Derek Halliday 🇨🇦
@dthalliday.bsky.social
Just this guy, y'know? CANON MARVEL CHARACTER (for real!), First Appearance UNCANNY AVENGERS v3 #29. Likes: Comics, TV, Movies, physical objects. Dislikes: Shitheads. They know who they are. >: | https://letterboxd.com/dthalliday/ Cis-Male, He/His/Him
Yeah. WE KNOW. They'd doing the same thing in Alberta right now, and everyone pretending like it's not happening.
Byline Times@bylinetimes.bsky.social · 4h ago🔎 From the archive: Putin’s Plot Against ‘Great’ Britain – And How He Got Away With It Now Andy Burnham has revealed there was key evidence Russia interfered in the Brexit Referendum
Now that it's potentially on the table... Carrie White VS Charlie McGee...who wins?
I think the one weakness in Flannigan's CARRIE is that Sue Snell never becomes Carrie's friend. The show is much more concerned about Carrie and Christine, and Sue is sort of on the outside. She barely interacts with Carrie. She interacts more with Christine, appalled by her monstrous bullying.
Almost done CARRIE. I think this is tremendous work from Flannigan. I think he's taken King's work and crafted something even more complex that speaks to modern anxieties and fears. What is most compelling to me is how he uses the decompressed runtime to get into the CRAFTING of monsters.
I was looking to see what the discourse on the new CARRIE show is, and man...people have no imagination. They really just want the same stories told to them in the same way. How does it defeat the purpose to make Carrie White a curious girl who wants to do GOOD in the world...and is STILL bullied?
Another change I'm enjoying about this version of CARRIE is that it's less about Carrie White absorbing cruelty until she explodes, and more about her slowly finding empowerment. She becomes aware of her power in the second episode, and there is something both cathartic and...foreboding in her smile
Flannigan's eye for casting is fucking unmatched. Rahul Kohli, Matthew Lillard, Amber Midthunder, Tim Bagley, Samantha Sloyan...all fantastic in supporting roles, which help to expand the series out over it's 8 episodes to paint a fully picture of the world Carrie White lives in, and speaks to...
Watching Mike Flannigan's CARRIE. I think it was oversold how different Carrie's mom was going to be in this one...she's still a crazy religious fundamentalist with extreme (and very topical) views...and on the surface she seems kinder to Carrie, but it actually makes her abuse more insidious.
Oh. They are cooked. Well, I already committed yesterday to getting as many blu-rays and 4ks from Paramount and WB as I can before they crash and burn. I have a robust library for the future.
Karl Bode@karlbode.com · 3d agogosh if only somebody had warned you all repeatedly for like 25 consecutive years
Lock in, GIs! The countdown to the UK premiere of Rogue Trooper at London Film Festival this Friday is on, as @manmademoon.bsky.social brings the all-guns-blazing sci-fi @2000ad.bsky.social comic strip to life https://bit.ly/4ebVzhl
I love how October is going to get increasingly stressful for me right up to my ACTUAL BIRTHDAY. @____@ How did this happen?
Sorry...I don't like putting this guy on the timeline, but HOW IS THIS NOT DISQUALIFYING? How can you be a sitting President PUBLICLY SAYING HE'S FINE WITH ALLOWING HIS OWN PEOPLE TO BE KILLED IN AN ACT OF WAR? And no...this cannot be written off as a joke. Because what if IT HAPPENS?
FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social · 4d agoTrump: You wanna see trauma? I said it the other day. Let them hit a missile into San Diego or Los Angeles.
Watching DEATH WARRANT (1990) starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, written by David S. Goyer, directed by Deran Sarafian. The film starts STRONG for me with this exchange: JCVD-"I'm going in." LAPD-"You can't...it's against protocol, Burke. This isn't CANADA...we have procedures here!" 🤣
It's the sunk cost fallacy. They've invest MORE MONEY THAN ANY OTHER TV SHOW EVER into this HP thing, but JKR has made it so toxic that they're now panicking and desperately trying to make Fetch! happen...but like trying to put over an unpopular wrestler, it just makes people HATE IT MORE.
Kaylyn Saucedo - MarzGhoul@marzgurl.com · 4d agoPeople don't believe me, but I'm TELLING you, there MUST be an active campaign strategy happening in media published by WB or other parts of JK's team trying to force HP awkwardly and unnaturally into public consciousness. Certainly from the WB side, I've seen multiple properties doing it already.
It's hilarious how all their efforts to try and rebrand AI just make it more lame and unattractive to the public...the stink of desperation is impossible to scrub out.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4d agoBAIER: The president says 'SI.' Are you into SI or AI? BEZOS: I do like SI, because 'artificial' is not a very flattering thing. Like, nobody wants an artificial sweetener, artificial flavoring.
My man, Rocking Robins!!! God I miss him. ;__; We just rarely get to hang out at the same events any more.
Jack Phoenix (a comics librarian)@comicslibrarian.com · 4d agoThis week on the podcast I’m joined by fellow comics librarian Scott and you should all thank him for the cascade of kids graphic novels now available 📚
I better get all the Patamount and WB discs I want now before they get filled with surveillance software or some shit...
Liam Robertson@liamrobertson.bsky.social · 5d agoAll timer nightmare blunt rotation being assembled here. John Lasseter is in a prominent position there, too. Truly just a collection of heinous monsters.
Hs ha ha! I just KNEE he sucked! With his Ed Sheeran loving ass. They were pushing this extreme White Bread dude like he was an unpopular wrestling gimmick that Vince McMahon thought he could get over. Now I get why.
Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 4d agoI think we know what this means
While doing my regular grocery shopping, I found DEATH WARRANT (1990) on 4K from MVD Rewind. I saw quite a few Jean-Claude Van Damme movies in the 90s, but I've not seen this one. It looks pretty up my ally, as JCVD plays an undercover cop forced to go into a prison, and it LOOKS pretty great!
