Coverage of the "YouTuber to filmmaker pipeline" ignored Parsons & Barker using software like Blender (Backrooms) & gaussian splats (Obsession) by lumping them in with the likes of Stuckmann/Cregger cos if young filmmakers learn open source tools you won't be able to sell them AI products

My favorite line of the night as I wait for the 25th anniversary screening of Canadian cult flick JESUS CHRIST: VAMPIRE HUNTER comes from director Lee DeMarbre, talking to Revue staff - "Jesus is having a beer next door, give me a minute to see if he's coming over"

It is 15° C cooler in my apartment than it is outside. Moving into a basement is officially the smartest thing I've ever done

That is now two people who have seen a woman in a white dress walking across their field of vision in my apartment. Cool. At this point in my life and career, I can't even act like I'm surprised

Setting an early alarm tomorrow so Paul and I can do a spot on BBC Radio Gloucestershire's noon show, talking about the Ghost Story Guys. I can't remember the last time I did live radio. Time to flex those censorship muscles

Great turnout for John Dickie at Reeds Records in St Thomas on Record Store Day

In the city for the National Cdn Film Day screening of SCARED SHITLESS. Rain drove me into a Mexican restaurant where a boring man in a turquoise leather jacket was sitting at the bar, trying to explain what he remembers about the "bloodline of Jesus" conspiracy to a waitress too polite to walk away

Starting to look for apartments in Toronto and I was struck by how, after all my bellyaching, I'm actually going to miss being witness to generation after generation of pigeons being born on my balcony here in London

To all who celebrate

Sweet Christmas is DHURANDHAR: THE REVENGE boring. It opens like KILL meets RAMBO: LAST BLOOD and then essentially becomes a series of slow motion Islamophobia montages. Four hours of this nonsense. If you want "ripped from the headlines" pulp from India, watch ARTICLE 370. It's almost 2 hrs shorter

The world may be on fire but you can still go to the Humboldt and learn about agave spirits from the best bartenders in the business

@largelythetruth.com got my shirt! Keep being awesome and thank you for caring about people the way you do.

One of the few things this blighted future has brought us is more shoe options for the wide-footed among us. It is, however, a Faustian bargain since across all brands the colour options are either, "weekends at dad's new apartment" or "my mittens are sewed together so I don't lose them again"

The thing about hanging out in a record shop drinking coffee with cool people is that eventually you start buying records, even when your turntable is a thousand miles away. Then what? Then you end up buying another turntable

Awful to hear about Robert Carradine. I won't pretend to know much about his personal life, but suicide is a motherfucker, however you cut it. If you want to celebrate his work, and can find it, he really swung for the fences in the old CBS TV movie I SAW WHAT YOU DID opposite David

Not all Spidermen are created equal. From the latest episode of The Ghost Story Guys Podcast

My latest audiobook, @ruthroperwylde.bsky.social's THESE HAUNTED TIMES, VOL. 6, is now available on Amazon! While you're there, make sure to check out my other titles, including Ruth's THESE HAUNTED TIMES, VOL. FIVE and my own A STRANGE LITTLE PLACE

I'd like to think that even if people in my life hadn't helped me understand my autistm that this morning, listening to Conway Twitty's "The Rose" on repeat for 45 minutes throughout my entire weights routine, I might finally have figured it out

Been dealing with fatigue, to the point where I was getting blood tests, all of which came back clear. Last thing I evaluated was my workout plan, and we may have a culprit: in switching to low weight/high rep routines, but still chasing overall volume PRs, I was doing 300-500 reps per muscle group

Mine is seeing the Aero's Comanche-language screening of PREY the night before it dropped on Hulu Second would be the time I randomly went to a daytime 3D, 120FPS screening of BILLY LYNN'S LONG HALFTIME WALK at the Cinerama Dome and Ang Li came out afterwards to take questions

After 2 years of living in Ontario I have not found a better encapsulation of the mindset here than the thread in London's subreddit where someone mildly suggested, "surely the city can be doing a better job of keeping the sidewalks clear" only to have 30 people screech at them for being elitist

Post a banger not in English youtu.be/4V7LXprxh7c?...

Explore the depths of "Tumbbad," a film steeped in Indian folklore, mystery and #folkhorror. Dive deeper into its themes and production with Folk n Hell www.folknhell.com. #Tumbbad #Folklore tinyurl.com/fhtumb

Had some redpill dick try to clap back at us for anti-ICE sentiment on this newest episode with that "your boos mean nothing to me" line from Rick and fucking Morty. I want to squeeze every single one of these clowns out of my listenership. I'd rather be broke than championed by the cruel and stupid

Woke up at 4am to banging sounds in my kitchen. Went to investigate with my phone flashlight then realized that was horror movie bullshit and began turning on every light in the place. Burglars, ghosts, or falling dishes, this motherfucker is gonna be so bright planes try to land on it

Received the final royalty check for the now out-of-print first edition of my book, A Strange Little Place. Look upon my works, ye mighty, and despair

Pre-orders have opened for the CRUSHED ICE tee project we're collaborating on w/Cryptid Cocktail Party and other creators in our space! All proceeds go to the Defending Our Neighbors Fund, so they can continue their mission of helping those detained by ICE access legal aid crushedice.bigcartel.com

The noise my car made starting up in -22° weather this morning is the closest I've come to a machine telling me to fuck off

I didn't know I needed GWAR lovingly covering Chappell Roan's "Pink Pony Club" to make my 2026 better, but here we are youtu.be/I5XR48KLE8I?...

Author LM Conkling recently got in touch to say that a long ago experience of mine, shared on Ghost Story Guys, helped inspire her latest horror story, "Brethren", now published by @perseidprophecies.bsky.social! Humbled to have played a small part in the process! www.patreon.com/posts/issue-...

A VR arcade is moving into a commercial space I know was renting for at least twenty grand per month ten years ago. Whatever happened to the subtlety of money launderers? At least open a gym or something people might actually wander into once in a while

Been drifting from social media so I thought it might be fun to keep a running tally of movies I watch throughout 2026

Canadian treasure Paul Gross once got on my elevator at the Sutton Place in Vancouver and I somehow didn't clock who he was until I saw his photo in The Province on my ferry ride home

Recently remembered a waitress who told me about her "foolproof" way of depositing tips without paying income tax: straight-up structuring, which is A - a crime, and B - not going to fool an auditor. Anyways, turns out that whole bar has been closed for "financial irregularity" and I. Am. Shocked.

A couple years back I was invited to play the part of an abusive husband in "Roast Beef", a John Waters-inspired short film shot in Strathroy, Ontario. Ever want to see me meet a grisly end at the hands of a beautiful woman? You. Are. In. Luck. youtu.be/WMhcFT1Sqqw?...

I started a Substack to keep track of my appearances on other shows and ended up writing about the car accident I saw in October: open.substack.com/pub/largelyt...

Overheard a man in a steakhouse/butcher shop bemoaning his wanted status because his partner-in-crime took off with the cash and he didn't benefit from the crime. A man on the other side of the restaurant, who seemed unusually concerned about hiding his face, climbed into a white van and booked it

After reading Barry Hertz's comprehensive history of the FAST & FURIOUS franchise, "Welcome to the Family," I decided to finally watch FAST X. Man, you can see Vin Diesel sucking the remaining joy out of these movies in real time I can recommend Barry's book, however

Every single day, the idea of making yet another movie-related podcast calls to me like the tell-tale heart and before it can be ignored, I have to force myself to look at the stack of unrecorded audiobooks on my desk

Finally worked up the strength of watch THE LIFE OF CHUCK again. It's joined INTERSTELLAR in my personal canon of movies that can absolutely destroy me with their soundtrack alone. It's a fucking masterpiece, full of more raw humanity than anything else I've seen this year

Well, I've finally finished Elden Ring and if there's a single lesson I've taken away, it's that you couldn't get me to play another FromSoft game at gunpoint

Artists doing stadium tours are wild - "spend $400 now on tickets you won't use for 11 months, otherwise it'll cost you 2-3x face value." No, man. I don't think I'm gonna do either of those things

KEEPER is kind of like a mash-up between Travis Stevens' A WOUNDED FAWN and the Hannah-John Kamen creature feature UNWELCOME, which I mean in a positive way. If you're into slow-but-spooky folk horror shot with Oz Perkins impeccable sense of style, make sure to check it out on the big screen

Finally finished my longest FEAR DAILY story to date! The 55-page ZETA HOUSE will be released in one single (likely 2 hour) instalment for Supercast/Apple Podcasts subscribers sometime in December, and six parts for public subscribers

Currently enduring my first experience of trying to get customer service from an LLM and boy I thought I hated generative AI before

Turns out, having a bodybuilder sitting next to you at the theater say, "Jesus dude, your arms are gigantic" sure helps with the old body dysmorphia

Everyone who gets into things like Oujia boards, channeling, or anything else that involves messages from what they think are spirits should read this book first. An incredible read

Found a bootleg copy of the 1988 TV movie I SAW WHAT YOU DID. It's frankly better than some theatrical releases I've seen lately and makes me wish even more that Vinegar Syndrome's TELEVISED TERRORS boxset had sold well enough to warrant a second volume

Watched @realgdt.bsky.social's FRANKENSTEIN last night and while obviously wonderful, what'll keep me going back is how he used a 200yr old horror story to show me my life, my old man's life, and that of every other son born to indifferent, absent fathers who then had to choose between life or rage

Speaking of horror movies, I had my doubts about the need for a sequel to BLACK PHONE and man was I wrong. BLACK PHONE 2 kicks all kinds of ass. Can't wait to pick it up on 4K