Second year in a row, thanks to review copies

“The editor who edited most of the science desk's anti-trans coverage [Virginia Hughes] ended up getting a big promotion. She's now co-head of the investigations desk.” 🧪 transnews.network/p/a-directiv...

I hate it that I'm gonna have to buy Argento's awful Phantom of the Opera on 4K because I lack self control and am mentally ill.

I participated with this too!

NEW BONUS EPISODE!! Gabe, Patrick, @jimlaczkowski.net, @minillajovovich.bsky.social, @chloesnotscared.bsky.social, @tylergfoster.bsky.social, @usagikumihimo.bsky.social, and 96 Greers co-host Barry Linn offer you their top five (or more) UNDERRATED films of the last 25 years! Happy New Year!

Favorite first time viewings of 2025 (in the order I saw them):

Finally, some good news

If you live in MN & pay even a modicum of attention to current events you know that this case & the investigation have been in the headlines for YEARS now. Some nazi fuckface just dug it up, noticed that there were Somali people involved, & brought it to the attention of the other nazi fuckfaces.

NEW REVIEW!! Tyler Foster (@tylergfoster.bsky.social) takes a look at Eva Man and its sequel, Return of Eva Man on Blu-ray from @mondomacabro.bsky.social:

RIP Claudia Cardinale. Much like Robert Redford, she was a rare case of a beautiful performer with a filmography full of bangers who did NOT become right-wing later in life. Here she is punching fascist Brigitte Bardot in the face in Les Pétroleuses (1971).

It is so unbelievably foggy down in Southern MN right now. Greetings from the spooky Perkins we found in the gloom.

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

When I was young there was a restaurant called Filly’s (or Philly’s, I forget) Soul Food. 2 employees. One time, they asked my parents if we could watch the place for a minute while the waitress ran to the grocery store. Good spaghetti.

That Madden movie looks like a lost Mad TV sketch.

Mr. Sakamoto has joined Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee on the sittin' shelf.

Told my mom and significant other I wanted some flannel shirts for xmas and between the two of them, well, let's just say grunge is back, baby.

I spend most of time home alone and would love the company, especially if we’re just sitting and quietly watching TV, omg

Saw a billboard today and learned that Chuck E Cheese apparently has a monthly subscription model.

RE: Pluribus: You actually don't HAVE to have a needle crammed into your hip bone to collect stem cells. You can also sit at a machine that cycles your blood for hours. Kind of like giving plasma. I've done both and the latter is preferable.

My dad loves emojis and it's so cute.

The fact that this government gives billions to ranchers and farmers is another reason why it's an insult that this government is also reducing the wages of farm workers to put more money in the pockets of ranchers and not in the pockets of farm workers. #WeFeedYou

I was starting to think that DiCaprio didn't have the juice anymore, but I gotta say that he's really excelling in the "hapless dopes in love with women of color and in way over their heads" department lately.

NEW REVIEW!! Seeding of a Ghost – another Shaw Bros. black magic horror classic on Blu-ray from @arrowvideo.bsky.social (Shawscope Vol. 4):

What a little bitch. One of the supposed faces of American masculinity and he sounds like a mean girl from a made for Lifetime movie.

Gambled on a blind box and got the goofy Vegeta I wanted. Here he is at the conveyor belt sushi place.

Trying to convince one cat to beat up the other cat for messing with the Xmas tree.

I get a lot of cologne ads on YouTube for some reason and there's one where it is implied that Adam Driver merges with a horse and becomes a centaur. I'm afraid it doesn't make me want to buy cologne.

NEW REVIEW!! I checked out @arrowvideo.bsky.social's new 4K UHD Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles collection and compared the same day Blu-ray remaster to the old New Line BD:

NEW REVIEW!! Forgotten Pistolero on Blu-ray from @diabolikdvd.bsky.social:

Can we PLEASE primary Klobuchar already?

Here are the 28 Dem Senators who voted to advance the first federal ban on trans athletes & a federal definition of sex that would make trans & intersex people non-existent: Angela Alsobrooks (MD), Tammy Baldwin (WI), Richard Blumenthal (CT), Lisa Blunt Rochester (DE), Chris Coons (DE), ->

I just finally saw the Queens of the Dead trailer and is that a remix of the Day of the Dead title song in the background? Is it only for the trailer or is it a song I can, like, buy and download? Also, Katy O'Brien is in it?! Sold. 1million% sold.

This Rob Reiner stuff is too shocking to parse.

NEW REVIEW!! Bewitched – another wild Kuei Chih-Hung horror-fest on Blu-ray from @arrowvideo.bsky.social (Shawscope vol 4):

Me, every single time a football player loses his helmet: "OMYGOD HIS HEAD FELL OFF-- oh it's just his helmet"

Watching Wake Up Dead Man. I saw (actor) playing a (certain kind of character) and said "Oh, (they're) like (other actor) in (one of my favorite cult psycho thrillers)!" And in doing I correctly guessed the ending without realizing it.

Saw an otherwise unadorned pickup with an American flag vanity plate that read "GUNDAM" today.

NEW WIZARD JAIL!!

“Would you still be okay with universal healthcare if it meant (lists off a bunch of shit that already happens when you’re paying out the nose for health insurance)” - some dumbass billionaire

Todd Bowels has resting "just found out a family member died and am trying to tough it out" face

Every time a celebrity says/does something shitty social media posts are 2/3rds people saying "this bitch is cancelled" and the other 1/3rd is people saying "no, wait, remember, we cancelled them already when they did this other horrible thing."

Another @jonbois.bsky.social video with music from '80s Italian horror movies? Two great tastes, etc.

NEW REVIEW!! Kuei Chih-Hung's Hex – a stylish and insane Shaw Bros. take on Les Diaboliques – on Blu-ray from @arrowvideo.bsky.social: www.genregrinder.com/post/hex-blu...

Statement on the Lemkin Institute's website:

One of these days, someone at MNdot will hear my cries.

NEW REVIEW!! Shaw Bros.' sleazy superhero monster movie The Oily Maniac on Blu-ray from @arrowvideo.bsky.social (Shawscope Vol. 4)

Increasingly feeling like It: Welcome to Derry is just using historical Black pain as a prop. The resolution is gonna have to be HUGE for this to pay off in any meaningful way.

I just saw the sluttiest Santa I've ever seen.