If you haven’t seen it, Werner Herzog gets the best out of Nic Cage in the way he once did with Klaus Kinski — w/ Cage playing the drug addicted degenerate cop in NOLA right around the Hurricane Katrina fallout. It’s so insane that you end up actually rooting for him. @criterionchannl.bsky.social

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans. 2009. Dir: Werner Herzog. In which Nic Cage improvised almost all his lines and Herzog likened him as a “gift from god.”

When the drum intro is so iconic, the song needs no introduction

Dokken. “It’s Not Love” — video shot on the Sunset Strip in LA 1985. #metalsky #dokken #california #80s

Beastie Boys. “Intergalactic.” 1998. Directed by Nathaniel Hörnblowér aka MCA aka Adam Yauch RIP #musicsky #tokusatsu #kaiju #mecha

Nike / Adidas High Tops circa 1989 thrash metal 🤝 hip hop

Michael Romeo | Symphony X. “Sea of Lies.” 1996. Avoid if you hate neo-classical guitar shred. #metalsky #prog #classical #guitar

Max von Sydow on his thrones The Virgin Spring | Conan the Barbarian

The Changeling. 1980. John Russell, music professor and grieving father & husband, now alone, moves into an old mansion and begins to compose a new melody… #filmsky #horror #musicbox #joseph

I just posted a milestone-moment-in-cinema history clip from The Virgin Spring — but it’s been flagged as ‘explicit disturbing media’, which means you likely won’t see it on your TL, but it IS on my feed, just so you know *cough* 🎬

The Virgin Spring. 1960. Dir: Ingmar Bergman. Herr Töre has just discovered that the 2 men & boy he put up for the night have earlier raped & killed his missing daughter — and so he prepares his vengeance. File this under ‘every frame is a painting’ #filmsky @criterionchannl.bsky.social

Why do we need The Thing 2 when this already exists

NOPE

Ensiferum. “Token of Time.” 2000. That time when Viking Folk Metal peaked ⚔️ #metalsky #viking #pagan #heathen #folk

Ana de Armas in Blade Runner 2049— never felt so sad about the death of a hologram #filmsky #scifi #bladerunner #anadearmas #cinema #villeneuve

You know, I have become sceptical about the "contractual reasons" or "record company pressure" excuses. Is it just an alibi for lack of creativity? If a (then) small underground band like Celtic Frost was able to liberate itself from such shackles, it should be possible for most other bands as well.

Malcolm X. 1992. Dir: Spike Lee. Denzel Washington missed out on the Best Actor Oscar to Al Pacino in Scent of a Woman. The man was robbed. #filmsky #malcolmx #cinema

*BIG COUGH*

I have to believe that these bands going on hiatus contributed to the “hunger” of coming back to deliver the goods. All 4 bands completely revitalized. Carcass | Celtic Frost | Orphaned Land | Coroner

The new Coroner reminds of when established artists still prioritized artistic integrity over ‘product’ — the fact they spent 10 years *discarding* 90% of what they wrote speaks volumes. Of course that doesn’t automatically make it good, but ffs it’s clear they didn’t put this out just to sell merch

No one does rage bait quite like New Yorkers 🤣🤣

Mornin’ all, how we feeling today

Gonna have to frame this

Zohran Mamdani wins it 🎆 🗽 FROM OUT OF NOWHERE #musicsky #faithnomore #mamdani

Jim Martin playing THIS guitar solo #musicsky #faithnomore #epic

Faith No More. 1991. Rio. We care a lot about the Army Navy Air Force & Marines about the NY, SF and LAPD about you people about your guns about the wars you're fighting gee that looks like fun It’s a dirty job but someone’s gotta do it #musicsky #metalsky #faithnomore #mikepatton #rio #brazil

dead 💀

Real Madrid fans on Liverpool tonight actually pretty respectful 🫡 #lfc #liverpool #realmadrid #fairplay

Macca 1-0 Bullet header. Courtois beaten, close range. Get in! #lfc #liverpool

My first ever vote in the USA 🇺🇸 🗳️

A friendly reminder of just how good House [1985] is, and that it came out 2 years before Evil Dead II #filmsky #horror #80s #thegreatestamericanhero

Hi-def footage of Jimi Hendrix playing Maui 1970 — I’m no musician but I can appreciate things like improv, phrasing, fuzz & feedback, that he *draped his thumb over his fretboard so he could fret the root note while playing the lead making it sound like 2 guitars at once*! #musicsky #hendrix #maui

As a kid I thought all guitar solos were improvised and could therefore never be played the same twice. Then I heard my first live album: Live After Death — surprised to hear Smith & Murray playing their leads, note for note w/ the studio version. Meaning: the solos were ‘scripted’… 1/2 #metalsky

How would you rank these ‘threequels’? #horror #threequel #exorcist #evildead #halloween #elmst

Pixies. “Where Is My Mind.” Oct 1, 1988. Dutch TV. #musicsky #pixies #80s #fightclub

A Colt Is My Passport. 1967. Dir: Takashi Nomura. Answering the question: how to film a shootout in the open desert w/ style. This is *chic* 🕶️ #filmsky #filmnoir #noirvember #japan #nikkatsu

The best Bond opening transition into theme song — that silence is perfect #filmsky #bond #carlysimon #cinema

SALAH 1-0 !! The man’s got the bit between his teeth today — dodgy goal but we move 😅 #lfc #liverpool #livast #redsky #salah

There’s old school and then there’s oooooooold school — who knew folks were itching to see Jag Panzer play Ample Destruction or Enslaved run through Vikingligr Veldi ⚔️ #metalsky

Goblin. “Suspiria.” 1977. 𝙒𝙞𝙩𝙘𝙝 #musicsky #filmsky #giallo #horror

Goblin. “Profondo Rosso.” 1978. 𝘿𝙚𝙚𝙥 𝙍𝙚𝙙 #musicsky #filmsky #giallo #horror

“I met him 15 years ago; I was told there was nothing left; no reason, no conscience, no understanding... I met this six-year-old child with this blank, pale, emotionless face, and... the blackest eyes — the Devil's eyes.” — Dr Loomis MD #filmsky #halloween

Red Rooms. 2023. An insight into “#hybristophilia” — a real phenomenon in which women become romantically obsessed with psychotic killers. Set between the courtroom trial & the ‘red rooms’ on the dark web in which the killer auctions his #snuff footage. Exceptional. #filmsky #horror #shocktober

The video footage floating around today of Israeli settlers invading a Palestinian farm and killing the sheep & lambs, and dousing cats in lighter fluid and setting them on fire, is maybe the most horrific thing I’ve seen since they bombed kids in Gaza again yesterday

wait we got bookmarks now!?

Megadeth are covering “Ride the Lightning” as the final track on their final album and it’s going to be Mechanixized — #metalsky #megadeth

Queensryche. “Gonna Get Close To You.” 1986. Huh, go figure — watching Santánico Pandemonium writhe around to this song makes it fairly tolerable amirite

"Gonna take down Jackie Chan, he's completely defenseless and it's not like he's gonna use that ladder as a weapon or anything"

The Exorcism of Emily Rose. 2005. Dir: Scott Derrickson [Sinister, Black Phone], it’s less an Exorcist rip-off as it is a courtroom drama — based on a real life 1976 court case of ‘possession vs psychosis’ — with the priest accused of killing the patient. And that’s NOT a spoiler. #filmsky #horror