Very sad to hear of the far-too-early passing of Corey Parker, who I love for both BIG MAN ON CAMPUS and HOW I GOT INTO COLLEGE but marked his legacy in my heart as Mädchen Amick's leading man in I'M DANGEROUS TONIGHT.

Whatever happens tonight, just want to express my supreme appreciation for the miracle that is #TheLastDriveIn. We were largely Joe Bob-less for 18 years, limited to bootlegs of old shows, his audio commentaries and odd appearance here & there. To get 8 more years of him has been amazing.

OUT NOW! An author we don't like. A game we can't play. A novelization that's... surprisingly tolerable if we grade on a curve. But with @patrickhwillems.bsky.social and @thelastmachine.bsky.social joining to discuss Shadowkeep, the conversation earns an A+ easily. Listen: shorturl.at/lDZ45

Waking up tomorrow and realizing there won't be any more Frederick Wiseman films is going to be soul-crushing.

As 2026 dawns, so will our season of video game novelizations! Featuring @ethanalter.bsky.social, @kradec.bsky.social, @philathans.bsky.social, @adamvole.com, @patrickhwillems.bsky.social, @thelastmachine.bsky.social, @dodgyboffin.com, @rockmarooned.bsky.social, @alexwolinetz.com, and more!

You love Larry Cohen, so you MUST listen to @thelastmachine.bsky.social's interview with @jfkenney.bsky.social, editor of Cohen's newly published memoirs and an unreleased Cohen screenplay! Joined by Andrew Overbye of @authorizedpod.bsky.social on THE PINK SMOKE! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

THE PINK SMOKE PODCAST We talk Larry Cohen with @jfkenney.bsky.social, editor of the director's newly published memoirs and HEADHUNTER, an unreleased Cohen screenplay. Joined by Andrew Overbye of @authorizedpod.bsky.social! m.soundcloud.com/user-564624820/ep-161-i-killed-bette-davis-by-larry-cohen

OUT NOW! @thelastmachine.bsky.social joins to discuss Speed Zone, theoretically a third entry in the Cannonball Run series. Can three SCTV alumni save a film with no story or jokes? Why do we keep doing this? We think it had something to do with something called Carquake? Listen: shorturl.at/lDZ45

Just so happens, on this day of Tom Stoppard's departure, sorting through old crap, I found an ancient program from when I co-directed and co-starred in ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD in high school. I still mumble "consistency is all I ask..." to myself every once in a while.

Join intrepid heroes @hwoodminotaur.bsky.social and @jonjame.bsky.social as they entire The Pink Smoke cinematic inferno with @thelastmachine.bsky.social and @moviekessler.bsky.social! What movies will be saved and what will burn for all eternity? podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f...

If you want to hear me talk about Warlock, listen to The Pink Smoke's episode on "Wyatt Earp movies without Wyatt Earp" with @thelastmachine.bsky.social & Chris Funderburg. We also cover 40 Guns, Law and Order (1932), Dodge City & a helluva lot more: open.spotify.com/episode/4e9c...

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!

OUT NOW! @thelastmachine.bsky.social joins as we continue our quest to watch everything even tangentially related to Carquake (aka Cannonball), whether it has been novelized or not. Will diminished expectations benefit the sequel to a movie we mostly didn't love? Listen: shorturl.at/lDZ45

Legendary Scholar of the West @davidlambertart.bsky.social joins Chris Funderburg and @thelastmachine.bsky.social on The Pink Smoke to discuss the myth of Jeremiah Johnson, the novels that inspired the titular film, and the brilliant John Milius script! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

On The Pink Smoke, the brilliant Chris Funderburg and @thelastmachine.bsky.social discuss the ARTHUR films, their pop culture legacy, and how a modern audience might view them today! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

This was my first feature film as writer/director, released back in 2008, a horror inspired by The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and 70s British horrors like Frightmare and Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny and Girly, about a murderous family who live in a house at the end of a Heathrow Airport runway.

Fellow used bookstore explorer @scsheil.bsky.social will appreciate how awesome it is that I found this at a used shop in Poughkeepsie, NY.

I had the honor of joining the one-and-only @thelastmachine.bsky.social to record a commentary for the 1981 James Bond film FOR YOUR EYES ONLY! Combat skiing! Monastery assaults! A surfeit of pistachios! Available only on The Pink Smoke's Patreon! www.patreon.com/posts/for-yo...

I join Matt on the Time Enough Podcast to discuss the 1962 film REQUIEM FOR A HEAVYWEIGHT, where it stands in Rod Serling's writing oeuvre, and if there is any fate for a veteran boxer that is not poverty and physical degradation... timeenoughpodcast.transistor.fm/episodes/req...

We're back with some olde timey Appendix N fantasy for you! Gather the party for Poul Anderson's Three Hearts and Three Lions badbooksbadpeople.com/episodes/epi...

I'm back on @authorizedpod.bsky.social talking about Phillip Rock's pretty excellent adaptation of Don Siegel's DIRTY HARRY. It's the @hsblechman.bsky.social season, for which all of you punks should feel lucky. open.spotify.com/episode/66ZzK0… artwork by Tony Stella

THE PINK SMOKE PODCAST Ali: Fear Eats the Soul We sit down to discuss one of the warmest titles from the colder-than-death filmography of Rainer Werner Fassbinder, a story of how the misery of unaccepted love is made even more miserable when it is accepted. soundcloud.com/user-5646248...

Listen to me talk about Law and Order, Saint Johnson & just about every movie about Wyatt Earp that doesn't use the name Wyatt Earp on The Pink Smoke podcast with @thelastmachine.bsky.social & Christopher Funderburg. That means 40 Guns, Warlock, Dodge City & more... open.spotify.com/episode/4e9c...

www.cpw.org Photo book and zine fair August 9 + 10!

Today's the day! Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees - Rite of Spring is available for purchase in all fine shops where comics are sold. Immense gratitude to all of the critics, retailers, and readers who have supported this book ❤️❤️❤️ Still can't wrap my head around it!

We're back with a new episode on Keith Rosson's Smoke City! Road-trippin' to a funeral and in search of the reincarnated spirit of Joan of Arc. Listen in to hear all about hot dog burritos, redemption, and a jazz records as legal tender badbooksbadpeople.com/episodes/epi...

THE PINK SMOKE PODCAST Earp Adjacent Westerns We're joined by @davidlambertart.bsky.social to discuss movies where they don't call him Wyatt & they don't call it Tombstone but he still cleans up the streets! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-153-earp-adjacent-westerrns/id1529803112?i=1000715388863

Is Marlon Brando the most interesting part of The Missouri Breaks, or does he ruin what could have been a rich, laidback 70s Western? Or both? I got hammered & went on @menonfilm.bsky.social with fellow guest @thelastmachine.bsky.social to figure it out open.spotify.com/episode/3Y0o...

OUT NOW! The world's most famous novelization author wrote a memoir. @thelastmachine.bsky.social and @patrickhwillems.bsky.social join to dissect Alan Dean Foster's treatise on adaptations. Hannah loses her mind. Listen: shorturl.at/j15hf

Titanic movie minds @moviekessler.bsky.social, @davidlambertart.bsky.social, and @thelastmachine.bsky.social UNITE on The Pink Smoke to discuss two legendary directors and their historic (but interesting!) debacles: Lynch's 'Dune' and Peckinpah's 'Major Dundee'! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

Lots of updates over at PINNLAND EMPIRE BLACK FILM CANON www.pinnlandempire.com/2025/03/10-r... HUNDREDS OF BEAVERS www.pinnlandempire.com/2025/01/hund... NICKEL BOYS www.pinnlandempire.com/2025/02/nick... THE KILLER www.pinnlandempire.com/2023/11/a-fe... & www.pinnlandempire.com/2024/03/a-fe...

THE PINK SMOKE PODCAST: Major Dune-dee @davidlambertart.bsky.social on Sam Peckinpah's MAJOR DUNDEE! @moviekessler.bsky.social on David Lynch's DUNE! Two big studio movies shot in Mexico that almost derailed their director's career. We discuss what happened! m.soundcloud.com/user-5646248...

It's David Day on The Pink Smoke podcast as this David joins @moviekessler.bsky.social & @thelastmachine.bsky.social to talk about the similarities between David Samuel Peckinpah's Major Dundee & David Lynch's Dune. Listen 👇 m.soundcloud.com/user-5646248...

My very short story, As Long As I Have Eyes, is now up at Punk Noir Magazine. Read it here: punknoirmagazine.wordpress.com/2025/02/10/a...

MORE UPDATES @ PINNLAND JUICE www.pinnlandempire.com/2024/04/visu... www.pinnlandempire.com/2023/09/visu... THE SUBSTANCE www.pinnlandempire.com/2024/11/the-... www.pinnlandempire.com/2024/10/the-... THE BEAST www.pinnlandempire.com/2023/10/the-... EUREKA www.pinnlandempire.com/2023/10/eure...

THE PINK SMOKE PATREON: Shane audio commentary Is it true that if you say Shane's name three times he magically appears? Saddle up with @quasarsniffer.bsky.social and @davidlambertart.bsky.social for a full length commentary on one of the greatest Westerns ever made! patreon.com/posts/shane-au…

I made my way across the desert to return to @authorizedpod.bsky.social for the doin' and the knowin' of Joan D. Vinge's novelization of MAD MAX BEYOND THUNDERDOME. (Spoiler: I do in fact bust a deal and consequently face the wheel.) podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mad… Artwork by Tony Stella

THE PINK SMOKE PODCAST: Female Trouble We're joined by @wigwurq.bsky.social to discuss the *most* John Waters movie ever made: the fabulously unhinged, proudly deviant, bizarrely wholesome FEMALE TROUBLE. m.soundcloud.com/user-564624820/1974-fifty-years-later-female-trouble

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#WIGREVIEW of #WICKEDPART1: www.tumblr.com/wigwurq/7682... #wicked #wicked2024 #arianagrande #cynthiaerivo #guuuuuulinda #elphaba #opiumdens #dickfirst #johnnybailey #hauntedwigs #wighex

THE PINK SMOKE PODCAST: Symptoms The @26mfhpod.bsky.social crew joins us to diagnose this terror tone poem from Catalan director José Ramón Larraz. With Angela Pleasence threatened by psychosexual hallucinations, it marks a new direction for horror cinema in 1974. m.soundcloud.com/user-564624820

Another non-PINNLAND EMPIRE article I wrote during my shadowbanned era over at the other app. My thoughts on Robert Townsend’s HOLLYWOOD SHUFFLE www.altaonline.com/dispatches/a...

American Photography 1890-1965 // Peter Galassi // published 1995 99 photographers included, 14 of which are women (14%)

We've been talking about films from 1974 all year on the Pink Smoke Podcast. THE NICKEL RIDE, with its rampant paranoia and portrayal of aging blue collar crooks "sitting around talking like plumbers," might be the most 1974 movie of all. More here: open.spotify.com/episode/785VkQXtvEsZXSrnorm2Vm

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Hello there, I'm in the middle of running my yearly print sale, have a look! jordannakalman.bigcartel.com