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O'Ryan

@oryansbelt

A critic trying to be a creator.

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O'Ryan
@oryansbelt Aug 27, 2026, 3:15 PM UTC

Film Review: Urchin (Warning: Spoilers Ahead)

Source On Life Harris Dickinson's Urchin is a slow-grinding, gritty drama about a vagabond surviving the brutal streets of London. After being pinched for a spot of assault and theft, he is jailed be…

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O'Ryan
@oryansbelt Aug 19, 2026, 9:03 PM UTC

Cloud By Kiyoshi Kurosawa Is a Sobering Exploration of the State of Trust in Modern Times.

(Life)Wanted. (Soul)Sold Cloud is a Japanese drama about a factory worker named Yoshii who decides to escape the drudgery of his nine-to-five to pursue the more lucrative avenues of online selling. T…

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O'Ryan
@oryansbelt Jun 9, 2026, 3:09 PM UTC

Film Review: Backrooms [Warning, Mild Spoilers]

Source I Don't Like It In Here. Backrooms appears to be one of a few films that have been responsible for breaking the internet recently, and punctuating a new state of affairs in which big productio…

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O'Ryan
@oryansbelt Jun 6, 2026, 9:41 AM UTC

Film Review: Obsession

You Ca(n)'t Always Get What You Want....... Obsession joins films like The Backrooms and Hokum at the cool kids' table, clad in a blood-stained cheerleader's outfit and eager for prom night. It's qui…

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O'Ryan
@oryansbelt Jun 1, 2026, 10:20 PM UTC

Book Review:

The cover of Value Beyond Money intrigued me by giving off shades of E.F. Schumacher's Small is Beautiful — a book that focuses on approaches to bringing concern for human well-being and flourishing…

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O'Ryan
@oryansbelt May 29, 2026, 10:14 PM UTC

Five Films, Five Directors: My Upcoming Watchlist

Hmmmm, What to Watch..... When it comes to films, I can't help feeling slightly Nietzschean, insofar as I've come to believe that cinema is dead, and we're all responsible for killing it. Now, in the…

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O'Ryan
@oryansbelt Sep 5, 2025, 8:04 PM UTC

Book Journal: My Heart is a Chainsaw

Attempting a full five days of writing to ensure that these idle hands do not become the devil's playthings. I used the eeny, meeny, miny, moe methodology to select my next book in the library and la…

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O'Ryan
@oryansbelt Sep 4, 2025, 9:22 PM UTC

Book Journal: Bat Eater

It was the striking blue cover and provocative blood-squirting cleaning bottle that had Bat Eater beat out the Ted Bundy biography at the local library. A decent read that leveraged Chinese folklore…

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O'Ryan
@oryansbelt Jul 11, 2025, 10:34 PM UTC

Review: Batman: Full Moon

Grab a Copy 👉 Batman: Full Moon A Bat and a Beast Batman: Full Moon is a haunting and morally complex tale that invites readers to delve into the darker aspects of the Dark Knight’s already brooding…

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O'Ryan
@oryansbelt Jun 25, 2025, 7:56 PM UTC

Books To Read Before Batman: Full Moon | Part 2

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