that old Frankenstein tweet went so viral that I nearly lost my entire mind arguing with a deluge of ding-dongs who insisted the monster is the villain, can't wait to do this all over again 7 years later
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that old Frankenstein tweet went so viral that I nearly lost my entire mind arguing with a deluge of ding-dongs who insisted the monster is the villain, can't wait to do this all over again 7 years later
once again tapping the sign
I fear @priscillapage.bsky.social 's tweet from the old hellsite will be getting a lot of play this fall
lol I was just looking for a screenshot of that tweet
when you die on the white house toilet you die in real life
absolutely horrible news. RIP to the legend Scott Spiegel.
immaculate movie
do it, tall son
RIP Graham Greene. Every time he popped up on screen when I was a kid, my mom would excitedly point him out for being an actual Native on the screen. Able to be deadly serious and infinitely hilarious (even in smaller roles like Last of Us), he ate up the screen. Nʌki’wah brother.
Truly, one of the great labor movies, and one of the most cathartic, because it's about a working man who gets exploited and goes on a rampage
Great to see this sensational film get a good critical shine-up
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We’re only a few years removed from creatjng a vaccine to protect against a deadly airborne virus in a matter of months. Now, we have a scion fail son running the CDC into the ground not because it failed, but because its success conflicts with RFK Jr’s eugenicist ideology.
“Gaza Riviera” is such a uniquely horrifying phrase, contemplating it is like looking at a death mask for the world.
solidarity! may our time come sooner rather than later
rolling one up in the tree star
letting myself get a little bit mad at everyone seeing Frankenstein before me, as a treat
Rudy Giuliani happened to be in the middle of one of his favorite pastimes - RESPECTING WOMEN - when he suddenly broke every single bone in his body. Please do not call and ask any questions because his business partner is taking care of him ❤️
thank you so much! you know, it really varies - Manhunter piece took about 6 days, Point Break essay was 4 days (fast for me). now that a lot of my writing is for patreon, I give myself a couple weeks, maybe a month for research-heavy pieces, but I'm usually working on other stuff at the same time
“What got broken here doesn’t go back together again.”
yes, totally! part of Mann's magic imho is that he make a lot of his work feel like a documentary, but it's still somehow very romantic and/or expressionistic. so much of The Insider feels incredibly subjective - like we're seeing everything through Wigand's eyes
Plus Blaise has something that Bond doesn’t: a theme song by Sparks! youtu.be/MNvAntvPPxI?...
it's weird because I love Roger Moore in general but when I was first getting into Bond movies, I felt like his Bond kinda grated. too cheeky for me. I gotta revisit them and give him another chance, but yeah.
Watched this again recently when Criterion had their Michael Mann package and it is definitely a quintessential "great movie that is more relevant than ever"
also, I'd be okay with a woman playing Bond, but I don't think it's the right call. misogyny and imperialism are baked into 007's DNA. and it feels so lazy to turn an iconic fictional dude into a lady - I feel like I'm getting the scraps! give me a Modesty Blaise franchise, or a brand new character.
I love GoldenEye and I like Tomorrow Never Dies, but I feel like maybe growing up with Remington Steele reruns made it hard for me to take Brosnan seriously as Bond (I love Brosnan in general). but yeah, I love both of Dalton's movies
ohh are you an Insider fan?? (I know we've talked about Thief...) guess I gotta up my game for this one
it's tragic that we didn't get a few more outings with him as 007. imho he feels like the Bond who most matches the character's energy in the books.
Sean Connery might be THE James Bond, but Daniel Craig's Bond is my personal favorite. Timothy Dalton wildly underrated - overall I prefer the butch Bonds to the more posh, quippier, prettier ones. and On Her Majesty's Secret Service is one of the best Bond movies ever made.
Priscilla does incredible work. I immediately want to watch this again
thank you, Alasdair!
it might not be terrific, I wrote it a long time ago. this podcast episode is much more recent (and hopefully better)
I've written about that one, tho
currently being a cool guy and working through the wee hours of the weekend, somehow ended up with 4000 words on The Insider so far
I wasn't wearing any of those things so I'm not sure how this dude discerned it
trying to figure out whether the CVS pharmacist who asked me if I was "here for the car show" somehow knew what I write about or just magically pegged me as a car guy
I wrote about one of my favorite movies ever made: Highlander www.patreon.com/posts/highla...
privileged to be part of this release -- which includes a brand new interview with Peter Hyams (!) -- and frankly pretty proud of the essay I contributed to this one
A Simple Plan (1998) & Andrew Wyeth's Grist Mill, watercolor on paper, 1968 + Wind from the Sea, tempera on hardboard, 1947
I wrote about Sam Raimi's A Simple Plan
I wrote about 28 Years Later
no one's seen this guy since like Tuesday
how it feels to be Waiting For The News right now
this is “stuff pillows under the blanket to make it look like someone is sleeping in the bed” levels of cover up
standing on our balcony yelling down to each boy and asking him “what news”
I'm actually not sure whether it got a theatrical release! I just found it on Kanopy recently. Fiennes's performance is outstanding, Binoche is good, occasionally it's very pretty. everything else about it is... Not Great, imho
the Pyun Cut of Captain America is actually great
sure why not
evidently no one saw him yesterday or today and he has no events scheduled through the weekend... that's the only scoop I've heard so far
wait.................. Is It Finally Happening
A joy to co-produce this with Neil, includes critical extras from the dream team of @priscillapage.bsky.social @joshnelsonfilm.bsky.social @brndnstrssng.bsky.social and Chris Alexander, with art by @pye.bsky.social 💜
had an extremely good time hanging out with + writing about this movie, thank you for having me!
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privileged to be part of this release -- which includes a brand new interview with Peter Hyams (!) -- and frankly pretty proud of the essay I contributed to this one
Dreamed a new McDonald’s breakfast sandwich with 1 lb. of egg whites called “The Wet One”
completely understand why this feels necessary, but I'm not sure there's a worthier custodian of these objects out there
oh I personally feel totally comfortable recommending Jesse V. Johnson's Hell Hath No Fury, a film made for about $2 in Belarus. I put it on my list of favs that year: "It’s a little like if Sam Peckinpah directed a feature-length riff on the cemetery scene in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly."
also the Daniel Bernhardt of Bloodsport II: The Next Kumite, Bloodsport III, Bloodsport 4: The Dark Kumite, & True Vengeance fame
that's the guy!
Barry, no!
anyway this big-ass three-bladed sword from Pyun's The Sword and the Sorcerer fucking rules. can't imagine it's super practical but it looks amazing, and I suspect it must have influenced Deathstalker a little bit.
Bernhardt's triple-bladed sword in Deathstalker is giving The Sword and the Sorcerer
We will be jettisoning trans rights from the Dem Party platform over my room-temperature fucking corpse. We are leaving no one behind, and fuck anyone who thinks otherwise. A core tenet of American identity is that we, not the government, define ourselves. All of us get protections or none of us do
very excited to finally see a trailer for this -- Psycho Goreman is so bonkers and fun and funny, and I love Daniel Bernhardt in a starring role
I wrote about Klute www.patreon.com/posts/klute-...
a girl can dream
🥲 there were a lot of people there I've known via Action Twitter™ for several years so there was a reunion vibe to the fest, everyone very excitable. (I will say it was pretty surreal realizing I was much less peripheral than I believed.)
mods are asleep, post Shirtless Popsicle-Handling Ralph Fiennes in Strange Days
Reading any online discussion of any book where the lead character is anything other than 100% likable is so fucking depressing. I don’t know how to write for entitled adult children who don’t want to feel bad for one second.
now that 28 Years Later is (kind of) out of my system, I think I'm going to return to this project. currently tinkering with a longer essay on The Insider, which is already twice as long as the article I wrote for Empire magazine.
imagine being so maniacally racist that you side with the fire over the firefighter
if I had known how welcoming and kind everyone was gonna be at Big Bad Film Fest, I would have announced my arrival with a megaphone instead of trying to sneak in unnoticed 😭
I met two legends at the Big Bad FilmFest. Koichi Sakamoto and @priscillapage.bsky.social still geeking. @a4epodcast.bsky.social knows the deal how hyped we were for Priscilla.
👀 I see three legends in these photos -- an honor to meet you, Frankie!
I really think we need to have some mechanism in place for being able to say, in print and in the media, that a problem with a public figure is that they are insane. Not in a hyperbolic way. RFK Jr is a maniac.
Shane Black's new Parker and Grofield movie finally has a trailer
thinking about Blade Runner 2049 lately, can't remember whether I've shared my essay about it here before
I promise I won't recite the passages
I need a rich benefactor, STAT
lol you could've saved that little bit of condescension for after the film's release, *if* you're vindicated! I would personally rather root for my friends here and I'm hoping for the best - I love Westlake and I'm a huge fan of Shane Black's work and would love to see a return to form
100%. love Statham but that is A Lot
to clarify, I love Jason Statham, but... c'mon son
losing my entire mind at someone trying to tell me Jason Statham was a better Parker than Lee Marvin or Robert Duvall
everyone's yelling at me about Marky Mark playing Parker but even he cannot stop me from being hyped for this
look, this movie's getting dumped on amazon prime in October and they're not bringing their A-game in promoting it. they've released 1 trailer and 1 still image, that's it. my friends made this, I know they love the source material, & I'm giving it the benefit of the doubt until I see it for myself
thinking about Blade Runner 2049 lately, can't remember whether I've shared my essay about it here before
As I wrap up this latest L.A. trip and head home, I just want to say thank you. Thanks to all the friends, colleagues, and comrades that made it out to BIG BAD FILM FEST. Thanks to Patrick R. Young and Powell for spearheading such an incredible event where I got to meet...
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Happy Birthday Darkman!
thank you, Britt 🥲
I haven't seen the Harry Potter movies or read the books but doesn't Voldemort fall under the "Nazi/evil" category
yeah I've heard it isn't terrific but I love Fiennes and an Odyssey adaptation, and I can watch it for free so I'm sold. hoping to give it a look sometime soon
the first novel is kind of an outlier in the series anyway, they're not drawing from it at all. but I can't actually think of a Parker novel where he isn't betrayed or double-crossed lol
