Joe Tomastik

Senior Staff Writer for @LoudAndClearRvs. Late bloomer cinephile. #OFTA Member. Anyone from @nyfcc, hit me up!

[Joe Tomastik @joetomastik]

Gonna just drop this 3-year-old article here, because it makes all the same points I’m feeling now. #Mario #MarioMovie #TheSuperMarioGalaxyMovie #Nintendo #Illumination

https://t.co/V0FQCIetJy

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So apparently I’m the only one who saw the Other Mommy trailer and thought it looked dumb from the start.

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Oh shit I forgot to wake Green Day up.

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Will Brill plays the smallest, pettiest, most sniveling little weasel you’ll ever see in Giselle Bonilla's THE MUSICAL, out now in theaters!

Read @joetomastik's review! 🔥

https://t.co/JYwNspbgIg

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BUDDY gleefully and wholly commits to slashing apart preschool programming with a hilarious, strange, razor-sharp horror comedy! 🤩👀

Read @joetomastik's review! 🔥

#Buddy @roadsidetweets

https://t.co/GtuFMJfED4

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John still associating with him makes him kinda gross too.

[codie 🏳️‍⚧️ @caonfilm]

this is honestly terrifying. no one deserves this harassment. the fact that he’s STILL being given access and opportunities is fucking disgusting. especially as a woman in this space, knowing he’ll still be around is really scary to think about. this industry is a mess

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“If Stalker makes you feel dumb and bored while Oppenheimer makes you feel smart and alive, who will you say is the greater filmmaker?”

Last I checked it’s better for a movie to make you feel alive than bored.

[Chris Lambert @TheChrisLambert]

One of the reasons Nolan’s considered a great filmmaker is because he designs his movies around reveals and lets the audience be part of it. So everyone gets the sense of “aha!”

Imagine you spend 3 hours watching 2001: A Space Odyssey and don’t get it. That can be really frustrating.

With Interstellar, there’s a similar sense of grandeur and thematic mystery, until the end, when Nolan provides answers to the mystery. People come away feeling not only like they watch art but that they understood art. Which is enjoyable.

Both Snyder and Bay lack the magic trick nature of Nolan. His dedication to structuring around mystery and payoff is why his films feel deeper than they are.

People watch The Odyssey and can sense there’s subtext. In the third act, Nolan’s nice enough to explain the subtext. People feel they watched a smart movie and understood it.

Whereas if you’re watching a Michael Bay film or Zach Snyder film…there’s no sense of the subtext and no reveal. So those films come off as one-dimensional and simplistic.

So Nolan’s carved out this niche where his films feel smart while also being presented in a way that’s more dynamic than the traditional art flick.

If Stalker makes you feel dumb and bored while Oppenheimer makes you feel smart and alive, who will you say is the greater filmmaker?

[Joe Tomastik @joetomastik]

🔪slasher: Scream
👻ghost: The Shining
😈possesion: The Innocents
🩸vampire: Nosferatu (2024)
🐺werewolves: Silver Bullet
😆horror comedy: Shaun of the Dead
🫠body horror: The Thing
👽sci - fi: Annihilation
📼found footage: The Blair Witch Project
🌎int’l: Speak No Evil (2022)

[Scott @ScottyReading]

my horror faves

🔪slasher: Scream
👻ghost: The Conjuring 2
😈possesion: Evil Dead (2013)
🩸vampire: Van Helsing
🐺werewolves: Underworld
😆horror comedy: Freaky
🫠body horror: The Thing
👽sci - fi: Starship Troopers
📼found footage: Cloverfield
🌎int’l: A Tale of Two Sisters

[Joe Tomastik @joetomastik]

OH FUCKING GOD,

(This is hilarious, thank you.)

[Joe Tomastik @joetomastik]

As someone who has TSADACM in my top five faves of the year, get over yourself.

[Richard Brody @tnyfrontrow]

Not disputing opinions, to each their own, but deep, granular analysis is anti-art—a process that, if our French friends taught us anything, is designed to find the self-contradiction in everything. No theses. As Godard said, don't worry about comprendre, it's enough to prendre.

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@lebowskidoo I’m incredibly sorry. Losing a pet hurts so much, but we never forget their little hearts.

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25: The Life of Chuck
24: Challengers
23: Oppenheimer
22: Everything Everywhere All at Once
21: Mass
20: The Invisible Man

[Branyan Towe @BranyanTowe]

Favorite movie of each year of the 20s:

26: The Odyssey (so far)
25: Sinners
24: Anora
23: Bottoms
22: Avatar: The Way of Water
21: West Side Story
20: Tenet

[Joe Tomastik @joetomastik]

@SeanMBurns AMC Theaters. We make movies crime scenes.

[Joe Tomastik @joetomastik]

THANK YOU, geez! And also in Obsession’s case, the fact Bear clearly saw the billions of massive problems and was still like, “No, I still wanna keep going with this.”

[☀️AliquisNovus☀️ @PalmyrPar]

The main issue with Obsession is the same one with nearly all “be careful what you wish for” moral tales, which is that it’s not actually what you wish for that’s at fault, but merely the fact that you didn’t hire a lawyer to draft the wording of that wish.

[Joe Tomastik @joetomastik]

This was one of the toughest but most satisfying articles to write for me. Please let me know what you’d choose as your favorite needle drops!

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Magic can happen when music and film are brought together! 🥰✨

Read @joetomastik's top 25 best needle drops, or uses of songs, in movies!

Can you think of more? 🤩

#needledrops

https://t.co/Uj00HOhKc0

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Congrats to Spain!

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The Odyssey is a movie you oughta go out and watch!

Review below! 👇

https://t.co/7rqYVIaLrt

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Completely seconded. My favorite movie of last year, for reasons you can read about here:

https://t.co/cDp6YtZn6u

[NekkoBlue💫 @NekkoBlue]

completely on a whim i watched that one movie that people briefly memed about where william afton and clark backrooms share a scene together and came out of it genuinely moved

please watch the life of chuck if you haven’t already, completely blind if possible, it’s really good

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My top favorite films of 2026 so far (though I know Josephine doesn’t count since it hasn’t come out yet).

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It’s still possible to have fresh approaches to familiar types of stories, and these 20 films prove it!

Read @joetomastik's list of 2020s movies that show originality isn't dead! 😍

https://t.co/rWEvyfvA83