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tv critic & writer @ebertvoices , @pastemagazine , @beastobsessed , @dreadcentral , @tvinsider and more • @DorianAwards member • they/them • kaiyashunyata @gmail .com

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kaiya
27 days
for @TVInsider , i wrote about the #IndustryHBO finale, the series’ doomed romance, and why yasmin’s choice is the ultimate act of self preservation. read here:
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1 year
kinda need to play bodies bodies bodies here
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1 year
The ‘BARBIE’ Dream House has mysteriously appeared in Malibu. (via @johnschreiber )
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3 years
i’m kind of obsessed with the fact that nobody seems to understand that A24 is a distribution company
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3 years
Tom Holland says he would like to make a ‘JAK & DAXTER’ movie — “But I would make it A24, so it was really weird and dark. Yeah, I would do a really weird live-action version of Jak and Daxter.” (Source: @GameSpot )
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1 year
might finally tune into THE BEAR because i am obsessed with that 40 year old man with sad eyes
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4 years
yeah
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8 months
❤️‍🩹
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2 years
truly one of the most thrilling and magical sequences to be put to film in a very long time
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1 year
i need this to happen immediately
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What’s your dream director-actor pairing?
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kaiya
10 months
brian cox over jeremy strong is perhaps the most bizarre thing i’ve ever seen
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SAG Awards®
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The nominees for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series are bringing the drama, and we're here for it! 🎭 #SAGAwards
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6 months
trent reznor and atticus ross making the challengers score:
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1 year
luca guadagnino went from having ten films in limbo to shooting and wrapping a film every six months
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1 year
Luca Guadagnino’s film adaptation of William S. Burrough’s ‘QUEER’ starring Daniel Craig and Drew Starkey has wrapped filming.
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kaiya
4 years
i think liking “bad” movies is a good thing and some of you should try it because you’re so boring
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kaiya
2 years
telling your abuser you won’t forgive them even when they’re on their deathbed…kendall roy i love you
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3 years
obsessed
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3 years
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kaiya
9 months
the KOTFM mention is actually psychotic
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Logan Rees
9 months
love to do a feminism by throwing other women under the bus
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1 year
love a good little manic kendall roy smile
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3 years
everyone at the matrix premiere understood the assignment
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2 years
can’t deal with kendall telling logan to apologize for locking conners mom up and beating roman as a kid and both of them in turn defending logan
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2 years
logan on the other end of the line:
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4 years
girl he’s made TWO movies...
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1 year
THE performance of all time i think
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kaiya
4 years
when someone asks me who my favourite director is
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kaiya
2 years
there isn’t a more deserving emmy nomination in the last year than hamish linklater in MIDNIGHT MASS and i’m disappointed he didn’t get it
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kaiya
5 months
watching interview with the vampire is just me going: wow this is the best episode of television ever…wow this is the best performance ever…wow this is the best score ever…wow this is the best show ever
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27 days
everyone in the #IndustryHBO finale: money, marriage and new jobs rishi:
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kaiya
3 years
sharp objects changed my fucking life and without it i would not have been able to heal my childhood wounds. jean-marc vallée was one of the most sympathetic and genuine storytellers in modern television and film. an inspiration to an aspiring canadian filmmaker. i’m devastated
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kaiya
1 year
talking about him btw not the main character who is obviously not 40
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kaiya
9 months
well yes!
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kaiya
2 years
it doesn’t matter if kendall’s name is underlined or crossed out. what matters is the uncertainty of it and how logan can taunt his children and spark their ruin even after death
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2 years
new kieran culkin profile is making me weep
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3 years
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5 months
i wish IWTV qualified for this years emmys because i fear it will be forgotten by 2025 with all the new/returning shows we have. coming out of the gate with a performance like this is wild and in a just world delainey would be getting an emmy nomination
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kaiya
2 years
george r. r. martin writes about gay characters with such empathy and understanding only for the adaptations of his work to disregard and brutally punish these same characters. it’s very strange (and upsetting) to me
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kaiya
4 years
Summer fun! 🏖️♥️ (*Private island all tested negative multiple times wear a mask ♥️)
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kaiya
6 months
sure but we got jacob anderson as louis de pointe du lac which is the most important thing
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the fact that we didn’t get a single movie star from game of thrones is crazy to me. what a sad sad world we live in truly
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kaiya
2 years
this ruling will disproportionately affect Black, Indigenous and poor people. rich people will always have access to safe abortions, legal or not
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4 years
happy 10 year anniversary to the best song transition of all time
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Consider me invested. Season 3 of the HBO Original Series #INDUSTRY premieres August 11 on @StreamOnMax .
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kaiya
3 years
laughing my ass off at the difference in colouring in all of these
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trish
3 years
in every universe peter parker’s type is women who are prone to falling from tremendous heights
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1 year
lorene scafaria has directed some of the best episodes of this show and her and jeremy are a match made in heaven
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3 years
i can’t wait to see MAlignant!
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2 years
nicholas britell reworking the main theme to craft one of the most depressing tracks in succession history...he's a genius i fear
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3 years
i fucking did it
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3 years
it’s her day ❤️
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7 months
good to know reznor and ross have continued to elevate queer cinema
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4 years
cycles of abuse and generational trauma are so hard to break but there is absolutely no sympathy in my heart for someone who poses as a changed person when in reality they have turned into the monster that created them
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kaiya
3 years
only hot people like long movies
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kaiya
3 years
when the beatles said “look at all the lonely people” they were talking about people with letterboxd accounts
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kaiya
1 year
i’ve had about 24 hours to think about KOTFM and these four performances have really stuck with me. each actor conveys so much with such little screen time it’s incredible
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kaiya
1 year
succession may be ending today but at least we’ll be getting a new nicholas britell album on spotify soon
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kaiya
1 year
kendall’s quiet moments are some of the best parts of this show. the thousand yard stares and the silent shame and contemplation are so good in this episode. jeremy is just fantastic
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kaiya
1 year
@ everyone seeing killers of the flower moon today
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kaiya
3 years
here’s how amy adams can still win an emmy for sharp objects:
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kaiya
2 years
why? because she’s brought a ludicrously capacious bag. what’s even in there, huh? flat shoes for the subway? her lunch pail? i mean, greg, it’s monstrous. it’s gargantuan. you could take it camping. you could slide it across the floor after a bank job
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kaiya
3 years
watching mcu stans cry about their films not getting awards attention is so funny. not me though. my favourite superhero film was nominated for best adapted screenplay
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kaiya
3 years
i find it so interesting that people talk about a24 as if it’s a person and not a company
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3 years
claire mathon is a mastermind
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kaiya
4 years
so...i wrote about why gay people love the social network so much
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4 years
i’m going to become the joker
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10 months
this just makes me so sad
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@THR
The Hollywood Reporter
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Mary Kay Letourneau's Ex-Husband Vili Fualaau Reacts to 'May December': "I'm Offended"
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3 years
it’s johnny knoxville’s white boy summer and we’re just living in it
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1 year
the kendall roy effect
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kaiya
4 years
hey! maybe after over a dozen women have spoken out about armie hammer being an abuser you guys should stop making jokes about him
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kaiya
27 days
this season finale is a gag, but i found myself moved to tears during that final scene between yasmin and the woman from the yacht. she immediately closes off after, but what a relief to be seen and told you’re not alone in your trauma even if only for a brief moment
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6 years
me turning my traumatic childhood into multiple screenplays
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kaiya
4 years
stop talking about a24 like its a genre stop talking about a24 like its a genre stop talking about a24 like its a genre stop talking about a24 like its a genre stop talking about a24 like its a genre stop talking about a24 like its a genre stop talking about a24 like its a genre
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3 years
thinking about this
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4 years
my favourite shots from previous w magazine issues
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kaiya
2 years
some of you tweet about succession like its game of thrones…why am i seeing predictions about almost every roy sibling kicking the bucket. be serious
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kaiya
8 months
thinking a lot about how DUNE: PART TWO successfully sets up paul’s ascension into a tyrant versus how badly GAME OF THRONES handled daenerys season 8
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3 years
i need to make a film specifically so i get asked to go into the criterion closet
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3 years
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1 year
i don’t think KOTFM wants us to feel sorry for Ernest at all, similarly to how by the end of OPPENHEIMER its clear we’re not supposed to feel anything but contempt for the man himself
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3 years
i thought this was red letter media
@DiscussingFilm
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3 years
The first look at ‘CLERKS III’ has been released. (Source: )
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4 years
what will snl do now?
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kaiya
1 year
no more kendall roy after tonight
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kaiya
7 months
this is one of the best television trailers ever made. the swirling score, the pairing up of various characters in the climax, memory as the core crux…incredible
@FilmUpdates
Film Updates
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A look at ‘INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE’ Season 2. Premieres May 12 on AMC and AMC+.
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5 years
@vlleneuve thinking about in 2018 when emma stone said “these’s four men and greta gerwig” - completely disregarding jordan peele and guillermo del toro and all the white feminists on here cheered
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kaiya
4 years
the la la land producer saying his acceptance speech when he knew damn well moonlight won
@realDonaldTrump
Donald J. Trump
4 years
I WON THE ELECTION!
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kaiya
3 years
from music videos to television to film, seeing michael k. williams on any screen always put a smile on my face. 54 is too fucking young
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3 years
HUH???
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kaiya
9 months
asoiaf focusing on multiple women attempting to gain agency in a male dominated society and the show ending with their main female protagonist dead at the hands of her lover and with only one woman on the king’s council…lol
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rhaenyra targaryen's lawyer
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i know westeros is a shitty mess with them ruling
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sorry but if you’ve watched the last ten minutes of DUNE: PART TWO and the entirety of CHALLENGERS and still don’t understand why or how zendaya is a star then there’s no hope for you
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kaiya
3 years
since everyone is talking about florence pugh, i’m here to remind you to watch her best performance in LADY MACBETH
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kaiya
2 years
i truly believe jeremy strong was born to play kendall roy like i’m sorry nobody is beating that performance
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kaiya
1 year
officially a master of cinema studies 🤠
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1 year
finally started interview with the vampire and i'm kinda shocked that jacob anderson has been shut out of this years emmy conversation. what happened there?
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kaiya
2 years
the TIFF lineup is so damn good this year but it’s a shame there’s no virtual option so disabled and immunocompromised critics can safely attend
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3 years
days of heaven / nightmare alley
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1 year
sorry to everyone who disagrees but jeremy strong deserves that best actor emmy
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kaiya
3 years
claire mathon deserves better
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