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The Film Canary @thefilmcanary.bsky.social · Oct 28

There is only one wrong way to be a fan of something; it's to insist that there's only one right way to be a fan of the thing, and it just so happens to be yours.

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The Film Canary @thefilmcanary.bsky.social · 1h

From their expression, they didn't look happy. Why have them point at the camera though?

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Bouba's Delivery Service @fernmonkey.bsky.social · 1d

My friend Sascha is a professional musician and he's lost a viola bow on the way to Heathrow. Please signal boost to help him get it back.

Lost viola bow on the way from Honor Oak Station to Heathrow Terminal 2. The bow slid from its bow case somewhere along the way, possibly on the train. TFL contacted already.
It weighs 68.2 grams and has got a stamped DODD next to the frog. If any info on this, please pm me.

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Leese on Life @katherineleese.is.tired.fyi · 13h

A Doctor Who pure-historical where the TARDIS breaks down in 1750 BC Mesopotamia; luckily, it’s actually a really simple part to fix as long as they can find someone to sell them some good quality Sumerian copper.

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The Film Canary @thefilmcanary.bsky.social · 10h

October Horror Movie Challenge 2025 19: Blood Tide

I feel cheated; where were Charles Darwin and the Silurians?

boxd.it/blP2lp

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Tammi, yeah, that one. 2.1 @tammi.bsky.social · 13h

I found a 19th century Cat Villain!

A huge chonk of a fluffy cat sitting on a table near an open fire. The cat is cream and grey and appears to be shaped like a barrel in a fur coat. They are scowling fiercely with their moustache and bewhiskered ears apparently flowing back into the cold wind. There's a definite vibe that this villainous cat twirls their moustache as they evict orphans into the aforementioned blizzard and think Scrooge was an easy-going lightweight. They are magnificent.

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The Film Canary @thefilmcanary.bsky.social · 13h

Predator already did it!

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 17h

The "you wouldn't download a car" screen but it reads "you wouldn't scrape all the art ever made and use it to create an Anime titty generator"

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The Film Canary @thefilmcanary.bsky.social · 14h

From the director of M3gan!

Captain Howdy @captainhowdy.bsky.social · 14h

"You cannot punch ectoplasm."

If you enjoy comedy horrors, the overlooked gem 'Housebound' is on BBC2 at 00.50, tonight.

The movie poster for "Housebound" (2014) which shows a slightly unusual family portrait sitting within a weathered wooden frame. The family consists of a smiling mother, a scowling daughter, a somewhat bemused stepfather and a terrifying figure under a stitched sheet with its taloned hand resting on the daughter's shoulder.

The Film Canary @thefilmcanary.bsky.social · 14h

Can you imagine if the end credits after this were done with the cast doing a full Dad's Army/'Allo-Allo!/Hi-De-Hi! style parade montage, with audience applause?

Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 15h

No other film ending has ever gone this hard. Every time this rolls up on-screen I immediately think, “Damn right I have.”

Final shot of SUSPIRIA before the credits roll, which begin with the following:

You have been watching
"SUSPIRIA"

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The Film Canary @thefilmcanary.bsky.social · 15h

Not only is this just utterly wrongheaded readings of both, it doesn't even get basic facts like what colour Luffy's hat is right!

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 21h

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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The Film Canary @thefilmcanary.bsky.social · 15h

If you see this, quote with your favourite Pokémon. (wrong answers only)

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Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 1d

Animation + Dance by Yooonjay.
www.instagram.com/yooonjay

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Alisdair Wood @alisdairwood.bsky.social · 18h

When you get an idea stuck in your head…

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John Rivers @johnrivers.bsky.social · 22h

“Hello, Big Finish?”

Talking Pictures TV @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social · 23h

Worzel is on loan to the vicar for the graveyard... but he is scared!

#JonPertwee #UnaStubbs in 🚜 WORZEL GUMMIDGE (1980) 12:55pm 'Choir Practice' #TPTVsubtitles

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The Film Canary @thefilmcanary.bsky.social · 23h

They try to square it by having things be roughly the shapes they were in the original, but in that they were specifically riffing on the design aesthetic of video games of the time, why would they look like that now? Why the big space invader looking things today?

The Film Canary @thefilmcanary.bsky.social · 23h

I mean, if you did "This program is a living thing that does the task in that world" thing today, they would not look like people; to convey that idea given how programs now work, they would be Biblically Accurate Angels at least.

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Aieee-Iain Clark @iainjclarkart.com · 1d

#Frog #Pratchett

Even its plagues were half-hearted. All self-respecting river kingdoms have vast supernatural plagues, but the best the Old Kingdom had been able to achieve in the last hundred years was the Plague of the Frog*.

*It was quite a big frog, however, and got into the air ducts and kept everyone awake for weeks.

‘Pyramids’- Terry Pratchett

The Portland Frog, a person in a frog costume facing a mass of ICE agents in comvat gear.

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The Film Canary @thefilmcanary.bsky.social · 23h

Wouldst thou like to live deliciously?

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Alex Kain @tdcpresents.bsky.social · 1d

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@DrJoePajak CSci CChem FRSC @drjoepajak.bsky.social · 1d

Data for England show COVID levels increasing.
Little likelihood that these data have peaked yet.
Issues?
🛑Limited testing
🛑Waning immunity
🛑Low priority by leaders
🛑Limited vaccine eligibility
🛑Scant use of face coverings
🛑HCAIs in healthcare settings
🛑Mixing in poorly ventilated, cramped spaces.

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Elephant Mastodon @emath.bsky.social · 1d

Come on, where is a company like MARVEL supposed to find human artists who can do superheroes on a tight turnaround?

Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 1d

Guess I’m not watching WonderMan.

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Marvel employees were asked whether the 'WONDER MAN' poster for the in-universe movie was created using Al.
"Its artwork made by artists but touched up by Al," which was clarified with "so, really Al-assisted Photoshop work," and the response was "yes."
(via: searcher_gold | X)

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 1d

Watching Piers Morgan drag out the “what is a woman” question with Zack Polanski and using it to try and diminish Polanski and then reminded that Morgan’s allyship to women stretches all the way to calling Mohammed Al Fayed “a bit of a rascal”

www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...

Mohamed Al Fayed may have raped and abused at least 111 women and girls, say police

Scale of criminality would make Fayed, who died last year at the age of 94, one of Britain’s most notorious sex offenders

www.theguardian.com

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 1d

My grand theory is that 6.5 is the ideal rating on IMDb for an interesting movie because it means it alienated idiots. If you’d like proof: Almost every Kiyoshi Kurosawa movie is rated between 6.3-6.9.

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The Film Canary @thefilmcanary.bsky.social · 1d

So sorry for your loss.