Goodness! Missouri has spoken.

Voted. Voter number 177 in my district, which is a low number relative to other elections. My very red state is trying to completely fuck over our ability to put propositions and amendments on the ballot AND is trying to abolish our state income tax, so I thought I should make an effort.

I know the pattern of MCU characters appearing in Spider-Man movies is because of rights and contracts and whatnot, but the latest film has Jean DeWolff in it which tells me that the Holland films aren't strictly speaking Spidey movies but are rather Marvel Team-Up movies.

I really dug the second season of Batman: Caped Crusader. Near the end I was thinking "Why a German accent for the Joker?" and then it hit me that it was an homage to Conrad Veidt. They were doing The Man Who Laughs. Love it.

Honestly, this is the sort of thing that should be going to a University Library archive. Lacking that, I guess there's Kickstarter. This is a worthy project.

Fortmax Headroom@hwhall.bsky.social · 3d ago

This seemed like it was worth boosting. www.kickstarter.com/projects/735...

My last four. #LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched

Letterboxd@letterboxd.social · 5d ago

Happy #LetterboxdFriday! Time to post your #LastFourWatched 🤳

Reshuffled my four favorites at letterboxd today. I'm at letterboxd.com/Christianne/ if you're interested. #letterboxdFourFavorites .

AC is struggling at the theater, too. Seated for Hadestown anyway. Don't know the play at all so this should be a discovery.

I think I've given away more copies of @scottmccloud.bsky.social 's Understanding Comics than any other book or movie.

Sophia_Nyx 🏳️‍⚧️@sophianyx.bsky.social · 2w ago

Name physical media you purchased more than once.

I've been saying, "Where is Snake Plissken when you really need him?" a lot lately when confronted with the news lately. But then, I heard he was dead.

A friend asked me to name the 1st movie I saw in the theater on its first run that I thought at the time was an all time great that actually turned out to be an all time great. The question has been nagging me all morning.

Polly is writing noir? It's not even my birthday!

Polly Schattel@pollyschattel.bsky.social · last mo.

Annnnddd … we are live! My li’l genre-jumping tale of trans diva Greta Tyler and what happens when one of her friends goes missing. Part satire, part noir, part fantasy, and part Southern gothic craziness. Go get you some! #lgbt #booksky journalstone.com/bookstore/cr...

Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness.

Ian Rennie@theangelremiel.bsky.social · 3w ago

Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness.

Speaking objectively, the worst movie I ever sat through in a theater was If Footmen Tire You, What Would Horses Do?, which my local art house played ironically for hipsters to make fun of. The worst *experience* I've ever had was at the remake of The Haunting, which is godawful on every level.

Defector@defector.com · 3w ago

What's the worst movie you've ever watched in a theater? defector.com/whats-the-wo...

My dog got hold of my daily dutasteride dose and I think I may have transed my dog. He's an idiot. He thinks I'm taking treats and he wants them, too.

"Verify your age" The Watergate Hearings interrupted my afternoon Godzilla movies. I hated Nixon and the GOP from an early age for that.

Elizabeth Bear@matociquala.bsky.social · 3w ago

"Verify your age" My favorite TV show when I was a kid was Grizzly Adams

My favorite of the anti-Catholic Chick tracts was titled "The Death Cookie," referring to the Eucharist. If I didn't already know how batshit insane evangelicals were at the time, that would have sealed it. (See also, the film, If Footmen Tire You, What Will Horses Do?).

Faine Greenwood@faineg.bsky.social · 3w ago

1. There are LOTS of blatantly anti-Catholic Chick tracts - I remember seeing these as a kid in Georgia in the mid-90s, and my parents were atheists/agnostics. 2. If you don’t know what a Chick tract is, you may be very sheltered from the reality of how insane most American evangelicals are.

I know I'm a bad horror fan because I do not like In the Mouth of Madness or Possession or The Omen III or Event Horizon, but none of that is Sam Neill's fault. He was always good and seemed like a stand-up guy in real life. (My favorite of his films? My Brilliant Career).

The fact that Rebecca Black releases new material on a Friday is a serious flex. Hah!

Rebecca Black - Hot Wet Delirious (Official Video)

YouTube video by rebecca

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I wrote a few articles for a web zine called Film & Fishnets a few years ago, which now appears to be defunct. I believe this was pre-Bluesky. I spent some time this morning reconstructing one of those pieces, which you can read here: krelllabs.blogspot.com/2026/07/blin...

Blind Beasts and Red Angels: Erotic Obsessions in the New Wave Gothic Films of Yasuzo Masumura

I did some writing a some years ago for a webzine called Film and Fishnets which appears to be defunct. Navigating to the url of my articl...

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Scott Jennings telling the world that he just spent 20 minutes with Mitch McConnell suggests to me that he's the Porter Hall character in The Thin Man. Y'know. The murderer.

What horror movie image haunts you?

Jenn Dolari@dolari.bsky.social · last mo.

What horror movie image haunts you?

Went to Barnes & Noble today. I may have spent some money.

Happy Tits Out Day for all who celebrate.

Zoe Storm@zoestorm.bsky.social · last mo.

On the fourth of July, 1980, about fifteen trans women went to one of the most upscale public swimming pools in Milan, took off their tops, and started lounging around. It was a Friday, and the height of the summer vacation, so there were plenty of families with young children around. 1/

Got around to seeing Disclosure Day tonight. I am shocked at how much of that film comes from Duel and The Sugarland Express. Who says Spielberg ain't an auteur?

Happy Bobby Bonilla day, to those who celebrate. (Principally Bobby Bonilla, I guess).

Reviving my movie blog at the very extreme tail end of Pride to talk about the queerest American studio film of the 1930s, Sylvia Scarlett. Part of my long running Cary Grant project. Kate Hepburn is dressed as a boy & kisses a girl in this one & is a guaranteed gay awakening for those so inclined.

The Grant Mystique: Sylvia Scarlett (1935)

"There's something that gives me a queer feeling every time I look at you."--Jimmy Monkley (Cary Grant) in Sylvia Scarlett. Cary G...

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Favorite 90s horror for me? 1990: The Exorcist III 1991: The Boneyard (reluctantly) 1992: Candyman 1993: The Vanishing 1994: Dellamorte Dellamore 1995: No opinion 1996: The Frighteners (I guess) 1997: Cure 1998: Whispering Corridors 1999: The Nameless Oof. A rough decade for the genre.

Sadhbh Frost 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Status Pending@sadhbhgirl.bsky.social · last mo.

Fave 1990s horror 1990: Arachnophobia 1991: Hiruko the Goblin 1992: Ghostwatch 1993: Return of the Living Dead 3 1994: In the Mouth of Madness 1995: Tales from the Crypt Presents Demon Knight 1996: The Craft 1997: Cure 1998: Blade 1999: Nang Nak

Seated for Supergirl. At the movies with my brothers. I get along with my brothers, which I guess makes me fortunate as trans people go.

Just out of Leviticus, or Conversion Therapy: The Movie. Good movie for Pride.