Chris Mello
@tangiblegary.bsky.social
Library worker. Mets fan. I write about movies but mostly I just watch them.
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Got tired of all the cutscenes in Wolfenstein 2 so I switched over to Metal Gear Solid 3. Rational decision making
January 27, 2026 at 3:50 PM
Got tired of all the cutscenes in Wolfenstein 2 so I switched over to Metal Gear Solid 3. Rational decision making
Making a point of rewatching stuff I haven’t seen in a while. Like Memories of Murder which I haven’t seen since years before I bought the blu-ray I bought years ago now. Still goes crazy hard
January 27, 2026 at 3:25 AM
Making a point of rewatching stuff I haven’t seen in a while. Like Memories of Murder which I haven’t seen since years before I bought the blu-ray I bought years ago now. Still goes crazy hard
Over at Dim the House Lights, I wrote through my ambivalence about The Bone Temple which continues Garland's ideas forward zombie project but replaces the shock of its predecessor's strong aesthetic with a defining ordinariness.
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28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
After completing its narrative arc with a beautiful display of humane kindness in the face of insurmountable horrors, 28 Years Later ends on a completely bizarre cliffhanger. Having just left Dr. Kels...
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January 26, 2026 at 5:32 PM
Over at Dim the House Lights, I wrote through my ambivalence about The Bone Temple which continues Garland's ideas forward zombie project but replaces the shock of its predecessor's strong aesthetic with a defining ordinariness.
dimthehouselights.com/2026/01/28-y...
dimthehouselights.com/2026/01/28-y...
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The way to reconcile this is their aspiration was always to put down a slave revolt, not fight in one. bsky.app/profile/osit...
We have been told for nearly 30 years that America needed to tolerate mass shootings because the broad availability of guns would help us defend ourselves from an overreaching federal government. That day has come. The people who said this are supporting the federal agents. Many have joined them.
January 24, 2026 at 6:19 PM
The way to reconcile this is their aspiration was always to put down a slave revolt, not fight in one. bsky.app/profile/osit...
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Anyone who is part of the federal government who is not doing everything in their power to stop this administration, regardless of the assumed cost to normalcy or career, is a coward and a collaborator.
January 24, 2026 at 5:07 PM
Anyone who is part of the federal government who is not doing everything in their power to stop this administration, regardless of the assumed cost to normalcy or career, is a coward and a collaborator.
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I'd only add, if you vote to fund ICE, there's no denying that's the mission you're supporting now. You're also complicit
ICE has now carried out two summary executions of innocent people in the streets of an American city.
If you work for ICE, there's no denying that's the mission you're supporting now. You don't get to claim in one year or ten or twenty that you didn't know what ICE was doing. You're complicit.
If you work for ICE, there's no denying that's the mission you're supporting now. You don't get to claim in one year or ten or twenty that you didn't know what ICE was doing. You're complicit.
January 24, 2026 at 4:01 PM
I'd only add, if you vote to fund ICE, there's no denying that's the mission you're supporting now. You're also complicit
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ICE just shot another one of my neighbors. They had the person on the ground, being beaten by several agents, and then fired multiple shots. In front of the donut shop where we like to get donuts for our kids.
January 24, 2026 at 3:46 PM
ICE just shot another one of my neighbors. They had the person on the ground, being beaten by several agents, and then fired multiple shots. In front of the donut shop where we like to get donuts for our kids.
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Excited to share my Best Action Scenes of 2025 roundup for MUBI Notebook. Some great stuff this year.
The following is a thread of GIFs from the scenes I discuss: mubi.com/en/notebook/...
The following is a thread of GIFs from the scenes I discuss: mubi.com/en/notebook/...
The Best Action Scenes of 2025
A survey ranging from blockbuster animation to DTV, Donnie Yen to Ajith Kumar, Germany to Japan.
mubi.com
January 24, 2026 at 1:02 AM
Excited to share my Best Action Scenes of 2025 roundup for MUBI Notebook. Some great stuff this year.
The following is a thread of GIFs from the scenes I discuss: mubi.com/en/notebook/...
The following is a thread of GIFs from the scenes I discuss: mubi.com/en/notebook/...
Never forget Anti-Racist Action was founded by Minneapolis punks
January 24, 2026 at 12:57 AM
Never forget Anti-Racist Action was founded by Minneapolis punks
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Philly been dining out on the Hitchbot thing since 2013 . It’s been decades since they whipped a battery at Santa. The craziest thing they’ve done recently was when that guy ate shit after the Eagles won and that was before COVID. Minneapolis has the belt right now sorry to say.
January 24, 2026 at 12:10 AM
Philly been dining out on the Hitchbot thing since 2013 . It’s been decades since they whipped a battery at Santa. The craziest thing they’ve done recently was when that guy ate shit after the Eagles won and that was before COVID. Minneapolis has the belt right now sorry to say.
Mets broadcast losing DeMarsico honestly stings as bad as Alonso and Díaz. Even as bad as the team got (and wow did they get bad) I was happy to watch them play and see what the SNY team was gonna do this game. Sounds like Mets games are going to look like every other baseball game now. Brutal loss
January 23, 2026 at 3:58 PM
Mets broadcast losing DeMarsico honestly stings as bad as Alonso and Díaz. Even as bad as the team got (and wow did they get bad) I was happy to watch them play and see what the SNY team was gonna do this game. Sounds like Mets games are going to look like every other baseball game now. Brutal loss
Oliver Laxe the first guy to be disinvited from Brazil
January 23, 2026 at 3:16 PM
Oliver Laxe the first guy to be disinvited from Brazil
#LastFourWatched mostly spending time in Hong Kong and various Bone Temples these days
January 23, 2026 at 2:58 PM
#LastFourWatched mostly spending time in Hong Kong and various Bone Temples these days
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the president wont see your posts making fun of how he's looking these days but your friends whose skin seems to be sloughing off in wet discolored chunks as the psychic weight of their craven wretchedness becomes manifest will
January 22, 2026 at 4:27 PM
the president wont see your posts making fun of how he's looking these days but your friends whose skin seems to be sloughing off in wet discolored chunks as the psychic weight of their craven wretchedness becomes manifest will
Lopatin snub is not that surprising. They basically never go for beep boop music except for the one time that they did and the TSN score is a bit less beepy boopy anyway
January 22, 2026 at 4:14 PM
Lopatin snub is not that surprising. They basically never go for beep boop music except for the one time that they did and the TSN score is a bit less beepy boopy anyway
My favorite Rollin getting a nice set from Indicator just a few days before my birthday. How nice
Released on 20 April:
A spillage of toxic waste causes a young woman to rise from the dead with an insatiable taste for blood in...
THE LIVING DEAD GIRL (UK/US)
Limited Edition 4K UHD (World premiere) and Blu-ray
Pre-order now:
🛒 tinyurl.com/2rxwamre
A spillage of toxic waste causes a young woman to rise from the dead with an insatiable taste for blood in...
THE LIVING DEAD GIRL (UK/US)
Limited Edition 4K UHD (World premiere) and Blu-ray
Pre-order now:
🛒 tinyurl.com/2rxwamre
January 22, 2026 at 3:19 PM
My favorite Rollin getting a nice set from Indicator just a few days before my birthday. How nice
Frankenstein and F1 are coworker movies
January 22, 2026 at 2:28 PM
Frankenstein and F1 are coworker movies
Think the Sinners acting noms rock, especially Delroy but Miles Caton is the best performance in the movie
January 22, 2026 at 2:17 PM
Think the Sinners acting noms rock, especially Delroy but Miles Caton is the best performance in the movie
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Rose Byrne is the third actor from Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones to be nominated for an Oscar, after Samuel L. Jackson and Natalie Portman
January 22, 2026 at 2:12 PM
Rose Byrne is the third actor from Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones to be nominated for an Oscar, after Samuel L. Jackson and Natalie Portman
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Listen it's very important that MLB has a salary cap so as to mirror the competitive balance of leagues like the NFL.
Every AFC Championship Game since 2011 has featured either the Patriots or the Chiefs.
January 22, 2026 at 2:03 PM
Listen it's very important that MLB has a salary cap so as to mirror the competitive balance of leagues like the NFL.
cowardly academy still won’t nominate a man made out of chainsaws
2026 Oscar Nominations — Best Animated Film:
• Arco
• Zootopia 2
• KPOP Demon Hunters
• Little Amélie or The Character of Rain
• Elio
See the full nominees list: bit.ly/OscarNoms26
• Arco
• Zootopia 2
• KPOP Demon Hunters
• Little Amélie or The Character of Rain
• Elio
See the full nominees list: bit.ly/OscarNoms26
January 22, 2026 at 1:48 PM
cowardly academy still won’t nominate a man made out of chainsaws
Chi Lewis-Parry in The Bone Temple is like if Elordi was actually as good in Frankenstein as people insist
January 22, 2026 at 1:43 PM
Chi Lewis-Parry in The Bone Temple is like if Elordi was actually as good in Frankenstein as people insist
When I saw Stray Dog at Film Forum years ago there was a class (I think from Hofstra) in attendance. They were fine enough during the movie, but so annoying in the lobby afterwards. Plus they all loudly hated Stray Dog. What the fuck man
To the justifiable discourse about how the repertory cinema experience is degraded by the smirky laughter of filmgoers who don't know how to process their own discomfort, all I can add is that if you're in a theater with a group of college kids who have been ASSIGNED to see a movie, brace yourself.>
January 22, 2026 at 12:54 PM
When I saw Stray Dog at Film Forum years ago there was a class (I think from Hofstra) in attendance. They were fine enough during the movie, but so annoying in the lobby afterwards. Plus they all loudly hated Stray Dog. What the fuck man