Lee Chase IV

CLUE (I saw it at two different theaters and was blown away I got a different ending at each one!)
GARBAGE PAIL KIDS MOVIE (my grandmother took me opening night...we were alone in the theater)
LABYRINTH
CLIFFORD
STRANGE DAYS
ELVIRA: MISTRESS IN THE DARK
ARMY OF DARKNESS
CLERKS
PI
TRUE ROMANCE

I am so sorry you are going through this. My heart is always with you. I am coming up on 11 years since it happened to me. If you ever need to chat about it, please don't hesitate to reach out.

Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die (2026) - FILM FREAK CENTRAL **/****starring Sam Rockwell, Haley Lu Richardson, Michael Peña, Juno Templewritten by Matthew Robinsondirected by Gore Verbinski by Walter Chaw Gore Verbinski’s Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die is a me...

FFC review: GOOD LUCK, HAVE FUN, DON'T DIE (2026), by Walter Chaw (@mangiotto.bsky.social). filmfreakcentral.net/2026/02/good...

“Not Ready for Prime Time.” A Federal Tool to Check Voter Citizenship Keeps Making Mistakes. The Department of Homeland Security pushed out the revamped tool while it was still adding data. That led to widespread misidentification, particularly for citizens born outside the U.S.

NEW: A federal tool meant to find noncitizens on voter rolls is consistently marking citizens as noncitizens, especially if they were born outside the U.S., causing chaos as election clerks try not to disenfranchise voters, @zachdespart.bsky.social and I found. 🧵 www.propublica.org/article/save...

SCARBOROUGH: “Bondi refused to turn around and even look at them… the real ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome’ is the people who have thrown their careers overboard to try to get in Trump’s good graces — that they will literally ignore child rape victims.”

(From @marcofoster.bsky.social )

Twitter post from @rifflexielian: "Terfs need to shut up about womanhood, my mom was raised to believe all women were less valuable than men and cried when she learned about trans women because the idea that someone would fight that hard to be a woman was radical for her and meant it was something worth being

There's a transmasculine version of this. If someone assigned female can become a man, it means there's nothing so special or powerful about men.

Each of us has the biological truth of equality between the sexes within us, as demonstrated by the ability of some to pass from one to the other.

Impressed you were able to put these in order!

Favourite Feature Films of the 21st Century One per director Missing: Black Summer "The Lodge" by John Hyams

The best films of the 21st century, according to me
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Not only is this what you would do if you were trying to kill a technology and a company developing it ….

it's what you would do if you were trying to kill *people*.

Europe is prosecuting those connected to Epstein - as the Trump regime chooses to do NOTHING

This is important. The head of CBP says here that his agency did NOT provide the assessment that led DHS to label Alex Pretti a terrorist looking to inflict mass casualties.

That appears to contradict Stephen Miller's claim that the initial assessment was based on CBP reports:

a 16mm still image from Larry Fessenden's HABIT. A blustery dusk New York, obviously cold, and Fessenden (Sam) stands on a street corner wearing a black winter coat as cars zoom by.

Larry Fessenden summed up his love for the classic archetypes of horror when he said that he loved looking for new truths in old clichés. He’s made a Frankenstein movie (Depraved), a werewolf picture (Blackout), and a vampire tale (Habit), and he’s one of those rare disciples of genre, like Abel Ferrara, or George A. Romero, or Kinji Fukasaku, who doesn’t cooperate with the easily discernible qualities of genre mechanics. To put it more bluntly: he gives credence to the necessity of genre by uncoupling it from the public consciousness of what it means by re-routing it to what it means for him in a contemporary and personal sense. He has a passion for what can be found inside of the old-fashioned devices he wishes to expound upon, and in Habit, his lens is low-to-the-ground, hip and modern for its time. Habit is like a great Indie rock version of a vampire movie, whose d.i.y. credentials evoke the bare-bones slacker riff-less jangle of an open, bleeding heart. He’s anything but ironic, or condescending. He pushes himself into the Gothic tendrils of the old pictures, and of the sadness of Boris Karloff, and of a ship like the Demeter arriving in the fog, underneath the world trade center, and he finds average, everyday, universal pains and epiphanies through the guise of a bloodsucking romance.

We follow bartender Sam (Fessenden) as he dwells in the news of the sudden, and recent passing of his archaeologist father, but by taking one look at him, scruffy, bedraggled, with loose-limbs, and whisky on his breath, it’s clear that things haven’t been going well for a long time. His old girlfriend Liza (Heather Woodbury) has recently moved out after hitting her limit of taking care of him. She’s well-put together, with boho-chic, and judging by the murals that Sam transports from his place to hers, she’s a painter who has worked at honing her art. The only thing that we see Sam working on is becoming a better alcoholic. He’s a lovably familiar fuck-up, easy to root, as he smiles with a visibly missing front tooth, and as we watch him gently take care of his white cat, dubbed with the cute, ironic name “Mud”. We see him telling his friends Rae (Patricia Coleman) and Nick (Aaron Beall) that he’s “committing suicide on the instalment plan”. It sounds like something Bill Hicks might say, and they laugh it off, but they know that things have gotten bad. All of these qualities of his are unconsciously felt from the first frame, and that is a credit to Fessenden’s careful, intimate form—shot on 16mm—guerrilla style on the streets of New York. Fessenden suggests more than he shows, but his withholding isn’t endemic to a goal of high-art, as we frequently see today in horror. It’s rooted more clearly in quotidian observation, and through an accumulation of provocative mise-en-scene. Fessenden said when filming that he was always in pursuit of crumbling Gothic buildings, or a certain color painted on a wall on a shop, or the occult-ish possibilities of junk taverns scattered on the streets of the East end of 90s New York. He described the location work as finding the “line’s on a persons face.”. He wanted the scum, because the scum would tell us more about Sam.

I'm running a Larry Fessenden series for my horror column this month, and first up is HABIT. I'm quite excited to dive into more of his movies. I liked this one a lot. It's available on Shudder

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The SAVE Act blocks voting by demanding passports or birth certificates that over 21 million Americans do not have ready access to. Women, seniors, students, and low income voters pay the price.

Call your MOCs!
[202) 224-3121

#HandsOffHerVote

Irish man detained by ICE in Texas for five months says he fears for his life | CNN An Irish man who has been in US immigration detention for five months has said he fears for his life and is confined in appalling conditions, as international scrutiny grows over the treatment of immi...

Free Seamus Culleton!!!!
Irish man from Kilkenny fears for his life in filthy Texas ICE detention for 5 months.
Seamus has lived in Boston for 15+ years. His wife is American & he had applied for Green Card. He was kidnapped by ICE leaving Home Depot.

www.cnn.com/2026/02/10/u...

You can joke about Pam Bondi’s ridiculous unprofessionalism all you want, but I’m deeply shocked by it: She acts as if she fears absolutely no consequences, convinced that there will be no more political power transfers. — This should shake everyone to their core.

The AI Prompt I Used to Write My Self-Published Memoirs I need you to write a memoir of my life as an obscure literary genius. Make it a multi-volume set, kind of like Casanova’s. Basically, the drama an...

"The language should draw comparisons to David Sedaris, Joan Didion, every author with a 4.3+ average rating on Goodreads, and whoever wrote that badass Mötley Crüe memoir."

Local racists may think diseases are confined to detainees, but concentration camps are perfect environments for spreading a mixed stew of infections — including to guards and staff who then spread the germs to the surrounding communities. Yet another reason to close the camps.

U.S. unexpectedly adds 130,000 jobs in January after a weak 2025 U.S. employers added 130,000 jobs in January as the unemployment rate dipped to 4.3% from 4.4% in December. Annual revisions show that job growth last year was far weaker than initially reported.

U.S. employers added 130,000 jobs in January as the unemployment rate dipped to 4.3% from 4.4% in December. Annual revisions show that job growth last year was far weaker than initially reported. n.pr/46HdbOo

Less than 14% of those arrested by ICE in Trump's 1st year back in office had violent criminal records, document shows The official DHS statistics, which had not been previously reported, provide the most detailed look yet into who ICE has arrested during the Trump administration's crackdown.

If the goal were truly public safety, the numbers would look very different. Minneapolis won’t be silent while enforcement actions target innocent families. www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-arr...

Bring back firing squads for anyone involved.

Don’t care who.

So excited to see this! Am thrilled I'll be able to include it in my book.

Finally got Rick Dalton up next to his fellow movie legends! Hope to eventually cover the whole wall with @briannaduggan.bsky.social art! Check out all of her exceptional work at the link below.

www.brianna-ashby.com

I cannot say this enough: there is NO middle ground when it comes to writing and AI. Anyone who uses AI to write and admits it should be loudly shamed, hideously embarrassed, paraded through the streets of shun until they flee writing forever

But with the help of A.I., Ms. Hart can publish books at an astonishing rate. Last year, she produced more than 200 romance novels in a range of subgenres, from dark mafia romances to sweet teen stories, and self-published them on Amazon.

I don't see how self-publishing world survives GenAI. It's going to be an absurd increase in slop books with no reason to expect any increase in paying readers.

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Taking your own food when you’re going TO ITALY. truly the sign of a demented mind

Catherine O’Hara didn’t steal scenes she just showed up and ownership automatically defaulted to her

🚨 To Live and Die in LA is streaming on a bunch of platforms right now: the Criterion Channel, Tubi, & Pluto TV. could not recommend it more

the last two Popes went out of their way to call this man an immigrant hating freak and a fake Catholic.

Bless his heart for going to Italy expecting to have a normal one❤️

We've only been aware of Trump's racism since a 1973 article about his real estate company refusing the rent apartments to black people, the first ever mention of his name in the NYT. That's why his Obama meme comes as a total shock. Who knew?

How cool is this? Doubt a major studio would be so giving.