Ian Shade
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Ian Shade
@ianshade.bsky.social
· Sep 7
I trust the people I follow to give me as straight a shot as the media landscape allows--but I need to find some other way to filter the atrocity influx. Always been more of a lurker, but I can't lean on microblogging anymore, in any form. So like Facebook, I'll still post links to my work here...
Ultimatum.
A review of Wake Up Dead Man (2025)
Been thinking over these past few entries, about whether or not I've looked hard enough for solutions to my various vexes; day jobs and holiday schedules are a pain, but exhaustion aside, there must b...
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December 18, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Ultimatum.
Patriot act.
A review of The American President (1995)
So, so painfully earnest in a way that I'll have to consider that earnest as a lens through Reiner's filmography--playing upon the perpetual American desire/need to see our leaders as fundamentally go...
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December 16, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Patriot act.
It ain't me, it ain't me
A review of Live Free or Die Hard (2007)
Somehow the only straight action film to which I pledge any real allegiance? One thing to love a generally unloved movie, another to say that it deepens for you on each viewing--the kind of dramatic d...
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December 14, 2025 at 10:08 AM
It ain't me, it ain't me
In the summer, in the city, in the summer, in the city
A review of Die Hard With a Vengeance (1995)
Plenty to discuss across media, given his history, given its own understanding of Christmas in summer--how John McClane is so easy to adapt into an otherwise irrelevant work. How that whole screenplay...
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December 11, 2025 at 9:26 AM
In the summer, in the city, in the summer, in the city
BONUS!!!!!!!
A review of The Lost Chapter: Yuki's Revenge (2025)
Watched during whatever discussion I'm trying to foster about John McClane and the Library as a function of the past, so to ignore it while it's in the conversation would be too great an irony. Watche...
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December 11, 2025 at 1:36 AM
BONUS!!!!!!!
Noun to verb
A review of Die Hard (1988)
Ten years later, after finally reading Roderick Thorp's Nothing Lasts Forever. Not exactly a surprise that the film burns off the ambiguity of the novel, but I'm a little taken aback by the dedication...
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December 9, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Noun to verb
Father Monsignor (third Relic)
A review of Wake Up Dead Man (2025)
I did what little had to be done. -- Doctor Sheppard, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Christie) First of the Benoit Blanc films where I didn't get to encounter Rian Johnson in person--not that I was in a...
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December 4, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Father Monsignor (third Relic)
Just haunting back to acknowledge how well Mamdani understood this
And I wonder how we apply that to Trump, an idiot on most levels, a bully with no pretenses. A figurehead, not an ideologue—for all the talk about co-presidents, ANY person with conversational skills could take a half-hour to alter the course of Trump’s policy towards any wing, any direction.
November 26, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Just haunting back to acknowledge how well Mamdani understood this
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November 20, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Hello, welcome to The Post Trans People Can Reply To With Links To Their Creative Work In Games (Or Whatever) So You Can Read The Replies And Find Cool New Stuff.
I'd explain how it works but I'm pretty sure I just did.
I'd explain how it works but I'm pretty sure I just did.
U.S. Dollars : New Dollars conversion
A review of The Running Man (2025)
I'm just an ex-con tryin' to go straight and get my kids back. -- Bender the Offender, the Ultimate Robot Fighting League (not real, like pro wrestling, but fixed, like boxing), "Raging Bender," Futur...
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November 18, 2025 at 4:24 AM
U.S. Dollars : New Dollars conversion
What do you believe in?
A review of Alice, Sweet Alice (1976)
Fuck, this is so great, but it was predictable enough that I would be helpless before it; if I'm trying to build my own spiritual framework through my totemistic obsessions, there's the jealous protec...
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November 17, 2025 at 7:01 AM
What do you believe in?
The great, dead Jack Warden
A review of Used Cars (1980)
Wondering if this is the answer to the question of prolificity and consistency asked at Dracula: Dead and Loving It: I don't know if I can even call it a good film, because Lordy it's a long one, but ...
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November 16, 2025 at 7:13 AM
The great, dead Jack Warden
See, this is why I have lousy penmanship
A review of The Bad Seed (1956)
Overwrought and squeamish, but it's my own fault for knowing the premise, and the conclusion, for too long without following through. Somehow imagining some post-Psycho sensationalism, I came up all b...
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November 15, 2025 at 8:56 PM
See, this is why I have lousy penmanship
Undeniable, but somehow not a revelation on the big screen?
A review of Back to the Future (1985)
Perhaps more concerned with the cause and effect of harder science fiction than what we believe a comedy would allow? The question from the outset is whether Marty is a loser, if not on par with Georg...
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November 14, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Undeniable, but somehow not a revelation on the big screen?
That's right, I did the fifth one
A review of Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers (1989)
A single VHS rental in high school before this addition to the Library, which makes it my least-seen of the series, including Season of the Witch--and it's pretty clearly where things got off the rail...
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November 7, 2025 at 6:17 AM
That's right, I did the fifth one
Everybody's got those burned hands
A review of Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988)
Endlessly fascinated that the mask here did come from some ramshackle version of the Don Post original, slathered with too much of the wrong color, left with the wrong eyebrows; equally fascinated tha...
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November 3, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Everybody's got those burned hands
"Why won't he die?" Well, there are two schools of thought...
A review of Halloween II (1981)
Worse than I remember; too disconnected, too procedural, too bright, too beige. Beyond the immediacy of it, is there any real point, purpose, or indication that this should take place on Halloween? Re...
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November 2, 2025 at 7:15 PM
"Why won't he die?" Well, there are two schools of thought...
Have I ever told you about this one?
A review of Halloween (1978)
No movie will ever loom larger, no other movie has taught me more with every viewing to add onto countless others, but this wasn't the first time I've seen it on the night of, surely? Maybe a holy tex...
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November 1, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Have I ever told you about this one?
"Yes, we have Nosferatu! We have Nosferatu today!"
A review of Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995)
Imagine if, upon the next burning of whatever we would call our current/next Great Library, this was all that remained of Stoker's original. Some good to take from it: Drac reduced to a bat-shaped dus...
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October 30, 2025 at 9:55 PM
"Yes, we have Nosferatu! We have Nosferatu today!"
"Do you love me?"
"Yeah."
"Yeah."
A review of If I Had Legs I'd Kick You (2025)
Maybe I've been due for another spell of euphoria, but it certainly feels like I'm cracking the codes to my depression: posture, activity, some healthy luck. Something shaken loose by the--desperation...
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October 24, 2025 at 2:56 AM
"Do you love me?"
"Yeah."
"Yeah."
Intent.
A review of National Lampoon's Vacation (1983)
I found wealth long ago It's a long way down the holiday road Holiday road, holiday road Jack be nimble, Jack be quick Take a ride on the West Coast gig Holiday road, holiday road -- Lindsey Buckingha...
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October 22, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Intent.
Lost a car key during this film, which seems indicative of something
A review of TRON: Ares (2025)
Yeah no pretty bad--in the end it feels like the endgame of a culture that posts/uses "nobody cares" as their only response to any attempt to reckon with or improve on the pillars that tower over us a...
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October 20, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Lost a car key during this film, which seems indicative of something
Death (Part II)
A review of Friday the 13th (1980)
Certainly not carelessly made, with the images to prove it--the shadow of a raising axe; the pan across the stalls as Marcie lifts her flashlight from the floor; and yes, even the kitschy standoff tha...
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October 12, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Death (Part II)