a slight addition to his filmography 020
Murtada Elfadl @mesays.bsky.social · 12/10/2023With NewFest read what the programmers including me consider iconically queer www.lgbtqnation.com/2023/09/5-ne... 011
Murtada Elfadl @mesays.bsky.social · 16/07/2023Have you seen the new mission impossible yet? Here’s my review: www.avclub.com/mission-impossible-d…avclub.comMission: Impossible—Dead Reckoning Part 1 review: Tom Cruise deliversCruise teams up with Simon Pegg, Ving Rhames, and series newcomer Hayley Atwell for another impossibly good sequel 000
Murtada Elfadl @mesays.bsky.social · 04/07/2023hello culture editors it's me, i’m avaialble for assignments — reviews, features, interviews and profiles....my email's in my bio and here's a link to my work: murtadaelfadl.contently.commurtadaelfadl.contently.comStories by MURTADA ELFADL : ContentlyCulture Writer and Critic 010
Murtada Elfadl @mesays.bsky.social · 03/07/2023Unironically loving this season of “and just like that” carrie’s story is moving and that milf subplot was hilarious 140