Here's the clip where I majorly flub a hint from @benverschoor.bsky.social on his film accompaniment to EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert.
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Here's the clip where I majorly flub a hint from @benverschoor.bsky.social on his film accompaniment to EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert.
youtube.com/shorts/vJV_P...
Forgot to upload this segment where I do a spoof of Andrew Ryan's introduction to Rapture speech to introduce my accompanying film for "Wuthering Heights": When Harry Met Sally...
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Here's the clip where I majorly flub a hint from @benverschoor.bsky.social on his film accompaniment to EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert.
youtube.com/shorts/vJV_P...
This week @benverschoor.bsky.social and I rock out to EPiC from Baz Luhrmann but begin with a Bruce Campbell horror/comedy, a documentary that captured a killing on film, and of course get a little into Luhrmann's oeuvre.
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Former LA Times managing editor @sarayasin.bsky.social launches The Key, a new publication about Palestine that will be "a home for journalists who have had their stories spiked in mainstream outlets."
Her opening essay is worth every second of your time: www.thekeymagazine.com/p/western-jo...
This week @benverschoor.bsky.social and I rock out to EPiC from Baz Luhrmann but begin with a Bruce Campbell horror/comedy, a documentary that captured a killing on film, and of course get a little into Luhrmann's oeuvre.
miseenscreen.libsyn.com/episode-34-e...
I was invited to participate in Women Writers Week at the Ebert website, and I wrote about Isabella Rossellini's performance in BLUE VELVET, and how she helped guide the film into its dark and mysteries places.
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Scorsese has always been captivated by what can be expected of a person, and how a person may or may not live up to a personal moral code. It is dialectic that runs throughout the entirety of his work. Scorsese made a few films prior to Mean Streets in 1973, but the course was set for him ever since Harvey Keitel’s gangster character in that film got on his knees and prayed for guidance. Scorsese seems to always come back to the question of whether or not a man can ever truly be good, and he has wavered back and forth with his answer. Jake LaMotta punched his way into an animalistic state in Raging Bull (1980) in pursuit of it, Christ nearly failed when he was given the task of weighing our qualities against his crucifixion in The Last Temptation of Christ, and we are shown to be merciless and not worthy of such a sacrifice in Killers of the Flower Moon’s portrait of aboriginal genocide within an American community. Scorsese is probably American cinema’s greatest chronicler of the post-world war II era, and he has remained vital because his questions have remained personal, even when they’ve become maximalist in his final years, and he has begun to grapple with centuries of violence. I don’t believe he has much faith in the collective body of mankind, but I think a hope remains in his films that one man can do one good thing on any given day, and that it can matter a great deal to put in the effort to try. In his adaptation of “Silence” there are many examples of this happening, and they are among some of the most moving and profound moments in the picture. He finds God in hopeless places, between men clasping each others palms, in acts of mercy, and in the sacrifice of identity for the sake of another person’s safety.
a still image from SILENCE of Andrew Garfield praying in the foreground and Shinya Tsukamoto praying in the background
I wrote about Martin Scorsese's SILENCE for my readers choice series and wrestled with its many questions of faith.
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Wrote a bit about Resident Evil Requiem and how it's part of a long-term horror trend of reboots and re-visitations which are more nostalgic than terrifying.
05.03.2026 17:00 — 👍 41 🔁 16 💬 3 📌 4My partner and I played so much New Leaf trading the 3DS between us for portions of the day and writing letters to each other, it was lovely. We occasionally pick it back up post-New Horizons because that one was too much busywork.
05.03.2026 16:21 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
This week @benverschoor.bsky.social and I rock out to EPiC from Baz Luhrmann but begin with a Bruce Campbell horror/comedy, a documentary that captured a killing on film, and of course get a little into Luhrmann's oeuvre.
miseenscreen.libsyn.com/episode-34-e...
BREAKING: We've freed Cookie.
Following an investigation by VGHF, Ukie and Web Capio have suspended DMCA takedowns for Cookie's Bustle on behalf of Graceware, SL.
More info:
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The secretive company filling video game sites with gambling and AI
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On this week's episode of Mise en Screen @benverschoor.bsky.social and I tear into "Wuthering Heights" but begin with a discussion on Freddy Got Fingered, its initial reception, and legacy.
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On this week's episode of Mise en Screen @benverschoor.bsky.social and I tear into "Wuthering Heights" but begin with a discussion on Freddy Got Fingered, its initial reception, and legacy.
miseenscreen.libsyn.com/episode-33-w...
Resident Evil Requiem’s great first impressions and rock solid gameplay are undermined by some questionable story and pacing choices in the game’s second half.
Despite this, @stopcar.ing finds there is plenty of life left in this corpse in their review.
oh god I cannot list the number of times I've thought of referencing something but it is absolutely impossible to find unless you knew the precise combination of words to search in quotes and now everyone's old twitters are justifiably deleted anyway so its all gone.
26.02.2026 00:22 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I had to stop watching because I am playing through Cairn myself and want to write about it and will def be revisiting and quoting Jay when I do.
25.02.2026 23:42 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I was thinking recently how long it has been since doing a direct response to a piece of games writing and lo and behold something got me worked up enough to post.
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A drawing of Shinji floating in the air
Neon Genesis Evangelion
Episode 26
The Beast that Shouted "I" at the Heart of the World
Take Care of Yourself
I wrote about a different Disco Elysium like than the one everyone is talking about...
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Seeing a lot of Caves of Qud chatter on the TL, so it’s the perfect time to re-share what is probably the best piece of writing I’ve ever done.
My essay deconstructing CoQ’s water ritual:
Absolutely criminal that the 80th Academy Awards gave three best song nominations to Enchanted but couldn't spare one for this absurd banger from Southland Tales, performed by by Sarah Michelle Geller's porn star-turned-pop-musician-talkshow-pundit Krysta Now
23.02.2026 03:10 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
This week @benverschoor.bsky.social and I have experienced probably the worst movie of our lives thus far and go hard on it and its maker, but the episode is saved by the excellent The Secret Agent and our discussion of that grand film.
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27 years today since the passing of Gene Siskel. Most prefer/quote Ebert since he was a prolific blogger up until his death in 2013 but I've always had a preference for Siskel (and not just because of the mustache of his youth).
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Our first review is for a film famously named "the worst movie directed by a pedophile since X-Men Apocalypse." By letterboxd user Jiheishou
20.02.2026 00:28 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0And then a fourth "we're not 100% about this one but needed to meet demand"
20.02.2026 01:16 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Our first review is for a film famously named "the worst movie directed by a pedophile since X-Men Apocalypse." By letterboxd user Jiheishou
20.02.2026 00:28 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0