And this is just Volume 1! Imprint playing everyone else for fools here. Sons of Good Earth and Four Moods on disc and Dragon Inn and A Touch of Zen going 4K (Come Drink With Me has already done that in other territories). Now the only question is, is this worth resisting?

*Looking at Michael Jackson dancing* "Y'know what, he's so good at that I don't really mind all the child molestation stuff anymore."

Finally seeing one of the great typos in cinema, in lavish 4K.

Not everyone knows this but the "secret chord that David played and it pleased the Lord" was actually the fretboard slide Tony Iommi stuck into Supernaut.

My kingdom for a John Waters remake of Love on a Diet. And a Johnnie To remake of Cecile B. Demented with all HK director tattoos.

All I want to do this week is sit down and watch my new 4K of The Killer but instead every afternoon I end up having drinks with friends instead. Very frustrating situation.

The thing about remaking The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is, if you want to really do it, if you really want to dwell in its spirit, you have to wander into villainy. If a studio is paying you, you're already just another fucking suit.

There's so much to take in here. Not least of all that Italy is managed by Geraldo Rivera and the 90s Irish team is managed by a black guy. Videogames show us worlds we can only dream of.

Nine Inch Noize is an interesting flipside to And All That Could Have Been, moving NIN's songs to a more electronic realm where that other live album pushed earlier work to a more guitar rock place. Wish it pushed harder though. Wish Coil were still around to rejig it.

Booked in for two movies at The Music Box this Saturday, playing almost 12 hours apart. A Man Escaped in the morning and then, at midnight, Fulci's House By the Cemetery. Offers I simply cannot refuse.

Hell of a mailday. I, uh, forgot how hard Vinegar Syndrome's partner labels leaned into my predilections this month. Can't believe I have The Killer in 4K. Or a native, western release of Romancing in Thin Air. Now have a HK Blu of that to offload I guess.

Can we stop with the remakes already?!

Expecting a package today that includes two Jean Rollin movies, Romancing In Thin Air, and The Killer. Insane hit rate.

That is an insane rendition of Cybil Shepherd. Couple that with the insanely literal title (Changing Horses on the Wedding Night) and you've got a real winner here.

Once the Democrats hostility to Israel turns 16 Dershowitz will be back with a bouquet.

I watched a movie today. Please clap. (Movie was Jess Franco's very entertaining Eurospy outing, Attack of the Robots)

Didn't realise how soon this was, but I'll be introducing Tsui Hark's Peking Opera Blues for Cinema Reborn on Friday 8 May at Sydney's Ritz Cinemas. Join me for a bona fide Hong Kong classic that has renewed resonance in these tumultuous times of ours. cinemareborn.com.au/Peking-Opera...

Did The Onion finally get InfoWars?

Still trying to work out what a "good" Elden Ring movie would even look like. The main characteristic of FromSoft games is a prolonged, dour loneliness that seeps into your head while you navigate forelorn facsimiles of civilization. Maybe Garland's movie will be 15 hours long?

At the British pub and they have Umbrellas of Cherbourg on the TV behind the bar with motion smoothing and torch brightness. Looks great!

Story of Ricky remains incredibly relatable cinema. Many times in my life, during times of great adversity and struggle, I have thought to myself, "I am Ricky." Usually I then channel my qi to punch a huge hole in the nearest wall and leave.

Considering torrential rain, tornado watch, and the late hour there's a pretty good crowd here for Story of Ricky.

this is fucking nuts:

Just back from Grelley Duvall Best Actress, a theater tribute to cinema's leading ladies that ends with a dance number including a puppet of the ghost from Poltergeist. Difficult to describe but huge fun. Now I'm wired enough to brave the rain & catch Story of Ricky at midnight.

Sunn O)))

The only religious leaders that could ever credulously back Trump are those representing American Evangelism, the clown-car theology that developed in tandem with American Empire, and even they're losing patience with him.

American Catholicism...

Feel like ODing on drugs used to have more dignity than this.

There's SIX Insidious movies?! Why?

Cruel Story of Youth in the wake of Radiance's Oshima set. What a fantastic time for Oshima fans, and people who are about to discover they are Oshima fans.

If you can't afford a drink the bar will make you leave. We're having a great time at the bar.

Ushering in good weather by bringing home a bottle of this. It's working!

Watched 2 1/2 movies on the flight home. Yacht Rock doc was fun and sometimes interesting. Mostly worth it just to hear the director get Donald Fagen on the phone and ask if he wanted to be on a Yacht Rock doc? "What genre," Fagen asks. "Yacht Rock." "Go fuck yourself." *click*

Nice surprise on returning from vacation to learn the new season of Taskmaster has started.

Just landed back in Chicago, with 20 minutes left of Fackham Hall. Will I ever track down the movie to finish it? Doubtful.

Nice of Untitled Goose Game to go on sale just before I have to endure a lengthy flight. Should be fun to play through again and hopefully won't tax the Steam Deck battery too much.

Sitting on a train and have just heard someone with a fantastic mix of Eastern European and Irish accent use the word "Tumblr Girl."

Is Limerick City nice now? Extremely confusing to me. I'm at Treaty City Brewery which is right by King John's Castle which is basically in the city centre, getting slightly tipsy off a fucking 9-pour flight I foolishly felt I could pull off for lunch.

Yes, give it to me.

I must admit, I had no idea Mario Adorf was still with us til yesterday. 95 years and a string of superb films. Rest in peace.

Second boat ride of the day. Crossing the Shannon by boat just because we can. They won't open the gift shop though!

Having a Lahinch Old Fashioned

Shit, I thought this one was later in the schedule! Obviously I'm a few thousand miles too far away to make it but if you're in Chicago tomorrow, you should not pass this up!

Me to too many Americans: "Ireland is a real place, not some fucking imaginary fairyland." Meanwhile, Ireland, from the widow of a moving train.

Traveling from east to west coast by train in Ireland in just 90 minutes. A terrible shame America is too incompetent and corrupt to figure out such a simple service.

On the train eating local cuisine

Gonna wear the I.R.A. medal set going back through the airport.

Got excited at the antique store for a Black Sabbath record with a big $1.99 sticker only to remember that's part of its antiqueness now and it's actually €125. They also have a copy of The Who's My Generation signed by the band for a spritely €2,250.

Now drinking a pint of Guinness in Ireland. I am a cliché.

Drinking a Corona while waiting on my tacos in Rialto, Dublin. The country I moved from no longer exists.