HOLY SHIT FRINKIAC BUT FOR "30 ROCK" MILLENNIAL GAME-CHANGER funcooker.fun/

It's real: Michael Clayton is on the Criterion Channel.

all of space is a toilet if you have the courage to try

REALIS, the science fantasy TTRPG I’ve been working on for the last five years, is now live on Kickstarter! 55 Player Classes 150+ NPC Classes 29 Factions 20 Example Moons of Realis GMing and Prep Guidance Over 100 incredible illustrations from 17 artists! www.kickstarter.com/projects/cru...

Today also marks the latest entry in @belownirvana.bsky.social and I’s Bond series Shaken Not Stirred. Today is Thunderball. cinemadual.com/2026/03/30/s...

New episode of Cinema Dual with @belownirvana.bsky.social out now. cinemadual.com/2026/03/29/e...

Settle a bet for me. Is a guy who puts on a striped shirt and a red beret and white face paint and gloves, and then puts a hat out in a public plaza, and then quietly beats the shit out of anyone who approaches him called an antipersonnel mime?

from Paul’s Blart, I stab at thee

While reanimating Tolkien’s corpse to get his feedback on the Hunt For Gollum films could prove to be impractical, fortunately Tolkien was generous enough to provide his feedback in the text itself.

There should be a Canadian Heritage Minute for LEXX

My wife and I have decided that we don't want to have kids. We're going to tell them tonight at supper.

The Cinema Dual series on the Bond franchise continues with Goldfinger. Read @belownirvana.bsky.social and I’s thoughts here. cinemadual.com/2026/03/15/s...

Got this from the library on the suggestion of @robzacny.bsky.social on the latest @morecivilized.bsky.social . Psyched to dig in but damn this is a brick. I feel like I should be casting spells from this.

Onibaba (1964)

I’m going to be annoying as hell about this, because it’s such a fun project & we all need some joy & levity in our lives right now. Get you a mini boombox with weird, experimental music on it for your nightstand, your desk, your bookcase… Collect action figures? Get one for them to jam out to.

Okay y’all, here we go. I launched the preorder for this early, since #BandcampFriday gets nuts. The next Philip K. Discs compilation is coming out in April on mini boomboxes. Preorders will be open until the end of a March and then they’ll be closed forever. If you want one, don’t sleep on it.

An enthusiastic and well earned “hell yeah”

The next PKD release of 2026 will be announced very soon…and it’s gonna be a blast.

Kudos to @schwindter.bsky.social for the Oh Hellos suggestion on who might be able to take on the challenge of adapting Tolkien for song.

The next entry in the Shaken Not Stirred series for Cinema Dual is up now. @belownirvana.bsky.social and I are talking From Russia With Love. cinemadual.com/2026/02/28/s...

New episode! It's time for a book that SHOULD have been good but is bad - PKD and Roger Zelazny's Deus Irae. Confused theology, mishmashed desert journeys, and cannibal computers (?) all blend together in a collaboration that should, and almost did, stay unpublished. soundcloud.com/death-senten...

Getting back into Star Trek Discovery to finish the last two seasons has been bumpy so far, but having David Cronenberg occasionally pop by to throw grenades at the crew members always works.

Been a lot of Wilder around Cinema Dual the last two months. I am not complaining. Shirley MacLaine in black and green is now permanently burned into my brain, and I wouldn’t have it any other way.

This month’s episode of Cinema Dual with @belownirvana.bsky.social is out now. We’re talking Billy Wilder. cinemadual.com/2026/02/16/e...

@joncinemadual.bsky.social and I are back with the next installment of our film conversations, this time taking on the man himself, Bond...James Bond. cinemadual.com/2026/02/15/s...

Could happen.

"Did I ever tell you Sammy Jenkins wasn't the father?" - Memento Maury

ICYMI: The Haunt. If you’re a noisemaker, you’re gonna want this noise box.

"Obsession Prayer" - 2025 Illustration for the cover of Ghorot's next LP, "OBSIDIAN", available for preorder starting March 6th via King of the Monsters and Lay Bare #metalsky #darkart #illustration #horrorart #art #drawing #painting

putting the C in FCA

People who think Kurosawa is “homework cinema” need to be slapped around a bit.

going into the new year guns blazing...puddleglum discog is up on @ampwall.com AND there's merch of sorts: get your duvet covers and aprons featuring wretched empires, puddleglum, and Caesar here: www.redbubble.com/people/james...

With a knock on your door, a kindly wizard invites you to join us on Shelved By Genre's LORD OF THE YEAR, in which we will consider the popular but contested works of JRR Tolkien, kicking things off with a long rumination upon the first four chapters of THE HOBBIT: rangedtouch.com/2026/01/02/t...

our entire 19-minute oeuvre is pay-what-you-want on Bandcamp, described by experts as "folky atmospheric black metal" and "90s black metal vibes...the prodution's a little better" wretchedempires.bandcamp.com/album/bloom

More 2025 movie stats

A message for you all to carry through the year

What was the last movie or TV show you watched in 2025?

the fourth and final episode of FOOL TIME drops on youtube tomorrow. it will be wildman whitehouse's finest hour

The final episode of Cinema Dual for 2025 is out now. @belownirvana.bsky.social and I are talking Satyajit Ray. cinemadual.com/2025/12/28/e...

naming my security company after the evil spirit who couldn’t even spot/stop the two heroes from entering his domain with his own evil ring and destroying him utterly

2026 IN: Terminus Est Dueling with avern leaves Eating the alzabo Plays Horse riding (Thecla edition) Touching weird statues without worry lol it's fine OUT: Maces Taking your job as a carnifex seriously AGIA Falling into the sky Nodules Waiting rooms Snails The Autarch Jonas :(

They say imitation crab is the sincerest form of crab

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

Watching THE GREEN KNIGHT again

Oh Gene.

RFK: “Where did all this autism come from? It never existed when I was a kid!” “A Christmas Story”, a 1983 movie based on a 1971 memoir about a childhood in the 1930s: “This is my brother Ralphie. He has a ton of sensory issues and behaviors we don’t understand. Every family has a child like him.”

I came across an old acquaintance’s holiday post where they and their spouse were wearing matching “I come in peace”/“peace” sweaters. And I scrolled through every comment from friends and family, and not one person commented on the joke. I can’t be that person.