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Gavin G Whiz - Video Essayist?

@loveatra.in

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Podcast journalist, editor, train nerd, unapologetically trans and queer. Will likely rant about a movie or Discworld at some point. Ride or die physical media defender. 35 (they/them).

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Gavin G Whiz - Video Essayist? @loveatra.in · 28d

'tis the first night of #Hooptober12. I've got my popcorn, a stack of movies, it's time to get lost in horror.

Picture of a stainless steel mixing bowl full of popcorn dusted orange with flavocol salt

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Gavin G Whiz - Video Essayist? @loveatra.in · 4h

The value prop for generative AI tools has become "Hey, remember that video company in the 90s that'd put a PNG of your child's face on a pre-animated cartoon character who hangs out with Batman? What if that looked a little bit better but also made Memphis unlivable?"

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 1d

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

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Gavin G Whiz - Video Essayist? @loveatra.in · 4h

Still baffles me that, even if she had the hots for an 18 year old who'd JUST voted for Trump, she thought a woman with a mortgage who commutes to campus and barely uses the internet was a good counterpoint to teens on Snapchat in literal college, living on campus.

Gavin G Whiz - Video Essayist? @loveatra.in · 4h

When I was in college every February the school paper would do a "sex issue" for Valentine's Day week.

Front page story: a piece on unsolicited dick pics. Except the writer found a 40-something who didn't care. She both-sides'd dick pics.

Wild to see that same mistake on a larger scale.

GQ @gqmagazine.bsky.social · 1d

Is hard-right streamer Nick Fuentes winning over women on the left? Writer Katherine Dee investigates www.gq.com/story/nick-f...

Is Nick Fuentes Winning Over Women on the Left?

There are the Tumblr “Nickstorians” and sincere fanfics. But are young, liberal, possibly irony-poisoned women fetishizing or even falling for the hard-right streamer with the “groyper” following? Wri...

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Gavin G Whiz - Video Essayist? @loveatra.in · 4h

Damn you Lionsgate, focusing all your time on being weirdly the best studio about re-releasing blurays of old movies at decent prices.

We want more (good) slop, on occasion.

Gavin G Whiz - Video Essayist? @loveatra.in · 5h

Oh no doubt, but I love finding little niche communities of "has anyone seen this thing" and seeing what people remember/want from it.

e.g. the rando theater nerd Facebook group post asking about it back in 2020

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Gavin G Whiz - Video Essayist? @loveatra.in · 6h

It'll be synergistic

Gavin G Whiz - Video Essayist? @loveatra.in · 6h

Wow, it legitimately is only available to rent on an Australian streaming service

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Gavin G Whiz - Video Essayist? @loveatra.in · 6h

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Gavin G Whiz - Video Essayist? @loveatra.in · 6h

I feel like I'm watching a parallel universe version of Black Check die in the cocoon before it finishes metamorphosing from its infant The Phantom Podcast stage (this joke will make sense to four people and I'm fine with that)

Gaius (from Tribunate) @gaius.bsky.social · Aug 18

Sad news everyone, I’m officially pulling the plug on Brightsiders, my super fan podcast for the 2017 movie Bright. I still feel like there were many interesting topics left to discuss but after 7 years of weekly episodes I’ve learned that no one has ever listened to the show.

Gavin G Whiz - Video Essayist? @loveatra.in · 6h

The queer version of that 2012 phenomenon of nerds, having seen Stan Lee have a speaking role in Avengers, realizing they thought he died five years prior.

Gavin G Whiz - Video Essayist? @loveatra.in · 16h

Hooptober movie 21/31:

THE CONSPIRACY (2012)

Some Canadians watched a couple Alex Jones videos and decided to try their hand at a found footage conspiracy movie. It's more fun the less you know about conspiracy theorists.

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A ★★★ review of The Conspiracy (2012)

This is what happens when you let Canadians watch a single Alex Jones DVD. I'm not joking, this REEKS of the director having watched Jones' goofy documentary from 2000 where he ran around in the woods...

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Gavin G Whiz - Video Essayist? @loveatra.in · 16h

Like, come on dudes. You can't mention Bohemian Grove by name early in the movie if your big final act is the protagonist replicating the time Alex Jones infiltrated Bohemian Grove, just with an end-of-movie ante-upping.

Gavin G Whiz - Video Essayist? @loveatra.in · 16h

I'm watching a conspiracy theory horror movie gussied up as found footage documentary and am horrified to realize I know too much about actual conspiracy theories and cane see through their bush-league attmept to create a new unifying secret society.

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Gavin G Whiz - Video Essayist? @loveatra.in · 16h

It's so rare that I both have a lot of fun with a movie AND it has great behind-the-scenes stuff these days.

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im ganon/ganna (beautiful woman mode) @cdiganon.bsky.social · 17h

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Gavin G Whiz - Video Essayist? @loveatra.in · 18h

New video! To balance out the karma of talking about a bad ghost hunter for 2 hours, I've got a much shorter video breaking down 12 Halloweeny bits of entertainment you should have in your annual rotation.

youtu.be/4ik4ypmWOqM

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Gavin G Whiz - Video Essayist? @loveatra.in · 1d

It's like his career is Benjamin Button-ing where he got the actual prestige parts early and has been devolving backwards into playing characters that neither want nor need a "prestige" actor.

Gavin G Whiz - Video Essayist? @loveatra.in · 1d

Lest we forget, Pegg's been doing this shit for years. When he's been asked why he's cool with his meal ticket being a movie franchise run by The Face of Scientology, Pegg basically shrugged and used the "what you do in your bedroom is your business" excuse as to why he doesn't ever challenge Cruise

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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 1d

Bastion from X-Men 97, explaining why most people will happily go along with persecution and genocide: "Because when your skin's not in the game, apathy's your answer."

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Gavin G Whiz - Video Essayist? @loveatra.in · 1d

Hooptober movie 20/31:

BLACKENSTEIN (1973)

Oofa-doofta.

letterboxd.com/gavingwhiz/f...

A ★½ review of Blackenstein (1973)

Just a... resounding... thundering lack of the core components needed to make a movie. Truly the perfect example of why you don't put someone paying for an exploitation picture in charge of creative d...

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Gavin G Whiz - Video Essayist? @loveatra.in · 1d

The mouthfeel is like a pork rind, which in its own way might make this an excellent weaning-off-another-snack option.

Gavin G Whiz - Video Essayist? @loveatra.in · 1d

They smell like pizza-flavored Combos so we're off to a good start.

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Gavin G Whiz - Video Essayist? @loveatra.in · 1d

Let's try the Legendary Foods brand pizza-flavored popped protein chips

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Gavin G Whiz - Video Essayist? @loveatra.in · 2d

I still have probably an hour or so's worth of deciding on backgrounds, music, and putting attribution text on all the clips used but the core content of my "Halloweeny stuff you should try" recommendation video is good.

It just also happens to have ended up 34 minutes long 😅

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Gavin G Whiz - Video Essayist? @loveatra.in · 2d

Lorraine Bracco saying "a television set" in The Sopranos in 1999 makes her sound like she's stepped through a portal from the 1950s.