Well, folks, I've made it through John Carpenter's entire filmography. Tonight's selection was the much-reviled THE WARD. And you know what? I didn't hate it. It certainly held my attention all the way through, which is more than I can say for some other lesser Carpenters. #FortnightOfFright #13

walking home after your motley crew of randos crushes it at the membership library horror trivia night

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This title is a crime.

This such basic common sense that I still can't believe it's a question?!?! Like are you people who say it the other way high

SORRY, BABY is the best American debut of 2025, a feat of tonal complexity grappling with a harrowing event using finely-tuned insightful humor. Eva Victor is a major voice. It’s out on HBO Max today. I gave it a perfect 10 in my “controversial” @IGN review. Read it here: www.ign.com/articles/sor...

I don't agree with all of this, but this makes more of an effort to wrestle with the ideas of the film rather than that whole weird week where people kept insisting PTA clear off his shelves for all the Oscars he was going to get and that the film wasn't underperforming at the box office.

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I guess I was so underwhelmed by John Carpenter's VAMPIRES I forgot to post about here. Anyway, his GHOSTS OF MARS is not much better. But I did love the nesting doll aspect of the flashbacks. Just one more new-to-me Carpenter to go... and I hear it's a doozy! #FortnightOfFright #11-12 #Filmsky 📽️

My cousins are my kid’s aunts and uncles. Their kids are his cousins. My aunts and uncles? Also his aunts and uncles. My friends? My partner’s friends? Also aunts and uncles! Firmly convinced being an aunt/uncle is one of the highest honors in human life.

This man? Not actually related to the Tanners at all, yet they call him "Uncle Joey"

They are also intentionally conflating machine-learning and generative AI slop to confuse and try to make GenAI seem necessary. Google Maps traffic stuff is machine learning, not GenAI, for example. Auto-correct is too. Don't let them make you lose the thread. GenAI slop is slop.

BREAKING: millions go to church every sunday and call the priest "father" but he's not really their dad.

For fuck's sake, growing up I called my parents' best friends since college "Aunt Ruth & Uncle Mort" and they weren't biologically related to me at all.

New red flag alert: Anyone who claims not to understand this practice, which is common among many cultures (in French, a parent's cousine is a "tante à la mode de Bretagne"), is to be avoided as they 1) have an agenda or 2) don't maintain contact with any family/friends with kids who respect them.

Tonight's new-to-me Bava was the seminal slasher A BAY OF BLOOD, aka TWITCH OF THE DEATH NERVE (1971). This opens strong but quickly goes downhill. Worth watching for its importance to the genre and WTF ending, but it's my least favorite Bava yet. #FortnightOfFright #10 #Filmsky 📽️

They’re creating a situation where a lot of angry, desperate people are going to have a lot of spare time to concoct ways how they’re going to fuck with rich people’s lives.

For tonight's horror selection, another new-to-me Bava: OPERAZIONE PAURA (English title: KILL, BABY... KILL! ) (1966). This might be my favorite yet. It's so very pretty. #FortnightOfFright #9 #Filmsky 📽️

If Dems win the Supreme Court races in Pennsylvania in 9 days, it’s extremely likely the GOP can’t get a majority on that court until 2029. The GOP really wants to have this majority during the 2028 presidential race. Can’t put the stakes any more clearly than that. boltsmag.org/pennsylvania...

Just one reason I buy Office when I get a new laptop.

Good on Australia for doing this! It’s such a deceptive practice to tell customers their price is increasing because of AI, when the old price is still available without genAI but only if you try to cancel.

this is something that individual members of Congress could do tomorrow. The government is shut down so they could use their district offices. I suggested in January that they turn those offices into full on community centers where people could find each other re: mutual aid etc...

Every single thing that has been done in the last 50 years in this country that was "supposed to free us from the chains of government control" has solely meant removing all checks on the wealthy that prevent them from doing whatever they want without civic obligation. All of it. Every single thing.

Decided to turn my John Carpenter challenge film of the day into a double feature that I'm calling "Won't someone please think of the children?" #FortnightOfFright #8 #Filmsky 📽️

Just curious, how many units of housing are going to be in this ballroom?

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This really was one of my main takeaways

In a similar vein, I realized I can't watch any video on YouTube now unless I'm logged in. They won't even play here for me.

The irony of #Duolingo inflicting this horrible new energy system on free users is I was considering resubscribing to Super but this update was so infuriating I will likely drop the app altogether. If anyone knows a good app for refreshing Italian and learning Polish, let me know!

What is this new "energy" bullshit in Duolingo? Congratulations on disincentivizing me from doing lessons I guess.

Was in the mood for an Old Dark House mystery and figured HOUSE OF THE LONG SHADOWS (1983) with Christopher Lee (among others) might be a good follow-up to THE WHIP AND THE BODY but it actually turned out to be a good follow-up to IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS! #FortnightOfFright #7 #Filmsky 📽️

Tonight's horror selection was another Carpenter. I knew very little about IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS (1994) going in, which is probably best. Loved the method more than the madness, but it's definitely worth the watch. Also, DAS BOOT! #FortnightOfFright #6 #Filmsky 📽️

I am in the airport and I thought I was sitting next to a man having a breakup conversation and then realized this guy is just talking about the future of the country.

Honoring my immigrant grandparents today with a meal of bigos, kielbasa, kluski śląskie with mushrooms, and beet horseradish. Love when street cleaning rules give me and the Math Greek an excuse to go to the Polish deli in the Outer Richmond. And now that means I get to practice my Duolingo Polish!

The Fortnight of Fright continues with more new-to-me Bava. Tonight's horror selection was LA FRUSTA E IL CORPO (THE WHIP AND THE BODY) (1963). Damn, he really went there. Sadomasochism AND gorgeous colors. Available on Kanopy. #FortnightOfFright #5 #filmsky 📽️

This is who is paying for the destruction of the White House East Wing, per @wsj.com Altria Group Inc. Amazon Apple Inc. Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corp. Caterpillar Inc. Coinbase Global Comcast Corp. Hard Rock International Google HP Inc. Lockheed Martin Corp. Meta Platforms Inc. 1/3

When you've accumulated enough gift codes to get these sent to you for free during the Criterion flash sale #winning #filmsky 📽️

Ten favorite books, no author repeats: The Alienist (Carr) The Black Swan (Sabatini) The Daughter of Time (Tey) The Eight (Neville) The Joy Luck Club (Tan) McTeague (Norris) Persuasion (Austen) Rebecca (Du Maurier) Told by an Idiot (Macaulay) Travels with My Aunt (Greene) #Booksky

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October 21 MEMOIRS OF AN INVISIBLE MAN (1992) This was better than I'd been led to believe, but maybe I just think that because my regular neighborhood hill walk covers about 90% of the SF locations used in this film. #JohnCarpenter #FortnightOfFright #4 #Filmsky 📽️

Tonight's #FortnightOfFright selection was I TRE VOLTI DELLA PAURA (BLACK SABBATH) (1963) by Mario Bava. Normally I'm not a fan of anthology films but this is one of the rare ones that doesn't have a weak link. And the colors are gorgeous. Plus, Boris Karloff! #FortnightOfFright #3 #Filmsky 📽

I love that we’re all unanimously like “listen that building is not sacred to me and it has a bloody history and if it came down ethically I probably wouldn’t shed a tear, but watching this man smash a wrecking ball into the side of it from sheer selfish malice has unexpectedly fucked me up”

This MFer has to go

Not sure why this image is so shocking, given everything he’s done but: it’s shocking! www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Watched THEY LIVE (1988) for my ranking John Carpenter challenge. I think this is the first Carpenter I ever saw. It's not a fave but I give it props for remaining disturbingly relevant. #FortnightOfFright #2 #Filmsky 📽️

After fifty-two #DirectedByWomen films this year, most of which were new-to-me features, here are my Top Ten discoveries #Filmsky 📽️