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T. J. Dobbin

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I write about Bugs Bunny cartoons.

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T. J. Dobbin @tjamesdobbin.bsky.social · 4d

In the mood for some weird horror-y cartoon viewings for Halloween? Check out my new post highlighting 20 animated shorts from Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks.

Halloween Animation: Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks

Greetings, all. It’s that season again. It’s funny, as someone who regularly spends time watching horror movies, and reading horror books and comics year-round just as one of my default…

strawberrypenguin.ca

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T. J. Dobbin @tjamesdobbin.bsky.social · 2h

Just as exciting as Send Help being Sam Raimi's return to horror is it also being his reunion with the great DP Bill Pope (he shot Darkman, Army of Darkness, Spider-Man 2&3). They conjure great images together.

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Eko Eko Alex-rak: Wizard of Darkness @alexxkittle.bsky.social · 19h

I will absolutely spend every reel being very emotional about Adrienne Shelly and if you notice me miss a cue because I’m too busy crying please just go about your business!

Backlit filmstrip magnified under a loupe showing Adrienne Shelly in Trust.

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T. J. Dobbin @tjamesdobbin.bsky.social · 2h

Christophe Gans' Return to Silent Hill and Sam Raimi's Send Help coming out a week apart from each other in late January is just what I need to get me over the hurdle that is my inevitable seasonal depression.

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T. J. Dobbin @tjamesdobbin.bsky.social · 4d

In the mood for some weird horror-y cartoon viewings for Halloween? Check out my new post highlighting 20 animated shorts from Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks.

Halloween Animation: Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks

Greetings, all. It’s that season again. It’s funny, as someone who regularly spends time watching horror movies, and reading horror books and comics year-round just as one of my default…

strawberrypenguin.ca

10 27

T. J. Dobbin @tjamesdobbin.bsky.social · 21h

I almost talked myself in wanting to rewatch it as I typed out that description.

T. J. Dobbin @tjamesdobbin.bsky.social · 21h

The first couple are actually good, but the 8th (from 2005!) has Henry Cavill and Lance Henriksen and is about a group of gamers invited to a mansion for a premiere of the Pinhead based Hellworld MMORPG (?) video game, which is all a ploy for Pinhead to murder gamers.

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Eko Eko Alex-rak: Wizard of Darkness @alexxkittle.bsky.social · 21h

Alright I am two-thirds done with the illustrations for my 2026 David Lynch tribute calendar! I will hopefully remain on track and be able to send to print in early November.

FYI pre-orders really help me gauge how many to print, and cover up-front costs!
www.etsy.com/listing/4366...

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T. J. Dobbin @tjamesdobbin.bsky.social · 21h

Let's be grateful that Rick Bota didn't direct one of top 50 hits of 2005. His Hellraiser movies are agony, a lot worse than Inferno lol

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T. J. Dobbin @tjamesdobbin.bsky.social · 21h

If I ever found you were watching Halloween, Texas Chain Saw Massacre or Suspiria, as a first time viewing, in 15 minute increments, I would fly to your house ASAP and give you a stern talking to.

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T. J. Dobbin @tjamesdobbin.bsky.social · 1d

I always get excited when I open the pod app on Monday morning and see when a new BOG goes long. This one didn't disappoint! Oh, and add me the long list of people who think you need to watch Freaks and Geeks. Great show.

T. J. Dobbin @tjamesdobbin.bsky.social · 1d

This is a great episode. They cover it all. I don't particularly like this movie, but as someone who does like Superbad, Sarah Marshall, I Love You Man and The Muppets 2011, I have to be grateful for 40 Year Old Virgin's existence. It put a lot of things in this universe into motion.

Brian Schmid @schmanthonyp.bsky.social · 2d

FOLKS, it's my anniversary! As a gift, check out maybe the best episode of @boxofficegross.bsky.social we've done. Two beloved guests return, Kevin Gray and @dougtilley.bsky.social, to sort thru the complicated experience of watching THE 40 YEAR OLD VIRGIN in 2025. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/s...

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Josh Slater-Williams @jslaterwilliams.bsky.social · 8d

PERFECT BLUE is newly remastered and back in cinemas, so I wrote a primer on the screen work of Satoshi Kon for the BFI!

bit.ly/3KEDVaj

Where to begin with Satoshi Kon

As Perfect Blue returns to cinemas, we introduce the small but perfectly formed oeuvre of Satoshi Kon, a visionary of grown-up animation whose films blur the boundary between reality and fantasy, and ...

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It Slays Podcast @itslayspodcast.bsky.social · 2d

LIONEL!

The squad tries to avoid the Sumatran rat monkeys while talking about Mike's pick, BRAINDEAD (1992). Are the practical effects to die for?

Tune in to find out if we gave this film a NAY, OKAY, YAY, or SLAY!

Available NOW on your favourite podcast app—link in bio! 🐀🥣

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T. J. Dobbin @tjamesdobbin.bsky.social · 3d

Barnyard is Chicken Little 2.0

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Willow Catelyn Maclay @willowcatelyn.bsky.social · 3d

Husband wrote a new essay on horror themed animated shorts. There's so much more than THE SKELETON DANCE to watch during this season.

T. J. Dobbin @tjamesdobbin.bsky.social · 4d

In the mood for some weird horror-y cartoon viewings for Halloween? Check out my new post highlighting 20 animated shorts from Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks.

Halloween Animation: Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks

Greetings, all. It’s that season again. It’s funny, as someone who regularly spends time watching horror movies, and reading horror books and comics year-round just as one of my default…

strawberrypenguin.ca

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T. J. Dobbin @tjamesdobbin.bsky.social · 4d

Just watched Sunset Boulevard in the cinema with @jacobeantragedy.bsky.social and @willowcatelyn.bsky.social. incredible movie. Stunning. I wish I could watch all the Billy Wilders on the big screen.

Mike @jacobeantragedy.bsky.social · 4d

SEATED

Screen shot of 75th anniversary screening of sunset boulevard

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T. J. Dobbin @tjamesdobbin.bsky.social · 4d

In the mood for some weird horror-y cartoon viewings for Halloween? Check out my new post highlighting 20 animated shorts from Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks.

Halloween Animation: Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks

Greetings, all. It’s that season again. It’s funny, as someone who regularly spends time watching horror movies, and reading horror books and comics year-round just as one of my default…

strawberrypenguin.ca

10 27

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T. J. Dobbin @tjamesdobbin.bsky.social · 5d

new Strawberry Penguin post incoming

Lonesome Ghosts, the Disney cartoon. a frame mid dissolve, a super imposed Mickey in the middle of the frame, as Donald is looking around the corner in a haunted house.

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T. J. Dobbin @tjamesdobbin.bsky.social · 5d

new Strawberry Penguin post incoming

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Willow Catelyn Maclay @willowcatelyn.bsky.social · 6d

My friend's cat is really sick. Moose is literally an angel, and if you could spare anything or share this around that would be wonderful. Thank you. 💙

www.gofundme.com/f/bn2nc-help...

Donate to Help Moose Get Better, organized by Emily Dyer

Hi, I’m creating this today for my beautiful precious angel cat, Moose. She started presenting se… Emily Dyer needs your support for Help Moose Get Better

www.gofundme.com

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Willow Catelyn Maclay @willowcatelyn.bsky.social · 7d

I wrote about MAY for my horror column. This movie was a favorite of mine when I was a teenager, and I wrote about why and how it spoke to me then, and how my relationship to the film has evolved in the time since.

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a still image from Lucky McKee's "May" of Angela Bettis in a near close-up as the titular character. She has her thumb in her mouth. She is in a veterinary clinic and the details of the room are out of focus.

Ginger Snaps and May were two of my favorite movies when I was fourteen years old. They helped me deal with with the two dominant feelings of my adolescence: gender dysphoria and loneliness. Those two feelings tend to intertwine for young trans people. In my own experience, they did so ruthlessly. My dysphoria negatively impacted my life to such a degree that I was home-schooled from the age of fifteen or sixteen (I genuinely can’t remember), put on a heavy anti-depressant and had to routinely see a childhood psychologist to figure out what was wrong with me (it was dysphoria, but I wasn’t in a safe situation to bring it up). Being taken out of the public school system made it much more difficult to create lasting friendships, which exacerbated my loneliness and inability to relate to others. Homeschooling me was a decision that was made without my consent, and it hampered my skills of socialization, and the friends that I did have in middle school eventually stopped seeing me. I’ve gotten better at being a person, and forging relationships with people since transitioning, but I have still retained some of those bad habits and coping mechanisms that I instinctively learned when I was a teenager. One of those coping mechanisms was cinephilia. I felt like I didn’t have anyone to talk to, but I had movies. It worked for me then, but now I can look back on it and realize that it was a pretty sad state of affairs. I’m still trying to find the balance between living my life, and watching movies. Lucky McKee’s May was one of those films that I luxuriated in. Angela Bettis’s strange, anti-social veterinarian technician, who wanted nothing more than to have a boyfriend, and friends to call her own, was disarmingly familiar. I treated watching it like soaking in a warm bath. Revisiting it this week, felt odd, like coming back to an old habit better left in the rear-view, but I still liked the taste.

May begins with a brief prologue that shows the start of her difficulty socializing with her peers. The film takes viewers all the way back to elementary school, and May, with very long blonde hair, is wearing an eye-patch to obscure her lazy eye. Her mother—a cosmopolitan type—implores her to cover the eyepatch with her hair so her classmates will treat her equally. She ignores this advice until a young boy approaches her and innocently asks if she is a pirate. She shakes her head no. The bell rings. And she drapes her hair over her eyepatch. May’s mother keeps a prized doll locked in a glass case, and the doll itself is exquisitely Gothic, with a red gown, raven’s hair, and pale features. May fixated on this lovely creature, and substituted her need for friends with a budding relationship to this plastic creation. We never see May converse with her mother, but she gravitates to the doll in her worst moments. The film never shows the doll speaking, but May can hear her, nagging her insecurities, bringing her inner turmoil to her teeming, embodied psychosis. This is ostensibly a slasher film wearing the skin of a Frankenstein-riff, as May kills acquaintances of hers, severing her favorite body parts, and building a best friend of her own. But because the film is so careful, and precise about showing viewers the integrity of May’s inner-life, it is in actuality the rare horror film to genuinely grapple with the horrible shape of catastrophic loneliness.

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T. J. Dobbin @tjamesdobbin.bsky.social · 6d

Hell yeah. Great job Blue Jays. My late grandmother loved watching the Jays. She'd be so thrilled right now.

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T. J. Dobbin @tjamesdobbin.bsky.social · 6d

Saoirse Ronan is apparently playing Linda in the Beatles biopic thing. I have no interest in "Beatles biopics", but an early 70s based movie about the Wings period of Paul's life would have a lot more juice as a self contained movie (and it would give Saoirse a lot to work with).

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T. J. Dobbin @tjamesdobbin.bsky.social · 7d

This is cinema.

Godzilla on the left, Jet Jaguar on the right. Both are looking in the same direction. The sky behind them is grey because the film print is terrible.

T. J. Dobbin @tjamesdobbin.bsky.social · 7d

Bring back Disco Godzilla.

The scene from Godzilla vs Megalon where the sparkly dressed-in-white space women are doing a ritual dance on a dance floor

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