Pickety Witch

Kelly O'Sullivan has been one of my favorite writers since her first feature, Saint Frances, hit back in 2019. If you haven't heard of it, don't beat yourself up too much. Quarantine gobbled it up. O'Sullivan and creative partner Alex Thompson have had several project since, and return this year with the gift of Mouse. The film is a remarkable look at loss, grief, and class across generations, but what makes it special isn't its themes.

I'm thankful for every single reader of my work. Still, many of you have been calling for me to put my loud mouth to use in podcast form for some time. I'm excited to share that the time has finally come. I've teamed up with Perri Nemiroff and Rosie Knight to bring Cackles & Coffee to life. It was a long and frequently trying road, but we're now available in both podcast (Spotify has the cleanest embed, but you can find the show wherever you get your podcasts) and video form.

It feels like an eternity since I did a good old fashioned newsletter! Over the last month, I've been so busy that I couldn't think straight, but it was all for very good reason. First, I returned to New York Comic Con almost immediately after 9 days in Austin for Fantastic Fest. It was a whirlwind 50-or-so hours in one of my favorite cities in America, and I'm not going to lie to you and say that I slept or treated my body well.

4 min Tom Rhys Harries as Matt Hagen in CLAYFACE, courtesy of DC Studios. At the beginning of this new DCU adventure, James Gunn assured fans that the reboot to the franchise would not be homogeneous. Tones and genres would differ from project to project. Gotham would look like Gotham; Metropolis like Metropolis; Coast City like Coast City, and the stories would have whatever energy deemed correct by the team of the given project.

Lance Oppenheim’s Primetime is fascinating. On the one hand you’ve got a fantastically shot feature debut revolving around a performance from one of our best contemporary actors. On the other, you have an exaggerated take on real events centered on a living human existing in sharp contrast against your film’s central question of ethics, exploitation and Hollywood power dynamics. That’s not a tremendous conundrum to have, even with the number of people who will be willing to look the other way.

Festival Coverage Note: I will be dropping Fantastic Fest reviews throughout the festival. To avoid spamming you, I'm only going to send the big ones directly to your inbox (with a digest of what I've done so far included of course). If you want to see them as they drop, follow me across social at @ThatWitchMia or check back on the site as the fest continues.

Reviews 5 min Austin Abrams in Resident Evil (courtesy of Sony). Resident Evil is a tricky franchise to tackle. The subject matter isn’t particularly daunting or overly difficult to adapt, the fandom is just… well… you exist on the internet, you know.

Updated 9/7/2026 We're switching things up a bit this week. Usually we chat about what I've been watching, but today I want to take a look at what I'm excited for in the coming months. As we head into what used to be known as fall TV season, there is a ton to be excited about! Though, if you want to know what I have been watching, I reviewed Finding Emily(my first pan for the site) and Insidious: Out of the Further(really enjoyed) over at TheWrap since we last chatted.

To say that Green Lantern has consistently struggled in live-action would be an understatement. Since its initial announcement, HBO's Lanterns has done everything to make it clear that this ain't your CGI-laden comedian's take on the hero. No, get ready for a True Detective-esque take on the Lantern Corps. Mind you, there comes a time when you have to show your work but, thankfully, tonight's premiere did just that. Immediately, Lanterns establishes that it will play across decades.

If there's one thing about me, it's that I will be watching a dinosaur movie. Add Anne Hathaway and Ewan McGregor alongside exciting young talent like Maisy Stella and Christian Convery? Yeah, The End of Oak Street was basically formulated in a lab to be one of my most anticipated films of the year.