SubSpecies is a very dull film with a couple of moments of really okay horror effects. SubSpecies 2 has even less plot going on, such that the best version of it is the 5 minutes recap at the start of SubSpecies 3. And, incredibly, SubSpecies 3 is even duller with less plot. Only two more to go

#mech day! 2 v 2, one lance each.

Happy #Rapture Day!!

This is the country I grew up in. I recognise the violence, the hate, and the bigotry. This is who we are.

So, that was a perfectly watchable bit of kid friendly horror. Not amazing, but fun and well put together.

So far, #FiveNightsAtFreedy's (2023) answer's the question, "What if Roald Dahl wrote a big budget teen slasher for a huge wadge of cash?"?. I never played the game before, so I can't say if it's a good adaptation of the game or its story and themes; I'm just saying it might not suck as a movie.

"We never thought leopards would eat one of our faces" insists family of man who campaigned to have packs of face eating leopards run loose everywhere.

"Better late than never" isn't really a saying in the anaphylactic shock scene.

Thanksgiving (2023) has both Opinions and A Message. They're written in well chewed crayons, but they are proud of them. I Know What You Did Last Media Cycle for the young horror enthusiasts whose favourite slasher is Capitalism.

Watching 40 Minutes: Voices Of The City (1984). It's amazing how many of the issues raised in it are so relevant to our model world: such as media misinformation, economic hardship, and (apparently) everyone in Newcastle being miserable.

Basil Rathbone, Lon Chany jr, John Carradine, Bela Lugosi, and Tor Johnson in one film‽ The Black Sheep (1956) says "yes!", so I'm going in....

I refuse to speculate on Trump's announcement later today, as it could be anything. Anything. "I'm alive" Okay "I've given this person a job" Sure "This person is awful" It's a Tuesday "The Marines are being deployed" Fine "Mint causes cancer in lettuce" Standard Anything.

That's not a good thing

People claim that transgender individuals haven't been accepted by American society. But this week I've seen countless commentators defend the rights of trans folks to murder kids with guns, and that's just heartwarming.

Guns don't kill people. People with easy access to guns, in a society that considers easy access to guns more important than any number of dead people, kill people.

"We need to teach kids civics at school if we're going to let them vote at 16" Yes. Obviously. We should have been teaching this previously any way.

My question is; once all this is over, who are the people who voted for Trump going to vote for next and how much worse will that person be??

Everyone is the hero of their own story. Everyone.

I'm not sure which had the bigger impact on #cyberpunk in the UK: Max Headroom or Get Fresh.

Noooooo, @hjdoom.bsky.social - don't do it!!! (For context, listen to the most excellent #movie podcast below)

I can't help but think that I'd have enjoyed #Wednesday season two part one a heck of a lot more if it wasn't so focused on being a hook for part two and laying the foundations for series three, four, and onwards.

[[Cries in LulWut!?]]

I just read the synopsis of Ice Cube's War Of The Worlds, and it's worse than the trailer made out, and the trailer looked awful. Thankfully, I haven't watched the film, and I have no intention of doing so because I'm already annoyed about the three-and-a-half minutes of my life it has wasted.

"Surely this is the end of the MCU" Traditional saying, origin and meaning unknown.

I enjoyed #SuperMan, but I have found one minor plot hole that keeps on coming up when I think about it. No One Would Live In Metropolis!! No One!! *NO* *ONE* YOU WILL DIE!! You've get higher life expectancy and lower insurance costs living inside a nuclear reactor. Other than that: a great film.

I straight up got asked by a Gen-AI booster why i was bothering to learn something when I could "just get #ChatGPT to do it instead". Surely they could have just asked ChatGPT?

The Duality of "Humanity" #art

I spent seven years writing a book on this and she just… said it in three succinct paragraphs to politico.

Independence Day remains the most thematically accurate modernisation of The War Of The Worlds made in the last 50 years. Then Battleship. Then the BBC version. Can the HG Wells estate force producers to attend one A-Level class on the text they're adapting?? Please!! #WarOfTheWorlds

You ever chuckle, but you're unsure if you actually found the thing funny or just want an excuse to clear some snot from your nose?

In Crash! (1976), the slasher is a possessed car. The setting is low-budget Euro Spy, with talent, effort, and ingenuity on display a5 all times. Very silly, very cheap, very fun: a contemporaniouse daytime soap-opera remake of a 50s horror. Not postmodern, just using tropes for maximum wallpapering

Affleck & Bertnthal are magnificent in the 2025 retelling of Waiting For Godot. Finally, a film daring enough to ask "what if Jason Voorhees was socially useful??".

This 1975 French sci-fi is so "of it's era, we're 20 minutes and two light jazz rock music videos in and are skipping towards plot.

Head (1968) is The Monkees attempting to escape their TV show image by recreating their TV show and going "we're not like that!" every 10 minutes, which is fine as their TV show is great fun. The people watching it kept going "they stolen that from [film made after it came out]", so it had impact.

Tonally, I know exactly where we are in the story at all times. Narratively, I haven't a clue why anything is happening but I know exactly what is happening. The Dada is strong, even if unintended. Such a great watch.

I turned away for five seconds and now I have no idea why the space lesbians landed in Flying Saucers Over Istanbul (1956). It's so majestically indifferent to your petty demands for reason, each frame is a master class in hitting an as effortlessly identified emotional tone like an angry god.

This ended up being absolutely okay for the first thing I spotted just to fill in the time. It took nothing away from the Exorcist, nor added anything to the franchise. Mostly it was a reminder that I need to accept that no one is going to make The Prophecy again.

Watching the fourth Exorcist film, not because I expect it to be good but because I'm just in the mood for a super natural drama with the production values of a BBC Agatha Christie. Well, that and I mistook Stellan Skarsgård for Jon Pertwee on the Netflix picture.

The Trip (1967): the word groovy is said every five seconds, the cannabis is so strong you get wrecked off half a puff, and the Ring Wraiths have suddenly turned up for a bit of a stroll. Good fun and surprisingly reminiscent of a New Romantics music video.

I've suddenly started noticing a really strong smell of overheated olive oil, so I'm worried I'm having a middle-class stroke.

Just one of those days where you realise you've spent the last 10 minutes pondering which version of "Nervous Breakdown" best captures how you're feeling. Sadly, King Kurt isn't in the running.

"There's three entire women in this film, and that's nice." @hjdoom.bsky.social once again making me chuckle as he hacks his way through something that can just about legally be defined as a movie. If you heavily bribe the jury. www.hauntedphonograph.com/popular-anti...

As the latest attempt at an #Akira rehash is (thankfully) abandoned, here is a reminder that They Cloned Tyrone (2023) is the spiritual successor to Otomo's masterpiece.

Three biggest reasons I'm watching #TheBear 1. Amazing script 2. Amazing cast 3. The hope that Richie gets hit by a bus

When the weather is like this, the only sensible thing to do is watch a film about a robot with a skull for a face. Tobor The Great (1954) has a magnificent poster and a 3 minute long monologue over stock footage as its opening. Strap in, this is going to be a ride!

I'm pretty confident that if someone did a news article saying "Wrapping a metric ton of #cannabis in concrete and dropping it from 100 feet onto your face may have some health risks" then 99% of the comments would be stones calling it a conspiracy.