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Douglas Davidson
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Douglas Davidson @elmntsofmadness.bsky.social · 19h
Last month, 20th Century Studios released a 4K UHD remaster of EDWARD SCISSORHANDS on physical and digital.

No new supplemental materials; just remastered with Dolby Vision and Atmos.

Let’s get into it. #filmsky
“Edward Scissorhands” gets the Dolby treatment in a first-time 4K UHD restoration.
Edward Scissorhands, Tim Burton, Caroline Thompson, Johnny Depp, Winona Ryder, Dianne Wiest, Anthony Michael Hall, romance, fantasy, drama, 20th Century Studios, home release, home video, 4K UHD, res...
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LucasFilm: Muppet Star Wars

Marvel: Squirrel Girl

Warner Bros: Batgirl (just finish it)

Paramount: Star Trek Lower Decks - The Movie

Universal - Key and Peele Meet the Universal Monsters

Blumhouse: Twelve Days of Purge-mas

Lionsgate: A Very Step Up Wedding

Pixar: The Queerest. Movie. EVER.
benjaminkabak.com Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 14h
If you were a despotic president, what movie would you force Hollywood to make? I want to see Quentin's Star Trek movie or maybe Kill Bill Vol 3.
November 25, 2025 at 8:34 PM
elmntsofmadness.bsky.social
Good price on a lovely film. I listen to the three original tracks that feature within it all the time.
wario64.bsky.social Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 11h
The Colors Within: Limited Edition Steelbook Blu-ray is $10.99 on Amazon buff.ly/Ejx2x9i #ad
November 25, 2025 at 9:20 PM
elmntsofmadness.bsky.social
My Mom needs a power cable for an Apple TV she’s never used, yet removed from the box & knows not where the parts are.

I call the local store & the AI assistant sends me to tech support who sends me to sales.

The sales rep tried to sell me an HDMI cable w/ a USB-C charger adapter.

WTH.
a man wearing a leopard print sweater is looking at the camera .
Alt: a man wearing a leopard print sweater is looking at the camera .
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November 25, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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markharris.bsky.social
This is disgraceful toadying to someone who could well be dead, out of office, or both by the time this reanimated corpse knuckle-drags itself to the screen. Some context: Ratner directed the state-approved Melania doc that is coming to Prime, so he's now a friend of The Family. >
mattbelloni.bsky.social Matt Belloni @mattbelloni.bsky.social · 15h
I teased this last night in What I’m Hearing but now confirmed: Paramount WILL release Rush Hour 4 after prodding from Trump on behalf of Brett Ratner. Distribution deal. Producer Tarak Ben Ammar is lining up financing. Get ready for the dumbest possible state-controlled media.
November 25, 2025 at 5:59 PM
elmntsofmadness.bsky.social
The more I sit with this, the more I like how unclean it is, how it explores regrets.
November 25, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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READ: Member Michelle Swope (@redheadfrommars.bsky.social) reviews the 4K release of #thebreakfastclub for Elements of Madness (@elmntsofmadness.bsky.social):

elementsofmadness.com/2025/11/18/t...
John Hughes’s nostalgic, honest portrayal of teenage life in the 1980s,“The Breakfast Club,” is now available on 4K UHD and Blu-ray Combo Special Edition from The Criterion Collection.
The Breakfast Club, John Hughes, Emilio Estevez, Paul Gleason, Anthony Michael Hall, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald, Ally Sheedy, drama, comedy, Criterion Collection, Universal Pictures, home video, 4K…
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November 25, 2025 at 3:01 PM
elmntsofmadness.bsky.social
Last month, 20th Century Studios released a 4K UHD remaster of EDWARD SCISSORHANDS on physical and digital.

No new supplemental materials; just remastered with Dolby Vision and Atmos.

Let’s get into it. #filmsky
“Edward Scissorhands” gets the Dolby treatment in a first-time 4K UHD restoration.
Edward Scissorhands, Tim Burton, Caroline Thompson, Johnny Depp, Winona Ryder, Dianne Wiest, Anthony Michael Hall, romance, fantasy, drama, 20th Century Studios, home release, home video, 4K UHD, res...
elementsofmadness.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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priscillapage.bsky.social
for anyone in LA struggling to find a Wake Up Dead Man screening with a Q&A that hasn't already sold out, the Egyptian added two more next week (Dec 2 & 3, 7:00 pm) that miraculously still have some good seats left.
egyptianla.bsky.social Egyptian Theatre LA @egyptianla.bsky.social · 5d
WAKE UP DEAD MAN opens Nov 25 on 35mm!

Be here opening night when the 10:15PM show will have an intro by Academy Award®-nominated filmmaker @rianjohnson.bsky.social & composer Nathan Johnson

egyptiantheatre.com/film/wake-up...
November 25, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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punkrockscience.bsky.social
Today’s xkcd made me cry.

In a good way.

xkcd.com/3172/
November 24, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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Making this the 🧵 for publicity appearances for POPCORN DISABILITIES. Be sure to bookmark to find out where I'm going to be in promoting the book and the various great people who have allowed me to talk about the movie this month.
November 8, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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rianjohnson.bsky.social
UK FRIENDS! Here’s the theater finder site for #WakeUpDeadMan in UK theaters 🇬🇧🎟️ uk.wakeupdeadmanfilm.com
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery | Official Website | 27 November 2025
Watch the trailer, find screenings & book tickets for Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery on the official site. In cinemas 27 November 2025 brought to you by Netflix. Directed by: Rian Johnson. Sta...
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November 24, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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RIP Udo Kier.
November 24, 2025 at 12:23 AM
elmntsofmadness.bsky.social
From #TIFF50, EoM Contributor @dubsreviews.bsky.social investigates the latest entry in the Benoit Blanc mystery series from filmmaker Rian Johnson & lead actor Daniel Craig: WAKE UP DEAD MAN.

Back to New York, this time in a small town, truth and faith collide.

In select theaters 11/26. #filmsky
“Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery” hosts another stellar cast with a less luminous mystery. [TIFF]
Wake Up Dead Man, Rian Johnson, Daniel Craig, Josh O’Connor, Glenn Close, Josh Brolin, Mila Kunis, Jeremy Renner, Kerry Washington, Andrew Scott, Cailee Spaeny, Daryl McCormack, Thomas Haden Church, ...
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November 24, 2025 at 12:35 PM
elmntsofmadness.bsky.social
In a nutshell.
November 24, 2025 at 1:55 AM
elmntsofmadness.bsky.social
Tonight I catch up with HIM.

Full home release review coming soon. #HIM
Image of the menu screen for the movie HIM. The right has a list of bonus features with background stills. The left has the promo image of the main character standing arms apart with a football in each hand and menu options at the bottom.
November 24, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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nihilist-arbys.bsky.social
Inside you, there are two wolves. Outside of you, there are like millions of wolves. Good luck with those odds.

Eat arbys
October 7, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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seen on WT Harris in E Charlotte
Sign reading "he sold you flowers and ICE took him."
November 23, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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rianjohnson.bsky.social
PROFESSIONAL ACTORS PREPARING
3 days till we hit theaters. See my pinned post for a theater finder link!
#WakeUpDeadMan
November 23, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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andrewjeisenman.bsky.social
For the late night crowd
November 23, 2025 at 4:03 AM
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thehorrorchick.bsky.social
Just sharing this again...I'm like 30 subscribers away from my goal for 2025 (free & paid). With losing my part-time job, I'd love to be able to focus on what I love while I figure out the rest. Any shares/subs would very much be appreciated. Thanks. 🖤
thehorrorchick.bsky.social Heatherface Wixson @thehorrorchick.bsky.social · 5d
Anyway, in the wake of the job loss news, I just wanted to share my site because I’d love to get up to 365 subscribers for the year (free & paid) & if you dig what I do, maybe you’ll want to upgrade your subscription someday: from-the-desk-of-the-horror-chick.ghost.io

Shares appreciated- thx!
From the Desk of The Horror Chick
Heather Wixson explores horror, film, and pop culture, all while celebrating the creators, history, and artistry that keep the genre alive.
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November 23, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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andrewjeisenman.bsky.social
I’m warmer on WICKED FOR GOOD than most people, but I still think it’s got massive problems. Full review at Elements of Madness:
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elementsofmadness.com/2025/11/22/w...
"Wicked: For Good" stays too close to the source material to gain any real altitude. BY ANDREW J. EISENMAN on NOVEMBER 22, 2025 • Ф (0) It's common wisdom that all the good songs of Wicked (2003) are in the first half. But if the majority of songs in the anti-fascist melodrama of Act 2 were as silly and energetic as "Dancing Through Life," the whole of the play wouldn't work. Audiences would rightfully cry foul at a musical that doesn't take its issues seriously, which is how I felt about the first film. Last year, Wicked's timely election-month release saw director John M. Chu (Wicked; In the Heights) discuss the post-Reagan book and post-9/11 play as openly political works about America in transition. Where the first film's songbook neatly captures the naivete of coming of age politically and personally in college, the emotional narrative of the dialogue scenes never catches up with the emotional throughline of the songs. This time however, both are locked in, as is Chu. 6:34 • 5G 49) In the year since we last saw them, the students of Shiz University have lost all naivete, save for Elphaba and Ariana Grande's (Don't Look Up; Zoolander 2) Galinda. Their humanizing encounter with The Wizard has left them both hopeful that either exposure or lobbying can convince the powerful man to change his ways. But Jonathan Bailey's (Fellow Travelers; Jurassic World Rebirth) Fiyero, Ethan Slater's (I'm "George Lucas": A Connor Ratliff Story; Wicked) Boq and Marissa Bode's (Wicked) Nessarose have been beaten down by living in unprecedented times. Fiyero, in particular, has lost his spark, the events in the last movie leaving him steely, reserved, and determined to act the hero for the regime in order to undermine it. Boq has become the bitter bystander to Nessarose's slide into fascism, socia trapped by his own lie of affection in the last film. The greatest weakness of Wicked: For Good is not the songbook, but the decision to only expand existing scenes. Slater's performance is so much more interesting than his first that it's maddening that we don't get to see Boq and Fiyero talk to each other at least once in the third act. Colman Domingo (The Running Man; Sing Sing) also joins the cast as the Cowardly Lion, but he's barely distinguishable with his limited lines. Newcomer Bethany Weaver sounds good as the infamous Dorothy, but you never get to see her face. "If I can make them believe that everything he says is a lie." ≥ = @ elementsofmadness.com
November 22, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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"Elphaba and Glinda will return in AVENGERS: SECRET WARS."
November 22, 2025 at 11:17 PM
elmntsofmadness.bsky.social
Capping my day of film watching with an upcoming new release from @filmsradiance.bsky.social: Kim Soo-yong’s “Splendid Outing.”

Full home restoration review coming by the release date, Tuesday, December 9th. #RadianceFilms
Image of the menu screen for the film SPLENDID OUTING. Features the title and menu options on the left and the image of a women’s face in profile merging with the facade of a building on the right.
November 22, 2025 at 12:21 AM
elmntsofmadness.bsky.social
I’ve been entrenched in FYC season for months now, but with so many digital titles offered, it rarely feels real. Now, it does.

Seen more of these titles than normal by now, but looking forward to catching up with the rest. 🤘 #NEON #FYC2025
Image of a hand holding a boxset of films distributed by NEON. The box is black with white text stating, “NEON YEAR IX”
November 21, 2025 at 8:09 PM