Here's where we left off last night (bc I don't take work home with me; the #cats would not abide it), about 1hr10m into #Weapons, paused on James' reaction to having stabbed Paul in the face with 3 syringes 🤣
It's still cracking me up. #ACAB 😆
#FilmSky #LiveSky #MovieSky #OscarsHomework
I'm going back & adding 2024's #OscarsHomework back to my #Medium List, & stumbled onto the origin story for my style of #filmcriticism.
kcookandcatsco.medium.com/who-will-rid...
I had forgotten all of this, but it was #GladiatorII that crystallized my process 🤓
#KCookandCatsCo lore!
#FilmSky
Hey, ReelRank Fam. It’s Oscar night! 🏆
Need a last-minute catch-up guide before the show? 📝
@iamkaymichelle.bsky.social put together an #OscarsHomework thread with reviews and write-ups on some of the year’s big titles.
Give it a read, then let’s talk winners. 🎬
#FilmSky #TheOscars
Here's the full slate of 6 awards for 2025! If you can't see it, here's how it broke down: Best Design: Hamnet Best Music: The Secret Agent Best Editing: Train Dreams Best Directing: Hamnet (Chloé Zhao) Best Visuals: Train Dreams Best Acting: Hamnet Best Writing: Bugonia Best Film: Hamnet And having seen all 10 Best Picture noms, and a handful of the other nominees, I feel very good about that class of winners.
Some folks are more visual learners, and here, the movie posters accompany the awards, which you have read on the other alt-text. Hamnet appears four times (makes sense; it was, by far, my favorite), Train Dreams awarded twice, and Bugonia and The Secret Agent both awarded once, and again, that feels very right based on the mouth feel and apparent qualities of those films.
I feel great about these @reelrank.bsky.social awards 🤩
I didn't make it through all of #OscarsHomework, but I certainly got far enough to be fairly definitive & conclusive about these 8 awards.
www.reelrank.net/awards/KCook...
#Hamnet is the #Movie of the Year for #KCookandCatsCo 🤓🐈⬛🐈🐈⬛🐈
#FilmSky
What are we giving Kay as an #OscarsHomework grade this year? 🤔
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#oscaround
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I count 6 reviews for 10 #BestPicture noms, so… 60%?
#FilmSky
And I didn't manage to get to everything, & had to @letterboxd.social & @reelrank.bsky.social some of these, as well
#ReelRank: www.reelrank.net/user/KCookan...
#letterboxd: letterboxd.com/KCookandCats...
That's #OscarsHomework (more or less). Hope this helps your experience 🤓
#FilmSky #MovieSky
Here's the #F1 #BlueSky #moviereview, which is one of my favorites. I get soooo exasperated, and I think I spied a bombshell moment of scene-breaking that just got left in the #movie.
bsky.app/profile/iamk...
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I have never cried harder in a #film than #Hamnet, both absolutely wrecked by the tragedy midway through, and then buoyed by the most uplifting and beautiful conclusion to a #movie than I've ever seen.
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This is my favorite of all the #OscarsHomework.
#FilmSky #MovieSky
All of these #BlueSky #moviereviews are also embedded in the #Medium articles from the #OscarsHomework list, but I'll also post them here in case you don't do Medium (yet).
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#KPopDemonHunters was one of the most fun #movies I've seen all year.
#FilmSky #MovieSky
#TrainDreams was a beautiful and contemplative experience, though I nearly couldn't handle the tragedy midway through. I don't tweet much about that, bc I was too busy sobbing.
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I think this is the best-looking #BestPicture nominee.
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I give myself a C+ for #OscarsHomework 😅
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If you need to catch up before #TheOscars tonight, this 🧵 may help!
First, I've written at length about #KPopDemonHunters, #Hamnet, #OneBattle, #Bugonia & #F1 on #Medium, featured in this list.
#FilmSky #MovieSky
This is kind of a tier thing for me. S Tier: Hamnet and Bugonia are two incredible films. I'd be thrilled for either to win Best Picture, but probably neither is. A Tier: Sinners, The Secret Agent, Train Dreams and Frankenstein are all worthwhile and substantive films that just didn't hit quite as hard as the S Tiers. B Tier: F1 and Marty Supreme are both bad movies that don't deserve to be here, and if you like either of those films a lot, you probably suck. F Tier: One Battle After Another is one of the worst things I've ever seen, and if you like that movie, you should look into counseling or art therapy or something. Like, seriously.
Ask me about this year's #BestPicture nominees 🤓
My #OscarsHomework watch progress!
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#oscaround
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#Hamnet & #Bugonia are my 2 favs 🤩
#FilmSky
It's Sentimental Value, obviously. We've watched the other 9.
Well, there is now only 1 #BestPicture nominee remaining, so anyone who has been paying any attention could probably name what's up next.
Here's a hint:
#OscarsHomework #KCookandCatsCo #FilmSky
"Cool, man."
I feel like I might get a lot of use out of this #TheSecretAgent screenshot.
I can envision using it in ALL kinds of scenarios 😆
I'm about to call it a day and head home, but if you want to catch up with my review so far, it's pinned to my profile.
#FilmSky #MovieSky #OscarsHomework
I think we can definitively say, especially with this year's crop, that 10 is too many #BestPicture nominations.
I fully hated #MartySupreme, #OneBattleAfterAnother & #F1, and don't think they were good #movies, besides.
AND #Superman still got left off 😑
#TheOscars #FilmSky #OscarsHomework
Idk what it is, but it feels like a 'real' film right away.
Part of it might be Wagner Moura, whom I adore from his work on Narcos. I'm excited to see him cook here.
I immediately like something about the #TheSecretAgent a lot.
... it sure isn't its 161m runtime, but even in just the first minute, the vibes are right in this #film, especially amidst what's been a VERY hit-or-miss #OscarsHomework run.
I've heard nothing but good things 🤓
#FilmSky #MovieSky
I've seen Bugonia, F1, Frankenstein, Hamnet, Marty Supreme, One Battle After Another, Sinners and Train Dreams. I still have yet to see Sentimental Value and The Secret Agent. Graphic from Oscaround.com.
Fuck!
I completely forgot about #TheSecretAgent. I was thinking #SentimentalValue was my last piece of #BestPicture #OscarsHomework.
NOPE!
😮💨
#FilmSky #MovieSky
I've hated other #OscarsHomework more, for big-picture philosophical reasons, but #MartySupreme is a uniquely torturous experience. Maybe in all of #film, actually.
I did love Hamnet, but my watches are dictated by #OscarsHomework at the moment, until The Miaouscars 🤓
Moses made it. Thank goodness.
If this #movie killed Moses, I was going to turn it off, #OscarsHomework or no, but we see him running away from the gas station fire Marty caused
"No dog death," is about the 1 good thing I can say for this #film
Hating hating hating #MartySupreme
Not like #OneBattle or #F1, though 😆
#FilmSky
Who caaaaaaares, my god. I don't like any of these people.
Blurgh. It's back.
More insufferable people doing terrible things to each other and not giving a shit. WHO CARES?! 😑
Pretty weird story about the beehive and the honey. Don't really know what to make of that.
This is kinda nothing.
#MartySupreme #FilmSky #MovieSky #OscarsHomework
I'm torn between wanting more people to use the hashtag #OscarsHomework and for it to catch on a bit, and the fact that if you click that hashtag, it's 100% my work, which is very useful 😅
I guess it's a win-win, if you think about it.
#FilmSky #MovieSky
Loving this little short film!
I'm not even sure I could articulate why, exactly, but I'm very moved by the singing in #TheSingers, which is a good thing, bc it's pretty heavily predicated on that working.
It's working. I'm in tears 😭
#MovieSky #FilmSky #OscarsHomework
People are talking about it! I know that. And that means it's basically my job to watch it and write about it.
#Netflix has that #shortfilm #TheSingers, which I've been seeing people talk about, & I do believe it's nominated for an Oscar, so it's #OscarsHomework.
Rated TV-MA for "Language and smoking." Okay, lol 😆
Is a cigarette an automatic-R now? 🤔
No idea what this is.
#FilmSky #movies
Yay! Finally! This is the first day I've noticed it show up.
#VivaVerdi! finally made it to my stealing-platform!
@hexnology.bsky.social should be pleased 🤓
#OscarsHomework
And, of course, the review on @reelrank.bsky.social: review.reelrank.net/3410c4eb-16f...
No #moviereview is complete without a #ReelRank listing.
This is my pick for #BestCinematography, not that anyone cares what I think.
#Oscars #OscarsHomework #FilmSky #MovieSky #Cinematography
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I loved it! Saddest fucking thing ever, maybe worse than #Hamnet (good Lord with the child death in #OscarsHomework; very hard for me), & I felt it didn't 100% come together, but it was exceptionally moving & probably the best-looking #film I've seen this year.
#letterboxd #FilmSky
I'll give you a hint: what kind of tracks are those? That's right, we're watching Dream Train. Track Trains. Dream Dreams. Something like that. I'll let you know when I figure it out.
Can anyone guess what we're watching? 🤓
#FilmSky #MovieSky #OscarsHomework
Damn 😑
You’re probably right, and I was afraid that’s how I might feel, too.
Oh, well! It’s #OscarsHomework! It’s got to be done 🤓
It is March 5, and #TheOscars are in 10 days. I am not making good time, but I am making progress 😤
My #OscarsHomework progress!
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