@tjamesdobbin.bsky.social
I write about Bugs Bunny cartoons and other facets of old animation along with general cinema interests at www.strawberrypenguin.ca . I am based in Atlantic Canada, where it is very cold and very windy.
I interviewed Jessica Henwick!
Yes, I asked about Bugs.
www.curzon.com/journal/jess...
Baby Bottleneck (1946, Directed by Bob Clampett, Animation by Rod Scribner, C. Melendez, Manny Gould, I. Ellis, Fred Abranz)
💙 Join me this upcoming Monday for my lecture on The Trans Feminine Grotesque 💙
Thrilled to welcome @willowcatelyn.bsky.social into the warm arms of Miskatonic, next Monday she presents Gazing at the Trans Feminine Grotesque Online, exploring the confrontational presentation of Trans in cinema
Tickets and details: miskatonicinstitute.com/events/gazin...
Terrance Dicks is one of the great Doctor Who writers/script editors and I've always been curious as to the quality of his novelizations. He was I think the most prolific writer of Doctor Who serial novelizations. An online used bookstore from Ontario was selling this for $4 and I quickly ordered it
Astonishing deal. For 20 bucks you can get almost the entire Love and Rockets library. I own a nice stack of the paperback collections, but I'm getting this to fill in a lot of gaps. This series is one of the greats.
I have been alerted that @boxofficegross.bsky.social has received its VERY FIRST APPLE PODCASTS REVIEW!!!
First of all SHAME ON ALL OF YOU FOR NOT DOING IT jk :P
But also, this is really sweet and compliments so many things that we've worked hard to do, it's so cool (even if it's pro-HITCH :P )
Subscribe today for hundreds of thousands of words about Chinese-language film. Only $1/month or $10/year!
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I found Tina Romero's QUEENS OF THE DEAD very charming in a queer sleepover movie kind of way. It's streaming now on Shudder.
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that's a real Sophie's Choice, both are wonderful. but now's certainly the time to at least stock up on L&R with this bundle. L&R isn't exactly neatly linear and can be read in different ways, so if you'd like some help starting out you can DM me and I'll help you make sense of all the contents here
There's a book included in this bundle called "Reading Love and Rockets", which isn't a comic, but a 350 page critical text, reviewing and contextualizing every story from the series' '80s and '90s era. Fantagraphics usually sells this book on its own for 50 dollars. This Bundle is unreal.
On close inspection I think it's missing some of the "New Stories"/3rd series era, but that's not important for anyone who wants to try this out for the first time. The 15 books collecting the entire first two series from 1982-2007 is here, and that's the selling point.
Astonishing deal. For 20 bucks you can get almost the entire Love and Rockets library. I own a nice stack of the paperback collections, but I'm getting this to fill in a lot of gaps. This series is one of the greats.
I've read that Dicks is closer to a co-author on his novelizations and that he liked to work with whoever wrote said serial in fleshing that out into novel form. Sounds like someone who didn't want to step on anyone's toes, and aimed for a faithful adaptation. I wasn't aware Ian Marter wrote some!
It helps a lot too that V for Vendetta is one of the greatest comic books ever made, so even a heavily flawed adaptation is still playing in a sandbox of very strong images and ideas.
Terrance Dicks is one of the great Doctor Who writers/script editors and I've always been curious as to the quality of his novelizations. He was I think the most prolific writer of Doctor Who serial novelizations. An online used bookstore from Ontario was selling this for $4 and I quickly ordered it
At least five or six times listening to this, I thought, "damn should I revisit Clerks 2??" [A movie I once liked but haven't seen since about 2010]. the communal experience of watching that specific movie amongst a packed house of the precise people it's for sounds so singular and special.
While I did criticize this event happening, if I lived closer ...yeah, I might have actually gone to this as well. I'm so happy for your genuinely impactful 2026 Kevin Smith Experience, Rob.
Podcast of the year.
I'm grateful to have played a small role in this coming together, a silly (and mean spirited) post I made bringing this event to @wormsgreenrealm.bsky.social 's attention. My own Kevin Smith history mirrors Rob's to a degree. These 3 and a half hours flew by.
Anyway, I am working on my Miskatonic lecture, which is happening on March 16th! I'll be discussing Ed Wood, Psycho, Leatherface, Dressed to Kill, Sleepaway Camp, our pal Jame Gumb, I Saw the TV Glow, and much more!
miskatonicinstitute.com/events/gazin...
THREAD: I got laid off from NYMag/Vulture after 14 years. The family lost 75% of income + medical. Now mzs.press bookstore, once a side project. is do-or-die for Judith & I. I feel weird telling you this because others are doing much worse. But if you could like or share this, we'd be so grateful!
Just watched Curse of the Devil (1973), which is curiously the second of three werewolf movies Paul Naschy made that incorporates Elizabeth Bathory. The non-Bathory wolfman Naschy movies involve a fake Dracula couple, Jekyll, a Yeti, and a Samurai. I love the imagination of Naschy's monster mashes.
The spirit of 40s Universal and 60s Hammer monster movies is alive and well in the 70s Paul Naschy canon, while also leaning into lurid Eurocult abstractions and hazy dream pacing replacing traditional plotting. Taking all the monster movie formula beats and blending them into a bloody nonsense soup
A very slay selection. Let’s be friends: boxd.it/87cF
These movies play fast and loose, and have more emphasis on ambiance than plotting. In Curse of the Devil, Naschy's Waldemar Daninsky appears to transform into a werewolf across 4 consecutive nights, and his well tailored suit is perfectly intact when he goes full wolf mode. It rules.
Frankenstein Meets the Wolf-Man and House of Frankenstein are lovely charming films, but Universal didn't know what it was tapping into, and its evocative titles and posters tease movies that don't actually exist. Naschy's '70s career is all about finally delivering on the promise of a monster rally
I'm someone who's been jamming the brand new Rob Zombie album on repeat - he's sincerely one of my favourite musical artists - and I'm not sure if there's a filmmaker filmography that matches the throwing-it-all-on-the-wall childlike wonder of horror's pleasures better than Paul Naschy's.
Just watched Curse of the Devil (1973), which is curiously the second of three werewolf movies Paul Naschy made that incorporates Elizabeth Bathory. The non-Bathory wolfman Naschy movies involve a fake Dracula couple, Jekyll, a Yeti, and a Samurai. I love the imagination of Naschy's monster mashes.
