La portada de #CINEMANIA y MIDSOMMAR, Óleo sobre lienzo

Pretty proud of my #OneBattle review. I just submitted it to @gabyfilmmaker.bsky.social at #Cinemania, and I'll obv tweet it out here when it's live.

@heresthething.bsky.social & @oboogie.bsky.social featured in a good way, and some idiot named Maurice featured less-positively 😆

#FilmSky #Movies

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

I wrote about #Hamnet for #Cinemania, and my contention is that A. We need a #BestChildActors category at #TheOscars and B. Hamnet should easily win #BestCasting, the actual new #AcademyAwards category.

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What do #FilmSky and #MovieSky reckon about that? 🤔

#Films #Movies

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

I don't want to brag, but also, I do, & I'm gonna:

" #Hamnet convinced me we need a #BestChildActor #Oscar" was just Featured on #Cinemania.

Does that make it any more tempting for you? It should!!

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#WriteSky #writer #FilmSky #MovieSky #MediumPublication #Medium #Oscars

This is absurd. I'm so close to finishing & submitting my #Hamnet review to #Cinemania, but I keep (not kidding) breaking down into SOBS just looking over the screenshots & script moments I've keyed in on, etc.

I can't even handle the raw materials without weeping, lol. Incredible #film 🤩

#FilmSky

Cinemania A home for conversations about all things cinema.

@gabyfilmmaker.bsky.social currently only has 75 followers and hasn’t been on #BlueSky in (it would seem) 7 months.

Maybe if the next time she popped back in, she had a handful of new #KCookandCatsCo followers, she’d like it more! 🤓

Gaby edits #Cinemania: medium.com/cinemania

We #write for them ✍️

I have a piece out I'm proud of & promoting (it's pinned, go read it), a piece I'm working on for @reelrank.bsky.social that'll be out tomorrow (go subscribe to #ReelRankNews on #Medium & watch for it), & the #OscarsHomework series I'm #writing for #Cinemania.

Pretty pleased! ✍️

#WriteSky #writer

Cinemania A home for conversations about all things cinema.

& ofc, last but CERTAINLY not least is @gabyfilmmaker.bsky.social, who is virtually never on #BlueSky & presumably won't see this for a month or so.

Her #MediumPublication #Cinemania is kind of our unofficial home for our #filmcriticism. Our most frequent publisher 🥰

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#FilmSky

‘Bugonia’ is a parable Whatever you call it, Yorgos Lanthimos’s challenging film deserves its Best Picture nom

I cuntily transplain (I can’t #mansplain, can I?) #parable and #allegory in this #Bugonia article, which is now up live on #Cinemania: medium.com/cinemania/bu...

I need some #writers and #EnglishMajors and #BookSky & #LitSky folks to check my work. How’d I do? 🤔

#FilmSky #Writer ✍️ 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈

Gaby didn’t change one word, lol. She’s THE best. It’s spicy as hell and I’ve promoted it elsewhere here on BlueSky. Surf around and find it

I’m relentlessly self-promoting today (& every day), so I’d be remiss not to point out that #Cinemania editor @gabyfilmmaker.bsky.social is also here on #BlueSky, & if she had more followers, she might get on more 🤩

Here’s Cinemania: medium.com/cinemania

#FilmSky #MovieSky #Film #movies

I know my #Bugonia review on #Cinemania is scheduled to be pubbed “sometime this AM,” so I’m just lying in bed refreshing #Medium like a psychopath; meanwhile, #cats are audibly starving to death (very audibly), & I could actually see the scheduled time if I go check my laptop 😆

#WriteSky #CatSky

Great film, though! You should read my piece first, whether or not you’ve seen the movie, and that’s always true

I have a REALLY spicy #Bugonia #moviereview that I’m super excited about, but you guys have to promise now to read it if/when #Cinemania pubs it 🥺

#WriteSky ✍️ #antifa #anticapitalist #FilmSky #MovieSky

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#Medium #MediumWriter

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

Boy, but fuckin NOBODY has read my #F1 #moviereview, and Nfn, I think I stumbled onto one of the biggest stories in #film, and I broke it wide open in this hard-hitting, investigative piece on #Cinemania: medium.com/cinemania/th...

#FilmSky #MovieSky #movies #KCookandCatsCo #BestPicture #Oscars

Provocative. It's titled 'Bugonia' is a parable', and it's got an inset photo of Emma Stone as her character from Bugonia, and it purports that this is a 12-minute read, with approx 2,800 words, which begs the question: does it take YOU 12 minutes to read ~2,500 words? I reckon if you follow me, it probably doesn't. This is an 8-10 minute read, I bet. For us.

Cinemania | Pending review Gaby is generally pretty cool, but I pushed some boundaries a bit with this one. The text calls for that kind of reading, though. What do I mean? Idk, you'll have to wait and find out!

I just wrote a SPICY-ass review of #Bugonia, hence the #BlueSky banner, & Gaby from #Cinemania is always super-cool, but this one gets quite spicy, even for me.

I'm very curious to see whether the version that eventually goes live on Cinemania is close to what I'm proposing we publish 😅

#FilmSky

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

@gabyfilmmaker.bsky.social is incredible. She turned around my #F1 piece in, like, a few mins lol.

I ❤️ working with really great #editors, & I'm 🤗 to say that #cinemania, this #MediumPublication, also pubs other good #film content: medium.com/cinemania/th...

I did NOT like this #movie 😑

#FilmSky

Gaby Rogut – Medium Read writing from Gaby Rogut on Medium. Jack of many trades. Mexicana. Mom. Teacher. Bi. Autistic. Consider helping me pay my rent here: https://ko-fi.com/gabyrogut

I've got a piece into #Cinemania on #Medium, which is edited by the witty and delightful @gabyfilmmaker.bsky.social.

I bet she'd get on #BlueSky more often if she had more followers (hint hint) 😉

She's also a terrific #writer in her own right: medium.com/@gabyrogut

#WriteSky #writing #editor

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

He's the credited screenwriter, yes. I had a theory, though...

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I wrote about it at some length on #Cinemania 💁‍♀️

Oppenheim was buddies with Harvey Weinstein, btw. It's why Oppenheim was fired from NBC News. He killed stories about Weinstein before it all broke.

Bad guy.

List: #KCookandCatsCo Published Elsewhere | Curated by K. Cook & Cats, Co. | Medium #KCookandCatsCo Published Elsewhere · Believe it or not, other people occasionally support and promote the stuff that I write. When they do, I'm eternally grateful. I'd go to the mat for any of these ...

This is pretty fun! 🤩

With that most-recent #Bond piece for #Cinemania, there are now 13 times #KCookandCatsCo #writing has been published in #MediumPublications, and I've gathered those in a list: kcookandcatsco.medium.com/list/kcookan...

#FilmSky #MovieSky #TVSky #WriteSky #writer #publications

Makes for a pretty good banner, I think, which is good, because it's going to be a couple weeks that I'll be at these Bond movies, I reckon. Blech. Why did I do this? *I* pitched this series idea *to* Gaby, the editor. Totally my doing, and I know that I do not care for these films, lol. At least I can cross them off my Letterboxd never-seen list. BLECH! Oh, Casino Royale is incredible, though, and we're starting with that. Go find my pinned tweet, and that'll be that LiveSky review.

I think it's funny that my #BlueSky banners are just whatever I'm working on, bc people often mistake me for a fan.

I can't wait for someone to ask me if I love #JamesBond, bc I do NOT, and I'm working on a series on #Cinemania called #MostBondMoviesAreBad, #lol. medium.com/cinemania/ho...

#Film

Whoops! More from K. Cook & Cats, Co. certainly...

#LOL! 😆

I had nothing to do with this, but the procedurally generated #Medium window after my article promises "More from #KCookandCatsCo and #Cinemania" and then shows 4 pieces of mine and not 1 of them is even on Cinemania 🤣😅

#WriteSky #FilmSky #MovieSky #MediumPublications #MediumPublication

How murderous is MI6 in the Bond universe? I was struck by an odd piece of Bond lore in Casino Royale, plus I embark on a journey to prove a point about the Bond Films 🥦

Very pleased with this 1! 🤩

#Cinemania just published my #Medium article on #CasinoRoyale 's opening scene, in which I lay out my task for the next few weeks: medium.com/cinemania/ho...

I'm watching all the #BondFilms (sort of) 🤓

CR is 1st, then #GoldenEye, then #DrNo

#FilmSky #MovieSky #movies

We love Gaby! She needs some more followers, good grief! Maybe she'd get on BlueSky more often if she had more than 70 followers. Gaby and Cinemania publish K. Cook & Cats Co. stuff more than any other Medium publication. If there's a home for #KCookandCatsCo content on Medium, it's Cinemania. We love Cinemania!

Oscar is, without question, the fussiest and most meticulous editor I've EVER worked with, and I used to work for a newspaper, lol. However, I always feel that the pieces that Oscar and I work on together benefit from his insight and editorial perspective, and always come out as stronger, more readable pieces for all of his (fussy as hell) input. We love Oscar, as well! And this is the Medium Publication we write for that has the largest footprint (besides Books Are Our Superpower, which I'm not even they sure knows I write for them).

Still doing these! 🤓

@gabyfilmmaker.bsky.social & @theuglymonster.bsky.social are (very) honorable mentions, bc Gaby is the #editor of #Cinemania and Oscar is the editor of #TheUglyMonster, 2 #MediumPublications that publish #Kcookandcatsco. They're important people! 🤩

#WriteSky #writer #Medium

1/3 so far. Still waiting to hear back on the other 2. Oscar from @theuglymonster.bsky.social has been making VERY specific, hands-on changes with me, tho, so I think that'll happen, & Gaby from #Cinemania confirmed she'll publish the #CasinoRoyale story, so it's going to be 3/3 🤩

#WriteSky #Medium

Image+Nation / Cinémania – Enzo: la douleur de ce qui ne s'est pas passé - Pieuvre Enzo a l'étoffe d'un grand film qui s'attaque à de grandes choses, sans jamais quitter la proximité de ses personnages.

Difficile d’imaginer plus beau film et plus bel hommage que ce Enzo, qui fait office de dernier apport du grand Laurent Cantet au septième art. Un film comportant toute la richesse et la sensibilité dont il était capable.
#Culture #Cinema #Cinemania #ImageNation

Too foppish. Fop's been cranked to 11. Turn down the fop!

One of my favs, #Cinemania again (we're often published on there these days) republished our anti-sequel screed: medium.com/cinemania/se..., in which I describe #OceansTwelve Terry Benedict as looking 'like John Lennon's sunglasses fucked Little Lord Fauntleroy,' which I'm SHOCKED they published 🤣

I'm honestly not that skeptical of either number. They're probably in the ballpark, frankly.

This one was also #Cinemania, and I got them to let me #write about how many women Wilt Chamberlain and Warren Beatty are alleged to have slept with: medium.com/cinemania/is...

#sex #FilmSky #Ishtar #nba #workingblue

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

In my #AHouseofDynamite review, I called #screenwriter Noah Oppenheim, 'a criminal, a bitch and an abject disgrace to the profession and craft of #writing,' and they somehow published that in #Cinemania 😅

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#FilmSky #Netflix #Film #MovieSky #moviereview

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

Oh! I had thoughts on House of Dynamite. Did you, perchance, read my review? 💁‍♀️

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#Cinemania

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 💁‍♀️

Omfg, I haven't even bleeted about the actual article or promoted it yet. I just bitched, instead. Lol! It's my fault, as well! Gospel-centered. Jesus fucking Christ, it's almost enough to make you believe in God, the shit that happens to me.

This is kind of hilarious...

I think I'm just incapable of being content or satisfied.

Bc I was such a squeaky-wheel, I got my editorial review process accelerated, pushing my #MovieReview of #AHouseofDynamite off top/Latest #Cinemania spot an hr later when a GOSPEL-CENTERED REVIEW took 1st... 😑