Adesola Thomas

Jul 12, 2024 | letterboxd.com | Gemma Gracewood |Adesola Thomas

“I don’t think one time in seven years have we picked the same film.” Elric Kane is reflecting on the 2,000-odd movies he and his Pure Cinema Pod co-host Brian Saur have recommended to each other, and to listeners, since they started podcasting together in 2017.

Jul 1, 2024 | letterboxd.com | Adesola Thomas |Ella Kemp |Janet Planet

If you were often outdoors as a child in the summers, you likely remember a series of keen sensations: having your palms licked by blades of grass, the soft scrape of tree bark against flesh, sinking fingers into soil. Memories of aimless warm days in July might conjure a sense of unblemished bliss. But in Janet Planet, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Annie Baker’s 1991-set debut feature film, these lilting moments are complicated with one child’s formative, tender bummer summer.

May 11, 2024 | letterboxd.com | Adesola Thomas |Shayna Maci Warner |Mitchell Beaupre |Serial Mom

“Is this the cocksucker residence? Isn’t this 4251 Pussy Way?” Murderous suburbanite mother Beverly Sutphin (Kathleen Turner) grunts through these scandalizing inquiries during a targeted prank call to a despised neighbor in Serial Mom(1994), one of writer-director John Waters’ classic crime comedies.

Mar 8, 2024 | letterboxd.com | Adesola Thomas |Kambole Campbell |Big Picture

Ava DuVernay is practiced in carefully adapting the lived experiences of Black figures across narrative film, documentary and television. She’s captured SCLC and SNCC leaders organizing alongside Martin Luther King Jr. in Selma, the Central Park Five’s prosecution in When They See Us, and the reflections of activists and prison abolitionists like Angela Davis in 13th, DuVernay’s documentary about the transmutation of racialized chattel slavery to codified mass incarceration.

Jan 16, 2024 | letterboxd.com | Adesola Thomas |Katie Rife |Sasquatch Sunset

With 2023 in the rearview (have you perused our Year in Review yet?), the first pages are turned on a fresh calendar: twelve months of enticing new features for us to open our hearts and souls to. The frigid air of Park City, Utah is never more inviting than in late January, when the independent-forward Sundance Film Festival rolls into town. The Letterboxd mic will be on the ground, so if you’re also there keep an eye out for us in a chilly queue, an early morning bistro or late-night club.