I think this one is just a flat, regular-type of B grade. Making Rita the POV is a fascinating change, but the stakes feel kind of lower this time around—possibly for aesthetic reasons and the lack of a paramilitary focus.

Currently seated for ALL YOU NEED IS KILL. For me, the original novel, the manga adaptation, and the Tom Cruise movie are graded A, A+, and A-, respectively. Let’s see how the new version stacks up.

That STRANGER THINGS writer saying they only use ChatGPT for research is how a show set in 1987 includes a glaring reference to third edition D&D (not published until 2000).

Ha ha ha, that means the profit potential per screen would be cut in half.

Muting “avengers” and “doomsday” so hard. I just can’t with people already stanning that movie this far in advance.

As a person who bounced off HOLLOW KNIGHT maybe 4 times, I’m loving SILKSONG dearly. It’s meaner, faster, and plays better to the rhythm of my anxiety disorder.

I finally saw HIM. It plays out like a satanic gladiator fight staged and shot by David LaChapelle. It just sneaked onto my horror top 10 for the year, and why is it only 31% on Rotten Tomatoes?

No movies are perfect, but these 5 come pretty close: 1. THE FANTASTIC MR. FOX 2. THE INVITATION (2015) 3. PERFECT BLUE 4. MAD MAX: FURY ROAD 5. POP STAR: NEVER STOP NEVER STOPPING.

DILLA TIME, by Dan Charnas. I’m a sucker for good nonfiction about pop culture, and this one is top fucking shelf. Changed the way I listen to music.

If HADES 2 and SILKSONG have proven anything, it’s that even nigh-on perfect games can be improved by letting me play as a badass girl with cool vibez.

A whole lot of people gonna hit my no-fly list over this one.

IDGAF what anyone says, I like THIR13EN GHOSTS.

Motherfucking K-POP DEMON HUNTERS.

1. “Jacqueline Ess: Her Will and Testament” by Clive Barker. 2. “The Bloody Chamber” by Angela Carter. 3. “The Queen’s Necklace” by Maurice LeBlanc.

If you asked me six months ago would I get more out of an IT (2017) prequel or xenomorphs finally on planet earth, I’d have been so fucking wrong.

Man, WELCOME TO DERRY just ate all of STRANGER THINGS’s lunch.

One take I see a lot is that Billy Joel accidentally wrote gay characters into “Piano Man.” Like, Paul the real estate novelist is obvi hooking up with Davy who’s still in the Navy. That’s not subtext; it’s plain text. I don’t particularly like Billy Joel, but guy knew what he was doing.

The year 2000. End of spring break. On a bored whim, friends & I saw TITAN AE in a near-empty theater with only one other group of dudes. Movie was ok, but everyone riffed off each other’s jokes, and it was a delirious fun hang. Two of my friends aren’t alive anymore. Cue the end of STAND BY ME.

Since it just snagged a Golden Globe nomination, I’m gonna officialize my stance that “Golden” is barely the third best song on KPOP DEMON HUNTERS, the fuck is everybody on?

So shines a good deed in a weary world. gizmodo.com/star-wars-or...

Obviously John Waters doesn’t need my approval, but…did he see THE MONKEY?

Just remembered that Netflix owns fucking Superman.

My favorite thing about STRANGER THINGS 5 is that the Chicago episode of season 2 is fully canon now.

Irrationally pissed that STRANGER THINGS 5 talks about the sorcerer class in D&D, which didn’t come out until 3rd edition in the fucking year 2000.

Contrariwise.

1. “World in My Eyes”: from VIOLATOR, by Depeche Mode. 2. “The Beginning and the End”: from OCEANIC, by ISIS. 3. “Untitled”: fromTURN ON THE BRIGHT LIGHTS, by Interpol. 4. “Feral Love”: from PAIN IS BEAUTY by Chelsea Wolfe. 5. “Tennis Court”: from PURE HEROINE, by Lorde.

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Listened to a lot of THE BUFFALO HUNTER HUNTER audiobook today. You know what, that story is seasonally appropriate.

Just show the STRANGER THINGS “kids” chainsmoking. It’d be appropriate to the time and explain why they look so old in 11th grade.

And there I was, hoping that DGG’s total artistic & commercial faceplant with EXORCIST: BELIEVER would kill the franchise until next decade.

My 4-year-old girl has hipped me to the most nuanced and character-driven show about teen superheroes since YOUNG JUSTICE. I am not kidding about this.

There’s a recurring type of YouTuber who makes videos on an algorithm-friendly schedule and is married to their Patreon, but they still make a point to say how much they’ve been happy to “stop using social media.”

Let’s keep aggressively blocking shitposters. It’s working.

That was the exact year I got into postpunk bands like WIRE and PIL, so this point is well made.

No artist paid for my therapy or taught me how to meditate, but My Chemical Romance helped me get through a lot.

Some might say that the auditory output of Japanese harsh noise legend Merzbow is low-effort. I don’t agree, but I won’t defend him as long as he’s using AI slop cover art.

As an attorney, I’ve never dunked on Kim K’s highly public attempts to join the most demanding state bar in the nation. It’s always cool to better yourself, and her work with death row inmates is straight fire awesome. But yeah…. I won’t even try to cape for her this time.

For a while there, anybody reposting Twitter was an auto-blockworthy offense to me. I’m not quite there again, but I grow ever more tired of all the new Tweet dunks I keep seeing.

PARADISE LOST. Ever since, I’m always looking for my next hit of “actually, the devil is the hero of this story.”

FWIW, Guillermo’s FRANKENSTEIN is quite tender and lovely. It’s the only film adaptation that actually feels like you’re reading the brilliant original novel. (Apologies to Kenneth Branagh.)

My kid wanted to watch GDT’s first HELLBOY on the same night I plan to watch his FRANKENSTEIN. Was a great idea buuut… I forgot how much I don’t like that first HELLBOY. Every change GDT made to the source material weakened the story, and HB’s one-liners are as relentless as they are terrible.

My school banned Magic: the Gathering two weeks after we started playing in the cafeteria at lunch, but the Suicide Encouragement App is still available on every device worldwide.

Practical effects Gizmo or GTFO. variety.com/2025/film/ne...

If you see this, post an anime you love. Mine is PARASYTE: THE MAXIM because that shit goes HARD. m.imdb.com/title/tt3358...

Yo buddy, this movie is real good on a big screen. Luckily I have a 4-year-old so I can pretend I wouldn’t have just gone by myself anyway.

For what it’s worth, SCRE4M should have been the final word on the franchise from Wes Craven or anybody else.

Your favorite horror movie’s favorite horror movie.

One part of me tries hard not to be a contrarian hipster. Other part of me: “Hey everybody! SINNERS is pretty good, but FREAKY TALES also has dope period detail, music as a main character, and the coolest scene of a black dude with a katana since the first BLADE.”

Getting a rash of posts with replies turned off. Not even shit that I wanna respond to, but can I filter that out? I’m just not a fan of the vibe.

Throwing on my comfiest weighted blanket of noise today.