Chris McLaren
@chrismclaren.com
I do not care to listen; obloquy injures my self-esteem and I am skeptical of praise.
Post your favourite "The Lord Of The Rings" character. Wrong answers only.
December 1, 2025 at 4:48 AM
Post your favourite "The Lord Of The Rings" character. Wrong answers only.
Man, the production designers really nailed this set. Perfection. And by the end of this scene we've sketched out everything we need to know to the audience ready to follow.
Fuck a slow burn, this is all setup in 14 minutes, the snowball already rolling down the hill before the movie even starts.
Fuck a slow burn, this is all setup in 14 minutes, the snowball already rolling down the hill before the movie even starts.
November 30, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Man, the production designers really nailed this set. Perfection. And by the end of this scene we've sketched out everything we need to know to the audience ready to follow.
Fuck a slow burn, this is all setup in 14 minutes, the snowball already rolling down the hill before the movie even starts.
Fuck a slow burn, this is all setup in 14 minutes, the snowball already rolling down the hill before the movie even starts.
Wong, never afraid to commit
November 30, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Wong, never afraid to commit
Just the right amount of detail. Enough to draw us in, and sketch the idea, but not enough to satisfy.
November 30, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Just the right amount of detail. Enough to draw us in, and sketch the idea, but not enough to satisfy.
Mild cognitive dissonance, after recently rewatching the first three seasons of Simon and Simon at AJ with stash appearing right off the top. Quickly balanced out by Pleasance's perfect troubled priest, and then by Victor Wong. Victor just improves everything.
November 30, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Mild cognitive dissonance, after recently rewatching the first three seasons of Simon and Simon at AJ with stash appearing right off the top. Quickly balanced out by Pleasance's perfect troubled priest, and then by Victor Wong. Victor just improves everything.
The gang will be over for Night's Black Agents in 2.5 hours. Surely tonight is the night of katabasis (I've said that the last two sessions).
In the meantime I can definitely slip in a rewatch of an old favourite before thye get here, now that I have the fancy Shout Factory steelcase 4K redo of it…
In the meantime I can definitely slip in a rewatch of an old favourite before thye get here, now that I have the fancy Shout Factory steelcase 4K redo of it…
November 30, 2025 at 9:59 PM
The gang will be over for Night's Black Agents in 2.5 hours. Surely tonight is the night of katabasis (I've said that the last two sessions).
In the meantime I can definitely slip in a rewatch of an old favourite before thye get here, now that I have the fancy Shout Factory steelcase 4K redo of it…
In the meantime I can definitely slip in a rewatch of an old favourite before thye get here, now that I have the fancy Shout Factory steelcase 4K redo of it…
Looking to make some matched donations to Sick Kids right now, and I am wildly angry with Doug Ford and his ilk. White hot fury of 100 suns, etc.
Please stop funneling tax money to developers and instead use it for education and health care. Please.
Please stop funneling tax money to developers and instead use it for education and health care. Please.
November 28, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Looking to make some matched donations to Sick Kids right now, and I am wildly angry with Doug Ford and his ilk. White hot fury of 100 suns, etc.
Please stop funneling tax money to developers and instead use it for education and health care. Please.
Please stop funneling tax money to developers and instead use it for education and health care. Please.
Pitch a movie (or show) with 4 images:
(With the understanding that, as usual, some of these are just for me.)
(With the understanding that, as usual, some of these are just for me.)
November 28, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Pitch a movie (or show) with 4 images:
(With the understanding that, as usual, some of these are just for me.)
(With the understanding that, as usual, some of these are just for me.)
Ooh, might be time for one of my 3-or-4-a-year occasions of slapping this on, and turning it up so loud the bass scares the deer.
November 28, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Ooh, might be time for one of my 3-or-4-a-year occasions of slapping this on, and turning it up so loud the bass scares the deer.
Post something random or you’ll have an awful December.
November 28, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Post something random or you’ll have an awful December.
OK, I've never seen this, and the cast is astonishing.
BUT I am not sure I can take Peter Sellers doing yellowface. Ugh. (And yeah, I know the history of Charlie Chan in Hollywood, doesn't help.)
Apparently I am totally fine with James Cromwell mocking the French (Belgians!) though.
BUT I am not sure I can take Peter Sellers doing yellowface. Ugh. (And yeah, I know the history of Charlie Chan in Hollywood, doesn't help.)
Apparently I am totally fine with James Cromwell mocking the French (Belgians!) though.
November 28, 2025 at 1:55 AM
OK, I've never seen this, and the cast is astonishing.
BUT I am not sure I can take Peter Sellers doing yellowface. Ugh. (And yeah, I know the history of Charlie Chan in Hollywood, doesn't help.)
Apparently I am totally fine with James Cromwell mocking the French (Belgians!) though.
BUT I am not sure I can take Peter Sellers doing yellowface. Ugh. (And yeah, I know the history of Charlie Chan in Hollywood, doesn't help.)
Apparently I am totally fine with James Cromwell mocking the French (Belgians!) though.
You know who I don't see enough of in TV shows lately: Clyde Kusatsu.
I mean he was in A Man On The Inside, but there was a time when he was in every show. (Yes, this is another Simon & Simon rewatch thing.)
I mean he was in A Man On The Inside, but there was a time when he was in every show. (Yes, this is another Simon & Simon rewatch thing.)
November 27, 2025 at 9:53 PM
You know who I don't see enough of in TV shows lately: Clyde Kusatsu.
I mean he was in A Man On The Inside, but there was a time when he was in every show. (Yes, this is another Simon & Simon rewatch thing.)
I mean he was in A Man On The Inside, but there was a time when he was in every show. (Yes, this is another Simon & Simon rewatch thing.)
When you see this, post an image from your gallery to describe your mental health.
November 27, 2025 at 1:43 PM
When you see this, post an image from your gallery to describe your mental health.
Oh, I missed a trick there. Same three lads, better spirits joke.
November 26, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Oh, I missed a trick there. Same three lads, better spirits joke.
Hell, I did buy the "enhanced" version, but a full remaster and gameplay update? In a heartbeat.
November 26, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Hell, I did buy the "enhanced" version, but a full remaster and gameplay update? In a heartbeat.
You’ll be visited by 3 spirits
The three spirits
The three spirits
November 26, 2025 at 2:40 AM
You’ll be visited by 3 spirits
The three spirits
The three spirits
I would really like to see this movie.
Apparently that is impossible.
Hell, at this point, if I could find a good VHS tape I'd pay a pro to digitize it for me.
Apparently that is impossible.
Hell, at this point, if I could find a good VHS tape I'd pay a pro to digitize it for me.
November 25, 2025 at 9:58 PM
I would really like to see this movie.
Apparently that is impossible.
Hell, at this point, if I could find a good VHS tape I'd pay a pro to digitize it for me.
Apparently that is impossible.
Hell, at this point, if I could find a good VHS tape I'd pay a pro to digitize it for me.
Share a reliable character actor.
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Share a reliable character actor.
A movie that takes place where you're from.
November 25, 2025 at 3:55 AM
A movie that takes place where you're from.
On a slight Kunitz kick.
November 25, 2025 at 3:40 AM
On a slight Kunitz kick.
Time-travel dissonance: seeing Sciorra in the Tulsa King finale last night, and now seeing her 33 years ago. Manifestly the same person, but the passage of time highlighted.
November 24, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Time-travel dissonance: seeing Sciorra in the Tulsa King finale last night, and now seeing her 33 years ago. Manifestly the same person, but the passage of time highlighted.
Man, we really missed the boat on a gender-flipped Joker movie in the 90s.
November 24, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Man, we really missed the boat on a gender-flipped Joker movie in the 90s.