I do like the Kevin Smith He-Man though, and I was never a fan as a kid. But that doesn't matter because I belong to Gen X and my casual interest will be shoved down the throats of younger generations who have even less money, probably til I die!

A piece about Transformers, or why stealing media for kids, giving them to adults and torturing toys to death when you're at it is a terrible idea. As always, it's just USD $1 to subscribe and get access to eight years of archives. www.patreon.com/posts/150099...

I truly honestly thought everyone knew this stuff. Never a bad time to remind people though. Stay especially for the quote from the eminent biologist that amounts to "Genes aren't selfish, Richard."

HELLO EVERYONE it's been a while but I'm still here and I want to be thankful for the people who are still my friends NOT LIKE THE REST OF YOU and the stuff they said was bad, really bad, but it's all lies, none of it's true none of it also I have a book out #offthecuffpoetry

Come for an analysis of a film where the hero is a giant, angry, fire-breathing, flying turtle, stay for the bit where I compare Gamera and Godzilla to Cuthbert the Caterpillar and Colin the Caterpillar.

www.patreon.com/posts/149495... Two posts about really big monsters threatening Japan in two days.

Found the show House of David. Was interested to write about it because, you know, adapted religious texts, cultural appropriation, political subtext, all that stuff. It's not good. But then I found the episode where the pre-credits scene was entirely done in AI slop. Nope. Nope. Nope.

Writing about the Gamera movies and using the analogy of British supermarket caterpillar cakes to explain the relationship of Gamera with Godzilla Where's the lie

On a personal note, I'm pushing this. It's something I'm depending on more than ever rn.

Yes, a hundred times yes.

For the new year, I'm going bigger than ever before, with a new series about giant monster movies. My first Giant Days post is available to my patrons, but it's only USD $1 to sub and gain access to everything, so why wouldn't you? www.patreon.com/posts/149407...

They're convinced we're all NPCs because they are actually mostly NPCs. They think we're all groomers because they hate children and want to marry teenagers. They don’t believe people can organise without being paid, because they get paid to turn up. They tell on themselves.

Yes. For the love of God yes.

I just flushed out an AI bot on a FB post with four words. It was beautiful. Here are some things that I have observed: 🧵 1/

Honoured to have in past years known some of the people who made the un-eradication of Measles possible, nay, inevitable. Who could have guessed that they'd all wind up hardline TERFs? Apart from me obviously.

There was a whole clique of mums at my kids' primary school who worked very hard to make this happen. Of course, they're all hardline TERFs now.

New on the Patreon: an analysis of the problematic wonder of Cloud Atlas (2012) As always, it's only $1US to sub. www.patreon.com/posts/148924...

New post on my Patreon, free for everyone, where I look at the Rambo film that isn't like the others, and discuss the things it brings up, like law enforcement brutality, failed masculinity. Have things changed in 44 years? www.patreon.com/posts/148291...

I normally refrain from commenting on international geopolitics because unlike my invariably excellent* media takes, my political takes are not informed or well thought out. Great God though, this world is terrifying right now. That's all. That's the thought.

No, I want good movies to be only for a secretive intellectual elite who saw past the Veil of Maia to the true nature of reality. The rest of you deserve Fantastic 4: First Steps and Netflix tax write-offs.

The whole idea that there's this category of great art that no one really likes and you only watch it because you have to is a criminal conspiracy to drive people away from experiencing art.

Y'all did you know that YOJIMBO is so good it actually extends your life by a full year? You literally can't die any sooner because your brain goes "Hold up, before we shut this down I want to think about YOJIMBO a little more." Get outta here with that "homework cinema" nonsense.

My son is encouraging me to watch Stranger Things Season 5 and I got two and a half episodes in and I can't take any more of this. I have caught myself begging the screen out loud for everyone to stop explaining what's literally on the screen to each other EVERY FIVE SECONDS.

100% agree, no quibbles

www.patreon.com/posts/you-go... Christmas post! Analysis of The Green Knight (2021) It is, by the way, still the most wonderful time of the year to support a writer.

🖊️ Why did you transition? Wrong answers only. My DnD character never got to roll up the Girdle of Femininity on the random treasure tables and I always wanted to see what that was like

Received: four copies of TRUTH AND SOUL: A ROBERT DOWNEY SR. READER courtesy of editor and Senpai @kierlajanisse.bsky.social, containing my essay about Robert Downey Sr's Twilight Zone episodes. I wrote it before I came out, but KLJ made sure to correct my name at the last minute. Grateful.

This was pretty much the highlight of my week. You should be following and listening to @proghorrorpod.bsky.social and all its creators, but also you should check out @parthenoid.bsky.social (who I met for the first time on the podcast) they are brilliant and have an awesome sounding book coming!

I was up until nearly 5am recording with @proghorrorpod.bsky.social last night talking about Cloud Atlas, which was the third time they'd had me on, and that's lovely, because I really enjoy talking with the gang. If you missed the last time I was on though...

The team at @proghorrorpod.bsky.social along with @penzerker.bsky.social and @parthenoid.bsky.social spent three hours talking about Cloud Atlas tonight and I still don't know where I come down on it, but I love that the Wachowski's always swing for the fences.

I've been thinking about the horror of this. That these were among the richest and most powerful men on earth, and they were treating kids like meat, and they did so using the cheapest, crappiest, most inconsequential tools they could. They didn't even afford their victims effort or expense.

I don't know who made this, but I love you

The thing that shouldn't surprise me but somehow does is how cheap and tacky a lot of the stuff in the Epstein images is. How little actual taste these men have. How utterly *lame* their sense of humour is.

Co-signed. Labyrinths was a hugely important early book for me; you can probably draw a pretty direct line from that to my current endless fixations

there is value to saying the whole thing with your chest but that approach requires a level of conviction and precision these stories lack

Raised by Wolves this time. It's $1 to get on the Patreon and get access to a gajillion words (approx.) of writing. www.patreon.com/posts/i-know...

I have been saying this for years. If you wanted to do it with something awful and obnoxious, Do They Know It's Christmas? is available. Do that one instead. No? Well if you want a mythic-level challenge, you could do All I Want for Christmas is You. I dare you. Just leave George alone.

Once again, happy Cyber Men Day to all who celebrate

Whenever I see the grotto in an Anglican church hall Xmas Fair I do always find myself wondering if St Nick tells the kids not to be afraid to punch people if they deny the hypostatic divinity of Christ in ecumenical councils. Look, I can't excuse this.

A review of recent canine-led horror Good Boy. Once again, it's only $1US to subscribe to the Room 207 Press Patreon, and get access to a giant archive of things and stuff, with no obligation to continue. www.patreon.com/posts/umo-in...

Humbled to be in the company of this thread.

New on Patreon: someone who read Apocryphal Gospels as a postgrad (me) reviews the Nicolas Cage Infancy Gospels movie The Carpenter's Son. As ever, the Patreon is only $1US a month and that first buck gets you access to hundreds of posts, no obligation. www.patreon.com/posts/for-th...

Could we maybe not have popular TV shows made by genocide enjoyers I just want to enjoy stuff Is that too much to ask

Eight years ago, I was deep in working out the theory of what a Pagan Village Conspiracy was as a trope, what it signified, and its origins. Now? I think it's a good name for a band.

Just been to see The Carpenter's Son (2025). My friends and I had the cinema entirely to ourselves. It was objectively terrible, and the shot of a dead Nic Cage with a halo needs to be a meme. I absolutely adored it. I love an apocryphal gospel, me, and this did not disappoint me.

The way the news is going on about Budget Eve made me wonder if I'd missed a folk tradition.

What a world we live in when you can mention a novel by Michael Crichton about a futuristic theme park built with negligibly advisable super science going wrong with deadly consequences when the attractions fight back against their owners and you've only got a 50% chance of knowing which one it is.

Went looking up some occult stuff from the shelf for a friend and was reminded of how no one ever seems to have picked up on how the Outer Gods in Grant Morrison's early #2000AD series Zenith are directly lifted from the demon illustrations in Peter Carroll's Psychonaut.

Just cos an incredibly weird scifi show that got abruptly cancelled on a massive cliffhanger because of a change in leadership at the network and hasn't been talked about for years MIGHT have Blu-ray boxsets, that doesn't mean anyone would actually *buy* them... Oh. Yeah. As you were.