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I maintain it's a better actual SF movie than 2001
Oof. Had a phone call with my mom just yesterday in which this was the entire subtext
Anyway, here's Aphex Twin's "On", video directed by Jarvis Cocker. It's a piece of music that I often return to as a source of inspiration, deceptive in its simplicity while also complex in its musicality
Aphex Twin - On
YouTube video by Aphex Twin
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Today somebody insisted upon telling me that life is too short to listen to house and techno and that made me sad: life and music and house and techno contain multitudes and to me it feels like a shame to exclude any of them with sweeping statements
Congratulations, Kristen!
Hey Siri, show me pictures of some queens
Soooo...THIS happened! The Academy Museum invited me to moderate a talk on Jennifer's Body between director Karyn Kusama and star Megan Fox.

Sharp women. A horror movie gem. What a time!

PHOTO CREDIT: ©Academy Museum Foundation, Photo by: Andrew Ge

See the talk here: youtu.be/rRGd7sHN1io?...
Watching THE CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN starring Moff Tarkin, Count Dooku and some guy who was never in a STAR WAR, and it's kind of hilarious how all these different versions of Mary Shelley's story just mix and match characters and plot elements or plain make new shit up as they best see fit
The fact they've got the iceberg on the wrong side of the bow and it's in daylight gives me some pause regarding the ultimateness of this Titanic exhibition
This is the one time the Razzies get a free pass.
Yo Kathryn Bigelow, wtf?

Yearning for the bomb to hit and release me from this tedious, over-egged movie of incompetence porn.
8 and I'm not even American
It's just one Best Director Oscar™-Winning Netflick After Another all up in this bitch today
I imagine there'll be a bunch of Shelley purists who take issue with the alterations del Toro has made to FRANKENSTEIN, but:
• I think he hits the same tone and thematic core
• They're less egregious than the 1931 movie by a LOT
• Other FRANKENSTEINs are also available
• Suck it up, buttercups
Kind of surprised the streaming date for TRON ARSE hasn't been announced yet
And that's not even beginning to touch various anniversary releases, BACK TO THE FUTURE and DOGMA among them
Forthcoming UK releases
31 October : BUGONIA, KONTINENTAL ’25
7 November: PREDATOR: BADLANDS, DIE MY LOVE
12 November: THE RUNNING MAN
14 November: NOW YOU SEE ME: NOW YOU DON'T
21 November: WICKED FOR GOOD, THE ICE TOWER
26 November: WAKE UP DEAD MAN: A KNIVES OUT MYSTERY
We are, so back
Working on a new thing
After some back-and-forth I was able to squeeze in a theatrical screening of @realgdt.bsky.social’s FRANKENSTEIN. Stunningly beautiful, exquisitely mounted and played, it’s an epic, deeply moving and human rendition of the story.
Also a bunch of wolves get their shit WRECKED, 5 stars
Maybe he can revive his plan for one-off Bond movies running alongside the main entries under Amazon, but I’m not holding my breath
Definitely he wouldn’t be getting into that particular game for the greater glory of carving his name onto a franchise. Anyway, not happening now, but it’s interesting nobody has revealed any actual story details
So, I’ve seen every last Steven Soderbergh narrative feature (even BUBBLE), and THE KNICK, and I think I have a handle on what might draw him to a STAR WAR thematically and subtextually, but I have my doubts that it in any way aligns with what gatekeeping fanboys think they might want or get
CAUGHT STEALING without reservation
BALLERINA for the second half where it figures out how to be an actual John Wick movie
BACK IN ACTION for the bit where it restages the BAD BOYS II favela chase in the ‘burbs and the accurate London geography in the 3rd act
Only bother with TRON ARES for the NIN
Got to hand it to the Oscar Piastri fans, their victim mentality rivals that of the Max Verstappen fans in its toxicity #F1