I hope you were also able to get to some of The Collective’s shows, they’ve been the highlight of the week.

Now presenting: The Oscars, the Matt Berry cut 🎬

I got 18 out of 24. One better than last year! #Oscars #AcademyAwards 📽️

I blame Ray Purchase for the lack of it

My 2026 Academy Awards picks, including One Battle After Another winning Best Picture

My final 98th #AcademyAwards picks! 📽️

A ★★★½ review of Bugonia (2025) 98th Academy Awards Picture/Adapted Screenplay - This felt very tame for a Yorgos movie until the first black and white scene, and then I knew we were so back. The movie is a fun commentary on so many...

📽️ 98th #AcademyAwards - Bugonia (Picture, Actress, Adapted Screenplay, Original Score)

A ★★★★½ review of Sinners (2025) 98th Academy Awards Picture/Director/Original Screenplay - What a brilliant movie. It’s a really fun, interesting take on representing racism in the south and how they wanted to take their culture… wi...

📽️ 98th #AcademyAwards - Sinners (Picture, Director, Actor, Supporting Actor, Supporting Actress, Original Screenplay, Original Score, Sound, Production Design, Cinematography, Makeup and Hairstyling, Costume Design, Film Editing, Visual Effects, Casting)

A ★★★½ review of Marty Supreme (2025) 98th Academy Awards Picture/Director/Original Screenplay - This movie is absolutely bonkers. There are so many different stories going on at such a fast and chaotic pace, and for the most part it work...

📽️ 98th #AcademyAwards - Marty Supreme (Picture, Director, Actor, Original Screenplay, Production Design, Cinematography, Costume Design, Film Editing, Casting)

A ★★★★ review of F1 (2025) 98th Academy Awards Picture - This is just a fun time at the movies. It isn’t artsy or telling a deep and powerful message, but sometimes I just wanna see some interesting characters say some quippy l...

📽️ 98th #AcademyAwards - F1 (Picture, Sound, Film Editing, Visual Effects)

A ★★★★ review of Sentimental Value (2025) 98th Academy Awards Picture/Director/International Feature/Original Screenplay - What a beautiful, poignant movie. It does a great job of showing how even with broken familial relations there is still...

📽️ 98th #AcademyAwards - Sentimental Value (Picture, Director, Actress, Supporting Actor, Supporting Actresses, Original Screenplay, International Feature, Film Editing)

Thanks Eryn! :)

Thanks, Pat! :)

A pink onesie, and pink teddy bear, ultrasound photos, and a pink plate that says “it’s a girl!”

Coming September 2026

A ★★★★½ review of Frankenstein (2025) 98th Academy Awards Picture/Adapted Screenplay - This is such a damn good adaptation of Frankenstein. I’m so glad Delaware Toro was given a chance to make his version, as I’m always in awe of his visi...

📽️ 98th #AcademyAwards - Frankenstein (Picture, Supporting Actor, Adapted Screenplay, Original Score, Sound, Production Design, Cinematography, Makeup and Hairstyling, Costume Design)

A ★★★½ review of Hamnet (2025) 98th Academy Awards Picture/Director/Adapted Screenplay - This movie is very good overall, with incredible acting and beautiful design. I do feel like some of the writing was a little weak. I like tha...

📽️ 98th #AcademyAwards - Hamnet (Picture, Director, Actress, Adapted Screenplay, Original Score, Production Design, Costume Design, Casting)

A ★★★★½ review of One Battle After Another (2025) 98th Academy Awards Picture/Director/Adapted Screenplay - This film was stellar. It’s a gripping family film, mixed in current politics and race issues in America. This very much feels like a film for...

📽️ 98th #AcademyAwards - One Battle After Another (Picture, Director, Actor, Supporting Actors, Supporting Actress, Adapted Screenplay, Original Score, Sound, Production Design, Cinematography, Film Editing, Casting)

A ★★ review of The Secret Agent (2025) 98th Academy Awards Picture/International Feature - I did not love this movie, as the pacing seemed to drag for most of the runtime. There were a lot of interesting themes, but it felt poorly executed...

📽️ 98th #AcademyAwards - The Secret Agent (Picture, Actor, International Feature, Casting)

A ★★★★ review of Train Dreams (2025) 98th Academy Awards Picture - This an awesome film, with great filmmaking, performances, sets, and costumes. The story was riveting with a rollercoaster of emotions. The general outline is pretty simp...

📽️ 98th #AcademyAwards - Train Dreams (Picture, Adapted Screenplay, Cinematography)

Me, IWGP Champion Yota Tsuji, and the side of Mystakin’s head

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My view from ringside

Selfie with the stage behind me

Selfie with Mystakin at ringside

Seated for some Japanese wrestling! #NJNBGUS 🤼‍♂️ @mystakin.bsky.social

A ★★ review of Perfectly a Strangeness (2024) 98th Academy Awards Documentary Short - This felt less like a documentary and more like vibes footage. Which isn’t necessarily a bad thing, but won’t help it in this category. The subject matter are a...

📽️ 98th #AcademyAwards - Documentary Shorts

Perfectly a Strangness: boxd.it/deZ9i1
The Devil is Busy: boxd.it/df1lEd
Armed Only with a Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud: boxd.it/df450n
All the Empty Rooms: boxd.it/df6uBd
Children No More: Were and Are Gone: boxd.it/df9W1j

A ★★½ review of The Singers (2025) 98th Academy Awards Live Action Short - This pretty much just felt like a vehicle to show off some people can sing well. It wasn’t much outside of that, and left at least thing dangling without resolu...

📽️ 98th #AcademyAwards - Live Action Shorts

The Singers: boxd.it/deRw9l
A Friend of Dorthy: boxd.it/deSBWJ
Butcher’s Stain: boxd.it/deU0nL
Two People Exchanging Saliva: boxd.it/deWf57
Jane Austen’s Period Drama: boxd.it/deWV5j

A ★★★½ review of The Three Sisters (2024) 98th Academy Awards Animated Short - This was a very silly short, and didn’t need any dialogue to tell its story. It had a nice simple 2D style.

📽️ 98th #AcademyAwards - Animated Shorts

The Three Sisters: boxd.it/deLH9f
Forevergreen: boxd.it/deMdcZ
The Girl Who Cried Pearls: boxd.it/deN3uh
Butterfly: boxd.it/deNNL9
Retirement Plan: boxd.it/deO96R

A ★★★ review of Kokuho (2025) 98th Academy Awards Makeup and Hairstyling - The makeup in the movie was incredible. The kabuki makeup with perfect, but also the aging makeup on the characters, especially towards the end. This is ve...

📽️ 98th #AcademyAwards - Kokuho (Makeup and Hairstyling)

[Playing in Theaters]

A ★★★½ review of The Ugly Stepsister (2025) 98th Academy Awards Makeup and Hairstyling - They sure had a lot to work with here. It’s a period piece, but it’s also a story with cosmetic surgeries and physical transformations. They did a fantasti...

📽️ 98th #AcademyAwards - The Ugly Stepsister (Makeup and Hairstyling)

[Streaming on Hulu]

A ★ review of Jurassic World Rebirth (2025) 98th Academy Awards Visual Effects - That sure was an island with some CG dinosaurs. Some of the hybrid designs were decent but some were just not nice to look at. Pretty much was general blockbuster ...

📽️ 98th #AcademyAwards - Jurassic World Rebirth (Visual Effects)

[Streaming on Peacock]

A ★★★½ review of Sirāt (2025) 98th Academy Awards International Feature - By the end of this movie I was legitimately sweating. This movie was absolutely bananas and was not afraid to throw any punches with just how far it went wi...

📽️ 98th #AcademyAwards - Sirāt (International Feature, Sound)

[Playing in Theaters]

A ★★★★ review of Cutting Through Rocks (2025) 98th Academy Awards Documentary Feature - What an incredible story Sara has. She is a truly fearless woman standing up for other women in a region that is heavily against them. This movie featured som...

📽️ 98th #AcademyAwards - Cutting Through Rocks (Documentary Feature)

[Playing at Special Screenings]

I feel the same!

A ★★★★ review of If I Had Legs I'd Kick You (2025) 98th Academy Awards Actress (Rose Byrne) - Rose Byrne was extraordinary in this movie. The camera was tight on her face for a lot of scenes so you could really see the small nuances of her performance...

📽️ 98th #AcademyAwards - If I Had Legs I’d Kick You (Actress)

[Streaming on HBO Max]