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Gavia Baker-Whitelaw
@gavia.bsky.social
Film and TV critic. Co-host of the Overinvested movie podcast, co-editor of the Rec Center newsletter.

Bylines: TV Guide, Inverse, Vulture, Boston Globe, Atlas Obscura, Empire, etc. she/her
joining celebrated company alongside 10+ years of assorted neighbours who think @grace-knight.co.uk and I are the same person.
November 29, 2025 at 2:42 PM
they've had dinner multiple times at my house BUT I once failed to recognize a friend I'd literally shared a room with on holiday, so I fully understand.
November 29, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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Has my favourite piece of IMDb trivia: “Trains Magazine voted The Train #1 in its special issue ‘The 100 Greatest Train Movies’.”
November 29, 2025 at 12:23 PM
a fitting honour!!!!
November 29, 2025 at 12:28 PM
hahaha
November 29, 2025 at 11:58 AM
The Train is so great. a WWII heist thriller where Burt Lancaster plays a French Resistance fighter who has to outwit a nazi plot to steal a train full of priceless French art. felt like a precursor to both Die Hard and Thief.
November 29, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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Watch if you wish of course, but anyone watching should know about this background... as should fans of Wong's work in general.

The fact that the person accusing him of exploitation has a degenerative disease makes this whole story especially gruesome and upsetting. Truly repulsive behavior.
November 25, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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My aunt who famously can’t cook tried to make a pumpkin pie. She didn’t know what cloves were, so she put garlic cloves in it. Whole.
November 24, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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We've got a great essay but from the great @gavia.bsky.social about how hagsploitation made a surprising comeback in horror this year www.inverse.com/entertainmen...
2025's Biggest Horror Trend Is A Regressive Step Backward
With two of the biggest horror movies of the year, the "hagsploitation" genre made a big comeback. But is it the one we wanted?
www.inverse.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:55 PM
lolll
November 24, 2025 at 8:05 PM
ooh hope you enjoy!!
November 24, 2025 at 7:20 PM