Kazuki Motoyama, the creator of Kodansha's ‘Super Mario Bros.’ manga, has sadly passed away at the age of 69.

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

Truth 👇

Mail day today from @diabolikdvd.bsky.social and I am super excited to rewatch this lovely Second Sight release of Sean Baker's The Florida Project.

I’m opening a movie theater in which I show recently released films that I ripped from the internet but the studios are welcome to opt out if they wish.

Premiering this Friday on the Film Masters YouTube channel is The Brain from Planet Arous (1957)! Get ready for planet Earth to be overtaken by a criminal brain from outer space, presented in HD from a fantastic 4K transfer. Get notified when this premiere goes live: youtu.be/2agjGp7li8c

It's sobering to think back to a few years after 2018, when the world was like "YAWN! Another Japanese gore film? BORING. Haven't we gotten enough of these?" and now I'd fall over myself to watch something new that's this imaginative and filled with practical special effects.

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RIP DTV action guru Richard Pepin — the P of the mighty PM Entertainment 💔 😢

Put together a fun 500 piece puzzle from Buffalo.

National Geographic's "Ocean with David Attenborough" is a fantastic documentary. I watched it last night on Hulu. If you like BBC Earth type stuff I highly recommend it. It is both uplifting in its positivity for the future but also a dire warning about what could happen if industry is unchecked.

Every machine in a Hospital that diagnoses your body without cutting you open is based on a principle of Physics, discovered by a Physicist who had no interest in Medicine. If you think the world doesn’t need Basic Science, or that somehow Science has failed you, think again.

The fine folks at @diabolikdvd.bsky.social always ship my movie purchases in pristine condition, this one has been on my 4K wish list for awhile so I am very happy to have the nice Arrow in my collection now.

ICE arrests of immigrants with no criminal records are spiking. (Hat-tip to @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social on the data.) I wrote about how this overlaps with the "we didn't vote for this" discourse. Gift link: wapo.st/43DxcEB

I just got my Vinegar Syndrome order and every bit of it is nice and makes me happy to have in the collection but my goodness they went all out on the slip box for Enter the Void. It is already one my favorites to look at.

Word is spreading that the great Carl Scott has passed away. An American martial artist who appeared in Hong Kong kung fu movies. Check out Soul Brothers of Kung Fu, in which he costars with Bruce Li - one of the very best Bruceploitation movies.

I don't give a shit if the plagiarism machine puts stolen words/pictures together in a way that is pleasing, this is the bottom line: If a human didn't make it, it's meaningless. The end. The ugliest, most rudimentary stick drawing has more meaning and beauty than the finest slop AI can produce.

I know its not a new release but I was super excited to finally get this in the collection.

Nerds hate Alan Moore for the same reason they hate Scorsese: they committed the cardinal sin of suggesting "maybe you should have standards."

It has been great seeing art houses around the country selling out rep screenings of David Lynch films and piling on more shows due to demand, but it’s baffling that no major chain has capitalized on this. The country is hurting and we can only heal with MULHOLLAND DR on 4000 screens simultaneously.

i love that in addition to everything else, elon musk is the dumbest asshole on the planet

(me watching burglars break all the windows and climb into my house) “Just give it time. They might cut their hand on the glass.”

Democratic lawmakers need to understand something: Imagine your house is on fire. Fire truck shows up. Firefighters get out. They look at the fire, then at you, and say: "Such a fire is a grave threat. This house will not sustain." And just stand there. This is how many of you are coming across.

I am available for this kind of work btw.

At least 242 million children in 85 countries had their schooling interrupted last year because of heatwaves, cyclones, flooding and other extreme weather, the United Nations Children’s Fund said in a new report Friday.

No one EVER learns the lesson of Surf Dracula

If there's anything I hope young creatives take from David Lynch, it's to reject the modern IP-driven impulse to explicitly explain and cleanly categorize the logic behind every single event and decision inside and outside of a story at least some of the time.

One second from every episode of Twin Peaks.

So very happy to get "No Country For Old Men" on 4K from Criterion.

If we as a society no longer feel there is a need or a place for SESAME STREET, then it is my genuine opinion we are fucked permanently. This should be a no-brainer. The amount of good that show has done cannot be measured in stock dividends or CEO bonuses, which is the problem. Fuck Zaslav.

I have kept this cd in my car the whole week, I cant get enough of the Cure's new album.

New mail pickup from Deaf Crocodile, can't wait to dive into it. Their box art and cases are so wonderfully nice (not to mention the fine job they do with restorations)!