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Weekly reviews by Brent Leuthold https://awakeinthedark.com https://boxd.it/cvmH πŸŸ πŸŸ’πŸ”΅ @ifja.bsky.social member @midwestfilmjournal.bsky.social contributor

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The Bride! Writer-director Maggie Gyllenhaal taps her The Lost Daughter star Jessie Buckley for The Bride!, the second classic literary adaptation from Warner Bros this season designed to turn heads. Though "Wut...

Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale are fugitive lovers on the run in this mess of a monster movie. Here's my review of The Bride! #filmsky πŸ“½οΈ

09.03.2026 12:55 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

On a related note, I'm 3 for 3 on not seeing The Strangers trilogy in theaters but paying too much to rent each Chapter as soon as they hit digital

09.03.2026 00:30 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

2/2:
- One Battle After Another: HBO Max & rentable for $6.99
- The Secret Agent: Hulu & rentable for $9.99
- Sentimental Value: rentable for $5.99
- Sinners: Amazon Prime, HBO Max & rentable for $5.99
- Train Dreams: Netflix

#filmsky πŸ“½οΈ

08.03.2026 18:36 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I started rewatching Firefly last month, pulled it up on Hulu and it looked terrible. I already had it on Fandango At Home, so I tried there and it looked way better. That's a little older than Hannibal, so the way they converted it to HD may be to blame but still.

08.03.2026 14:39 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

1/2: Here's where the Best Picture nominees can currently be found:

- Bugonia: Peacock & rentable for $5.99
- F1: Apple TV & buyable for $14.99
- Frankenstein: Netflix
- Hamnet: Peacock & rentable for $19.99
- Marty Supreme: rentable for $19.99

07.03.2026 13:53 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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The Bride holding me over until The Bride! this weekend πŸ‘° #Filmsky πŸ“½οΈ #LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched

06.03.2026 14:32 πŸ‘ 43 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Matt on the run

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2001 is insane, all five are winners there

05.03.2026 13:59 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Watch A Little Prayer | Prime Video A loving father (David Strathairn) grapples with how to protect his daughter-in-law (Jane Levy) when he discovers that his son is having an affair. A heart-tugging drama about finding kindred spirits in unexpected places, A Little Prayer is a sensitive and searching portrait of a Southern family from writer-director Angus MacLachlan.

A Little Prayer is now streaming on Amazon Prime #filmsky πŸ“½οΈ

03.03.2026 14:11 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Do I have any videos from my wedding saved in my Google Photos? Apparently not! Do I have two different clips of my wife and I watching Left Behind a year later? Apparently so!

03.03.2026 04:14 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Hoppers Most pop culture geeks are familiar with the 20 Year Rule, a cyclical principle in which popular trends can enjoy rejuvenated relevance roughly 20 years after their initial emergence. It's why mid-aug...

Me too

02.03.2026 17:15 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Hoppers Most pop culture geeks are familiar with the 20 Year Rule, a cyclical principle in which popular trends can enjoy rejuvenated relevance roughly 20 years after their initial emergence. It's why mid-aug...

Coming to theaters this weekend, Pixar's latest is a diverting but disappointing entry in the studio's filmography. Here's my review of Hoppers #filmsky πŸ“½οΈ

02.03.2026 16:52 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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It Was Just an Accident An unassuming mechanic has a chance encounter with a man he suspects to be his former sadistic jailhouse captor. Panicked, he kidnaps the presumed captor and rounds up a few of his fellow ex-prisoners...

It Was Just An Accident is now streaming on Hulu #filmsky πŸ“½οΈ

01.03.2026 14:05 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Only if you book one 2 weeks from tomorrow 😱

26.02.2026 20:15 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

When you want comedy, you call the king of comedy

26.02.2026 19:19 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks, just bought a ticket!

25.02.2026 21:37 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

"I'm wearing a bathrobe and I'm not even sick!"

25.02.2026 02:14 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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How To Make A Killing After his terrific feature debut Emily The Criminal, writer-director John Patton Ford returns with another desperate-times-desperate-measures thriller in How To Make A Killing. A loose adaptation of t...

Glen Powell won't let a little murder get in the way of his inheritance in this darkly comic thriller. Here's my review of How To Make A Killing #filmsky πŸ“½οΈ

23.02.2026 11:59 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

They're just slappin' that puck around out there

22.02.2026 14:34 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Checkmate, libUHrals πŸ˜‚πŸ€£πŸ˜‚πŸ€£πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ€£

20.02.2026 18:47 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Of those two, the latter, but they mostly don't care because their money insulates them from anything resembling consequences

20.02.2026 14:12 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Notes on the 2026 Oscars Best Picture Bugonia F1 Frankenstein Hamnet Marty Supreme One Battle After Another The Secret Agent Sentimental Value Sinners Train Dreams A strong set of 10 nominees overall, with F1 being the bigges...

The Oscars are still a few weeks away but here are my predictions, personal picks and overlooked options for every category πŸ† #filmsky πŸ“½οΈ

20.02.2026 12:01 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Steven’s Selects: indie champion Steven Soderbergh on his favorite films across nine decades β€’ Journal β€’ A Letterboxd Magazine To celebrate his Nitehawk Cinema season, Steven Soderbergh tells Isaac Feldberg how he selected nine films to program, why Spike Lee should have beaten him for the Palme d’Or, how Ernst Lubitsch inspi...
19.02.2026 12:54 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I can only imagine how much hornier I Can Only Imagine 2 is compared to its predecessor

19.02.2026 02:23 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Urchin Sleeping rough on the streets of London, Mike seems unable to escape the chaos of his impulsivity and substance abuse. He's intelligent and charismatic, but when his addiction results in an act of unp...

Urchin is now streaming on Hulu #filmsky πŸŽ₯

17.02.2026 14:14 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

"Wuthering Streets"

16.02.2026 15:07 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The Obsessive Viewer Podcast – Ep 502 – Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die (2026) & Send Help (2026) – Guest: BrentΒ Leuthold This week, Brent Leuthold joins me to review the new Gore Verbinski film, Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die in a feature review, then we review Sam Raimi’s Send Help in this week’s secondary review. We also discuss Super Bowl advertising, Catherine O’Hara, James Van Der Beek, and Bud Cort’s passing, and more.

In the latest episode of The Obsessive Viewer, Brent Leuthold joins me for reviews of Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die & Send Help. Check it out, subscribe, rate and review, and share the show.

16.02.2026 13:01 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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β€œWuthering Heights” English writer-director Emerald Fennell puts the "more" in Yorkshire Moors with "Wuthering Heights", her torrid but tawdry take on the oft-adapted Emily BrontΓ« novel. Based on Fennell's two previous e...

Margot Robbie is obsessed with Jacob Elordi β€” and so is her character β€” in Emerald Fennell's take on a lit fave. Here's my review of "Wuthering Heights" #filmsky πŸ“½οΈ

16.02.2026 12:03 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Probably for I Can Only Imagine 2

16.02.2026 03:34 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0