Bryant Durrell
@innocence.com
I like movies a lot. I worry about right-wing extremism. I play and sometimes write tabletop RPGs. I do SRE things but don’t speak for my employer here. I grew up in New England and live with my wife in Seattle. He/his.
https://innocence.com/~durrell
https://innocence.com/~durrell
Good night to crack open the Eurocrypt of Christopher Lee with @smichele.bsky.social. No idea where to start. 📽️
November 27, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Good night to crack open the Eurocrypt of Christopher Lee with @smichele.bsky.social. No idea where to start. 📽️
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There is a story of a widow woman & her daughters, Snow White & Rose Red, the most darling little girls who had ever lived.
This is not—quite—that story.
BONE & BLOOD is out in March 2026! #booksky #preorders #fairytales #retoldfairytales #fantasy
www.amazon.com/dp/B0DXFPLQW...
This is not—quite—that story.
BONE & BLOOD is out in March 2026! #booksky #preorders #fairytales #retoldfairytales #fantasy
www.amazon.com/dp/B0DXFPLQW...
November 26, 2025 at 11:39 AM
There is a story of a widow woman & her daughters, Snow White & Rose Red, the most darling little girls who had ever lived.
This is not—quite—that story.
BONE & BLOOD is out in March 2026! #booksky #preorders #fairytales #retoldfairytales #fantasy
www.amazon.com/dp/B0DXFPLQW...
This is not—quite—that story.
BONE & BLOOD is out in March 2026! #booksky #preorders #fairytales #retoldfairytales #fantasy
www.amazon.com/dp/B0DXFPLQW...
Share a 90s movie you think deserves more love…
That’s tough. Most of the 90s movies I really love are generally appreciated; the more obscure ones are mostly critical favorites.
“I wish more people would see Drifting Clouds!”
“No shit.”
But Next Stop Wonderland (con’t).
That’s tough. Most of the 90s movies I really love are generally appreciated; the more obscure ones are mostly critical favorites.
“I wish more people would see Drifting Clouds!”
“No shit.”
But Next Stop Wonderland (con’t).
November 25, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Share a 90s movie you think deserves more love…
That’s tough. Most of the 90s movies I really love are generally appreciated; the more obscure ones are mostly critical favorites.
“I wish more people would see Drifting Clouds!”
“No shit.”
But Next Stop Wonderland (con’t).
That’s tough. Most of the 90s movies I really love are generally appreciated; the more obscure ones are mostly critical favorites.
“I wish more people would see Drifting Clouds!”
“No shit.”
But Next Stop Wonderland (con’t).
Are Election (1999) and Election (2005) the best pair of unrelated movies with the same name? Is there any other pairing that’s even good at all? 📽️
November 24, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Are Election (1999) and Election (2005) the best pair of unrelated movies with the same name? Is there any other pairing that’s even good at all? 📽️
Aw, Jimmy Cliff. That’s sad. When I was a kid my parents had this scruffy white dude pal who wanted to be a Rasta and this soundtrack got played a LOT. Electrifying movie. youtu.be/d9CJorHyG1s
The Harder They Come (1972) Trailer
YouTube video by The Duke Mitchell Film Club
youtu.be
November 24, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Aw, Jimmy Cliff. That’s sad. When I was a kid my parents had this scruffy white dude pal who wanted to be a Rasta and this soundtrack got played a LOT. Electrifying movie. youtu.be/d9CJorHyG1s
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Rest in peace, dear weird king 💔
November 24, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Rest in peace, dear weird king 💔
Oh hey, @skywatch.blue comes in handy! The Patrick Webb dude who’s making a living bitching about Trump is the same Patrick Webb who pushed election fraud and hydroxychloroquine a couple of years ago. Grifters!
November 23, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Oh hey, @skywatch.blue comes in handy! The Patrick Webb dude who’s making a living bitching about Trump is the same Patrick Webb who pushed election fraud and hydroxychloroquine a couple of years ago. Grifters!
I am not sure why it took me 20+ years to realize I should keep TTRPG campaign material in file folders, further organized with liberal use of paperclips, but here I am.
November 23, 2025 at 8:11 PM
I am not sure why it took me 20+ years to realize I should keep TTRPG campaign material in file folders, further organized with liberal use of paperclips, but here I am.
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The only book I have that comes close is below, and I recommend it, but it's tangential.
I've also seen this Italy-specific doc, which is also good: letterboxd.com/film/eurocri...
I've also seen this Italy-specific doc, which is also good: letterboxd.com/film/eurocri...
November 23, 2025 at 7:34 PM
The only book I have that comes close is below, and I recommend it, but it's tangential.
I've also seen this Italy-specific doc, which is also good: letterboxd.com/film/eurocri...
I've also seen this Italy-specific doc, which is also good: letterboxd.com/film/eurocri...
Anyone have any book recommendations for Eurocrime movies? Wider scope is better -- I'm very interested in how, say, krimi influenced poliziotteschi. But country-specific stuff is still cool. Paging @kinoventura.bsky.social and @leavingfilmstrk.bsky.social in particular. 🎥
November 23, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Anyone have any book recommendations for Eurocrime movies? Wider scope is better -- I'm very interested in how, say, krimi influenced poliziotteschi. But country-specific stuff is still cool. Paging @kinoventura.bsky.social and @leavingfilmstrk.bsky.social in particular. 🎥
NW: Choice of Arms, the last movie in the @filmsradiance.bsky.social Alain Corneau boxed set. It’s been a great set so far, although real world death and sexual abuse casts a dark shadow over these already fairly dark movies. 🎥
November 23, 2025 at 2:22 AM
NW: Choice of Arms, the last movie in the @filmsradiance.bsky.social Alain Corneau boxed set. It’s been a great set so far, although real world death and sexual abuse casts a dark shadow over these already fairly dark movies. 🎥
I am somewhat perturbed that my local DoorDash choices now include one serving nothing but dog food. There can’t be a business model there.
November 23, 2025 at 1:17 AM
I am somewhat perturbed that my local DoorDash choices now include one serving nothing but dog food. There can’t be a business model there.
TIL that John Frankenheimer made a movie in 1982 co-starring Toshirō Mifune, co-written by John Sayles. 📽️
youtu.be/S5S346EURbg?...
youtu.be/S5S346EURbg?...
The Challenge (1982) - Theatrical Trailer
YouTube video by Jim Margle
youtu.be
November 22, 2025 at 7:56 PM
TIL that John Frankenheimer made a movie in 1982 co-starring Toshirō Mifune, co-written by John Sayles. 📽️
youtu.be/S5S346EURbg?...
youtu.be/S5S346EURbg?...
Really the best thing about the Mamdani/Trump meeting is the way I’m gonna look at the next centrist who tells me we can’t vote for progressives because Trump will use them as an excuse to crack down.
November 22, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Really the best thing about the Mamdani/Trump meeting is the way I’m gonna look at the next centrist who tells me we can’t vote for progressives because Trump will use them as an excuse to crack down.
Last day of work before vacation is a good time for #LastFourWatched. And what a week -- two special screenings most recently, both with the director presenting, plus a classic Varda I've been saving. 📽️
November 21, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Last day of work before vacation is a good time for #LastFourWatched. And what a week -- two special screenings most recently, both with the director presenting, plus a classic Varda I've been saving. 📽️
I am overwhelmed. Thank you, Jafar Panahi and @siffnews.bsky.social. 📽️
November 21, 2025 at 5:32 AM
I am overwhelmed. Thank you, Jafar Panahi and @siffnews.bsky.social. 📽️
This, from experience, rings true. I’ll also say that gritting my teeth and having the conversation with a couple of exes helped (and relieved my concerns). I have a couple more of them I’d like to have.
Like I think there are a lot of men out there for whom the last several decades of discourse about consent and structural coercion and all that have begun to register and they’re now kinda queasily uncertain because maybe that ex who divorced them because they “didn’t listen” to her…
November 20, 2025 at 10:15 PM
This, from experience, rings true. I’ll also say that gritting my teeth and having the conversation with a couple of exes helped (and relieved my concerns). I have a couple more of them I’d like to have.
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Toronto friends, you're going to want to go to this. ❤️
This BATVEMBER, Dumpster Raccoon is DELIRIOUSLY PROUD to reprise the legal hot-potato parody that became a searing cult phenomenon, THE PEOPLE’S JOKER – now on a BRAND NEW, FRESHLY STRUCK 35mm print!
November 22nd - and BONUS SUNDAY SCREENING ADDED NOVEMBER 23rd! revuecinema.ca/films/dumpst...
November 22nd - and BONUS SUNDAY SCREENING ADDED NOVEMBER 23rd! revuecinema.ca/films/dumpst...
November 6, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Toronto friends, you're going to want to go to this. ❤️
Hush is real good. You’re gonna think it’s a true crime podcast until you realize it’s about the death of local news, who holds power in small towns and how, and social media. Why yes, these topics do seem related.
@leahsottile.bsky.social is another talented member of our unit. She's an investigative journalist, author, and the co-creator of OPB's new series, "Hush."
Listen now at OPB.org/hush
Listen now at OPB.org/hush
Why was 18-year-old Sarah Zuber found dead 400 feet from her front door? And how is it possible, six years later, that no one knows what happened to her?
Hush, Season 2, "Love Thy Neighbor" — my investigation with @ryanjhaas.bsky.social — starts today.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
Hush, Season 2, "Love Thy Neighbor" — my investigation with @ryanjhaas.bsky.social — starts today.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
November 20, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Hush is real good. You’re gonna think it’s a true crime podcast until you realize it’s about the death of local news, who holds power in small towns and how, and social media. Why yes, these topics do seem related.
Three hours left to pick up a bunch of Over the Edge RPG books, including what I think was my first published freelance RPG work. (It’s short, don’t get too excited.) bundleofholding.com/presents/202...
Over the Edge 2E Bundle
Adventurer! By popular demand we've resurrected (for a third time!) our January 2014 Over the Edge 2E Bundle featuring the 1997 Second Edition of Over the Edge, the acclaimed Atlas Games tabletop role...
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November 20, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Three hours left to pick up a bunch of Over the Edge RPG books, including what I think was my first published freelance RPG work. (It’s short, don’t get too excited.) bundleofholding.com/presents/202...
This is an absolutely stark movie and I recommend hanging out with this crowd to watch it Friday night.
Just two more days until CLEARCUT for #FolkHorrorFriday. Two words: Graham Motherfucking Greene. That's three words, you say? Whatever, join us at 9pm ET on Tubi.
November 20, 2025 at 3:42 AM
This is an absolutely stark movie and I recommend hanging out with this crowd to watch it Friday night.
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November 19, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Oh boy. Well, I very much hope that this is part of a process of self-examination; despite a rough couple of years, SIFF is a Seattle treasure and failure would leave a tremendous hole in Seattle’s culture.
BREAKING: Tom Mara is out as Executive Director at SIFF, closing a tumultuous year for the local arts organization. The news was announced today to staff and a search for a replacement is now set to begin sometime in 2026 📽️
My story for @seattletimes.com: www.seattletimes.com/entertainmen...
My story for @seattletimes.com: www.seattletimes.com/entertainmen...
November 20, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Oh boy. Well, I very much hope that this is part of a process of self-examination; despite a rough couple of years, SIFF is a Seattle treasure and failure would leave a tremendous hole in Seattle’s culture.
NW, Scarecrow Video member screening at the Northwest Film Forum with @smichele.bsky.social: 📽️
November 19, 2025 at 3:23 AM
NW, Scarecrow Video member screening at the Northwest Film Forum with @smichele.bsky.social: 📽️