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November 23, 2025 at 3:48 AM

Joe Hasson

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The original Swamp Thing movie rocks because at the end Anton Arcane turns into this.

What the fuck even is that? I don't know, but it rules and it has a sword.

November 23, 2025 at 3:28 AM

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Joe Hasson

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Alright.

November 21, 2025 at 7:00 AM

Joe Hasson

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Alright.

November 21, 2025 at 7:00 AM

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Michael Cisco

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Turns out my first novel, The Divinity Student, was stolen by these creeps. If you've published anything, you might want to check this site. I found my work listed and submitted a claim all within about five minutes.

Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social · 5d

Hey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. You’re entitled to $1500 per stolen Work.

Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
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November 19, 2025 at 4:23 AM

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Joe Hasson

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Sit down, I lied. There is no pizza. We're going to watch the entirety of To Kill a Mockingbird via Jackie and his girlfriend Jenny watching it in the 2007 video game "The Darkness". www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXM9...

The Darkness To Kill a Mockingbird Full Movie

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November 16, 2025 at 7:48 AM

Joe Hasson

@buzzsawbravado.bsky.social

Sit down, I lied. There is no pizza. We're going to watch the entirety of To Kill a Mockingbird via Jackie and his girlfriend Jenny watching it in the 2007 video game "The Darkness". www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXM9...

The Darkness To Kill a Mockingbird Full Movie

YouTube video by RedRaccoonDog

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November 16, 2025 at 7:48 AM

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videosyncrasy

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You guys NEED to hear this awful theme tune. I immediately lost it.

November 15, 2025 at 12:14 PM

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Elea Chang

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I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed.

Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...

Alice Wong on Instagram: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the time of her passing. Hi everyone, it ...

423 likes, 73 comments - alicatsamurai on November 14, 2025: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the t...

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November 15, 2025 at 5:57 AM

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Jayce

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This whole thing barely making it into English film circles and Criterion clearly leaning HARD on marketing to his English speaking fans feels like such a fascinatingly shitty symptom of exoticism.

I love his golden run, but the dude has fucked up and fucked up hard.

At the center is Gu Er, a little-known screenwriter who says he wrote substantial portions of the ‘Blossoms’ scripts while being paid just ¥3,000 a month—not as a writer, but as Wong Kar-Wai’s personal assistant. According to Gu, he was responsible for everything from script drafts to cooking meals, all while coping with increasingly debilitating ALS symptoms. For three years, he tried to resolve the issue quietly, facing—again, according to him—stonewalling, legal pressure, and attempts to bury his claims.

His patience ran out. And then came the leaked tapes. As the days went on, the releases became significantly more damning. In the later recordings, Wong can be heard talking about setting up a bootcamp for aspiring writers, with the clear implication that he’d then steal their work. Both Wong and Qin can be heard acknowledging that Gu had written most of ‘Blossoms,’ contradicting the official credits entirely. They also make a range of sexist comments about women and about female audiences— remarks that have spread widely across Chinese platforms.

The recordings depict Wong publicly belittling Gu, mocking his condition, and humiliating him for sport, even as Gu’s ALS symptoms worsened. By the time the most recent tapes were released, public opinion in China had decisively turned.

Yet I don’t even think what I’ve written so far is what will get Wong canceled in China. What’s more likely to be the culprit is that the tapes also contain disparaging comments about the Chinese government and its COVID-era policies. Wong reportedly describes the CCP as ‘a greedy one-party state.’ That alone is often enough to end a filmmaker’s mainland career. Combined with the rest, it’s difficult to imagine a path forward for him in China. He is also said to have remarked that the CCP ‘has no compassion’ and ‘only knows how to reap people’s lives like crops.’

What’s bizarre is how quietly this story has landed outside China. The story has tet to tryly travel to Western countries What’s almost certain is that Wong Kar-Wai’s era in Chinese filmmaking may have just ended, and his legacy may never recover from it. Meanwhile, in the West he will continue to be mythologized as the elusive auteur behind “In the Mood for Love” and “Chungking Express.”

November 14, 2025 at 1:35 PM

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Joe Hasson

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There's SO many rubber beast monsters in this. I am in heaven. This is exactly what I want out of barbarian b movies. Bless you, Steven Kostanski

Joe Hasson @buzzsawbravado.bsky.social · 9d

Welp, this rules so far.

a two headed troll bellowing "Deathstalker!" from the 2025 remake of the same name.

November 13, 2025 at 11:40 PM

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Virtual Dust Bunny

@virtualdustbunny.bsky.social

In 1998, Cartoon Network commissioned MST3K creator (and CtC guest) Joel Hodgson and his brother Jim to create a new intro for SGCTC. 17 were produced, but were never used. Five of them were eventually released as Easter Eggs on the Volume 2 DVD. Models by Screaming Mad George. Paul Feig played SG