cherry blossom

While an incredibly difficult February is technically coming to a close the horrors, and the bills (also technically horrors) persist. There are just a few of each of these left in the shop, if you’re so inclined. www.brianna-ashby.com/new-products

I might start blocking people who post/repost Twitter screenshots

It has become a sudden matter of tragic urgency to read PERSEPOLIS, especially if you haven’t read it before.

Kieron Gillen is the most incredible comics creator because everytime I read something from him I think 'this is the most Kieron Gillen shit ever' and then I read a new thing by him and it immediately supplants it as the new 'most Kieron Gillen shit ever'. (Complimentary)

Can confirm, BLADES OF THE GUARDIANS rocks hard

Be a little nicer to regular people. Gotcha-ism isn’t activism. The world is crumbling and no one is doing shit. We all keep hoping, but I just know someone out there must still really want to impress Jodie Foster. My heart tells me it is so.

Nw (as I disassociate):

Peace through strength. Both are illusions. Wake up.

The new American Dream is moving to Europe and not going bankrupt over routine medical procedures, being able to take a vacation and worrying about your kids getting shot in school.

A Martian invasion would only be like the fifth worst thing to happen this week 👽🛸 Aka Mars Atax finally does Mars Attacks

nathan fielder was right

I, and at least a dozen other people I know personally, could write a better G. I. Joe movie than this no-talent abuser.

Remember to boycott SCREAM 7 🇵🇸

Apparently God skipped my gay awakening

THIS SUNDAY kicks off women’s history month and what better way to celebrate than by watching LADY PARTS at The Fallser Club in Philly. #LadyPartsMovie is based on a true story and is a dramedy feature film where a young woman’s sex life becomes a family affair. 🎟️ events.humanitix.com/lady-parts

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Four remakes that I like better than the original. Quote with yours!

4 movie day for me!

If a movie has been lost for more than a century and then is found, it should be eligilble for the Oscars this year.

This news is a bummer on a massive scale. To distract yourself, would you like to help me list some movies that: look at transformation (into an animal specifically) through a folk horror lens or folkloric depictions of the monstrous feminine I've got some, but I'm really blanking here.

I fear that a critical mass of our so-called allies prefer mourning us to fighting for us.

Remember to boycott SCREAM 7 🇵🇸

Re-upping for the afternoon crowd. Some info on a new project I’m working on. The plan is to put it on my Patreon, but if someone wanted to give it another home, I’d be open to that too. It’s going to be good, that much I know. It would make a good book or regular column, I think.

for the afternoon crowd

I can’t stop thinking about NIRVANA THE BAND THE SHOW THE MOVIE

This is a fantastic take on “WH” and how the dumbest criticisms of it have really wrapped around the neck of the discourse about the movie.

Cold take: Hades is a good video game

THE POWER FANTASY #16.

Just got an email letting me know I’ll be laid off on Friday—my second time in 15 months. So here’s my regular reminder that I’m available for freelance video-game consulting, mock reviews, public relations, comms writing, feature writing, and so on.

i wrote about wuthering heights, the classic-lit-turned-teen-movie pipeline, and why it's cool to judge a film for what it *actually* is and what it's *actually* trying to be... and not what it's not!

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I'm an inch taller than these guys, and can confirm. I have tasted so many tree branches. And banged my head on the overhead bar on subway trains. Also a ceiling fan once. I have also taken many showers where I had to stoop or the water would be at chest level.

evergreen

no one has ever yearned like these two

When you feel at your lowest, remember

This movie is actually playing in Philly. Which is good! But it’s only playing once per day, in the middle of the afternoon. For its entire run. Which is bad. No way to see it! Wuthering heights is on like 3 screens, I’m sure we could squeeze one evening showing for it

In honor of Pokemon's 30th anniversary, what are your top five favorite Pokemon? -Farfetch'd -Rowlet -Lickitung -Mareep -Aerodactyl

I would pay an obscene amount for this to be released in 4K

Real

The Matrix Resurrections was never going to pop off bc the entire thing is deconstructing the legacy of what it means for queer and trans pepople vs what it means for everyone else, but it deserved a better chance than it got. It was doomed bc it came out the same day as the Omicron strain of Covid!

South Philadelphia in snow

took a BLIZZARD WALK out on the parkway, saw some things

Who do you think is the real person played by the most number of people across film, stage, and TV? It’s got to be Winston Churchill or Jesus, right?

DO YOU BELIEVE IN MIXED FEELINGS?

*turns volume to maximum* *plays “Last Note of Freedom”*

Every single element of life is either more deadly, more expensive or more inconvenient (often all three) today than it’s been in decades & it’s purely because our robber baron overlords decided to dedicate the entirety of the US apparatus to doing barbaric & culturally suicidal white nationalism

Movies like BLADES OF THE GUARDIANS are the reason I check my theater listings every week. So glad I got to see this new wuxia film on the big screen boxd.it/dfkxTn

$500 billion a year is enough to guarantee a basic income via a negative income tax with a 50% phaseout rate for all Americans, ending poverty and significantly reducing inequality and insecurity.