We’ve got some new followers, & if you want to jump into the (zany?) (it’s pretty zany) world of #KcookandCatsCo with both feet, our Starter Pack, called #ClosingThots, is perfect 👌

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For us, these are the coolest people on #BlueSky; witty, thoughtful & fun.

Follow everyone! 🤓

Btw, it means the world that you read it! I’m always trying to grow my audience, but I also feel very fiercely loyal to those of you that have been consistently reading and following!

And most especially the #ClosingThots gang, which you are, ofc, a part of! 🤓

Only special, cool people in there.

Blah blah just go read it!

Looks good, right?

Here’s the philosophy behind #ClosingThots 🤗

I *do* have friends, *actually* 💁‍♀️

From the Twisted Mind of Paul Thomas Anderson Comes this year’s actual Worst Best Picture nominee: One Battle After Another

I said very nice things about @heresthething.bsky.social and @oboogie.bsky.social in #ClosingThots of our #OneBattleAfterAnother review: medium.com/cinemania/fr...

Slightly-less-nice things about @mauricebishop.bsky.social, but it’s all in good fun 🤓

#FilmSky #MovieSky #movies #Film #BestPicture

I’m working on the review now, so if anyone fancies being featured in #ClosingThots (and I’ve already got a lot of good ones), I’ve quoted the post you should Like and/or Reply to here below.

I haaaaated this movie. So much. So so much. It’s going to be quite a review, I feel 😅

#FilmSky #MovieSky

I've added @ghoulfizz.bsky.social & @billiamthenerd.bsky.social (who are both active @reelrank.bsky.social users I enjoy reading there) to #KcookandCatsCo Starter Pack.

They're a part of our community, too, & I'm sure they'll turn up in a #ClosingThots soon ☺️

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#FilmSky #WriteSky

Hamnet convinced me we need a Best Child Actor Oscar The child actors in Hamnet were so good, it’s a shame there isn’t an award for them to win

Quite a few #FilmSky friends featured in our latest #moviereview, of Chloe Zhao's #Hamnet.

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I contend we need a #BestChildActor award at #TheOscars.

@hexnology.bsky.social, @tamarinsauce.bsky.social & @arsduo.bsky.social all appear in #ClosingThots 🤓

#MovieSky #movies

Brendan Fraser cast yet again in a ‘The Mummy’ How many times can one franchise fail? 🤔

Oh, before I forget, @thr.com senior editor @boryskit.bsky.social gets a shoutout in Bowie’s recent #TheMummy article.

It doesn’t qualify him for the #ClosingThots Starter Pack, but if he follows us back & engages on one of our #moviereviews, totally in play 😎

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It's long been my contention that you should all know each other and be friends, because I have love for each and every one of you (which is why you get featured, and why you make this list), so in that spirit:

@antifapatriot.bsky.social is the latest #ClosingThots addition 🤩

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You guys already have some passing familiarity with the #ClosingThots #StarterPack, I believe, but you should note that, in addition to those of you who have been featured in stories, there are also four other, very-important figures represented: my #editors

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#WriteSky #writer

I’m in that #StarterPack, even though I’ve never technically been featured in #ClosingThots 🤔

Ooh, first bleet I look at on my editor's profile, and it fires me up!

This is why I begged her to get on #BlueSky. Everyone go follow her! Or I just added her to the #ClosingThots #StarterPack, so you guys can do that, too.

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#WriteSky #DeconstructingChristianity #BLM

When Peter Karlin tells you he has something, by God, he has it 😆

Go read it! 🤓

Returning #ClosingThots favorite @heykarlin.bsky.social was featured again in our #Bugonia #moviereview, for his off-the-wall take on Director #YorgosLanthimos and the #film ‘s financial prospects.

Also featured in Closing Thots: my enormous crush on #EmmaStone, natch 💁‍♀️

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& that means that @vivaf1.bsky.social goes into the #KCookandCatsCo #StarterPack entitled #ClosingThots, after the section you're all featured in.

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You guys should all, at a minimum, know each other, since I picked on all of you 😉

#FilmSky #MovieSky #Kcookandcatsco #movies #Film

The Worst Best Picture Nom Since Crash | F1 (2025) Movie Review I am profoundly insulted that F1 is an Academy Award Best Picture nominee, and you’re about to hear why

Oh! Before I forget, @vivaf1.bsky.social was featured in #ClosingThots of this #F1 article, which I always clear in advance (you mostly have to opt into my bullshit, and Viva did!), which is ofc always at/near the end:

medium.com/cinemania/th...

@reelrank.bsky.social & #oscaround, too

#FilmSky

Nobody said SHIT about #Bugonia when I reviewed it here on #BlueSky (twice).

I'm writing it up now, and I'm nearly to #ClosingThots and don't have any, lol.

Anyone want to weigh in that has, or hasn't, seen it, I don't give a shit, I just look unpopular if I have nothing to put there 😅

#FilmSky

I'm very primed to love this, as stated. I bet I do.

And great! I'm always looking for book recs. I'm glad to hear you endorse it, and that speaks well of it.

I'll probably include your bleet in #ClosingThots of the Hamnet article, if that's okay with you 🤓

That's a great thought!

Do you mind if I pull that and embed it in the #ClosingThots section of the article I'm writing about it? 🤓

Join us for our #LiveSky #moviereview of #JamesBond classic #CasinoRoyale!

I'll pick back up after breakfast. In the meantime, scroll thru what we've gotten to, & look for a meaningful moment (to you), & then if you Reply, you might make #ClosingThots in the article about it 🤓

#FilmSky #MovieSky

Here's what I was trying to make before! 🤓

I made a #KCookandcatsCo #StarterPack (titled after the section in which y'all are most often featured, #ClosingThots), and I think everyone in it's a cool person with worthwhile things to say about #film, #TV & life! 🤓

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#FilmSky #TVSky

You're a key piece of this #Pluribus article I've submitted, but the editor is fussy as HELL and has it on some kind of content schedule, so I'm not certain when it will come out.

You make the actual article-copy, though, not just #ClosingThots 🤓

No offense to the lovely people in CT, ofc 😅

There you are! Right after the call-to-action and right before the Merry Christmas!

Sure, Susan! 🤗

Here's how it looks in context, towards the very-very end, under the section I always call #ClosingThots (and my disclaimer is that, for a year or so, before I made any BlueSky friends, those were all just me)

Here's the link again: medium.com/@kcookandcat...

The MCU is Filmic Gray Goo | Thunderbolts* (2025) Movie Review ‘New’ Avengers is a bit of a misnomer… 🫠

For shame!

No, I'm kidding. I'd be delighted if you read, though, plus you've been featured at least twice in #ClosingThots, I'm pretty sure 🤔

Here's my screed on forsaking the #MCU bc it's all #GrayGoo: medium.com/@kcookandcat...

I have very strong (negative) feelings on the MCU, esp lately 🤓

#BlueSky friends @hexnology.bsky.social and @suecurrie24.bsky.social both featured in #ClosingThots, as well 🤓

Give it a read! And #MerryChristmas to all, to believers and nonbelievers (like me), alike 🎄🎅

Lol!

What a disaster. I only just realized #BOAS changed the name of my final section from #ClosingThots to Closing Thoughts (boo!), but the user BooksRMe that I was featuring evidently hated it, blocked me & appears to have possibly deleted her account lol.

I just deleted it. It's Closing Thots 😤

Mastodon, Matriarch & the Narrative Power of Naming in Michener’s Alaska Some thoughts on storytelling, derived from an especially well-told Alaskan megafaunal story

Oh, wow, this is a SHOCK! 😳

Remember that #BookSky #Michener piece I submitted to that #MediumPublication with 101K followers I said would never accept it?

They accepted it!

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#BooksAreOurSuperpower. We're fans now, lol. @booksrme.bsky.social featured in #ClosingThots 😎

Yeah! That's the thing about movies; they're an inherently collaborative medium, & I would NOT describe that movie as a smart movie, despite a lot of smart people working towards a common goal.

I blame it on the Bay.

I think you might appear in #ClosingThots of this one? Can't remember offhand 🤔

Feel free to say no! Always! And if you decide post-facto that you'd rather not, that's fine also. It's all consent-based, and unlike a 'real' journalist (which I used to be), I won't burn you for a good story. If I put you here in Closing Thots it's because I like you and think you have good things to say (technically, this will be called Middling Thots, which will make sense when you read it), and I would never even attempt to perpetrate your participation without your explicit and eager approval. It's meant to be a compliment, and like any compliment, I wouldn't ever give it to someone who didn't want it. So there! There's our official K Cook and Cats Co editorial policy on Closing Thots, which most will never read bc it's buried in alt text, lol. That's typical for us.

@divinehagofashes.bsky.social hoo boy, I usually don't do this in public, but you don't permit DMs (totally fair; mine are all terrifying and awful, I get it), and I was wondering...

I'd like to use a couple of things you've said in #ClosingThots, kinda like in the screenshot. Would that be okay? 😬

Easily the worst script committed to the screen this year (and maybe ever) Netflix’s A House of Dynamite arguably doesn't have a screenplay, but what it does have is dreadful and insulting

Very proud of this #AHouseofDynamite #MovieReview that #Cinemania (somehow) pubbed, even though I call Noah Oppenheim 'a bitch & an abject disgrace to the profession & craft of #writing.'

Read: medium.com/cinemania/ea...

@heykarlin.bsky.social & @caroleeena.bsky.social featured in #ClosingThots 💁‍♀️

Somebody knows how to work the #ClosingThots game 🤓

I do think I'm going to write this up, and it's about time you featured in those (again)