News of it never circulated here, but @elijahbrubaker.bsky.social died a few weeks back. I have a few words in this piece for the Comics Journal, reflecting on his work and mourning his loss.

The nice thing about new big Netflix movies is that if you don't have Netflix you can just wait out the discourse and nobody will remember the movie exists in a month

What the heck was that?! #cowtools #simpsons #coldwarmedia #farside

The fourth door of the Crestwood House has just opened and it leads to our theater where @shawnrobare.com, @michaelmay.bsky.social & @paxholley.com are sitting in the audience for an over the top performance of Vincent Price’s Theater of Blood from 1973! cultfilmclub.com/crestwood-ho...

Amazing, everyone who was going to be raptured decided to stay home and watch Jimmy Kimmel, we did it everybody

Despite loving QUICK CHANGE, I've never watched this earlier version of the story, so let's check it out! By "let's" i mean me exclusively, you can't come over

oh it's #bisexual day? I have written about the greatest bisexual movie ever made, so you should read that: uproxx.com/movies/velve...

Anyone know a good book or reference on Czech new wave films or Czech “crazy comedies”?

Saturday 9/27, 7:30 p.m. “Beyond Terror: Vincent Price on Television” Join us for an evening of TV programs showcasing the many facets of horror icon Vincent Price, from a tour of his art-filled home to talk show appearances with Dinah Shore. @imvictoriaprice.bsky.social in person! ucla.in/4n0vNiy

I am glad The Owl House exists at all. Me for re:frame #16:

I've been terrible at promoting this, but last year I launched a brand new A.V. Club column called Women of Action, all about the history of women-led action movies. And it just celebrated its one-year anniversary with a piece about Ripley and her seismic place in the canon!

Tonight at @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social, @chicagofilmsociety.org presents Chris + Heather's 16mm Big Screen Blowout #2, "another orgiastic evening of small-gauge confections." I was at Blowout #1, and it was an amazing presentation of weird little movies. Fun! musicboxtheatre.com/films-and-ev...

Before reviving my New Cult Canon column for The Reveal, I ended it fittingly at The A.V. Club with THE RAPTURE. (That my career/column/life continued anyway suggests that perhaps we'll be fine today.) www.avclub.com/new-cult-can...

'Adventures in Animation,' out today, celebrates the life and work of Richard Williams, the animator behind 'Roger Rabbit,' 'A Christmas Carol,' 'The Thief and the Cobbler,' and 'The Animator’s Survival Kit.' We've got an exclusive first look at the book. www.cartoonbrew.com/books/richar...

If you want to know how long this nutty Rapture obsession has been pinballing around the right wing evangelical brainsoup, here's a 1972 movie about it, with the faithful vanishing to heaven and the left behind branded with binary 666 tattoos by the dystopian Anti-Christ (aka the United Nations).

David Secter's nearly forgotten first feature film WINTER KEPT US WARM incorporates LGBTQ+ themes into a college campus coming of age tale — one of the first Canadian films to do so. It has also been noted as the film that inspired David Cronenberg to become a filmmaker. Screening Wednesday (9/24)

Hey, Autism is not a disease. While not all Autistics have food aversion, it is found in a lot of Autistic and neurodivergent folk. If you want to stick it to the people sharing and celebrating the spreading of misinformation about Autism, share stuff made by Autistic folk. Like my book:

Before you take any pill, make sure that pill contains a bunch of other pills and then examine those pills to make sure you have the right amount of each color pill Or else autism

So, this is the big announcement. My book is now available. www.amazon.com/dp/B0FS2MQ4ZH

One point I would add: When you write a letter to complain, don't do it electronically. Corporations do not care about those, at all. Write an actual letter, and send it in the mail, with a stamp. One physical letter is like a MILLION electronic comments. Getting physical mail FREAKS THEM OUT.

Too late, Batman. Once this Tylenol floods the city's water supply, my wiki won't run out of editors ever again

I for one welcome our new Tylenol overlords

Has anybody been compiling lists of advertisers for Sinclair/Nexstar in different local markets? I don’t watch regular broadcast TV, but if I had a list of advertisers in my area I’d give them a call.

Empire Records is 30, and still getting cult-favorite appreciations despite being kinda lousy. From the archives: www.avclub.com/empire-recor...

Last night I watched the movie where Debra Unger's super horniness leads to death, no, the other one

No more news headlines of people "melting down" unless they look like this

“I’m sorry I caused all that autism.”

Dammit I just spent money on things but still

Feels like a good time to repost our satirical sendup of Disney buying everything and ruining it. If you missed it, here's every episode of DISNEY OWNS YOU! Episode 1: Disney Buys Lucasfilm (feat. @katystoll.bsky.social and @codyjohnston.bsky.social) www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7VB...

PLAYLIST: All tracks written, performed, produced or remixed by Trent Reznor in the order they were released to the public. Singles, b-sides, collabs, soundtracks, remixes of his own music (no remixes of NIN by other artists). A fascinating 35 years of evolution. open.spotify.com/playlist/2Vh...

Cool thing with flying today is that we might hit one of the raptured, got my camera ready

Always takes a second when I see Matt Walsh on things like this before I'm like "oh, right, the good one"

Airport security is stressful but that 90 seconds when you don't have a phone or ID or anything in your pockets in a strange place is oddly freeing

"Such interesting topography" - someone in Chicago visiting anyplace else This was someone else's post but I can't find but i agree with it

TONIGHT (9/22) at 7PM: come to @ifccenter.bsky.social and watch this month's choice for Cruising The Movies: Patricia Rozema's I'VE HEARD THE MERMAIDS SINGING Art fraud! Power lesbians! Professional incompetence! Canadians! I'd love to see you there!

Minneapolis has been lovely, highly recommend a visit. They have many interesting shops and arcades and also their spoon is too big

Health officials are urging Chicagoans to get vaccinated after 81 mpox cases were reported in the city in 6 months. blockclubchi.co/46tpahF

Has this man no sense of the moment? These are the glasses all the cool kids want

Moral doms in the area must feel so conflicted

Iconic

I Think I'll Miss You Most Of All Thanks for all your kind words and thoughts about BIRDS OF PREY, everyone. Some words/updates from me here.. 1979semifinalist.substack.com/p/i-think-il...

Please read this. I was active on Tumblr, & stayed through the Cleanpocalypse porn ban. It killed the site. Tons of art and photos without a pixel of NSFW were blocked. If you think the censored crop tops are bad here NOW... Tell bsky. Leave feedback. We want clearer tagging & spoilers, not bans!

Podcasting is now twenty years old. And that means shows that ran for years are now just a bunch of URLs that resolve to nothing. Sometimes, someone uploads a full set of mp3s to archive.org, and that’s great! But you can’t easily listen the same way as your other podcasts. What if you could? 🧵

Pinball used to be so big you could advertise it with two ladies in their dorm room doing nothing and looking bored and people would still play

WHAT KIND OF PSYCHO PUTS THE 2 PLAYER BUTTON ON THE LEFT HAND SIDE

All of you canceling Disney will feel so short sighted when next month when you can't watch (looks at Disney slate) the third season of Superkitties

Good Wikipedia lede