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Bram Stoker, International Horror Guild Award- winning and Shirley Jackson-nominated Author. Film and Arts Critic/Commentator. Editor. Book Doctor. Fitness Trainer. Writing Instructor. He / Him www.BluePencilMike.com / www.GetOffMyLawnFitness.com
RS Benedict correctly pointed out that in modern movies, "Everyone is Beautiful, and No One Is Horny." People are hating on _The Bride!_. I liked it a lot. But love it or hate hate it, _The Bride_ is HORNY AS F*CK!! And for that alone, we have to praise Maggie Gyllenhaal and extend thanks to her.
05.03.2026 16:23 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
Each time I see this movie, it's a different film. And each of those different films, I love. Jerzy Skolimowski's THE SHOUT. Based on a Robert Graves story, starring Alan Bates, John Hurt, Susannah York, Tim Curry, and Robert Stephens.
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AHHHHH!!!! New music from SUZI QUATRO!!!! Leather Tuscadero is back!!! ROCK AND ROLL QUEEN!!!
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This could be the cover of some 1960s science-fiction paperback, about mass alien mind control or a Midwich Cuckoos kind of scenario. Those blank, but evil, faces…
25.02.2026 15:15 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
When I was 16, I could shovel snow 1 foot deep for the width of a house in about 20 mins. This took me about 20 mins today. Still got it!!
23.02.2026 23:34 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0This is the 3rd Trump supporter that's tried to kill him.
22.02.2026 23:53 — 👍 1660 🔁 371 💬 65 📌 11
There are many generations of Monster Kids who knew, as they watched late night Creature Features from behind their pillow forts, that this man's impish smile meant they were in for a fucking awesome time.
22.02.2026 15:20 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0There is a bonkers energy to this movie. It’s an amateur detective story at its center. But it has this momentum that never bogs it down as the clues amass and the threat increases. Amazingly, this is doubly the case with the novel, which is a pure white-knuckle read.
21.02.2026 18:25 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Prepping for Dungeons & Dragons. Headphones for music, there towards the left. And working on fiction longhand. This is an image of what's crowding Mike's frontal lobes at any given moment, better than anything that would show up on an MRI. (2)
20.02.2026 17:03 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Stumbled across this picture in my camera roll, not sure when I took it or why. But this is a nice snapshot of Mike's brain. Caffeine. Vintage Tolkien. Water bottle for working out. (1)
20.02.2026 17:03 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Jesus... does the name Bjo Trimble mean anything to anyone? Or going waaaayyyy back, the name Judith Merril? CL Moore? How any of these shitty incels quote Han Solo lines that were written by Leigh Bracket?!! GrrRrrRrRrrrrrrrr!
19.02.2026 19:27 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Jesus... does the name Bjo Trimble mean anything to anyone? Or going waaaayyyy back, the name Judith Merril? CL Moore? How any of these shitty incels quote Han Solo lines that were written by Leigh Bracket?!! GrrRrrRrRrrrrrrrr!
19.02.2026 19:27 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Why do all these right wing mutant evil motherfuckers look like Batman villains?
19.02.2026 15:54 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
If a very specific novelty song doesn’t go through your head when you see this image, I’m not sure we can be friends.
19.02.2026 15:27 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This prequel to CRUISING sucks!!!
19.02.2026 01:15 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
NO!! Tom Noonan died!! He was the best… :(
18.02.2026 12:53 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
There can be no validity to a culture in which the phrase "Special Guest Star Roy Thinnes" has lost all urgency and meaning.
17.02.2026 00:28 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
OK, if you're a geek or a nerd... you need to see this. Kari and Tory from Mythbusters interviewing Thomas Dolby on their new podcast. This is a singularity moment for dorks.
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Current Mood... Electric Messiah Nigel Green!!!
11.02.2026 22:29 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Reminder: EVEN THE JOKER HATES NAZIS!
10.02.2026 14:59 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
It's kind of amazing that
Mamoru Hosoda's Sword and Sorcery anime SCARLET gets, and engages with on a more intellectual level, the themes of HAMLET than does HAMNET.
The GOAT!!!
08.02.2026 23:23 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Trump announces new head of the Board of Peace. Details at 11.
06.02.2026 22:03 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0@theartsfuse.bsky.social #Melania #Orwell
02.02.2026 14:45 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The backbone of _Melania_ is pure “doublethink,” the newspeak term for, “holding two contradictory beliefs or opinions while accepting both as true.” ' (6)
02.02.2026 14:44 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0And if you think that portmanteau is a bit of 1984-ish, Orwellian newspeak, you’re right. The mechanics of this piece of shit movie are Orwellian, and only that language can describe it. (5)
02.02.2026 14:44 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Again, _Melania_ does… not… propagate.
It confirms the empty mythologies of the Trump brand.
Ergo, it’s not propaganda.
It’s confirmaganda. (4)
The movie needs no substance in and of itself, because it assumes the audience brings the substance into the theater with them. In this way, it’s like an Amazon algorithm. It markets itself to an audience that has already been marketed to. (3)
02.02.2026 14:44 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
'But by no means is _Melania_ propaganda.
Propaganda, by definition, propagates—it sows specific socio-political ideas. _Melania_ does not propagate. The film operates under the assumption that its viewers have assimilated (or been assimilated by) the cultural and political ideas it presents. (2)
Check out my review of MELANIA, the Orwellian mechanics of which make it a declaration from "The Melania-stry of Truth." (1)
@theartsfuse #melania #orwell #orwellian #1984
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