The last act of The Santa Clause is sort of like the movie Prisoners if the kidnapper was Santa, and Hugh Jackman was played by Judge Reinhold.

Keeper (2025): Tatiana Maslany and Rossif Sutherland's romantic getaway to a cabin reveals some dark secrets in Osgood Perkins' horror film, which has a very strange, unsettlingly dreamy atmosphere that I found engagingly creepy despite a single location. The last act, though, just left me confused.

My review of The Running Man 2025 is now on Patreon! www.patreon.com/c/FilmBrain

I think I just edited 22 minutes in a day. Also, my Running Man review is the longest of the year.

Just thinking how frustrating it is that everything has been so crammed into releasing in November that the big films will trample each other, and the smaller films won't get seen. Especially after an October which was very quiet as the big films flopped.

steam is apparently allowing "this game had AI in it that it didn't disclose" as a valid return statement, so if you or anyone you know actually paid $70 for slop, get that money back

I think a big problem with The Running Man is that the vast majority of people think of the Arnie film than the actual Stephen King book it was based on.

Running Man review recorded. Now the race begins to finish it.

The Season 1 finale has the team in a world where a lottery is used as population control! www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMze...

Please continue making calls to Visa and Mastercard, because they are working alongside conservative legislators to crack down on free speech and expression! A dual pronged offense requires a dual pronged defense!

New Projector review! Guillermo del Toro has finally made his dream project Frankenstein, a bold, deeply personal interpretation of the Mary Shelley novel. I look at it's themes of fatherhood, and the surprising connections to Pinocchio, it's the most del Toro. 📽️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4bJ...

Mitch dates a horse girl. Meanwhile, Lani goes deaf. The latest Baywatching is now public! youtu.be/c4kQKfaZ1-A

That's a Mad Libs headline, surely? (The behind-the-scenes story on this must be fascinating.)

ICYMI - My favourite - if not the absolute best - film I saw at #LFF. I know you can see it on Netflix, but see this in a cinema while you still can.

I think I will tell if I've lost touch as a YouTuber is if I ever refer to anything in the region of £300 as "affordable".

Started writing my Running Man script. I thought I had a lot to say, and given I'm at 2600 words and counting, I was right.

TV conspiracies: we’ve hacked their computers but they’ve perfectly cleaned up the evidence! Real conspiracies: To: conspirator From: famous person Attachment: evidence.png

Disney's Lion King remakes are a boring mess. Here's a marathon vid of both of our reviews! youtu.be/Di28xw8S7Uc

ICYMI - My favourite - if not the absolute best - film I saw at #LFF. I know you can see it on Netflix, but see this in a cinema while you still can.

Now You See Me: Now You Don't: Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Isla Fisher, and Dave Franco's Horsemen are reunited with a new trio of young magicians in this overcrowded legacy sequel, that's more flashy preposterous nonsense. Rosamund Pike understands how ridiculous all this is and hams it up.

The Running Man (1987): Arnold Schwarzenegger competes in a deadly game show in this very loose adaptation of the Stephen King book. Wright's remake is the better film, this was flawed at the time and is quite dated now, but there's plenty of entertaining camp, and Richard Dawson steals it.

Time to rewatch this bad boy on a Blu-ray I've not watched yet.

New Projector review! Guillermo del Toro has finally made his dream project Frankenstein, a bold, deeply personal interpretation of the Mary Shelley novel. I look at it's themes of fatherhood, and the surprising connections to Pinocchio, it's the most del Toro. 📽️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4bJ...

*rubs hands* Good. Good... www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Kirkland made her film debut in Warhol's The 13 Most Beautiful Women in 1964. www.avclub.com/sally-kirkla...

"Look, are we sure James Bond can survive a barrage of missiles dropping on his head?"

The videos I edited for @allisonpregler.bsky.social and @phelous.bsky.social on the CG Lion King movies have been combined into a supercut!

There are 1,700 ballots that need signature confirmation. That is enough to change the election. Go. Check. Your. Ballot. komonews.com/news/local/s...

A lot of directors revealing that they really don't appreciate their actual talent, huh. Imagine making something like Assassination of Jesse James and then being okay with AI slop. Damn shame.

18 mins of video edited in a day feels like an accomplishment.

Wow, I can't imagine a brand of collectibles that manages to make every licence look the same, and does seemingly a bajillion versions for even minor characters no one would buy, might have a huge problem with debt. They Funko'd too close to the sun.

"Started by film lovers who turned their passion into an event everyone can enjoy, Forbidden Worlds is the best of Bristol. Watching genre films on an IMAX screen, surrounded by cinemagoers... it feels like you’re part of one (mega) movie night with friends." epigram.org.uk/giant-boars-...

We have reached our funding goal in less than 24 hours?!?! OMG You're all amazing! Can we maybe double it? Who knows but we can try,right?

Find your senators at reps.fyi or call 202-224-3121

Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.

Recorded the Frankenstein review. Glad to be back to doing long-form filming.

New Projector Short! A group of Australian soldiers survive their ship sinking - but the worst is yet to come, because they're hunted by a shark, in WWII horror-thriller Beast of War! A rare example of a good modern shark film, that's a fun war film riff on Jaws. youtube.com/shorts/i9T2o...

New Projector Short! Guy Pearce has to take DeWanda Wise across the desert, so she can cure her daughter, who kills everything she touches, in western Killing Faith (or Devil in the Dust in the UK). A unique, promising premise, but surprisingly dry and flat in execution. youtube.com/shorts/ydaQE...

Grams Bear must fight her greatest nemesis: an evil pie maker who makes the world crabby with his Crabby Apple Pies. Brave Heart Lion plots to take over the Care Bears. My review of the Care Bears' profoundly strange Thanksgiving special is up on Patreon Early Access! www.patreon.com/cw/movienights

Investing in ear protection is one of the smartest things I've ever done. If I'm worried a movie might be too loud, I just use them. I've got a very tiny bit of tinnitus that gets stronger when I'm stressed, but I only hear it in silence, I want to make sure I don't make it worse.

Hey, remember those doctored Barbie behind the scenes featurettes where they badly removed the green screens in a bizarre attempt to convince people it was made without CGI? Well, hold my Coca-Cola.

The Running Man (2025): Glen Powell has to run for his life in Josh Brolin's sadistic gameshow in Edgar Wright's actioner based on the Stephen King book, which is closer than the Arnie version. Takes a while to build up speed, and a little bit uneven script-wise, but this is still Verhoeven-lite fun

Was down the shops earlier, and it seems in Netflix's attempts to merchandise Stranger Things as much as possible before the last series, there's children's jumpers and clothing for it. Pretty sure that series really shouldn't be watched by the 3 to 6 set...

ICYMI - A good shark movie? In this century? It happens, every so often. 📽️

The New Zealand-born filmmaker died at the age of 75.

ICYMI - A good shark movie? In this century? It happens, every so often. 📽️

I need to observe this. Forgive myself for not doing all the things I want to do and unrealistically set myself. Oh, and stop thinking of myself as a disappointment, because that what I fear other people think of me, but is really just self-projection and paying too much attention to assholes.

Finally finished my script for my review of Guillermo del Toro Frankenstein. It's a lot of movie, the *most* Del Toro.

I came across a promo Garfield VHS for an old Embassy Suites sweepstakes for travel agencies this is Garfield: In Search of the Suite Life! www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZbK...