edojyo_ji
@edojyoji.bsky.social
You may remember me from such platforms as Letterboxd and The Platform Formerly Known As Twitter.
I’m into film, languages and my adopted homes of West Cork and Northern Japan.
日本語のツイートもあり。
I’m into film, languages and my adopted homes of West Cork and Northern Japan.
日本語のツイートもあり。
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Porco Rosso deserves to stand taller in the Studio Ghibli canon, not least because it's among the great antifascist films. Here's my case regarding why:
New today on the site!
Better a Pig: How Miyazaki's PORCO ROSSO Dismantles the Aesthetics of Fascism
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Better a Pig: How Miyazaki's PORCO ROSSO Dismantles the Aesthetics of Fascism
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Porco Rosso and the Aesthetics of Fascism
Porco Rosso creates a visual language for the anti-fascist politics at its center, undermining key components of the fascist aesthetic.
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December 12, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Porco Rosso deserves to stand taller in the Studio Ghibli canon, not least because it's among the great antifascist films. Here's my case regarding why:
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Film’s greatest love story. Franco made over a hundred films with Lina Romay and the two were together until her death in 2012. Franco himself passed away just a little over a year later in 2013. #FrancoFriday
December 12, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Film’s greatest love story. Franco made over a hundred films with Lina Romay and the two were together until her death in 2012. Franco himself passed away just a little over a year later in 2013. #FrancoFriday
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This one's a classic: a film all about Gila monsters and revved up teens with their hot rods. If there's a schlock Hall of Fame, The Giant Gila Monster deserves its own wing!
Watch now: youtu.be/KUZUEVGDDow
Watch now: youtu.be/KUZUEVGDDow
December 12, 2025 at 12:00 AM
This one's a classic: a film all about Gila monsters and revved up teens with their hot rods. If there's a schlock Hall of Fame, The Giant Gila Monster deserves its own wing!
Watch now: youtu.be/KUZUEVGDDow
Watch now: youtu.be/KUZUEVGDDow
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Surprise! New fun bonus episode for our Patreons: our collaborative TOP 25 FILMS of the 21st Century! Listen and enjoy here:
www.patreon.com/purecinemapod
@elrickane.bsky.social @bobfreelander.bsky.social
www.patreon.com/purecinemapod
@elrickane.bsky.social @bobfreelander.bsky.social
December 11, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Surprise! New fun bonus episode for our Patreons: our collaborative TOP 25 FILMS of the 21st Century! Listen and enjoy here:
www.patreon.com/purecinemapod
@elrickane.bsky.social @bobfreelander.bsky.social
www.patreon.com/purecinemapod
@elrickane.bsky.social @bobfreelander.bsky.social
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For Tidal users, I've made a playlist of (mostly choral) Christmas music for those of you who want to embrace the mystery and darkness of the season. tidal.com/playlist/c72...
Lift up the latch
Playlist - Lift up the latch - 20 items
tidal.com
December 11, 2025 at 4:26 AM
For Tidal users, I've made a playlist of (mostly choral) Christmas music for those of you who want to embrace the mystery and darkness of the season. tidal.com/playlist/c72...
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Have you seen this new addition to our YouTube channel? "Stranger from Venus" (1954) is a sci-fi curio that sees a nameless stranger sent from Venus to prepare the way for his superiors, who wish to give Earthlings a message about their future.
Watch now: youtu.be/8QoKGNK85AE?si=Ox9...
Watch now: youtu.be/8QoKGNK85AE?si=Ox9...
December 11, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Have you seen this new addition to our YouTube channel? "Stranger from Venus" (1954) is a sci-fi curio that sees a nameless stranger sent from Venus to prepare the way for his superiors, who wish to give Earthlings a message about their future.
Watch now: youtu.be/8QoKGNK85AE?si=Ox9...
Watch now: youtu.be/8QoKGNK85AE?si=Ox9...
Thank you! WTF is that 😖
Sorry to judge here but it is disgusting to claim people born in 1995 are Gen X
Maybe generational divides are real
December 11, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Thank you! WTF is that 😖
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Seasonal favorites with The Man in the Santa Claus Suit (1979). A charmer about a costume shop Santa suit and what happens to the three people who rent it over the holidays. And another one for the "Christmas is magical in the city too" list. youtu.be/E6tUKplka4U?...
The Man In The Santa Claus Suit (1979)
YouTube video by Classic Movie Lover
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December 10, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Seasonal favorites with The Man in the Santa Claus Suit (1979). A charmer about a costume shop Santa suit and what happens to the three people who rent it over the holidays. And another one for the "Christmas is magical in the city too" list. youtu.be/E6tUKplka4U?...
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PSA: If you for some reason only want one copy of SANTA CLAUS CONQUERS THE MARTIANS, make it the AGFA/Something Weird blu. Includes an unrestored transfer of a 16mm print with ads and intermission, plus over 3 hours of additional holiday weirdness (including a full Liberace Christmas special!)
December 11, 2025 at 1:28 AM
PSA: If you for some reason only want one copy of SANTA CLAUS CONQUERS THE MARTIANS, make it the AGFA/Something Weird blu. Includes an unrestored transfer of a 16mm print with ads and intermission, plus over 3 hours of additional holiday weirdness (including a full Liberace Christmas special!)
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Talking, laughing, and pseudo-renting (it’s real in the heart) with Ryan and Dirk was a blast, but kind of living out my fanfiction of being in a video rental store with Heather Drain was a big early Xmas present.
Check it out if you like a great time and offbeat but sincere film recommendations!
Check it out if you like a great time and offbeat but sincere film recommendations!
December 9, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Talking, laughing, and pseudo-renting (it’s real in the heart) with Ryan and Dirk was a blast, but kind of living out my fanfiction of being in a video rental store with Heather Drain was a big early Xmas present.
Check it out if you like a great time and offbeat but sincere film recommendations!
Check it out if you like a great time and offbeat but sincere film recommendations!
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SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
'Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey.'
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
December 10, 2025 at 5:10 PM
SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
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As the holidays get closer, I just wanted to share our eBay store again just in case - everything is negotiable (especially if you wanna buy outside of eBay which saves me fees, lol) & lots more will be going up in the New Year (B has just been busy): ebay.us/m/Gxnycd
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Follow bonogirl317 on eBay. Buying, Selling, Collecting on eBay has never been more exciting!
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December 10, 2025 at 6:32 PM
As the holidays get closer, I just wanted to share our eBay store again just in case - everything is negotiable (especially if you wanna buy outside of eBay which saves me fees, lol) & lots more will be going up in the New Year (B has just been busy): ebay.us/m/Gxnycd
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Theaters don’t need to reinvent the experience here. It doesn’t need to be a concert. Enforce phone use, maintain your projectors, bring back honest theatrical windows and hire a staff who cares about it. That’s all. I don’t need a four course meal, props, special guests or gimmicks. Give us movies.
December 9, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Theaters don’t need to reinvent the experience here. It doesn’t need to be a concert. Enforce phone use, maintain your projectors, bring back honest theatrical windows and hire a staff who cares about it. That’s all. I don’t need a four course meal, props, special guests or gimmicks. Give us movies.
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All of this money spent on this study and not a single mention of things that might keep people away: disruptive audience behavior, increasingly poor technical presentation, every shrinking theatrical windows (or day and date indies). I love theaters, and go multiple times a week, but it’s grim.
How Can Movie Theaters Fill More Seats Again? A Bain Report Shares Suggestions
"Audiences haven’t abandoned theaters; they need a more compelling reason to go," the consultancy highlights, sharing suggestions for how to bring fans back to the cinema in the post-COVID era.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
December 9, 2025 at 1:04 PM
All of this money spent on this study and not a single mention of things that might keep people away: disruptive audience behavior, increasingly poor technical presentation, every shrinking theatrical windows (or day and date indies). I love theaters, and go multiple times a week, but it’s grim.
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It's Christmas and darker nights, so *of course* time for ghosts and chilly horror. Well, for some of us...
I've decobwebbed, dusted down and resurrected my piece on the 1979 adaptation of M.R. James' Casting the Runes, which I like a lot.
arowofopengraves.co.uk/2025/12/10/a...
I've decobwebbed, dusted down and resurrected my piece on the 1979 adaptation of M.R. James' Casting the Runes, which I like a lot.
arowofopengraves.co.uk/2025/12/10/a...
A Peculiar and Beguiling Bleakness
Casting the Runes (1979) and updating M.R. James for the Scarred for Life generation (this article previously published on the now-defunct Horrified website) Title card of the episode shows Casting…
arowofopengraves.co.uk
December 10, 2025 at 10:33 AM
It's Christmas and darker nights, so *of course* time for ghosts and chilly horror. Well, for some of us...
I've decobwebbed, dusted down and resurrected my piece on the 1979 adaptation of M.R. James' Casting the Runes, which I like a lot.
arowofopengraves.co.uk/2025/12/10/a...
I've decobwebbed, dusted down and resurrected my piece on the 1979 adaptation of M.R. James' Casting the Runes, which I like a lot.
arowofopengraves.co.uk/2025/12/10/a...
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The nurse vomiting-if-she-tells-a-lie gimmick of KNIVES OUT felt like an escapee from this kind of 90s nonsense thriller. For all its other mystery clockworks and social comment, it might as well have had a plot point where anyone dressed in purple was invisible to one brain-injured witness.
December 10, 2025 at 1:01 PM
The nurse vomiting-if-she-tells-a-lie gimmick of KNIVES OUT felt like an escapee from this kind of 90s nonsense thriller. For all its other mystery clockworks and social comment, it might as well have had a plot point where anyone dressed in purple was invisible to one brain-injured witness.
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I dunno man the concept of actually owning something you pay for must be like a drug if you're under 30
Why do Gen Z have a growing appetite for retro tech?
Why do Gen Z have a growing appetite for retro tech?
Gen Z are going retro, with studies showing a resurgence in people buying tech in the modern age that can be dated back decades.
www.bbc.com
December 7, 2025 at 6:57 PM
I dunno man the concept of actually owning something you pay for must be like a drug if you're under 30
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fat bear week is good, but don't forget about borb season
December 10, 2025 at 5:46 AM
fat bear week is good, but don't forget about borb season
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JFC wish people would stop saying THE HUNGER GAMES ripped off BATTLE ROYALE. (Peter Bradshaw in The Guardian, parroting Quentin Tarantino, being the latest offender.) Might as well say it ripped off THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME; DEATH RACE 2000; ROLLERBALL; THE RUNNING MAN; THE 10th VICTIM tbc
December 10, 2025 at 2:32 PM
JFC wish people would stop saying THE HUNGER GAMES ripped off BATTLE ROYALE. (Peter Bradshaw in The Guardian, parroting Quentin Tarantino, being the latest offender.) Might as well say it ripped off THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME; DEATH RACE 2000; ROLLERBALL; THE RUNNING MAN; THE 10th VICTIM tbc
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My Top 10 list for 2025 has everything: melancholy songwriters, banjo-strumming vampires, dirtbag birdwatchers, sad Norwegian sisters, incognito Brazilian scientists, brave Russian journalists, and the soul-soothing wisdom of Benicio del Toro's Sensei. slate.com/culture/2025...
The 10 Best Movies of 2025
Including thrillers, comedies, a biopic, and a documentary that’s streaming for free on YouTube.
slate.com
December 10, 2025 at 3:33 PM
My Top 10 list for 2025 has everything: melancholy songwriters, banjo-strumming vampires, dirtbag birdwatchers, sad Norwegian sisters, incognito Brazilian scientists, brave Russian journalists, and the soul-soothing wisdom of Benicio del Toro's Sensei. slate.com/culture/2025...
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An illustrated line from the Prayer Of St. Brendan The Navigator, who is said to have travelled from County Kerry in Ireland to America a thousand years before Columbus made his journey. Trust in the darkness. 🌌
Prints available here: www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...
Prints available here: www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...
December 9, 2025 at 8:13 AM
An illustrated line from the Prayer Of St. Brendan The Navigator, who is said to have travelled from County Kerry in Ireland to America a thousand years before Columbus made his journey. Trust in the darkness. 🌌
Prints available here: www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...
Prints available here: www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...
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This is a great thread of jam and books, all about language!
Lemon verbena white nectarine and peach with The Language Lover's Puzzle book by @alexbellos.bsky.social
This wordlist feels like the intro to a word problem, and this book contains language puzzles in profusion, plus solutions if you get stuck & context notes on the languages
#BooksAreMyJam day 8
This wordlist feels like the intro to a word problem, and this book contains language puzzles in profusion, plus solutions if you get stuck & context notes on the languages
#BooksAreMyJam day 8
December 9, 2025 at 1:02 AM
This is a great thread of jam and books, all about language!
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Louise as Janie, shoe clerk at Ginsburg’s Department Store, in a still from Love ‘Em and Leave ‘Em (1926).
December 8, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Louise as Janie, shoe clerk at Ginsburg’s Department Store, in a still from Love ‘Em and Leave ‘Em (1926).
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Heisei era kaijū are just perfect. Desghidorah really has such a fantastic design.
December 9, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Heisei era kaijū are just perfect. Desghidorah really has such a fantastic design.
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I am brimming with holiday spirit
December 8, 2025 at 12:47 PM
I am brimming with holiday spirit