Itsalladeepend
banner
itsalladeepend.bsky.social
Itsalladeepend
@itsalladeepend.bsky.social
Sequential art absorbist. Bookworm. Film fan. Player of board games. Often found in coffee shops. My Letterboxd is here. https://boxd.it/1d81
I think it speaks to the craft of Alec Gillis that he's been involved in pretty much every entry of the Predator and Alien franchises.

His work with Amalgamated Dynamics and beyond is some of the best visual effects work in film.
“[Gillis] started on the original Predator movie and has worked on almost all of the Predator and Alien franchise,” the director added. “We met on Prey and have continued even through the animated film Killer of Killers, and [we] had a really special experience on Badlands.”
Predator: Badlands’ Creature Designer Reveals “Big Challenge” of Bringing the Yautja to Life
When director Dan Trachtenberg set out to tell a new kind of Yautja story in Predator: Badlands, there was no doubt he would once again tap a Predator franchise legend: creature designer Alec Gillis. ...
www.syfy.com
January 5, 2026 at 10:29 AM
Do Spotify and others do this? Scaffolding Man and Hollywood Smile are by different bands, the former from the Isle of Wight the latter from Germany, but they have the same name so are presented as one artist on Amazon Music.
January 5, 2026 at 10:16 AM
Bright Winter sun, but it's also bloody cold.

I've noticed the frames on my sunglasses get super cold really quick which isn't great. How do people that wear glasses deal with Winter? ❄️
January 5, 2026 at 9:47 AM
Reposted by Itsalladeepend
Lewis Goodall grills Labour’s Darren Jones on the UK’s repsonse to the US capture of Nicolás Maduro.
January 4, 2026 at 7:14 PM
Played Ethnos 2nd Edition for the first time today. Well played 2/3rds of a game before someone had to leave. #boardgamesky 🎲
January 4, 2026 at 7:32 PM
Just discovered the BG stats app and if you a) are a data nerd and b) play board games a lot, this is excellent. Play enough games and you can get a percentage breakdown of who won the most, the most played game, etc.

PS. It's well worth the cost of a coffee. #boardgamesky 🎲 📉 🤓
January 4, 2026 at 11:08 AM
Last night I watched Black Sheep. What if something that's innocuous, in this case sheep, became a vicious predator? Within this context writer/director Jonathan King reframes simple shots of a flock of sheep coming down a hill as blackly comical nightmarish bucolic horror. 🐏 💀 🎬 #filmsky
January 4, 2026 at 10:42 AM
Fair play to her for this. Out the other day and a cyclist shouted out at me and a friend for crossing the road when the traffic lights were red.
Good on her. I cycle to work in the City and not sure which of my routes feels sketchier: riding through Bank junction, or crossing Upper Thames at the top of Southwark Bridge. Both are lousy with people who barely know how to handle a bike shooting through reds giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
‘I was reckless’: City cyclist shares CCTV of her accident to save others
Credit rating agency worker almost lost her life after cycling into a London bus
giftarticle.ft.com
January 3, 2026 at 4:01 PM
Here's some highlights from my year in film on #Letterboxd. 📽️🎬 #Filmsky
January 2, 2026 at 7:41 PM
I'm reminded of Garforth train station which only got step free access in mid 2024 after probably decades of campaigning from various MPs and others.

At least there the bridge being of historical significance was part of the reason.
Northwich disabled commuters 'excluded by design' at station
An MP describes a lack of step-free access at a well-used station as “exclusion by design”.
www.bbc.com
January 2, 2026 at 6:13 PM
Shout out to the guy on the bus looking at Instagram on their phone with the volume so high I can hear it over the music in my earphones.
January 2, 2026 at 7:50 AM
Reposted by Itsalladeepend
An extraordinary, brilliant line.
Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty
January 1, 2026 at 9:30 PM
Ordered a new phone because my current one is being erratic. I look forward to the headache of dealing with that.
January 1, 2026 at 4:16 PM
It's 2026 so that means the new calendar from Threnody in Velvet goes up.
January 1, 2026 at 12:34 PM
Can't help but laugh at the Telegraph having a 'best board games to play in 2026' piece and recommending Monopoly as best competitive board game and Risk as best strategy board game. #boardgamesky
January 1, 2026 at 12:03 PM
My friend did not have the best start to the New Year. After visiting someone's place they got stuck in a lift around 3am. Luckily their friend discovered their meter key also opens the lift.
January 1, 2026 at 11:14 AM
I stumbled across a film called Savageland this evening. I'll get a review up on Letterboxd tomorrow. Meanwhile this from @sarahjomiles.bsky.social highlights why a film from 2015 you've probably never heard of is arguably one of the best horror films of recent years.
'Savageland' Offers Real-World Horrors | Certified Forgotten
Sarah Miles explains how 'Savageland' uses the faux documentary subgenre to craft a perfect political horror story for modern America.
certifiedforgotten.com
December 31, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Good job lads. We really do have an impressive talent for pissing money away on infrastructure projects in the most stupid ways. I'm reminded of the massive bridge that will never be used.
‘Madness’: HS2 spent £37m buying homes on already-axed routes
Exclusive: Campaigners slam spending as ‘a waste and scandal’ and urge the government to sell the land back
www.independent.co.uk
December 31, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Reposted by Itsalladeepend
the thing is, “differing political views” used to be about what percentage to tax high earners and not whether brown people are humans
npr.org NPR @npr.org · 4d
Everyone has a list of so-called "red flags" when they're dating. And for some, especially younger Americans, different political views is a relationship deal breaker.
Majority of Gen Z swipe left on dating people with opposite political views
Everyone has a list of so-called "red flags" when they're dating. And for some, especially younger Americans, different political views is a relationship deal breaker.
n.pr
December 31, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Reposted by Itsalladeepend
By @pixel8foto.bsky.social Joel Goodman
Tomorrow marks 10 years since the greatest piece of art of our generation
December 30, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Just seen someone stood on a e-scooter with headlights and a big speaker balanced on it. That's not a nasty accident waiting to happen at all.
December 30, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Guardian not even mentioning artist Francisco Solan López in their bit on The Eternaut and saying it's based on a novel is really quite the spectacular fail. I mean, is it really that hard for people to spend 5 seconds googling something for an article? www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
December 29, 2025 at 10:03 PM
I have the book now thanks to a) a gift voucher I got for Christmas and b) a helpful bookseller at Waterstones. #booksky 📚 🦣
December 29, 2025 at 4:18 PM
I remain convinced the cafe in the Corn Exchange is massively overrated and only popular due to its location. The coffee is crap and the food is overpriced and underwhelming.
December 29, 2025 at 11:49 AM
I've done the thing where I saw a book I wanted on here but now can't remember the title/author. A big hardback history science book published this year that had something like mammoth skeleton on the cover. #booksky
December 29, 2025 at 10:01 AM