Birthday present to myself!

Shut the fuck up for one second challenge what an unbelievable loser

Finally, Yellow Submarine, which makes full use of Beatles iconography and personas for an full-on psychedelic trip. A marvelous piece of animation that's still as eye-catching as it was when it was first released. Has just enough plot to hang onto. It's all in the mind, y'know.

Next up, Help! A much shaggier movie placing the Beatles in an odd action-comedy rather than being a Beatles film, and the lads are clearly too stoned off their gourds to give it their all. Still, another great soundtrack with indelible music videos, and some gags that work amidst the jumble.

Another one of my challenges picked! Decided not to get clever with it and simply hit the big Beatles movies. First, A Hard Day's Night. The Beatles as we want to remember them, four lads still able to have fun in the heart of the storm. Great soundtrack and inspired direction by Richard Lester.

You REPRIMAND Tomatillo? You place him on the PERFORMANCE PLAN?

This is amazing. I've seen more people going to the TADC finale over Star Wars at my local movie theater. But this might also confirm one thing, audience fatigue is real. Audiences are tired of the Stars Wars/Marvel stuff, so it's no wonder why original movies are killing it at the box office.

CHALLENGE COMPLETE! LesIsMore watched Yellow Submarine (1968) to complete the "The Beatles" challenge for 2026 Week 23

I’m trying to repeat to myself “It’s just a show, I should really just relax.” But the S8-10 Sci-Fi Channel era of MST3K was *my* MST3K, and the Rifftrax trio once again riffing under this banner makes me so happy.

notes from D&D

jfc that's more than enough

the turn at the end of this is so spectacularly executed that it technically counts as a sonnet

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They never want us talking about the low rates or how difficult shoots are. You raise your voice and you risk not being invited back to set. Very happy to see the crew of Obsession slowly talking about their experience

what we're seeing isn't just the rise of youtubers, the dominance of horror, or some indie groundswell, it's because hollywood's 20 year reliance on franchises no one under 40 gives a shit about has finally come home to roost

ONE OF THE MANY WAYS I AM IN SERVICE OF THIS TIMELINE

the one thing these people cannot countenance is being Accurately Described. all of this is happening because the internet provided a means for people to Accurately Describe them to their faces. and they lost their fucking minds

Pride month begins, and once again my request to make the official Pride flag a flag with just Ghost Rider on it falls on deaf ears

Talking about the WW pilot is the closest I’ve gotten to a TV Twitter rush in a long time. Those were great days, beyond being the only reason I have any writing career to speak of.

Also, a wasted opportunity for Palicki’s WW to not have appeared in the Arrowverse Crisis on Infinite Earths.

Highlights of the Wonder Woman pilot include: •Our hero yelling at Cary Elwes about her breasts. •Our hero torturing a stooge in a hospital bed. •Our hero having a press conference about poor teens who “live in the ghetto.” •Our hero getting sad her ex is married, so she creates a Facebook profile.

I think a lot about how that came out around the same time as a porn version of Wonder Woman, and if I asked you which costume was from the porn version, I bet a lot of people would get it wrong.

Disclosure Day for me would be sharing the copy of the failed David E. Kelley Wonder Woman pilot to every screen so the world would have the wonder of “ADD POLICE CARS” in their mind. #iykyk #GoodTVeets

The most important cultural lesson of the late 80s/early 90s

CHALLENGE COMPLETE! LesIsMore watched Help! (1965) to complete the "The Beatles" challenge for 2026 Week 23

CHALLENGE COMPLETE! LesIsMore watched A Hard Day's Night (1964) to complete the "The Beatles" challenge for 2026 Week 23

Cannot wait for the boos

03 Jun 2026

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Throwback to when a TV station in Iceland accidentally aired an episode of Teletubbies with subtitles from the Sopranos 👌🏼

📽️ #MovieChallenge 2026 - Week 23 This week's challenge comes courtesy of a suggestion by CineChum @lesismore9o9.bsky.social - watch a movie with a connection to The Beatles Quote once done. More info: cinechums.com/challenges/w...

I find it moving that Lynch's legacy in the queer community is now forever tied to the phrase "fix your hearts or die". It has become a rallying cry. It is bigger than him. It is bigger than Twin Peaks. It is beautiful.

People always use the expression ‘rearranging the deckchairs on the Titanic’ but fail to consider the possibility that there might have been an optimal deckchair arrangement that would have helped in the circumstances

old DVDs are great because one of the special features will literally be "list of awards won by unforgiven"

This is a cat check point. Relinquish your most recent cat picture on your phone.

Zohran Mamdani really said “if Politicians really wanted to they would, allow me to demonstrate” and it’s driving the press absolutely insane.

From new releases: Backrooms, inspired by the creepypasta and the videos of 20-year-old (!!!) director Kane Parsons. It's like evil ASMR, where everything about it feels distressing and also compelling, as if want to step forward and backward at the same time. A great translation of the concept.

From the watchlist: Winter Kills (1976), based on the 1974 novel by Richard Condon. A thinly veiled riff on the Kennedy assassination, where hot young Jeff Bridges gets batted around by a conspiracy that never resolves. A not particularly funny black comedy, flavored by some distinct performances.

People who weren't alive in the 90s won't believe there was an entire genre of films about how hot women were forcing Michael Douglas to have incredibly hot sex with them but I was there.

Nice

‪Hmm, yes, I do believe Lestat could revolutionize hundreds of years of vampire culture just by being hot ‬

I’ve never heard of this but I assume it goes on your dick?

Dead Ringers, 1988, dir. David Cronenberg

CHALLENGE COMPLETE! LesIsMore watched Backrooms (2026) to complete the "Inspired Origins" challenge for 2026 Week 22

Probably because it was turned off

remembering agnès varda on her birthday today ✨

You don't make a Star Wars movie to get beaten in the second weekend by an A24 horror movie. A very interesting changing of the guard here.

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