Jake Tropila
@jaketropila.bsky.social
Film critic, editor, licensed troubleshooter, problem eliminator. May good luck plumb snow you under.
Now watching NO OTHER CHOICE.
December 6, 2025 at 5:07 AM
Now watching NO OTHER CHOICE.
I just watched the QT Fortnite short “Yuki’s Revenge” and hoo boy! Move over, Four Rooms!
December 6, 2025 at 2:37 AM
I just watched the QT Fortnite short “Yuki’s Revenge” and hoo boy! Move over, Four Rooms!
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New Ep! For our final installment of this year’s Yes Nut November, we genuinely may have crossed a line. We won’t even share what we watched beforehand. Please enjoy, just don’t judge us too harshly.
www.optimismvaccine.com/episode/lets...
www.optimismvaccine.com/episode/lets...
Let's Go to Prison (Yes Nut November 2025) - Optimism Vaccine
THIS WEEK: Don't worry about it. Nothing to see here.
www.optimismvaccine.com
December 5, 2025 at 10:52 PM
New Ep! For our final installment of this year’s Yes Nut November, we genuinely may have crossed a line. We won’t even share what we watched beforehand. Please enjoy, just don’t judge us too harshly.
www.optimismvaccine.com/episode/lets...
www.optimismvaccine.com/episode/lets...
Rest In Peace to the great Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa (seen here in License to Kill)
December 5, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Rest In Peace to the great Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa (seen here in License to Kill)
Reposted by Jake Tropila
New Ep! Our penultimate episode of Yes Nut November includes generous helpings isolation, grief, psychological meltdowns, art house horror, and rectal carrots. We discuss Memories Within Miss Aggie, Through The Looking Glass, and A Woman's Torment. Enjoy.
www.optimismvaccine.com/episode/feel...
www.optimismvaccine.com/episode/feel...
Feel Bad Hardcore (Anti-porn Pornography) - Optimism Vaccine
THIS WEEK: Memories Within Miss Aggie (1974), Through The Looking Glass (1976), A Woman's Torment (1977) It's feel-bad pornography time!
www.optimismvaccine.com
December 5, 2025 at 12:57 AM
New Ep! Our penultimate episode of Yes Nut November includes generous helpings isolation, grief, psychological meltdowns, art house horror, and rectal carrots. We discuss Memories Within Miss Aggie, Through The Looking Glass, and A Woman's Torment. Enjoy.
www.optimismvaccine.com/episode/feel...
www.optimismvaccine.com/episode/feel...
FRANKENSTEIN: I have failed to connect with Del Toro yet again, but I will say that I seem to have enjoyed Oscar Isaac’s mad scientist more than most.
December 4, 2025 at 6:54 AM
FRANKENSTEIN: I have failed to connect with Del Toro yet again, but I will say that I seem to have enjoyed Oscar Isaac’s mad scientist more than most.
GAMERA VS. GUIRON (1969, Noriaki Yuasa): I love this franchise because the plot of any given film can be something like two small boys getting abducted by brain-eating aliens, and then the monster Guiron will show up to casually dismember another kaiju with his giant knife head.
December 4, 2025 at 6:16 AM
GAMERA VS. GUIRON (1969, Noriaki Yuasa): I love this franchise because the plot of any given film can be something like two small boys getting abducted by brain-eating aliens, and then the monster Guiron will show up to casually dismember another kaiju with his giant knife head.
IF I HAD LEGS I’D KICK YOU (2025, Bronstein): The biggest surprise of the year. Like watching a raw nerve get tickled with an ice pick for two hours (complimentary); Rose Byrne, who is typically great, is absolutely tremendous here. And Conan O’Brien’s really good, too.
December 4, 2025 at 4:48 AM
IF I HAD LEGS I’D KICK YOU (2025, Bronstein): The biggest surprise of the year. Like watching a raw nerve get tickled with an ice pick for two hours (complimentary); Rose Byrne, who is typically great, is absolutely tremendous here. And Conan O’Brien’s really good, too.
November 2025
AJ Goes to the Dog Park
Bugonia
Destroy All Monsters
Ebirah, Horror of the Deep
Gamera, The Giant Monster
Gamera vs. Barugon
Gamera vs. Gyaos
Invasion of Astro-Monster
Son of Godzilla
Reflection in a Dead Diamond
Wake Up Dead Man
Warm Water Under a Red Bridge
AJ Goes to the Dog Park
Bugonia
Destroy All Monsters
Ebirah, Horror of the Deep
Gamera, The Giant Monster
Gamera vs. Barugon
Gamera vs. Gyaos
Invasion of Astro-Monster
Son of Godzilla
Reflection in a Dead Diamond
Wake Up Dead Man
Warm Water Under a Red Bridge
December 1, 2025 at 3:07 PM
November 2025
AJ Goes to the Dog Park
Bugonia
Destroy All Monsters
Ebirah, Horror of the Deep
Gamera, The Giant Monster
Gamera vs. Barugon
Gamera vs. Gyaos
Invasion of Astro-Monster
Son of Godzilla
Reflection in a Dead Diamond
Wake Up Dead Man
Warm Water Under a Red Bridge
AJ Goes to the Dog Park
Bugonia
Destroy All Monsters
Ebirah, Horror of the Deep
Gamera, The Giant Monster
Gamera vs. Barugon
Gamera vs. Gyaos
Invasion of Astro-Monster
Son of Godzilla
Reflection in a Dead Diamond
Wake Up Dead Man
Warm Water Under a Red Bridge
The final moment of The Chair Company finale got a big laugh from me. Incredible show.
December 1, 2025 at 6:40 AM
The final moment of The Chair Company finale got a big laugh from me. Incredible show.
Nothing beats watching a film at night with this as the only light source in the room.
December 1, 2025 at 4:34 AM
Nothing beats watching a film at night with this as the only light source in the room.
Happy to contribute some free marketing for The Frida Cinema’s screening of Black Christmas.
November 29, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Happy to contribute some free marketing for The Frida Cinema’s screening of Black Christmas.
GAMERA VS. GYAOS (1967, Noriaki Yuasa): These just keep getting better and better. Aerial dogfights between kaiju, wounds that gush geysers of blood, and Gyaos lasering every single vehicle - helicopter, plane, car, or otherwise - it can lay its eyes on.
November 29, 2025 at 8:27 AM
GAMERA VS. GYAOS (1967, Noriaki Yuasa): These just keep getting better and better. Aerial dogfights between kaiju, wounds that gush geysers of blood, and Gyaos lasering every single vehicle - helicopter, plane, car, or otherwise - it can lay its eyes on.
A legitimately insane thing occurs seven minutes into GAMERA VS. GYAOS (1967):
November 29, 2025 at 5:26 AM
A legitimately insane thing occurs seven minutes into GAMERA VS. GYAOS (1967):
Some personal news: Dalton has discovered yet another cool thing he likes.
November 28, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Some personal news: Dalton has discovered yet another cool thing he likes.
Black Friday Sourdough
November 28, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Black Friday Sourdough
EYES WIDE SHUT: A cautionary tale about why you should never leave the comfort of your own home. The new 4K restoration clears every single previous release. Just so staggeringly beautiful, beginning to end.
November 28, 2025 at 9:06 AM
EYES WIDE SHUT: A cautionary tale about why you should never leave the comfort of your own home. The new 4K restoration clears every single previous release. Just so staggeringly beautiful, beginning to end.
Wife and child asleep. Closing out Thanksgiving on this.
It is accomplished. Had to brave The Grove to get this (still a lot of copies left, L.A. friends), thankfully it wasn’t *too* bad this time of day.
November 28, 2025 at 5:24 AM
Wife and child asleep. Closing out Thanksgiving on this.
GAMERA VS. BARUGON (1966, Shigeo Tanaka): Barugon is a destructive little guy who can shoot rainbows out of his back. It’s actually really awesome.
November 28, 2025 at 5:01 AM
GAMERA VS. BARUGON (1966, Shigeo Tanaka): Barugon is a destructive little guy who can shoot rainbows out of his back. It’s actually really awesome.
WAKE UP DEAD MAN (2025): Doubt it’ll convert any skeptics, but this is handily the strongest of the three. Johnson dials back on his worst instincts (i.e., his chronically online liberalism) to let the crackerjack gothic murder mystery and central reckoning of faith really sing.
November 28, 2025 at 3:26 AM
WAKE UP DEAD MAN (2025): Doubt it’ll convert any skeptics, but this is handily the strongest of the three. Johnson dials back on his worst instincts (i.e., his chronically online liberalism) to let the crackerjack gothic murder mystery and central reckoning of faith really sing.
It is accomplished. Had to brave The Grove to get this (still a lot of copies left, L.A. friends), thankfully it wasn’t *too* bad this time of day.
November 26, 2025 at 10:13 PM
It is accomplished. Had to brave The Grove to get this (still a lot of copies left, L.A. friends), thankfully it wasn’t *too* bad this time of day.
GAMERA, THE GIANT MONSTER (1965, Noriaki Yuasa): Sure, this basically just swaps out a famously radioactive kaiju for a prehistoric fire-breathing turtle, but you cannot deny the analog beauty of his practical effects driven rampage, captured in gorgeous monochromatic Daieiscope.
November 26, 2025 at 4:09 PM
GAMERA, THE GIANT MONSTER (1965, Noriaki Yuasa): Sure, this basically just swaps out a famously radioactive kaiju for a prehistoric fire-breathing turtle, but you cannot deny the analog beauty of his practical effects driven rampage, captured in gorgeous monochromatic Daieiscope.
Dalton and I are now checking out the first Gamera film. Very excited to find out what his deal is.
November 26, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Dalton and I are now checking out the first Gamera film. Very excited to find out what his deal is.
Maybe Trump can convince Vincent Gallo to release Promises Written in Water.
November 25, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Maybe Trump can convince Vincent Gallo to release Promises Written in Water.
“To know death, Otto, you have to fuck life in the gall bladder.”
November 24, 2025 at 2:05 AM
“To know death, Otto, you have to fuck life in the gall bladder.”