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Dan Berlinka @danberlinka.bsky.social · 1h

I will not receive a better text than this today.

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Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 7h

You don't need to have read it to get the joke

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Cartoon. Venn diagram of two circles intersecting. The left circle contains the text 'Tristram Beer', the right circle contains the text 'Tristram lemonade'. There is no text in the intersection, leaving the reader to fill in the gap.

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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 20h

🚨Christian children were told they'd "be Muslim by year 6"!🚨

😱Sounds outrageous?

You know the drill…

If it sounds outrageous and designed to trigger you into being angry with “other” people, then you need to do some 🪏

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Dan Berlinka @danberlinka.bsky.social · 9h

I played Platform 8, the same-but-different follow up to Exit 8. This one leans more horror and has some genuinely unsettling moments, a couple of well executed jump scares, and a perfect ending. I loved it. (Again it's £3.29 on PS5 for about an hour of gameplay.)

Dan Berlinka @danberlinka.bsky.social · 11h

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It's time for Green Ink Sponsored Write. @drrachelknightley.bsky.social came up with a great way to support a great cause - and you get a bunch of new writing!

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Help Green Ink Sponsored Write at the Writers' Gym raise money to support Macmillan Cancer Support

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Eddie Robson @eddierobson.bsky.social · 1d

Remarkable how this accurately conveys the tone of the film while making it look better than it is. Superb work.

weinberg @weinberg.social · 1d

yup. I mean, look at this.

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Dan Berlinka @danberlinka.bsky.social · 1d

Audience Review:

Fucktoys. Curzon Soho. October 13th.

LFF audiences are pretty good. But as long as cinemas double as bars (and I get it, they need to make their money) there's always gonna be a fair bit of wandering around.

****/5

Dan Berlinka @danberlinka.bsky.social · 1d

Last night at the #LFF I saw Fucktoys. In the Q&A writer / director / star Annapurna Sriram described her film as "wholesome". And it kind of is. There's such a joy to the filmmaking - the cinematography is beautiful - A.I. could never do this. I'm not the target audience, but I love that it exists.

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Dan Berlinka @danberlinka.bsky.social · 2d

After I saw the movie adaptation of Exit 8, I played the game. Having seen the film probably made it easier because it felt like I'd already watched a walk-through. But it's beautifully simple and unsettling and £3.29 (on PS5) for about an hour of eerie gameplay. I loved it.

Dan Berlinka @danberlinka.bsky.social · 2d

Diane Keaton made Sleeper between The Godfather Parts 1 and 2. And Love and Death between The Godfather Part 2 and Looking For Mr Goodbar. Two all-time great comedy performances, sandwiched between serious dramatic roles. Not sure I can think anyone else who switched so effortlessly between the two.

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noelle sociohat @sociohat.bsky.social · 2d

gamer who doesn't listen to audio logs or read journal entries in games because they respect privacy

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Nat Cassidy @natcassidy.bsky.social · 3d

This photo of Robert Bloch is the most writer photo to have ever writer photo’d. It is Pure Writer Photo.

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Dan Berlinka @danberlinka.bsky.social · 2d

And for UK viewers there is the added frisson of it looking like the end credit roll of Dad's Army (and numerous other British sitcoms.)

Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 3d

No other film ending has ever gone this hard. Every time this rolls up on-screen I immediately think, “Damn right I have.”

Final shot of SUSPIRIA before the credits roll, which begin with the following:

You have been watching
"SUSPIRIA"

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Dan Berlinka @danberlinka.bsky.social · 3d

Bride of Frankenstein
Dawn of the Dead
Inferno
Halloween III: Season of the Witch
Phantasm II
Hellraiser II
Aliens
Demons 2
Ju-On: The Grudge 2
Final Destination 2

Paul Duane 🥔 @paulduane.bsky.social · 3d

SMILE 2
EXORCIST 2: THE HERETIC
DAWN OF THE DEAD
RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD 3
EVIL DEAD II
HALLOWEEN III
TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME
TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN
PSYCHO 2
BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN

Letterboxd @letterboxd.social · 3d

🎃 What are your favorite horror sequels?

For this week’s Showdown, scare up a list of your ten favorite horror movie sequels.

Start listing now: boxd.it/chy

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Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 3d

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Cartoon of a social gathering. A man is talking to a vampire. The man says "Welcome, Count Dracula. Would you like a small aperitif?". The vampire replies "No, I think mine are just the right size".

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Dan Berlinka @danberlinka.bsky.social · 3d

I read William Styron's novella, The Long March. I picked it up secondhand because I wondered if it was an influence on The Long Walk. I'd be surprised if Stephen King wasn't aware of it. I didn't entirely connect with the prose, but it's a powerful portrait of rebellion through stubborn obedience.

Dan Berlinka @danberlinka.bsky.social · 3d

Audience review:

A Private Life (Vie Privée). Vue West End. October 11th.

Another packed #LFF screening.

A very good and respectful audience, with only a few lateness and walkabout infractions.

****/5

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Dan Berlinka @danberlinka.bsky.social · 3d

Last night at the #LFF I saw A Private Life (Vie Privée), introduced by director / co-writer Rebecca Zlotowski and star Jodie Foster. The mystery is secondary to the character story, and Foster and Daniel Auteil are adorable together, alongside a great supporting cast. I very much enjoyed it.

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Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 3d

RIP Diane Keaton
My favourite picture of her where everyone else is giving it their best Blue Steel & she looks like she’s just wandered in off the street looking super cool.
She was allowed to wear her own clothes & her wonderful personality shines out.
What a unique talent & human being.

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Dan Berlinka @danberlinka.bsky.social · 3d

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Lavie Tidhar @lavietidhar.bsky.social · 5d

reminds me of this tribute to mccarthy i wrote once

He walked out of that door and stood staring at the diminishing sun and he thought back to his childhood how he begged them how he said I want to play with them with the commas and his mother said commas are not toys and his father said youve been a bad boy you cant even have an apostrophe and he said what about speech marks and his mother said no speech marks for you Cormac and he walked outside and stood there like he stood there now watching the blood red sun and blood he thought there must be so much blood at least one per sentence he will show them he didnt need their commas or their speech marks or their stupid apostrophes they were just conventional signs.

He liked full stops though. All that blood. All that blood and short sentences and full stops. But never a comma. Then he went back inside.

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Dan Berlinka @danberlinka.bsky.social · 5d

Man, watching this I realise I so miss this kind of trailer. I know it's just nostalgia, but that voiceover at the end - it's so *reassuring* somehow. It's the voice of objective reality, I think.

🎬 ScreenMedia 🎞 @screenmedia.bsky.social · 5d

The 🇺🇸American comedy film "PRIVATE BENJAMIN" directed by Howard Zieff, starring Goldie Hawn and Eileen Brennan, who both received Oscar nominations with Armand Assante, Robert Webber, Sam Wanamaker and Hal Williams, was released in the U.S. #OnThisDay in 1980

🎬 Warner Bros.

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Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 5d

That’s weird. Just a pair of feet on the pavement outside this shop.

Photo of the lower half of a clothing dummy outside a shop. The dummy is wearing camo trousers.

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Dan Berlinka @danberlinka.bsky.social · 6d

Well if my feed is any indication, Hungarian literature is a lot more popular than I had previously realised.

Dan Berlinka @danberlinka.bsky.social · 6d

I finished the King of the Hill reboot. As funny, warm and humane as ever. There's a lump in the throat moment in the end credits when they flash up a memorial to actor Jonathan Joss, murdered in a hate crime in June. You suddenly remember how much worse the world is outside the show than within it.