
1. Yes, you do still have to start a Letterboxd account - you can catalog reactions, date watched, and this can also be used as a place to save “to watch” lists. 2. Anything you can think of to add to the list, start it now. Then, pick 3 people
by Umnia El-Neil
4. Bones and All Too long and too narratively messy, but it makes up for it in very simple and well-crafted visual storytelling. The performances between Chalamet and Russell seem to be talking past each other. Dialogue was pretty atrocious, I can’t work out why. Costuming, Pacing, Copious amounts
by Umnia El-Neil
I don’t know what to say to get you to believe me - this film, if it is released this year, and if God is just and real, will be the biggest film of the year. Theatre Kids, Actors, Film Buffs, Horror Fans, Rom Com fans, Melissa Barerra Fans
by Umnia El-Neil
No! No!!!!! La Chimera was about property rights and extraction. I thought we all got it? It was pretty clear??? to me??? You know…. the juxtaposition of the abandoned Station and the unopened Graves? That potential through hard work can be negative and positive too? The police not being able
by Umnia El-Neil
There is something so fulfilling about being right, and there, and on it, and around, and paying attention. I have been a fan of Linklater’s for a while now, and especially his approach to filmmaking resonates with me deeply. There is, simultaneously, a seriousness and irreverence that means he
by Umnia El-Neil
Preceding and then following the Met Gala this year, the justified fear of yet another glitzy culturally iconic event being used as cover for ramped up genocidal efforts by the Israeli Military soured the entire thing. Protestors were ‘successfully’ corralled away from the actual streets of the Gala, and the
by Umnia El-Neil
Lost within the righteous and justified flames that took Woody Allen, is a film called ‘The Purple Rose of Cairo’ starring Jeff Daniels, of The Newsroom fame, in his first big role. I found this film through a friend and exclaimed that, as it has been lost to time, I
by Umnia El-Neil
An immediate cult hit that's about to take over and revive local storytelling as global conversation -- gorey, funky and satisfying from start to finish.

Watch the Paid Aficionados Extended Version Here Written and Recorded by Umnia El-Neil, Edited by Valeria Schumann.

In a tenuous era of cultural history, some divas just can't be silenced.

You're always a little bit scared, but you're never deterred.

One of my most anticipated of the festival did not disappoint - a thoroughly satisfying, moving exploration of how hidden joy can be as corrosive as hidden pain.

Perhaps my biggest concern with sci-fi as a genre is the accidental tendency to focus so much on a concept that the characters’ personality gets lost in the process... However, the entire cast – including major and minor characters – shine brightly.

A lot of people are citing the return to recession pop as the scary factor, but I say, dear reader, that the return to slightly off-key synths and cassette sounds should be far scarier.

Come get your bets in early for bragging rights in December!

1. Yes, you do still have to start a Letterboxd account - you can catalog reactions, date watched, and this can also be used as a place to save “to watch” lists. 2. Anything you can think of to add to the list, start it now. Then, pick 3 people
by Umnia El-Neil
4. Bones and All Too long and too narratively messy, but it makes up for it in very simple and well-crafted visual storytelling. The performances between Chalamet and Russell seem to be talking past each other. Dialogue was pretty atrocious, I can’t work out why. Costuming, Pacing, Copious amounts
by Umnia El-Neil
I don’t know what to say to get you to believe me - this film, if it is released this year, and if God is just and real, will be the biggest film of the year. Theatre Kids, Actors, Film Buffs, Horror Fans, Rom Com fans, Melissa Barerra Fans
by Umnia El-Neil
No! No!!!!! La Chimera was about property rights and extraction. I thought we all got it? It was pretty clear??? to me??? You know…. the juxtaposition of the abandoned Station and the unopened Graves? That potential through hard work can be negative and positive too? The police not being able
by Umnia El-Neil
There is something so fulfilling about being right, and there, and on it, and around, and paying attention. I have been a fan of Linklater’s for a while now, and especially his approach to filmmaking resonates with me deeply. There is, simultaneously, a seriousness and irreverence that means he
by Umnia El-Neil
Preceding and then following the Met Gala this year, the justified fear of yet another glitzy culturally iconic event being used as cover for ramped up genocidal efforts by the Israeli Military soured the entire thing. Protestors were ‘successfully’ corralled away from the actual streets of the Gala, and the
by Umnia El-Neil
Lost within the righteous and justified flames that took Woody Allen, is a film called ‘The Purple Rose of Cairo’ starring Jeff Daniels, of The Newsroom fame, in his first big role. I found this film through a friend and exclaimed that, as it has been lost to time, I
by Umnia El-Neil



