Darren Mooney

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Hell yeah.

#Sisu: Road to Revenge asks, “What if Michael Bay directed the Looney Tunes as a silent movie?”

A bloody, brutal, absurdist live action cartoon that captures the challenges of moving house.

A fun time at the pictures.

In his latest Patreon column, @darrenmooney.bsky.social goes long on Glen Powell, The Running Man, and the state of movie stardom in 2025.

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#NowWatching #SISU

Glad to have been an inspiration on this!

The Writers Who Invented Modern Television Let’s pick a fight right out of the gate: Modern television began on September 24, 1995. Like all beginnings, it went unnoticed, misattributed to other moments, and lost under the shadows of more visi...

At long last, a piece I've been working on since summer is ready. A dive into the work and influence of Glen Morgan and James Wong, from The X-Files, to Space:Above and Beyond, and Millennium. Come with me as I argue that modern television owes them an unpayable debt. ericsipple.com/the-writers-...

YouTube video by Second Wind Celebrating Second Wind's 2nd Anniversary!

Also, there'll be a live stream today to mark two years of @secondwindgroup.com!

Feel free to drop in, if you want.

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Really sweet video from @nickjcal.bsky.social on two years of @secondwindgroup.com.

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It is depressing but predictable that the mere prospect of a consensual blowjob between consenting adult men is likely to be more damaging to a world leader than the far more likely possibility that he assaulted children.

Gorgeous.

Unrelate but I've been listening to your DS9 podcast w/ Jack and just loving it. You mention "Our Man, Bashir" a few times. I picked this piece I just love at Comicon back in Sept. Figure you'd appreciate it.

“Don’t hurry the journey at all.
Better it lasts for years,
so you’re old by the time you reach the island,
wealthy with all you’ve gained,
not expecting Ithaka to make you rich.

“Ithaka gave you the marvelous journey.
Without her you wouldn't have set out.
She has nothing left to give you now.”

But we’re a long way from “Bend It Like Beckham” or “Blinded by the Light.”

It’s… weird.

I was charmed by it, despite some frankly baffling technical choices, the decision to make it an ad for Tourism Uganda and some incredibly blunt scripting.

But is endearingly earnest and very sincere, in a way that got me more on board than I expected.

Mike Fleming Jr: Peacock Folds On ‘Poker Face’ Season 3; Rian Johnson Wants 2-Season Deal With Peter Dinklage As Lie Detector Sleuth Charlie Cale Peacock Folds 'Poker Face' Season 3; Rian Johnson Wants A New Deal, Two Seasons With Peter Dinklage As Lie Detector Sleuth

Oof. Really loved “Poker Face.”

However, from the framing, this really just feels like a polite way of swapping out the star.

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She does!

Kazran: “I’ll die cold, alone and afraid. Of course I will. We all do.”

Kazran: “What difference will showing me make?”

Kazran: “Prove me wrong!” Doctor: “I am showing it to you. I’m showing it to you right now.”

Doctor: “So, what do you think? Is this who you want to become?”

Still marvelling at how Steven Moffat’s “Doctor Who” pulled the single best twist on the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come in “A Christmas Carol.”

#NowWatching #ChristmasKarma

This was tremendous fun to do. Glad to be a part of it.

Why Elon Musk Needs Dungeons & Dragons to Be Racist The fantastical roots of “scientific racism”

Really good read from Adam Serwer on the weird reactionary obsession with "Dungeons and Dragons."

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Big surprise for me on last rewatch!

Looking forward to twenty years from now when Elle Fanning and Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi have both won Nobel prizes for science.

Arnold Schwarzenegger in "Predator", the former governor of California.

Jesse Ventura in "Predator", former governor of Minnesota.

Two-time Academy award winner Adrien Brody in "Predators."

Two-time Academy Award winner Mahershala Ali in "Predators."

It is so funny that the "Predator" cast contains two governors, and the "Predators" cast contains two two-time Oscar winners.

It really is such a wonderfully strange franchise.

Not within a week or two of release, anyway.

I thought #Christy was… fine.

A solid execution of a compelling story, albeit one that reaches the limits of Sydney Sweeney as both performer and celebrity. This is no “I, Tonya” and she is no Margot Robbie.

Only really roars to life when Chad Coleman is on screen as Don King.

Really disappointed. And I liked (and *like*) “Last Night in Soho!”

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I can now say that “The Running Man”
does not stick the landing, literally or figuratively.

A solid if unexceptional first two acts build to a surprisingly compelling third act that collapses at the last minute into the most catastrophic blockbuster ending of the decade.

#NowWatching #Christy

Saturday week.

437. Predator: Badlands - All-ien 2025 (#---) Hosted by Andrew Quinn, Darren Mooney and Jess Dunne, this week with special guest Joey Keogh, The 250 is a (mostly) weekly trip through some of the best (and worst) movies ever made, as voted for by

The 250 came back off hiatus for a special episode, continuing our All-ien season as @tadajess.bsky.social & Emma Kiely join us to discuss Dan Trachtenberg’s “Predator: Badlands.”

Vietnam, colonialism, masculinity, “Ma” and plenty of shirtless Adrien Brody talk.

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#NowWatching #TheRunningMan