This is why it annoys me when people try to make it seem as if this is how things have always been. There was a time when greater literacy and reading as a part of everyday life for people of every class was a national mission. Then it changed drastically and now we’re here.

Drop some SPECTACLES

all this is both foolish and unnecessary

It's here! We find the only things worth celebrating about 2025 in our annual GV Awards. Thank you to every single loyal listener and member of the GenreVision Movie Club for another year on the air. And if you aren't one of those folks, there's never been a better time to check us out than now!

GenreVision is the best thing I've done with my life. If you listen to the show at all, I don't have proper words to thank you. The fact I get to do a movie club every week and people actually show up never ceases to floor me. Check out our awards show if you wanna hop on and join the fun.

In a sane world, this is when the extradimensional lords fly in and abduct that demented orange bitch right off his golden toilet and imprison him for crimes against reality

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Generative AI is a blight. Over and over, digital audio and video professionals like @deannachapman.bsky.social and myself are being told that our human skills and experience are simply no longer valued. I legitimately don’t know what to do at this point.

So far this morning I've seen podcast/video producer jobs that are unpaid and <$4 above Seattle's minimum wage. Amazon's AI Video Producer and Editor role? $100-183k salary with benefits. This is my personal hell.

Mourning the loss of a future in which all the skills and knowledge I was passionate about might get me employed

Just making sure that 2025 is definitely over

There's something grimly ironic about some defenders of generative AI not being able to think their way out of a wet paper bag.

[After two glasses of wine at every dinner party] Hey did you know comic books imposed self-censorship to avoid government intervention so for like thirty years Superman comics stopped being about punching bad guys and instead he’d be like IF I DON’T EAT ALL THESE PIES JIMMY WILL TURN INTO A CLOCK!

But that's where the mimics live

What Drew said. The third movie’s already made over half a billion dollars globally. People show up for AVATAR, despite it being one of those things lots of folks are content to tear down despite never having seen. Alas, people are entitled to their opinions, even unearned ones. (AVATAR is fine.)

in 2026 we are NOT hustling, we are NOT grinding, we are doing just enough Job to have money for Video Game

Books, poems, film, etc. may require retraining a brain to slow down. And it's important bc while scrolling social media pushes the happy button, it rarely provides actual happiness. It's like food with no nutrients; your brain ate a lot but it's still starving for things that scrolling can't give.

It's the end of the year as we know it, and @drewdietsch.bsky.social feels fine because these movies are out there for you to see and talk about together. genrevision.com/posts/2025-s...

In 2025 I felt a need to mostly shut out depictions of real world suffering in my movie intake. I happily watched people get eaten by sharks in DANGEROUS ANIMALS, or kids getting ghost-murdered in BLACK PHONE 2. But if you tried to make me watch IF I HAD LEGS I’D KICK YOU, I think I’d run screaming.

I’m from Whoville, and I say kill the Grinch!

STAR WARS: C’mon dude don’t even act like it’s not fuckin’ STAR WARS. EMPIRE STRIKES BACK: Lacks the steel-hard story structure of the first. A huge upgrade in many other regards. RETURN OF THE JEDI: Super pulpy, with Robert E. Howard/Edgar Rice Burroughs stuff. Oddly structured, pleasantly goofy.

While we’re at it: PHANTOM MENACE: Silly kid stuff, wildly unbalanced, the best-looking prequel. ATTACK OF THE CLONES: A green screen voidspace nightmare. Garish pixel mush with awful dialogue. REVENGE OF THE SITH: Not especially enjoyable, but it does tie up the prequel story in a tidy fashion.

Look, I'm sure that Nolan's adaptation of "The Odyssey" will be fun, but I highly doubt it will be as good as the original.

ROGUE ONE: Another aesthetic/sonic exercise that successfully creates the Star Wars Feeling. Provides the mere illusion that Star Wars has grown up. SOLO: Like a feature-length version of the prologue sequence from THE LAST CRUSADE. A hurried wiki article about how a guy got his signature stuff.

THE FORCE AWAKENS: Successfully evokes the Star Wars Feeling. Is barely more than an aesthetic/sonic exercise. Overly reverent and hollow. THE LAST JEDI: Boldly irreverent and visually rich. Substantial. Kinda cloying and cutesy. Tries a little too hard to be clever. THE RISE OF SKYWALKER: Yikes.

If everyone watching PLURIBUS could also join in my love of Abel Ferrara's BODY SNATCHERS, I'd be a very happy boy. One of my absolute favorite discoveries for @genrevision.com. genrevision.com/posts/body-s...

John Lithgow's character in this movie sure is Relevant.

Why are we talking about “Steve Rogers will return in Avengers” as if any of these films are worth paying any mind to at all at this point

Goes against the narrative, in an inspiring way

Man, Marvel really clunking out with this AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY trailer.

I’m down! DOLLS was fun as hell.

SUDDEN DEATH is a gift you should open this holiday season. genrevision.com/posts/sudden...

Christmas is fine and all. I just want this dogshit awful year to end so we can be closer to The Day It Happens.

Godfuckingdammit. I adored every performance I ever saw from James Ransone. He was a one-of-a-kind presence. This sucks.

Which four fighting games mattered the most to YOU growing up? Soul Calibur Mortal Kombat II Dead or Alive II Star Wars: Masters of Teräs Kasi

Quite the spectrum here! HOWARD THE DUCK, QUEEN OF THE DAMNED, BATTLEFIELD EARTH are my worst GenreVision films of the year. TOTAL RECALL is my #2, second only to WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT.

What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store? What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more?

SHARK ATTACK proves this genrevision.com/posts/fin-fl...

Just learned that the angry video game nerd and the nostalgia critic are two different people.

I said it and I stand by it! A GOOFY MOVIE is a home run and stands tall next to any of Disney's other classics of the era. In fact... A GOOFY MOVIE > TARZAN, MULAN, HERCULES, and POCAHONTAS Come at me, Disney pervs. (I like most of those other movies)

A GOOFY MOVIE is some seriously weird shit. It's also an important film from Disney's Renaissance era, since it was so keen to poke fun at the sacred cow that is the Disney brand.

This has been a shit-awful year, man. But I’ll take any excuse to celebrate Reiner’s successes today.

One of my mom’s favorite movies was Rob Reiner’s STAND BY ME, which she encouraged me to watch at an age close to the ages of the boys in the story. By pure happenstance, STAND BY ME was the last movie my mom ever watched. It was on the TV in her care facility on one of her last talking days.

A (quite) young movie lover said to me recently, "Not everybody can afford a DVD player," and I said "How much do you think a DVD player costs?" He said, "I don't know, like $500?" Those of us who advocate physical media are maybe not doing the best job of messaging.

People who argue "who cares it's just for kids" all I can say is fuck right off. Kids deserve thoughtful, well-made movies that challenge them just as much as adults do. Kids aren't stupid, and they remember how movies affect them basically forever.

Our Cannon Films Christmas continues with a sequel showdown featuring sexy nurses and pantless karate! genrevision.com/posts/breaki...

So glad I finally got to check off two big Cannon blindspots with @travisnewton.bsky.social. I'm still thinking about that hospital dance scene and the double caltrops-to-the-face gags.

"If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth." - Neil Breen, PASS THRU

The fanbase of anything I like is me, and maybe a couple of homies. Anyone else is just extra.

If you don't want to play or watch or read something, that's cool and good and fine. There's plenty of stuff I don't want to watch or read or play and I don't even have to bother coming up with a good reason or explaining it to anyone.