My DMs will stay open tonight. I don’t think I can be helped though.
Austin Shinn
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Samurai Cop. Penguin. Eagle of Fate.
I haven’t had the time to review it but let me do a quick thread on The Forsaken by @echohorror.com so I CAN talk something I loved. Because this book is amazing. It’s one of my favorite vampire movies of the 2000s and Francis killed it.
Hey. Emergency. Can I get some good news RIGHT NOW. I need to counter my upset feelings about One Night Only looking like a bust. Is a nice movie hitting VOD soon? Is there a new tiein novel? Please. Something I can act on THIS WEEK.
Can I be honest. I am having an autistic episode caused by having two stressful days at work and finding out once again that the new romcom sucks after a summer when I have only had one I liked and a number of films fall through. I need an escape that gives me hope for the future and I don’t have it
I get bitter about this because there’s so few entries in my genre right now and even fewer that aren’t about a vacation or some crap. So to have one of the only ones come out and get “well the actors (neither of whom I like!) are okay” is just not cutting it!
Austin Shinn@untitleduser.bsky.social · 7h agoCan I just say hearing how sexless One Night Only really pisses me off? Like it’s perfectly fine to get movies with traumatic imagery that triggers people with self harm ideation but we can’t even get sex in the SEX COMEDY.
Can I just say hearing how sexless One Night Only really pisses me off? Like it’s perfectly fine to get movies with traumatic imagery that triggers people with self harm ideation but we can’t even get sex in the SEX COMEDY.
Did something I like. I told myself I could spend money at the used bookstore. Then I didn’t because I didn’t see anything worth it. I knew I’d do that. It was still worth it
Yesterday was so traumatic I’m going to the used bookstore before work to heal
Respect to the Violent Night movies for finding a way to make Santa killing a bunch of people funny, awesome, and also making him the good guy. Santa forgets the true meaning of Christmas and has to do a Die Hard plot is a genuinely great hook.
Related but while they were one hit wonders, the song is writer driven and Rupert Holmes is very much not a one hit wonder. I ponder if those count. Icona Pop’s “I Love It” has the same issue. They were OHWs but I’m informed writer Charlotte Atchison is apparently still working & supposedly not ugly
Austin Shinn@untitleduser.bsky.social · 21h agoThere is a song that I believe transcends culture. Transcends time. Once in an age we get the power of “Timothy” by The Buoys.
There is a song that I believe transcends culture. Transcends time. Once in an age we get the power of “Timothy” by The Buoys.
I want to make an alternate history joke but it’s not as good as his joke. So I applaud
Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · yesterdayThis can't be a real photo of a Triassic quinceañera. I can prove it. Flowering plants didn't evolve till the Cretaceous!
It hit me tonight none of my favorite heroines have more than a 40 issue run at most to suggest and a ton of awful comics. That hurts.
The Todd in the Shadows video on this album is genuinely lovely because he gets to this song and just loses it over how wonderful it is and how hopeful it is. It’s so kind and sweet.
Jesse Hawken@jessehawken.bsky.social · yesterdayThey went off here youtu.be/leKeknINhkc
This looks gorgeous and really emphasizes how good this movie is. It’s a deeply problematic work but I think there’s a power to it as long as you acknowledge the movie has some major flaws. It’s a movie about life after you matter in a franchise facing that.
Geek Realm Hub@geekrealmhub.bsky.social · yesterdayThe official trailer for The X-Files: I Want to Believe – Vrach Frankenshteyn has been released! Chris Carter's original vision is finally coming to life in an all-new director's cut. Premieres August 14 on Hulu. #TheXFiles #Hulu
You know this is good when they’re exposing it to critics this early
The Film Stage@thefilmstage.com · yesterdayGodzilla Minus Zero sets world premiere as the 64th New York Film Festival Spotlight Gala, taking place September 26.
I just had a caller yell at me so badly I had to take a 15 minute call with a supervisor.
I find it funny that both Companion and Soulm8te not only cast people from the boys but cast the two actors who are now married.
Depression sucks because you’ll have a few good days and then smash into the rocks and hate yourself for existing and nothing gives you joy.
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Star Wars: Children of the Jedi by Barbara Hambly (With Jedi Academy thoughts)
I’m going to quickly speed through the Jedi Academy trilogy so I can get it out of the way. I tried to write a review on it but it was really just “OMG I love this trilogy so much.̶…
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So glad Eli Roth came back to unite reactionaries and horror fans alike in hating a movie.
This book really is a greatest hits piece. But like I’m okay with that because it captures why these are the hits
Anguirus@anguirus.bsky.social · 2d agoHoth, Tatooine, the Asteroid Field, and YAVIN!
Reading this one and it actually feels like whiplash reading this after Children of the Jedi. That went out of its way to not feel Star Wars. This ladles on the fan service. Like it takes you to Hoth and Tatooine. The Hutts are villains. There’s a new Death Star. It’s a blast.
I am absolutely on fire on my newest draft and what I love is how it’s the most insane idea I’ve ever had (okay I’m collaborating) but it’s kind of like a superhero story except utterly wild
My love for FoxTrot will never die. Crazy how the guy who taught me in 1996 how absurd the geek culture war was remains sharp as a knife 30 years later on this material
Bill Amend@billamend.bsky.social · 3d agoTonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…
I have a viewing list: Carolina Caroline Tuner Maid I’ll let you know if I ever get to watch one
If I got to decide 8 movies and can't have Mask of the Phantasm, it would be these Emerald Knights, Under the Red Hood, New Frontier, Superman vs The Elite, Crisis of Two Earth's, God & Monsters, Year One and my wild pick Soul of the Dragon
Austin Shinn@untitleduser.bsky.social · 3d agoSo can I break down why this set stinks
