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Ryan Lohner (he/him)

@ryanlohner.bsky.social

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Aroace, autistic, audiobook narrator and writer of a goofy sci-fi novel.

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Ryan Lohner (he/him) @ryanlohner.bsky.social · Nov 8

I've been advised that artists of all kinds should keep a link to their work pinned here, so here you go.

www.amazon.com/Place-Beyond...

Amazon.com: The Place Beyond: 9781782799122: Lohner, Ryan: Books

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Ryan Lohner (he/him) @ryanlohner.bsky.social · 6h

Jane the Virgin was one of my favorite shows ever, and now it's irreparably ruined. Very glad I didn't bother with anything else in his career.

Ryan Lohner (he/him) @ryanlohner.bsky.social · 7h

They need a Danny.

Ryan Lohner (he/him) @ryanlohner.bsky.social · 11h

Actually his second appearance on the show, after the cameo from the Cheers cast (where Frasier doesn’t speak because it would be too awkward that he sounded like Sideshow Bob).

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Ryan Lohner (he/him) @ryanlohner.bsky.social · 13h

The Curse of La Llorona. All the marketing called it the next chapter of The Conjuring, but when everyone hated it so much, they said “Oh, what we actually meant was it was just the same kind of movie.”

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Ryan Lohner (he/him) @ryanlohner.bsky.social · 15h

Now just consider there’s one movie in there so much worse that it was officially declared non-canon after the fact.

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Ryan Lohner (he/him) @ryanlohner.bsky.social · 15h

I actually found the second and third Annabelle movies easily the best things in the series. Hardly any pretensions to universe building, just good scary stories with likable people you want to get out okay. The first one is the worst of the whole bunch, though.

Ryan Lohner (he/him) @ryanlohner.bsky.social · 16h

John Doe in Se7en.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 20h

Who is the most evil villain in fiction?

The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical concepts

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Ryan Lohner (he/him) @ryanlohner.bsky.social · 18h

Do some stuff about Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson instead. The show that tried the same kind of thing, but in a super edgelord/emo way which flopped horribly so hardly anyone remembers it now. I barely remember it and I saw it onstage.

Ryan Lohner (he/him) @ryanlohner.bsky.social · 18h

Wait until they find out about Frozen. The second movie even has him doing a song way out of style with everything else, just like Hamilton.

Ryan Lohner (he/him) @ryanlohner.bsky.social · 18h

In addition to the others mentioned, I have to bring up the super-"grounded" '00s series that killed off Marian in the Season 2 finale, which the crew openly admitted was purely for shock value with no thinking about where they'd go afterwards.

Ryan Lohner (he/him) @ryanlohner.bsky.social · 19h

@bestpicturespod.bsky.social on The Substance. An instant favorite of mine, and we get to see a lifelong non-horror person become attracted to it for the first time.

thebestpicturespodcast.fireside.fm/the-substance

Special Episode - The Substance

For our 2nd Halloween 2025 episode, we're the movie that made Maggie think she should give more horror movies a shot: The Substance

thebestpicturespodcast.fireside.fm

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Ryan Lohner (he/him) @ryanlohner.bsky.social · 1d

2017

The most prestigious comic book film ever digs deep into the real world issues the X-Men were always meant to reflect, this time in a dead serious way that will leave everyone thinking it over.

Ryan Lohner (he/him) @ryanlohner.bsky.social · 1d

2016

An unproduced play hasn't yielded results like this since Casablanca, and I'm forever thankful it got the recognition it deserved.

Ryan Lohner (he/him) @ryanlohner.bsky.social · 1d

2015

A subject no one understands is presented in an endlessly entertaining way while still never losing sight of the true cost in the end.

Ryan Lohner (he/him) @ryanlohner.bsky.social · 1d

2014

An uncompromising view of the suffering behind great art, and whether it's ever actually worth it, from someone who deserved to tell it.

Ryan Lohner (he/him) @ryanlohner.bsky.social · 1d

2013

The horrific true account is translated to a film daring to just present us with the worst of it, without any attempt to let us off easy.

Ryan Lohner (he/him) @ryanlohner.bsky.social · 1d

2012

A story you'd never believe if it wasn't real, turned into something that works as a movie while leaving you curious about the true events.

Ryan Lohner (he/him) @ryanlohner.bsky.social · 1d

2011

One of John Le Carre's twistiest and most confusing stories gets stuffed into two hours better than you'd ever think possible.

Ryan Lohner (he/him) @ryanlohner.bsky.social · 1d

2010

The Coens taking on a classic western story feels like it shouldn't work at all, but they make it their own and easily top the original.

Ryan Lohner (he/him) @ryanlohner.bsky.social · 1d

2009

A very timely story willing to look at it from the most unpopular side, without every compromising who we should sympathize with.

Ryan Lohner (he/him) @ryanlohner.bsky.social · 1d

2008

Some of the biggest mood whiplash you'll ever see ends up selling an essentially fantastical story about as well as it ever could be.

Ryan Lohner (he/him) @ryanlohner.bsky.social · 1d

My choice for the ninth ten Best Adapted Screenplay Oscars.🧵

Ryan Lohner (he/him) @ryanlohner.bsky.social · 1d

Nine of eleven movies were good, which is way more than I was expecting going in, but ending up here was a jarring reminder of how much better the series could be than what it settled into for a while.

Ryan Lohner (he/him) @ryanlohner.bsky.social · 2d

I’m very curious what general reactions were like to that ending at the time, before the idea that slasher movies were supposed to be long-running series where the killer got away at the end was any kind of thing.

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Ryan Lohner (he/him) @ryanlohner.bsky.social · 2d

From getting her role in Carrie beefed up just by improvising a weird thing with her hat to this.