Odyssey looks fine but I think people have a point in criticizing Nolan for not including the story of Bophades

The train ends up haunting the rest of the trilogy in really impactful ways, and the major payoff in The World of Apu/Apur Sansar (1959) being Apu’s dissociative near suicide… man 😩😮‍💨

The World of Apu (1959), Satyajit Ray

Johnny Storm 🔥 #comicfanart #marvelfanart #characterdesign

One of my favourite paintings, 'A Seated Woman Looking at a Child Through a Window', a ghostly 17th century work by the enigmatic Jacobus Vrel. Next to nothing is known about the artist, did he even exist? More than enough room for a Schalcken the Painter style BBC Ghost Story, I would've thought..!

Excited for everyone else to learn about cursed Ide.

art by jose segrelles and by pure coincidence a representation of what covid is currently doing to my brain

Kenji Mizoguchi’s The Story the Last Chrysanthemums (1939) is complicated, a ghostly moment of Imperial critique that feels wilted and wasted by Mizoguchi’s soon-after (and self-preserving) turn to propaganda, but seeing that opening performance of Yotsuya Kaidan in the long-gone nitrate night… WOW.

It's no match for R. Shore’s 1974 cover

one of my washi tape birds is a swallow-tailed kite :^)

Schmetterling des Todes ~ Herbert Grass (1910)

We're past the point of no return! We talk the misstep of Joel Schumacher's Phantom of the Opera in this podcast clip! Full episode at the links below or on any podcast app! 🍎: tiny.cc/TMRAppleJS 🟢: tiny.cc/TMRSpotifyJS 📺: patreon.com/themixedreviews

Sean Barry at @kaijuunited.bsky.social covers an underappreciated Kaiju classic, Daimajin. All three films in the series are good, but the first is just stellar. This is review hits the nail solidly on the head and is a good read. kaijuunited.com/2024/07/07/r...

Here's to 10 years of Enzo Garza's Gutt Ghost!! I drew this piece for the Gutt Ghost fanzine, FOR THE LOVE OF GUTT.

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About as perfect a crack at the Martians as I’ve ever seen (and I’ve seen a lot!)

I also highly, highly recommend the 1968 WKBW “remake.” Genuinely love it as much as Orson’s original, and some of the imagery they manage to spin in their format is peak Martian monstrosity youtu.be/g-oTTyGOkIg?...

Messing around with my Criterion THE WAR OF THE WORLDS this morning and gave the infamous Orson Welles broadcast a listen and started thinking how neat it would be to do an adaptation for stage.

The Mad Fox (1962), Tomu Uchida An Actor’s Revenge (1963), Kon Ichikawa Himiko (1974), Masahiro Shinoda Resurrection (2025), Bi Gan

9. Ultraman by Kazuo Umezz If “Ultraman by Kazuo Umezz” isn’t enough to convince you on this honestly I don’t know what else to say. It’s Ultraman by Kazuo Umezz.

Cannot be stressed enough how good we’re all about to eat.

Hungarian poster for ROBOCOP (1987) Directed by Paul Verhoeven - BOTD in 1938

I think the Odyssey would make a really good book

While still very much the same breed as his later Demon Pond, Masahiro Shinoda’s Himiko (1974) worked on me far more like Kaneto Shindo’s oblique The Iron Crown: a blending of Japanese film and theater so precise, experimental, and actively hostile as to be a disarming, frightening experience.

A visual stunner, an off-kilter world of spirits as half dreamy natural splendor and half distressingly liminal avant-garde sets against black, but tortuously cruel as an ensnarement in a purposeful and intricate cultural nightmare. Butoh brutality as a New Wave psychotic episode.

The black and white across the Apu trilogy is just SO beautiful and lovely. Aparajito (1956) is so sad and a little hollowing (stepping away from Pather Panchali’s sitar accompaniment makes the mortal tragedies feel colder), but it’s such a feast to watch Ray figure himself out in real time.

Much love and gratitude to Satyajit Ray as I continue to explore his, uh, masterful storytelling and, erm, plots.

You know folks, I'm getting the feeling that if any genre has taken the place of the western in American cinema, it's horror.

Things don't have purposes, as if the universe were a machine, where every part has a useful function. What's the function of a galaxy? I don't know if our life has a purpose and I don't see that it matters. What does matter is that we're a part.

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You can even take their fundraisers & share them yourselves. Pick 1 or 2 & help them. You can help, don't think that you're powerless. Please. You will make a palpable difference in the lives of people suffering active extermination. If you can't do anything else, please, please share. Thank you 🤍

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