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Grumpire founder @elbee.bsky.social delivers a Halloween treat with this deep look at all 4 of the live action Hellboy films.
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October 30, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Grumpire founder @elbee.bsky.social delivers a Halloween treat with this deep look at all 4 of the live action Hellboy films.
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Amanda Kramer’s ‘So Unreal’ Watchlist: Deep Cut Cyberspace 👾
So Unreal is available on Blu-ray and VOD on September 16, screening in New York at Roxy Tribeca on September 25 and 29 and screening in LA at Philosophical Research Society on September 26.
See the list on Letterboxd here: boxd.it/O9yDK
So Unreal is available on Blu-ray and VOD on September 16, screening in New York at Roxy Tribeca on September 25 and 29 and screening in LA at Philosophical Research Society on September 26.
See the list on Letterboxd here: boxd.it/O9yDK
September 16, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Amanda Kramer’s ‘So Unreal’ Watchlist: Deep Cut Cyberspace 👾
So Unreal is available on Blu-ray and VOD on September 16, screening in New York at Roxy Tribeca on September 25 and 29 and screening in LA at Philosophical Research Society on September 26.
See the list on Letterboxd here: boxd.it/O9yDK
So Unreal is available on Blu-ray and VOD on September 16, screening in New York at Roxy Tribeca on September 25 and 29 and screening in LA at Philosophical Research Society on September 26.
See the list on Letterboxd here: boxd.it/O9yDK
The Xena 30 yr anniversary is coming up very soon! ET has this fantastic oral history on the lesbian subtext of the show
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which pairs great with @deathbombarc.bsky.social recent article 'Shirtless and Unafraid'
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which pairs great with @deathbombarc.bsky.social recent article 'Shirtless and Unafraid'
www.grumpire.com/shirtless-an...
August 14, 2025 at 5:22 PM
The Xena 30 yr anniversary is coming up very soon! ET has this fantastic oral history on the lesbian subtext of the show
ew.com/xena-warrior...
which pairs great with @deathbombarc.bsky.social recent article 'Shirtless and Unafraid'
www.grumpire.com/shirtless-an...
ew.com/xena-warrior...
which pairs great with @deathbombarc.bsky.social recent article 'Shirtless and Unafraid'
www.grumpire.com/shirtless-an...
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I’m late to repost, but Head Grump @elbee.bsky.social wrote a fantastic piece on how to defeat Jason Voorhees! Do YOU have what it takes?
Happy Friday the 13th!
Today, let @elbee.bsky.social teach you how to survive Jason!
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Today, let @elbee.bsky.social teach you how to survive Jason!
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June 27, 2025 at 3:26 AM
I’m late to repost, but Head Grump @elbee.bsky.social wrote a fantastic piece on how to defeat Jason Voorhees! Do YOU have what it takes?
Happy Friday the 13th!
Today, let @elbee.bsky.social teach you how to survive Jason!
www.grumpire.com/surviving-ja...
Today, let @elbee.bsky.social teach you how to survive Jason!
www.grumpire.com/surviving-ja...
June 13, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Happy Friday the 13th!
Today, let @elbee.bsky.social teach you how to survive Jason!
www.grumpire.com/surviving-ja...
Today, let @elbee.bsky.social teach you how to survive Jason!
www.grumpire.com/surviving-ja...
Be sure to read our latest essay, SHIRTLESS AND UNAFRAID: ON THE LAST GREAT ERA OF HIGH CAMP FANTASY, to understand what all our recent 4 fuss is about!
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March 21, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Be sure to read our latest essay, SHIRTLESS AND UNAFRAID: ON THE LAST GREAT ERA OF HIGH CAMP FANTASY, to understand what all our recent 4 fuss is about!
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www.grumpire.com/shirtless-an...
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My new essay on the slightly sexually subversive high camp fantasy of 90s television is now live at @grumpire.bsky.social
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March 18, 2025 at 10:40 PM
My new essay on the slightly sexually subversive high camp fantasy of 90s television is now live at @grumpire.bsky.social
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SHIRTLESS & UNAFRAID, a new essay on the just slightly subversive camp fantasy of 90s tv, by @deathbombarc.bsky.social is now live at Grumpire!
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March 18, 2025 at 5:16 PM
SHIRTLESS & UNAFRAID, a new essay on the just slightly subversive camp fantasy of 90s tv, by @deathbombarc.bsky.social is now live at Grumpire!
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Will always take an opportunity to remind everyone that the greatest King adaptation, hands down, is 'Timeeepers of Eternity': letterboxd.com/film/the-tim...
If you haven't heard of it, be sure to read my essay on it: www.grumpire.com/gods-with-no...
If you haven't heard of it, be sure to read my essay on it: www.grumpire.com/gods-with-no...
February 27, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Will always take an opportunity to remind everyone that the greatest King adaptation, hands down, is 'Timeeepers of Eternity': letterboxd.com/film/the-tim...
If you haven't heard of it, be sure to read my essay on it: www.grumpire.com/gods-with-no...
If you haven't heard of it, be sure to read my essay on it: www.grumpire.com/gods-with-no...
Our annual tradition of honoring songs that came 30 years before: 1995 gets the Grumpire treatment, with picks from The Grumps and special guest curator @120revisited.bsky.social
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February 3, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Our annual tradition of honoring songs that came 30 years before: 1995 gets the Grumpire treatment, with picks from The Grumps and special guest curator @120revisited.bsky.social
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In honour of David Lynch, I present my very first piece I wrote for @grumpire.bsky.social about how BLUE VELVET guided me towards the darker side of cinema. (I’m also a first-generation TWIN PEAKS fan, which makes me feel old, even if I was a teen at the time.)
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BLUE VELVET, and how david lynch made me a pervert - Grumpire
WEIRD BONERS IS DEDICATED TO ALL THE WEIRD WAYS FILMS AFFECT US SPIRITUALLY, INTELLECTUALLY, AND OF COURSE, PSYCHO-SEXUALLY Don’t blame me, blame David Lynch. In the late 1980s, my family and I lived ...
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January 17, 2025 at 2:23 AM
In honour of David Lynch, I present my very first piece I wrote for @grumpire.bsky.social about how BLUE VELVET guided me towards the darker side of cinema. (I’m also a first-generation TWIN PEAKS fan, which makes me feel old, even if I was a teen at the time.)
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Its the season again to share my essay on the various film adaptation of 'A Christmas Carol' over at @grumpire.bsky.social
'Let’s Put The Industrialist Back in Christmas: a contemplation on ‘A Christmas Carol’ films'
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'Let’s Put The Industrialist Back in Christmas: a contemplation on ‘A Christmas Carol’ films'
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December 18, 2024 at 3:55 PM
Its the season again to share my essay on the various film adaptation of 'A Christmas Carol' over at @grumpire.bsky.social
'Let’s Put The Industrialist Back in Christmas: a contemplation on ‘A Christmas Carol’ films'
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'Let’s Put The Industrialist Back in Christmas: a contemplation on ‘A Christmas Carol’ films'
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‘Dial Code Santa Claus’ and ‘Home Alone’: A Study In Pop-Cultural Cross-Pollination by Tyler Peterson is up now at Grumpire!
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December 16, 2024 at 6:17 PM
‘Dial Code Santa Claus’ and ‘Home Alone’: A Study In Pop-Cultural Cross-Pollination by Tyler Peterson is up now at Grumpire!
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People keep running up to me on the street and asking, "Is Jackie Chan in this film?", so to finally put an end to this question-filled hell, Will Sloan made a video answering, once and for all, IS JACKIE CHAN IN THAT???
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Is Jackie Chan In That? - A Video Exploration of Jackie Chan's Phantom Filmography
YouTube video by Film Trap
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December 3, 2024 at 4:03 PM
People keep running up to me on the street and asking, "Is Jackie Chan in this film?", so to finally put an end to this question-filled hell, Will Sloan made a video answering, once and for all, IS JACKIE CHAN IN THAT???
youtu.be/CYOlhn3_2nw
youtu.be/CYOlhn3_2nw
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November 29, 2024 at 9:29 PM
Our most recent four, all from our new artist on spooky streamers: www.grumpire.com/spooky-strea...
Follow us on letterboxd at: letterboxd.com/grumpire/
Follow us on letterboxd at: letterboxd.com/grumpire/
November 29, 2024 at 7:13 PM
Our most recent four, all from our new artist on spooky streamers: www.grumpire.com/spooky-strea...
Follow us on letterboxd at: letterboxd.com/grumpire/
Follow us on letterboxd at: letterboxd.com/grumpire/
In celebration of this holiday you call Turkey Day, but we call Halloween II, we've published a wrap up of all the fine (and not so fine) spooky streaming exclusives from Oct!
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November 28, 2024 at 5:23 PM
In celebration of this holiday you call Turkey Day, but we call Halloween II, we've published a wrap up of all the fine (and not so fine) spooky streaming exclusives from Oct!
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covered this once-upon-a-time on our HOSER HORROR podcast. Canada had a little pseudo-Giallo thing going between this movie, Stone Cold Dead and American Nightmare.
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New piece up now on the Canadian Giallo 'Evil Judgement', written by Jay Alary
"I cannot think of another Canadian genre film that references the infamous Italian-Canadian mafia as Evil Judgment does, and it gives added nuance and irony to the proceedings."
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"I cannot think of another Canadian genre film that references the infamous Italian-Canadian mafia as Evil Judgment does, and it gives added nuance and irony to the proceedings."
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November 11, 2024 at 5:28 PM
covered this once-upon-a-time on our HOSER HORROR podcast. Canada had a little pseudo-Giallo thing going between this movie, Stone Cold Dead and American Nightmare.
www.back-row.com/home/2020/10...
www.back-row.com/home/2020/10...
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Huge congratulations to Gregg Araki on his Apocalypse trilogy finally coming to blu ray... via @criterion.bsky.social none the less.
Its a great time to check out our interview with him from last year:
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Its a great time to check out our interview with him from last year:
www.grumpire.com/podcast/grum...
GRUMPIRE INTERVIEWS! SPECIAL: GREGG ARAKI AND THE TEENAGE APOCALYPSE - Grumpire
GRUMPIRE 22: All For the Low Price of $6.66 Justin Harlan provides us with this special interview with filmmaker Gregg Araki, and the impressions below: As I noted in my first piece on the Teenage […]
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June 17, 2024 at 6:10 PM
Huge congratulations to Gregg Araki on his Apocalypse trilogy finally coming to blu ray... via @criterion.bsky.social none the less.
Its a great time to check out our interview with him from last year:
www.grumpire.com/podcast/grum...
Its a great time to check out our interview with him from last year:
www.grumpire.com/podcast/grum...
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Happy Friday the 13th!
To celebrate we have a new article from @deathbombarc.bsky.social on the future of the F13 franchise!
www.grumpire.com/let-jason-bu...
To celebrate we have a new article from @deathbombarc.bsky.social on the future of the F13 franchise!
www.grumpire.com/let-jason-bu...
September 13, 2024 at 6:17 PM
Happy Friday the 13th!
To celebrate we have a new article from @deathbombarc.bsky.social on the future of the F13 franchise!
www.grumpire.com/let-jason-bu...
To celebrate we have a new article from @deathbombarc.bsky.social on the future of the F13 franchise!
www.grumpire.com/let-jason-bu...
New piece up now on the Canadian Giallo 'Evil Judgement', written by Jay Alary
"I cannot think of another Canadian genre film that references the infamous Italian-Canadian mafia as Evil Judgment does, and it gives added nuance and irony to the proceedings."
www.grumpire.com/a-canadian-g...
"I cannot think of another Canadian genre film that references the infamous Italian-Canadian mafia as Evil Judgment does, and it gives added nuance and irony to the proceedings."
www.grumpire.com/a-canadian-g...
November 11, 2024 at 5:22 PM
New piece up now on the Canadian Giallo 'Evil Judgement', written by Jay Alary
"I cannot think of another Canadian genre film that references the infamous Italian-Canadian mafia as Evil Judgment does, and it gives added nuance and irony to the proceedings."
www.grumpire.com/a-canadian-g...
"I cannot think of another Canadian genre film that references the infamous Italian-Canadian mafia as Evil Judgment does, and it gives added nuance and irony to the proceedings."
www.grumpire.com/a-canadian-g...
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I don't always write about horror films for @grumpire.bsky.social but it does happen a lot. Since it is Oct, here is a thread of some spooky season appropriate essays I've done.
WHY 2010 IS COMMONLY CONSIDERED THE GREATEST ERA OF HORROR
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WHY 2010 IS COMMONLY CONSIDERED THE GREATEST ERA OF HORROR
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October 11, 2024 at 3:25 PM
I don't always write about horror films for @grumpire.bsky.social but it does happen a lot. Since it is Oct, here is a thread of some spooky season appropriate essays I've done.
WHY 2010 IS COMMONLY CONSIDERED THE GREATEST ERA OF HORROR
www.grumpire.com/why-2010-is-...
WHY 2010 IS COMMONLY CONSIDERED THE GREATEST ERA OF HORROR
www.grumpire.com/why-2010-is-...
Happy Friday the 13th!
To celebrate we have a new article from @deathbombarc.bsky.social on the future of the F13 franchise!
www.grumpire.com/let-jason-bu...
To celebrate we have a new article from @deathbombarc.bsky.social on the future of the F13 franchise!
www.grumpire.com/let-jason-bu...
September 13, 2024 at 6:17 PM
Happy Friday the 13th!
To celebrate we have a new article from @deathbombarc.bsky.social on the future of the F13 franchise!
www.grumpire.com/let-jason-bu...
To celebrate we have a new article from @deathbombarc.bsky.social on the future of the F13 franchise!
www.grumpire.com/let-jason-bu...
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It was fun participating in the second annual Hip-Hop Day celebration with my friends at @grumpire.bsky.social! Have a read!
Happy Hip-Hop Day 2024! To celebrate this day we have a list of film recommendations that illuminate the culture, from documentary to experimental art films. And a bonus playlist from the Paris Olympics!
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August 11, 2024 at 11:59 PM
It was fun participating in the second annual Hip-Hop Day celebration with my friends at @grumpire.bsky.social! Have a read!
Happy Hip-Hop Day 2024! To celebrate this day we have a list of film recommendations that illuminate the culture, from documentary to experimental art films. And a bonus playlist from the Paris Olympics!
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August 11, 2024 at 10:49 PM
Happy Hip-Hop Day 2024! To celebrate this day we have a list of film recommendations that illuminate the culture, from documentary to experimental art films. And a bonus playlist from the Paris Olympics!
www.grumpire.com/hip-hop-day-...
www.grumpire.com/hip-hop-day-...