I was once on a Winnipeg bus and overheard someone explain his theory that everyone has a loser friend who they maintain their relationship with only out of pity. However, he said, for balance's sake, everyone IS that friend to some other person. I think about this from time to time.

🚨 MELBOURNE 🚨 Tickets for the world premiere of our forthcoming Shudder doc 1000 WOMEN IN HORROR are still available, but are moving fast. There's also a screening on Saturday and free Wheeler Centre In Conversation event Sunday. Join us! (Signal boosts welcome and encouraged 💜)

Pet Sematary keeps autocorrecting to Pet Seminary.

It’s our final plug for DRACULA’S DAUGHTER with @mleeder.bsky.social as our guest. Great to see this one’s been so popular for such an oldie too! open.spotify.com/episode/3ZRQ...

Did the apple drop far from the tree? @mleeder.bsky.social returned to talk about Universal horror classic DRACULA’S DAUGHTER on this week’s show… open.spotify.com/episode/3ZRQ...

Saw a cybertruck in the wild.

A Complete Unknown: A Complete Shutout.

No regrets, coyote.

Gene Hackman was probably my favourite New Hollywood actor, and The Conversation is probably my favourite of his films. RIP.

Rewatching Citizen Kane, I was struck by the phrase "public thief." We need to revive that one.

AI when forced to confront a man's love for his beautiful transsexual wife

I like the show this to my students to get them thinking about genre and marketing, since clearly some commercials present it more as action and some more as SF. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lL3g...

It only took about six months of living in Edmonton but it finally happened: I saw someone wearing Flames regalia.

A new Star Trek made for TV movie is coming out tomorrow — starting an Oscar winner — and I do not sense a trace of anticipation anywhere. Even Paramount barely seems to be promoting Section 31.

#Breaking: Garth Hudson, the last living member of The Band, dead at 87

Super cool!

Timely.

Best misheard lyrics in Christmas songs? I always liked “Barney’s the king of Israel”

Every academic right now

Hey! Did you all know that you can watch tons of indigenous cinema here on the National Film Board of Canada's website? Well, you can, and I thought I'd share just a few of my favorites today for... reasons. www.nfb.ca/indigenous-c...

Dracula falls in love! It’s LOVE AT FIRST BITE with the tanned and fanged George Hamilton - listen below with guest Murray Leeder! open.spotify.com/episode/2Sfn...

I was never on Twitter, but here I am!