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Jedidiah Ayres @maybejed.bsky.social · 1h

My TV/movie viewing was strictly curbed as a kid which meant that I was obsessed with stuff I was not allowed to see and had to base my opinions of on the rare TV advertisements I'd catch watching sports. For this reason stuff like KRULL and ICE PIRATES resonated as much as STAR WARS or MAD MAX

Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 2h

Krull is on Tubi. Far from a great film, but with the Superman, the Movie guy handling VFX & Cronenberg's cinematographer on 10 movies shooting it, it's a feast for the eyes. Initially forgot who did the score but instantly thought "this sounds like James Horner recycling himself," and yeah, it was.

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Jedidiah Ayres @maybejed.bsky.social · 2h

CRIMINAL LAW #milknoir

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Jedidiah Ayres @maybejed.bsky.social · 3h

Gary Oldman had pretty close to the same hairdo in CRIMINAL LAW as in DRACULA

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Jedidiah Ayres @maybejed.bsky.social · 3h

1000 movies so far in 2025

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Jedidiah Ayres @maybejed.bsky.social · 4h

(2010) THE TEMPEST - Julie Taymor

Was shocked to learn I'd missed a whole-ass Julie Taymor Shakespeare adaptation, but afterward I understand why nobody was clamoring to get more eyes on it. A few fun small touches aside, it's no TITUS

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Jedidiah Ayres @maybejed.bsky.social · 4h

Legally required to repost this dumb list every time it gets liked on letterboxd.

This dumb fucking list has 4 likes letterboxd.com/jedidiahayre...

Listen... No big deal, but please don't tell mom the babysitter's dead

Listen, no big deal but please don't tell mom the babysitter's dead. I know it's kind of a funny story. I don't want to talk about it now. Just don't tell mom. Nobody snitch. Seriously, what's wrong w...

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Jedidiah Ayres @maybejed.bsky.social · 4h

I'd still pick it up if I saw it in a used bookstore. Gotta have em all.

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Jedidiah Ayres @maybejed.bsky.social · 4h

Great haul (though ASK THE PARROT is the only Stark/Parker book I quit reading ... haven't read all of them)

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Jedidiah Ayres @maybejed.bsky.social · 15h

We also had the entire theater to ourselves

Jedidiah Ayres @maybejed.bsky.social · 21h

I feel tingly!

Jedidiah Ayres @maybejed.bsky.social · 22h

When he turned 5 I took my son to see TRON: LEGACY for his birthday and it blew his wee mind. Visited him at school this weekend and for his 20th birthday there was no way we weren't seeing TRON: ARES if seeing TRON: ARES was an option. We enjoyed it

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Jedidiah Ayres @maybejed.bsky.social · 22h

Love CROSS OF IRON though I tend to think of it as PATHS OF GLORY with tons of explosions. Put it on the list

Andrew Nette @pulpcurry.bsky.social · 1d

CROSS OF IRON (1977). Think THE WILD BUNCH on the Russian front with even more slow motion action. Peckinpah shifts between Nazisploitation & diamond hard anti war film. Coburn supported by a great cast, Mason, Warner & Schell. Definitely deserves a place on my war is noir film list: boxd.it/v8kuQ

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Jedidiah Ayres @maybejed.bsky.social · 2d

On Elmore Leonard's 100th birthday here's me talking with Mike White and Rob St. Mary on @projectionbooth.bsky.social about 3:10 TO YUMA www.projectionboothpodcast.com/2024/02/epis...

Episode 671: 3:10 to Yuma (1957)

Western Month continues with Delmer Daves’s 3:10 to Yuma (1957) which tells the tale of,outlaw Ben Wade (Glenn Ford) and Dan Evans (Van Heflin).

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Jedidiah Ayres @maybejed.bsky.social · 2d

On Elmore Leonard's 100th birthday, here's me and Jen Johans talking about the westerns based on his books and scripts on @watchwithjen.bsky.social www.patreon.com/posts/watch-...

Watch With Jen - S4: E37 - Elmore Leonard's Westerns with Jed Ayres | Jen Johans of Film Intuition & Watch With Jen™️

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Jedidiah Ayres @maybejed.bsky.social · 2d

Had a big crush on Diane Keaton as a youngster and her qualities continue to reveal themselves to middle aged me. Most recently in the incredibly stacked cast of HARRY AND WALTER GO TO NEW YORK

Jedidiah Ayres @maybejed.bsky.social · 2d

Hey spooky book fans, my man @johnhornor.bsky.social will be at The Lobby on Delmar today at 4pm with books made available from The Novel Neighbor

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John Hornor Jacobs | The Night That Finds Us All | The Novel Neighbor

Discover your next favorite book at The Novel Neighbor, an independent bookstore and community space in St. Louis, MO. Where books, art and people meet.

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Jedidiah Ayres @maybejed.bsky.social · 2d

(2009) THE SLAMMIN SALMON - Kevin Heffernan

I liked SUPER TROOPERS and CLUB DREAD back when they were new, but for some reason I quit keeping up with those Broken Lizard boys. My fucking loss. In the last year I've caught up with a few previously unseen and turns out they're very much for me

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Jedidiah Ayres @maybejed.bsky.social · 2d

I missed the Friday thing

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Jedidiah Ayres @maybejed.bsky.social · 2d

You WANT to hear @sgj.bsky.social talk about werewolf movies and lore on this episode... and of course you want to read MONGRELS

Projection Booth Podcast @projectionbooth.bsky.social · 2d

Celebrate the #31DaysOfHalloween with the Projection Booth podcast about Wolfen www.projectionboothpodcast.com/2019/10/epis...

Episode 437: Wolfen (1981)

#Shocktober2019 continues with a look at the 1981 movie from director Michael Wadleigh, Wolfen. Based loosely on the 1978 book by Whitley Streiber, the film stars Albert Finney as Dewey Wilson, a world weary New York City cop who is assigned the macabre murder of a real estate mogul.

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Jedidiah Ayres @maybejed.bsky.social · 3d

Loved the cut in E3 going from a McLachlan scene to Hawke pretending to be "agent Cooper" of Fish and Wildlife

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Jedidiah Ayres @maybejed.bsky.social · 3d

I did see Allison Anders' RING OF FIRE, but don't remember him in it... I mention TORQUE because apparently that's the next most recently made movie I've seen him in

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Jedidiah Ayres @maybejed.bsky.social · 3d

Great to see John Doe pop up in THE LOWDOWN, but it was distracting trying to figure out who he was. Sometime in the last 20 years since TORQUE he turned into gnarly badass Beau Bridges

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Jedidiah Ayres @maybejed.bsky.social · 3d

Alright

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Jedidiah Ayres @maybejed.bsky.social · 4d

HAIR COMES THE BRIDE

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Jedidiah Ayres @maybejed.bsky.social · 4d

Future episodes of the BRING ME THE HAIR OF ANDY GARCIA! podcast would definitely include 8 MILLION WAYS TO DIE, CLINTON AND NADINE, HOODLUM and BIG GOLD BRICK - that's amazing hair-acting range!

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