Michael Suarez

At this point, it’s going to be hard to believe any of it. It’s been too long.

Predator: Badlands movie review (2025) | Roger Ebert An exceptional sci-fi action thriller with memorable characters and lead performances that deserve to be included in discussions of the year’s best.

Thing I was not expecting: a 4-star review of Predator: Badlands from Matt Zoller Seitz; he calls it “an exceptional sci-fi action thriller with memorable characters, beautiful and terrifying animals (and plants), a structurally airtight script…” [rogerebert.com]

Ringing in 30 years of the 1995 neo-noir techno-thriller Strange Days, Xuanlin Tham looks back on the rage and contradictions of Kathryn Bigelow’s complex masterwork. boxd.it/2MY

Donnie Darko was released 24 years ago today 🐰

Being poor is very expensive.

Poster for Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein with the showtime above it.

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is my favorite novel. That said, I did not go into @realgdt.bsky.social’s film expecting it to become my favorite film, nor even my favorite del Toro film. Alas, the film, even with its many changes, remains an incredibly faithful adaptation and one of the 2025’s best.

please watch movies and read books and play games and look at art, please view it with your own eyes through a lens you made yourself and not just through video essayists and ending explained videos please im begging you

Got my tickets!

Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward. And then remember this: The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural.

Jay Glennie's new book, THE MAKING OF ONCE UPON A TIME ... IN HOLLYWOOD, goes behind the scenes of Quentin Tarantino's 2019 hit. buff.ly/fwQXFbf

YouTube video by World School Punch Drunk Love Shut up! Shut! Shut! Shut! Shut! Shut! Shut!

This scene is the pinnacle of PTA’s career

Drew Struzan forever.

Was completely on purpose

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Who watches the watchmen?

Mia on set

So Sydney Chandler is definitely going to work like mad after ALIEN EARTH, right?

Robert Redford (1936-2025) 🤍

Fluxblog 561: 9 very popular playlists Featuring Black Beatles covers, electroclash, blog house, indie sleaze, alt-rock, college rock, and more

Some of my most popular playlists ever! Featuring music for the late 90s sophisticate, Black Beatles covers, electroclash, blog house, indie sleaze, alt-rock, college rock, and more.
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Just thinking about how ANDOR is, against all odds, one of the defining pieces of political art for capturing the mood and tenor of our moment for no particular reason this morning.

THEY LIVE (1988)

William and Agnes in the woods in Hamnet.

To experience Chloe Zhao's HAMNET is to fall in love, to be pulverized by the grand emotions that make us alive. buff.ly/PwRuvut

Freedom of speech is not you simply saying what you want. It’s also others saying things back to you. Criticizing you. Being rude. Being correct. Being wrong. Be smart. Being stupid. It’s not one-sided. It’s frustrating and annoying and infuriating sometimes, but that’s freedom.

Two people look up in fear in a very tall patch of grass in Jurassic World Rebirth.

JURASSIC WORLD REBIRTH follows its strong box office run with feature-laden offerings on 4K-UHD, Blu-ray, and DVD. filmobsessive.com/film/film-fe...

I’m an English professor, but I hate grammar police. I care more about what is being said than how. That said, basics are necessary to communicate. (And no, that’s not contradictory.) If I can understand what someone is saying, I don’t need their grammar to be perfect. Plus, people make mistakes.

I went into The Sixth Sense knowing the ending (someone at school talked about it). I called the ending to The Usual Suspects pretty much right away when I first saw it. Twist endings rarely succeed with me, but I don’t care. At all. A great film is a great film to me.

DUCK AMUCK (1953)

Apparently Guillermo Del Toro has ruined Frankenstein by… being relatively faithful to the source material.

Oh my.

Being hired to write 5 essays for this extraordinary boxset was a huge honor. This Spooky SZN just got a little more special for Halloween fans, with this set & “Horror in Haddonfield” both coming out!