Saw a new audiologist with my new insurance. I told him the last time I got new hearing aids. He grimaced. "Yeah, you should be getting a new pair every three years." ROFL okay Dr. Moneybags.

The best ghost stories are the ones structured like campfire tales. Sparse, yet, lived in, with an atmosphere thick enough to cut with a knife. Anyhoo, I watched THE SIGNALMAN last night and it gave me the legit chills. Denholm Elliot is at turns heartbreaking and unaffected.

"Talk to Ann Dowd." Wise words for any occasion.

A 1920 Photoplay magazine piece mocking "the discrepancy hound" Tedious people looking for plot holes were around long before the internet, alas. (Photoplay had a regular feature for readers to point out movie mistakes, so this seems a bit hypocritical, no?)

Okay, I did not get the amount I needed in time, but I was able to use some points for the room to buy myself an extra day, so I still need to get $450 by tomorrow morning! Thank you again to everyone who has donated or shared thus far.

Funny how shit like a sheet floating by itself, or someone standing off in the distance out of nowhere, is enough to give me legit creeps. The simplest effect is often the most evocative.

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

I’m still $700 away from the goal and need it by tomorrow morning. Any bit helps, even just sharing this when you see it!

I sincerely thought I wouldn’t need to do this this week, but something fell through and now I need to raise $800 by Thursday to pay for our room and to get to and from work til next payday. If you’re able to spare anything, even a share, it would be tremendous. Anything helps!

Our 'Month Of The Nasties' begins as @jshermancritic.bsky.social summons James Wasson's "cryptozooploitation" classic, Night Of The Demon. www.thefandomentals.com/a-month-of-t...

I'd like to point out that aside from the Mariners winning tonight against Detroit 3-2 after losing to the Tigers yesterday, 2-3, that the Toronto Blue Jays have wiped the floor with the New York Yankees in two games. Game 1 was a hilarious 10-1 with the second game being a gust-busting 13-7.

I have missed all of the discourse mostly, but i feel like a lot of this could have been avoided if we all just watched TNG "The Measure of a Man."

We're kicking off a brand new review series this month as @jshermancritic.bsky.social looks back at the controversial, beautiful world of 'video nasties'. www.thefandomentals.com/a-month-of-t...

Welp, it's October 1st and you know what that means? Spooky Season '25! The month where I watch 31 horror films over 31 days. Strap in, it's going to get crazy!

RIP Renato Casaro, an Italian artist known for his film posters. He passed away yesterday at the age of 89.

Wrote a little something about moral panics and Video Nasties. www.thefandomentals.com/a-month-of-t...

This wouldn’t all fit in a tweet hence the screenshot. I have til my birthday tomorrow for the last part of this campaign. If you can’t or have already donated, sharing this if/when you see it will be the greatest gift you can give me. Thank you all for the support and kindness.

Bilge Ebiri asks Jim Jarmusch a question we've always wondered about when it comes to indie filmmakers: “How do you pay the bills?”

Went to the Bakersfield County Fair, and the banger Vietnamese instant coffee we bought aside, a lot of arts and crafts booths stuck between corporate floor displays. However, the pavilion with all the student arts & crafts projects, & community clubs like the Kern County Mineral Society-was a hoot.

War ravaged Portland

Wasn't aware of Kaleb Horton, RIP. But been reading some of his writing, and man, did this guy have rhythm and wit. But the big kicker for me is that he's from Bakersfield! Bakersfield?! Well, I'll be.

I don't have the words, but I'll try an unpopular few: Kaleb Horton was a singular human. But. Also. There are a thousand Kaleb Hortons—brilliant, weird—out there; he wrote about some of them. The journalism industry is grinding down all of them. All of us. We just won't know many of their names.

One of the biggest indictments of the Democratic Party is its absolute failure to ever electorally beat Ted Cruz. I mean, come on!

Hey all, I still need to try to raise $800 by Sunday. Literally anything anyone can spare would be a huge help, even if it’s just sharing this when you see it to get more eyeballs on it. Unrelated but happy Friday, go see One Battle After Another.

My remaining movie releases for 2025: Oct. 8: Maintenance Required (Amazon Prime) Oct 24: Queens of the Dead (in theaters) Nov 7: Christy (in theaters) Nov 14: The Running Man (in theaters)

Audiences often overlook the magic of editing and post-production in both tv and film. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbR9...

GOLENEYE is a huge reason why I made so many friends in college. It's also partially the reason why I flunked out. The other part was BRAVEHEART. Oh, sure I'm sure I was culpable as well, but best not to dwell on that.

Got an email from my representative asking for money because funding has stalled. Oh? Have you tried doing...anything at all to stop the rise of fascism? No? So, what would I be paying for exactly?

Claudia Cardinale: the only actor to star in three of Sight & Sound's 100 best films of all time, but who also played the princess in The Pink Panther, destoyer & rebuilder of adolescents the world over. The cause of & cure for all our problems. No better legacy. RIP

Happy first day of Autumn from Jean Rollin's La rose de Fer (1973)...

if you really want to stick it to Disney, and other corporate media giants, become fascinated by things they would never produce, so that they might fade into the background noise of life.

Henry Gibson in "Nashville" - BOTD

I keep thinking “gosh I’ve wasted this whole day” when in fact I have done the most important thing in the world, which is rest. It is so hard to remember that lying down is more important than laundry, more important than meal planning, etc

There is, fundamentally, no real difference between Beale’s rant about foreigners buying up America and a desire to return to a halcyon past and that you might hear on a podcast with breaks for SquareSpace; that is the prophetic part of the movie.

It is fucked up what they did to the headphone jack

Sometimes there's a movie where everything you hear and read about piques your interest. From the star to the director to the premise, etc. But then the trailer drops and you realize, "Hold up, Riki Lindhome is in this too? Man this movie has got EVERYTHING." www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_gU...

Hold up, you mean to tell me there's no SLUMBER PARTY MASSACRE box set? What is this buuuuullshit?

BREAKING: Disney+ is to replace the two-season run of Andor with a recut version that runs for only five minutes, and is just Mon Mothma apologising profusely to Darth Vader for any inconvenience, and letting him have whatever he wants.

A little public service announcement from me to you: The time to change your wiper blades is NOT when it's raining.

it's so funny to see America's health insurance companies be like "look. If there's one thing we love it's denying you care. but we ran the numbers - and we cannot BELIEVE we're saying this - and it's cheaper for us to just pay for the vaccines than deal with you going to the ER."

God I love Nigel Kneale

Ta-Nehasi Coates is doing a lot of things with this essay, but one of the most important is fearlessly using examples of anti-trans hate to describe Charlie Kirk's politics. The contrast between his choices and those of other writers for major legacy outlets is revealing.

Since it's a year old, I'm sure they won't mind me sharing my Quiz Show appreciation. www.bostonglobe.com/2024/08/08/a...

People always hope authoritarianism will breed some sort of great art but it turns out that everyone is sad and tired all the time and the most we got is the worst collection of stand up comedians in our nations history

Paul Newman and Robert Redford, were movie stars, who took that fame, that reputation, that clout, that money, and put it back into the world. They just didn't give back, they thoughtfully looked at the world and said "Here's what I can do." To say nothing of how they were both generational talents!

It's no wonder that criticism is getting gutted at outlets right now, because understanding how to process art on more than a surface level is antithetical to the monolithic "my way is the right way" edict of our current fascist regime. There's no room for interpretation or nuance. And that sucks.