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Blake Howard

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Biography:

Blake Howard is a film critic, podcast host and producer behind One Heat Minute Productions, a home for obsessive, cinematic deep-dives, including One Heat Minute, Miami Nice, Increment Vice, All The President’s Minutes, Zodiac Chronicle, Podcaster and Commander and Minhunter. He lives in Sydney, Australia. The sun rises and sets with his wife Sam and two children, Hazel and Keaton. Michael Mann has personally complimented his obsessions and called him “insane.”

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Reviews

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The Testament of Ann Lee (2025) 88% 3.5/4 EDIT “You may not share the faith on screen. But for two hours, you’ll feel its pulse — and that’s something rare, bracing, and unforgettable.” – One Heat Minute Jan 30, 2026 Full Review Is This Thing On? (2025) 86% 2/4 EDIT “On paper, it’s a familiar midlife recalibration story: work, marriage, identity, creativity. On screen, it plays like a series of almost moments that never quite click into rhythm.” – One Heat Minute Jan 16, 2026 Full Review Nouvelle Vague (2025) 92% 3/4 EDIT “What makes Nouvelle Vague special is Linklater’s confidence in the hang. He understands that revolutions don’t look revolutionary while they’re happening. ” – One Heat Minute Jan 16, 2026 Full Review Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) 92% 3.5/4 EDIT “Johnson’s most tactile film in years... deliberate in composition, every candle, robe, and stone wall doing thematic work. It’s a mystery about faith that never preaches, a genre film engaged with the present without becoming a lecture.” – One Heat Minute Dec 18, 2025 Full Review Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) 66% 3.5/4 EDIT “The film is broader, messier, more overstuffed than the first two – and that’s the point. You feel the grief and conflict in the character beats: fire tribes, hallucinogenic rituals, Na’vi Maguas playing every side.” – One Heat Minute Dec 18, 2025 Full Review Sentimental Value (2025) 97% 3.5/4 EDIT “Reinsve is extraordinary. She lets thoughts flicker across her expression like notes on a piano: hurt, amusement, suspicion, love, all in a single glance.” – One Heat Minute Dec 17, 2025 Full Review No Other Choice (2025) 97% 4/4 EDIT “What lingers is the way Park blends the belly laugh and the nervous laugh — how a moment funny in the theatre becomes devastating two days later on the train...satire sharpened to a scalpel...” – One Heat Minute Dec 17, 2025 Full Review The Mastermind (2025) 90% 3.5/4 EDIT “The Mastermind feels like Reichardt looking at the entire heist genre and asking, very quietly: when the dust settles and the mess is all that’s left… was any of this worth it?” – One Heat Minute Dec 15, 2025 Full Review Train Dreams (2025) 95% 3.5/4 EDIT “Watching it feels like slipping into a prayer. The noise of the modern world falls away, even if you’re watching it at home, and what remains is a sombre, quiet portrait of a man haunted by the moments he failed to act.” – One Heat Minute Dec 13, 2025 Full Review The Baltimorons (2025) 95% 3.5/4 EDIT “A man stands in the blue-black Baltimore cold, a little frayed at the edges, carrying the kind of wide-open heart John Candy used to smuggle into every frame. That’s Michael Strassner in The Baltimorons...” – One Heat Minute Dec 11, 2025 Full Review Eephus (2024) 100% 4/4 EDIT “By the time the light finally dies and the game winds down, Eephus has become something gently metaphysical: a film about how ordinary people rehearse for loss without ever admitting that’s what they’re doing.” – One Heat Minute Dec 3, 2025 Full Review Our Hero, Balthazar (2025) 100% 3.5/4 EDIT “What’s bracing is the film’s refusal to settle into a single, comfortingly moral angle. Instead, it asks: who benefits from the stories we tell about these boys, and what do those narratives let everyone else off the hook for?” – One Heat Minute Nov 29, 2025 Full Review Rebuilding (2025) 93% 3.5/4 EDIT “Rebuilding is not a film of grand catharsis. Its beauty lies in accumulation: the glances exchanged, the chores shared, the small kindnesses that form a scaffolding around trauma.” – One Heat Minute Nov 29, 2025 Full Review The Secret Agent (2025) 98% 3.5/4 EDIT “Mendonça Filho builds his thriller out of dissonances: beach parties trembling under portraits of despots, bursts of music that curdle into menace, streets that look festive until you notice who isn’t smiling.” – One Heat Minute Nov 26, 2025 Full Review Broken Voices (2025) 80% 3.5/4 EDIT “Broken Voices could have been punishing or moralistic; instead, it is quietly devastating, resisting exploitation by emphasising systems rather than scandals, the collective habits that allow atrocity to persist unseen.” – One Heat Minute Nov 26, 2025 Full Review We Bury the Dead (2024) 87% 3/4 EDIT “If We Bury The Dead’s premise sounds grim, its execution pulses with life: needle drops that shouldn’t work but do, pockets of absurd beauty amid ruin, and a finale that detonates with something like grace.” – One Heat Minute Nov 25, 2025 Full Review Splitsville (2025) 84% 3.5/4 EDIT “Splitsville feels both ruthlessly timely and wonderfully old-fashioned—it has the buoyancy of 1930s screwball and the sting of post-Instagram intimacy.” – One Heat Minute Nov 21, 2025 Full Review The Running Man (2025) 63% 2/4 EDIT “For its first hour. the film hums. Wright's camera dances through grime and shadow as Richards hides his face, barters for clothes, and dodges the surveillance grid. The supporting cast is a gallery of pleasures. In the final act, it gets too big.” – One Heat Minute Nov 11, 2025 Full Review Predator: Badlands (2025) 86% 2.5/4 EDIT “Predator: Badlands is brawny, sun-bleached pulp—closer to Milius and Conan than to brand-managed IP—anchored in the simple, elemental pleasure of a performer sweating under a suit.” – One Heat Minute Nov 4, 2025 Full Review Die My Love (2025) 74% 3/4 EDIT “Ramsay transforms domestic irritant into sonic torture. The audience begins to flinch as Grace does. The empathy machine sputters, then surges: we don’t just watch her unravel; we feel the static of her mind.” – One Heat Minute Oct 30, 2025 Full Review Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere (2025) 61% 2/4 EDIT “For those of us outside the Springsteen nation—the Australians, the agnostics—the movie becomes an echo chamber of someone else’s nostalgia. You can feel the ache to honour a national treasure, but you can’t feel the pulse.” – One Heat Minute Oct 24, 2025 Full Review It Was Just an Accident (2025) 98% 4/4 EDIT “Panahi’s mastery lies in the misdirection. His compositions look spontaneous, but every cut lands like a blade.” – One Heat Minute Oct 21, 2025 Full Review Bugonia (2025) 88% 3/4 EDIT “What Lanthimos understands—and few contemporary directors do—is that absurdity isn’t the opposite of realism, it’s its echo.” – One Heat Minute Oct 19, 2025 Full Review Yohanna (2024) 3.5/4 EDIT “There’s craft here, not thrift: a sensibility that recalls street-level realism without fetishising hardship, a belief that audiences can meet a movie halfway.” – One Heat Minute Oct 19, 2025 Full Review Sirāt (2025) 93% 3.5/4 EDIT “At Adelaide Film Festival, programmed cheekily as the “party movie,” it played like a barometer: audiences stepped into the afterparty with awe still clinging to their faces, deciding in real time whether to dance through the unease or let it sit.” – One Heat Minute Oct 19, 2025 Full Review
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