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This celebrity’s unhinged Letterboxd reviews take comedy to a new level

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This celebrity’s unhinged Letterboxd reviews take comedy to a new level

Letterboxd is known for its quippy film reviews, and the platform’s newest member fits right in: Philomena Cunk.

For the uninitiated, Cunk is a world-renowned journalist, acclaimed for her work on the documentaries Cunk on Britain, Cunk on Earth, and Cunk on Life. Cunk may not know much about the subjects she covers, and she may put her interview subjects in uncomfortable positions—but on the bright side, she also isn’t real.

Cunk is a character portrayed by English comedian Diane Morgan. For her next mockumentary series, Morgan as Cunk is tackling the history of filmmaking in Cunk on Cinema.

How better to let her fellow cinephiles know about the new series, than to meet them where they’re at? Hence her new Letterboxd account, @cunkoncinema, with which Cunk joins the 30 million movie lovers already on the app.

“Done a show about cinema so the producers made me set this up for PR reasons,” reads the account’s bio. “They’re literally watching me type this now.”

So far, Cunk has left 18 reviews in her signature deadpan, which translates even over text. Her first review was for E.T.: “Basically a kid finds a little old man hiding from the police in his shed. The old man gets the kid drunk and says nobody must know about their friendship. A lot of fingering. In the end, the old man gets locked and is taken away in a prison ship. I cried.” Cunk gave the film five stars.



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