#animation #film #TedEshbaugh I have to promote this because @dcairns.bsky.social is my husband. Actually I don't HAVE to promote it. I'm genuinely a fan of Him Indoors' writing. I wish I had half his talent and all of his ability to focus. dcairns.wordpress.com/2026/01/10/e...

Part Three of DR NIKOLA IN A BID FOR FORTUNE! dcairns.wordpress.com/2026/01/11/t...

The entire cinematic career of cartoonist Ted Eshbaugh, (such as survives), the Master of Inappropriateness: dcairns.wordpress.com/2026/01/10/e...

#childhoodcinema The Odeon, Clerk Street, Edinburgh, then and now.

SHUTTER ISLAND, revisited. dcairns.wordpress.com/2026/01/09/a...

1933 WIZARD OF OZ cartoon: no lions, witch or munchkins, but a whole lotta chickens. dcairns.wordpress.com/2026/01/08/e...

I probably will go see Nolan's ODYSSEY because, say what you like about his work, it's always disappointing, and in these unreliable times there's something to be said for such consistency.

Herman Goering splaying and mansplaining. NUREMBERG is well worth a visit. dcairns.wordpress.com/2026/01/06/h...

Coming soonly dcairns.wordpress.com/2026/01/05/p...

The Insidious Dr. Nikola packs his cat for a long sea voyage. dcairns.wordpress.com/2026/01/04/t...

Mystery cartoons. Maybe even UNREAL cartoons. What are/were the FAY FABLES? dcairns.wordpress.com/2026/01/01/t...

How are you spending New Year's Night 1953?

Can't hardly wait.

Can't wait for 1930.

Roll on 1928.

Death by Lightning. Nifty. dcairns.wordpress.com/2025/12/30/f...

Hard sell. dcairns.wordpress.com/2025/12/29/o...

CHATGPT: wow George you’re absolutely right. $8,000 is a lot of money. Mary would be better off without you.

Christmas cartoons, mmm, not so good, but there are some disturbing elements which interest me and finally THE SNOW MAN (1940) is genuine high-grade nightmare fuel. dcairns.wordpress.com/2025/12/23/o...

Found myself singing "Feed - the - wor -ms / Let them know it's Christmas time!" so I guess mood = normal/festive?

Didn't expect to see a Bresson heroine rocket upwards like Ultraman, but there it is. dcairns.wordpress.com/2025/12/19/t...

Found myself singing "Feed - the - wor -ms / Let them know it's Christmas time!" so I guess mood = normal/festive?

"How fascistic is it?" is a question I often have when approaching cop movies. THE 7-UPS is an OK cop movie. It's also fairly fascistic. dcairns.wordpress.com/2025/12/18/p...

If I should ever disappear mysteriously, look for me anywhere, except Blantyre; for I shall never go There.

Soderbergh makes films faster than I can watch them. Tried two. The second one clicked, mostly. dcairns.wordpress.com/2025/12/17/t...

So now we know why Trump's hands are bruised - the white house employs a man with a ruler to rap him on the knuckles whenever he reaches for his phone. Unfortunately rulerman's not always quick enough. And the hands present such a small target...

Luciano Albertini, celebrated leaper. dcairns.wordpress.com/2025/12/14/t...

LA FEMME DOUCE is a haunting film and part of that is the strange sussurations of its soundtrack. dcairns.wordpress.com/2025/12/14/h...

Errol Morris's latest documentary, about the Manson murders, the first film to pooh-pooh itself. dcairns.wordpress.com/2025/12/12/s...

I discover to my -- joy? shame? -- that TRAINSPOTTING steals a joke from BURKE AND HARE (1972). dcairns.wordpress.com/2025/12/10/t...

The perils of clinging to the front of a speeding van while wearing a kipper tie. dcairns.wordpress.com/2025/12/09/a...

Cinematopgrapher Nicholas Musuraca was a poet with shadow. dcairns.wordpress.com/2025/12/07/t...

Gaslight melodrama FOOTSTEPS IN THE FOG messes with the usual "young girl in old house gets the pants scared off her" approach with interesting results. dcairns.wordpress.com/2025/12/05/p...

Tiny Stanley Baker menaced by Nazi! dcairns.wordpress.com/2025/12/03/t...

Inspector Roman Polanski gives amnesiac Gerard Depardieu the third degree in A PURE FORMALITY. Will the truth set us free? dcairns.wordpress.com/2025/12/04/d...

Christmas noir is a whole thing. So is 3D noir. But there's only one 3D Christmas noir: dcairns.wordpress.com/2025/12/02/s...

Important questions. dcairns.wordpress.com/2025/12/01/qa/

My quest to popularise Andre Deed, AKA Cretinetti sometimes feels like dragging a jalopy out of a river. dcairns.wordpress.com/2025/11/30/t...

An incredibly poignant moment in 8 1/2, hidden away without explanation. dcairns.wordpress.com/2025/11/29/y...

Revisiting a Bresson that didn't grab me as a teen, but should've because I felt a lot like this guy... dcairns.wordpress.com/2025/11/27/d...

The new PTA, second time around, in 70mm. dcairns.wordpress.com/2025/11/25/o...

I would like, if I may, to take you on... dcairns.wordpress.com/2025/11/24/a...

Self-reflexive soviet silent comedy! dcairns.wordpress.com/2025/11/23/t...

The most ambitious superhero movie ever made came out in 1968. dcairns.wordpress.com/2025/11/22/e...

Lex Neal, a Buster Keaton gagman, co-wrote this kind of incredible all-Black comedy from 1941... dcairns.wordpress.com/2025/11/21/e...

Marvin Schwarz, putz. dcairns.wordpress.com/2025/11/20/f...

#autism #adhd #neurodivergence Something happened when I first joined this platform that has radicalised me. I made a stupid, overfamiliar post to someone extremely famous, the most high profile person I've ever been in contact with, and after initially following me after liking one of my skeets -

The (new) stages of movie stardom: Who's Ian Holm? Get me Ian Holm! Get me a digitally de-aged Ian Holm! Get me a CGI Ian Holm!

Two proposals for a new Marx Bros film. There may be some scheduling problems. dcairns.wordpress.com/2025/11/18/a...

Movie trailer mashup Monday - dcairns.wordpress.com/2025/11/17/c...