"only monsters play god" @realgdt.bsky.social's FRANKENSTEIN is by far the closest film portrayal of Mary Shelley's original story — an interpretation, yes, but masterfully done — finally, humanity is monstrous, and the monster was always Victor 🎥 Dan Laustsen 🍿 boxd.it/2LF3D

"they love what we make, but not us" i enjoyed the original, but the 2021 version of CANDYMAN was a brilliant accompaniment for a double screening — shadow art storytelling, gentrification, i rarely say this about a remake but i'd actually like to see more 🐝 boxd.it/2LF3D

philip glass score, allegory of dangers black people face and have faced, modern-ish day and urban folklore — CANDYMAN wasn't as scary as i'd hoped, but it's quite a beautiful film i expect to grow on me 🪝 boxd.it/2LF3D

Oil paintings from Serbian artist Dragan Bibin's Deimos series. I'm a fan. The vibe, I like it...

age yourself with gaming

🔥 hot tip 🔥 when signing up for stuff online, put the website's name as your middle name / surname then, when you inevitably receive spam, you'll know who sold your data

puzzle boxes can be beds, too 🧩

industry scenes could be chopped in half & devastated to learn the wonderful character of Faye is an amalgamation of several women that said: interest in the creative process, ongoing periods of depression, tangled feelings towards dad — SPRINGSTEEN: DELIVER ME FROM NOWHERE got me 🎤 boxd.it/2LF3D

thank goodness for the third episode of IT: WELCOME TO DERRY stepping in as evening viewing — it's been CARRY ON films for a week and i believe my body is craving ✨ violence ✨

CARRY ON CRUISING was the first of the franchise in colour, and Kenneth Williams becoming a little more Kenneth Williams-y ⚓️⛴️⚓️⛵️⚓️🛥️⚓️🚢⚓️🛳️⚓️

umm? CARRY ON REGARDLESS was... well, it was nice to be around them, even if the world they inhabited made no sense whatsoever

i'm twelve hours behind on podcasts that *i have voluntarily subscribed to* and *enjoy* — not at gunpoint — so why am i stressed

i usually enjoy / forgive Sandler films, and love Nicholson, but ANGER MANAGEMENT was a pretty hard no for me 😡 boxd.it/2LF3D

NONNAS was a bit all over the place (or perhaps i just wanted more of the food, a genre i now realise how much i love), but it had so much heart crammed in — would watch again with a big smile on my face 🍝🍝☕️☕️🍝🍝☕️☕️🍝🍝☕️☕️

CARRY ON CONSTABLE is another fun, comfort-watch entry to the franchise also just found out Leslie Phillips was the voice of the Sorting Hat in the Harry Potter films, how fun

CARRY ON TEACHER is another solid entry to the franchise — they all seem quite tame so far, i suppose in contrast to what they became, but there's enough in them to feel sort of... safe? silly british comfort viewing, i guess would be the full genre name

nature is pretty 🍁 best books for perfect words describing a forest? would be much appreciated, thank you kindly

"come now, matron — surely you've seen temperatures taken like this before." "yes, but never with a daffodil." 🌼 again, nothing too offensive or dull (or very interesting / hilarious in all honesty) in CARRY ON NURSE — the long-running franchise seemed to start as safe bets for a solid comedy

if you gave HAPPY GILMORE 2 a one-star review & said you didn't see / like the first one then what are you doing here get out if you like the first one, the second isn't as good & leans on cameos way too hard — most i had no idea who they were — but otherwise it's good, fine fun ⛳️ boxd.it/2LF3Do

"hard left disruptors." Or just give a crap about people? And want things to be affordable. Join.greenparty.org.uk

what a solid film — CARRY ON SERGEANT isn't the best in the franchise, but great comfort watching with no dull moments, remarkably un-offensive considering it's a 70yo comedy, and some fine acting from characters we get to know much better later on 🍿 boxd.it/2LF3D

really enjoying (as much as one 'enjoys' this kind of thing) MONSTER: THE ED GEIN STORY yes it's sad, sick, but i'm on episode two & it's already making interesting & quite moving comments on influences & comparisons with Hitchcock & Perkins — it doesn't feel exploitative but genuinely reflective

"i never saved anything for the swim back" GATTACA was a bit flat for me, but beautiful & seemed like a grower not a shower (apparently like Hawke's massive dong in the film) — it commits fully to its themes, & i respect / remember that 🚀 boxd.it/2LF3D

for anyone understandably intimidated by getting off Spotify, here's what i did: — Tidal = music — Pocket Casts = podcasts — BorrowBox / local library = audiobooks & cost? less than £5pm on family subscription / totally free / totally free. so, morally & financially, leaving Spotify makes sense.

'why are you dressed like somebody died?' 'wait.' appreciate ADDAMS FAMILY VALUES more every time i watch it — need me a love like Gomez & Morticia 🍿 boxd.it/2LF3D

the vet to either of my cats: you're such a beautiful girl, aren't you? does beautiful girl want some treats? some lick-e-lix? awww is that a good chin scritch-scrotch? my doctor: you look paler than i remember

wtf is going on @theguardian.com "I am not a great horror fan. After watching IT: WELCOME TO DERRY, I remember why. It’s because it’s full of horrors. Someone, please hold me." why ask your writers to write about something they openly don't enjoy?! which audience would this piece be serving?

the word 'freelance' literally comes from a medieval word for a mercenary warrior, sworn to no lord. a literal free lance i am a knight-writer for hire

INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE SECOND INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE OVER ZOOM TO MEET MORE OF THE TEAM UNFORTUNATELY, YOU HAVE NOT BEEN SUCCESSFUL ON THIS OCCASION, BUT WE HOPE YOU'LL APPLY FOR FUTURE POSITIONS WITH THE VAMPIRE

me: [panicking about monday on friday night] my watch: would you like to track this workout?

sooo @yougov.co.uk has the momentum of @zackpolanski.bsky.social's @greenparty.org.uk ranking FIRST for all voters under 50 in the UK 🥳 i joined last week and am now volunteering in my local town on content strategy have hope, not hate 💚

EXERCISED by Daniel Lieberman, in short: our evolutionary history states we didn't exercise as we avoided spending energy we didn't need to — that said, our health today requires us to override this avoidance, as our sedentary new lifestyles are killing us so: we should make it fun & social 🕺🏻

repost with you & your significant other (not really)

pumpkin picking 🎃

plsplsplsplsplsplsplsplsplsplsplsplspls let IT: WELCOME TO DERRY be great or i'll be sad

Ari Aster's MUPPETS

KNOWING is a daft film, and only eight years after 9/11 — but good bit of fun anyhow 🌍

1 — Stephen Fry already did it perfectly 2 — since then, at this point, surely it's worth acknowledging that celebs signing on for work related to JK Rowling's world of Harry Potter either don't give two shits about human rights or actively agree with JKR because it's too late to claim ignorance

really liked this from SIGHT AND SOUND's review of DEAF ('SORDA') and interview with director Eva Libertad — one problem with having any form of disability, alongside the others that come with it of course, is the 'beautification' of it as if were a super power

drop an old person you're gonna turn into in future

i'm surrounded by BILFs* *books i'd like to finish

as someone who recently watched all the NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET films back-to-back, and some of them are *stinkers*, it's safe to say that the Grabber could contend with Kreuger if they just sort out some of their writing — Grabber is just as camp and fun, but a little darker

define 'perfect ending' 🎬

define 'perfect ending' 🎬

what with these four films + the original NOSFERATU this week, it's been a good one 🍿 boxd.it/2LF3D #LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched

i mean CHICKEN RUN has no faults, right? i like to find them so point at them & i'll submit, but i'm confident there are none weird double-bill with TALK TO ME — maybe an angle of imminent death? wouldn't recommend 🐓 boxd.it/2LF3D