On another Zebras in Eschaton crossover, Scott and I are joined by the wonderful @pinnlandempire.bsky.social to discuss Jim Jarmusch's GHOST DOG: THE WAY OF THE SAMURAI! We talk the conjunction of samurai and hip-hop on screen and the preservation of ancient codes! m.soundcloud.com/zebras-in-am...

“Of course, Bruce Lee is the first influence martial arts-wise” - Michael Jai White, @CBR The Way of the Dragon/Blood And Bone #sidebyside #brucelee

If you haven’t tapped in yet… 👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾 threedollarpistol.com/album/night-...

“I was taking pleasure in seeing the primal power these images had over somebody else. Watching those girls shriek and wail and cover their eyes, which is what you can do to people if you make a scary movie” - Clive Barker, @theguardian.com Psycho/Nightbreed #sidebyside #horror

“Sam Peckinpah made everything change” - John Woo, Venice Magaize, July 1997 Bring Me The Head Of Alfredo Garcia/Just Heroes #sidebyside

“This [ERASERHEAD] is a really special film that had a big impact on me” - David Cronenberg, @criterion.bsky.social Eraserhead/Videodrome #sidebyside

Similar opening scenes… There Will Be Blood/Sisu #sidebyside

Lost Highway/Lurker #sidebyside www.pinnlandempire.com/2025/11/lurk...

“I knew David Lynch got me” - Guy Maddin, @gapersblock Eraserhead/Keyhole #sidebyside www.pinnlandempire.com/2025/01/the-...

“Nobody else makes a movie like Akerman. They just have that extraordinary strength of vision” - Andrew Bujalski @thefilmstage.com Les Rendezvous D’Anna/Computer Chess #sidebyside www.pinnlandempire.com/2025/10/the-...

“Nobody else makes a movie like Akerman. They just have that extraordinary strength of vision” - Andrew Bujalski @thefilmstage.com Jeanne Dielman…/Mutual Appreciation #sidebyside www.pinnlandempire.com/2025/10/the-...

GIVE US THE GOOBERS! The release of 'Gemlins' in 1984 unleashed a horde of lil' party monster imitators. On The Pink Smoke, brave space bounty hunters @thelastmachine.bsky.social and Chris Funderburg round up the Gremlins Rip-Offs! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

THE PINK SMOKE PODCAST Five from the Fire John Carpenter Ronny Yu Luchino Visconti Hilary Birmingham Robert Zemeckis If you could save 5 movies from these directors, which would you pick? We tasked @hwoodminotaur.bsky.social and Jon Laubinger of the #DirectorsTakePodcast to make the hard choice!

Rain Man made $354M in 1988 & won 4 Oscars & don’t get me started on Dog Day Afternoon (1975)

WOMEN IN REVOLT Paul Morrissey • 1971

appreciation post for Kathleen Turner’s blue dress in Ken Russell’s CRIMES OF PASSION (1984)

If AI remade Taxi Driver

youtu.be/FSkP4as5jv8?... Last part of my series of The War on Drugs is up! Instrumentals by @pinnlandempire.bsky.social please support his work w a link below

Scott and I had the privilege of being joined by the brilliant @pinnlandempire.bsky.social for another Zebras in Eschaton crossover! We tackle Yorgos Lanthimos's BUGONIA and the filmmaker's unique balance of dread and humor! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...

On Popcorn Eschaton, a well-kept apiary on the grounds of Zebras in America, we are privileged to again be joined by the one-and-only @pinnlandempire.bsky.social! We discuss the new Yorgos Lanthimos film 'Bugonia,' aliens, and America's conspiracy-addled brain! m.soundcloud.com/zebras-in-am...

“The biggest influences style-wise were a lot of old Western movies” - Jalmari Helander, @loudandclearrvs.bsky.social Stagecoach/Sisu #sidebyside

It's another Eschaton in America crossover as the brilliant @pinnlandempire.bsky.social joins Scott and I to discuss Ari Aster's EDDINGTON! We dig into its discombobulating narrative, its examination of conspiracy theories, and how COVID charbroiled America's brain: m.soundcloud.com/zebras-in-am...

www.youtube.com/live/oJz-pah... some good insight here by Mtume and company. Man they tear it apart 😅

Point Blank (1967) dir. John Boorman The Outfit (1973) dir. John Flynn Based off novels by Richard Stark @pinnlandempire.bsky.social 🛌💥🔫 #sidebyside #leemarvin #1960s #1970s #crimemovie #johnboorman #filmsky

Great read on One Battle After Another 👇

Reviews you can use from @pinnlandempire.bsky.social

Some practice over the weekend over some Mr Dibbs… #scratching

“I've always been really influenced by Powell and Pressburger”- @alicelowetime.bsky.social , @filmmakermagazine.com.web.brid.gy Black Narcissus/Timestalker 1/2 #sidebyside www.pinnlandempire.com/2025/04/time...

PINNLAND EMPIRE: TIMESTALKER www.pinnlandempire.com/2025/04/time...

Akira/Sonic the Hedgehog 2 #sidebyside #anime #SonicTheHedgehog

“She’s wearing this crazy, outlandish, brightly colored outfit. She’s making this weird face and doing this weird peacock dance. It just scared the shit out of me as a kid”- Zach Creggor misremembering a scene from FWWM, @fangoria.bsky.social Twin Peaks FWWM/Weapons #sidebyside

HELL. YES.

In my new FREE-TO-ALL post, I cover Ron Carlson's THE SIGNAL and Don Carpenter's THE DISPOSSESSED, talk about Robert Altman more than is strictly necessary, do NOT separate the art from the artist, use the words "revivifier," "eidetically," and "epiphanic." billryan64.substack.com/p/what-kind-...

I interviewed jazz drummer/producer Kassa Overall about 'CREAM,' his imminent new bandleader album covering hip-hop classics. www.cabbageshiphop.com/kassa-overal...

ZelooperZ really on a roll this year, starting with that Real Bad Man album. I talked with the producer about it for CABBAGES, icymi... www.cabbageshiphop.com/real-bad-man...

Times are wild, and our time is scarce, but if you can spare a half-hour then let Deniro Farrar's new album for @oldsoulmusicco.bsky.social reward you. Read about it in an all-new CABBAGES newsletter. www.cabbageshiphop.com/deniro-farra...