Christianne Benedict
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So a new film opens with the ending of No Time To Die. Cut to Q wandering down into a vault and opening up a crate. It contains a new Bond played by a new actor. Q activates it and asks its name. It replies "Bond. James Bond."
Every comic book writer is listening to this novelist whinge about how hard it is to bring a character back from the dead like, “bruh”
November 11, 2025 at 3:37 PM
So a new film opens with the ending of No Time To Die. Cut to Q wandering down into a vault and opening up a crate. It contains a new Bond played by a new actor. Q activates it and asks its name. It replies "Bond. James Bond."
Arrived to an empty building for work today. Nobody told me that Veterans day is now observed by the University and I didn't hear it on my own. So....well, fuck.
November 11, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Arrived to an empty building for work today. Nobody told me that Veterans day is now observed by the University and I didn't hear it on my own. So....well, fuck.
Vale, Tatsuya Nakadai. One of the titans of cinema. My own favorite of his performances is as the yakuza bum in Kill! with his constant critique of the bushido code: "You see what samurai are like?" Talk about biting the hand that feds him.
November 11, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Vale, Tatsuya Nakadai. One of the titans of cinema. My own favorite of his performances is as the yakuza bum in Kill! with his constant critique of the bushido code: "You see what samurai are like?" Talk about biting the hand that feds him.
Rewatching at work. Two of my favorite lines in movies ever are from this scene: "You oughta wean her. She's old enough." and "She tried to sit in my lap while I was standing up."
Also, maybe my favorite writing credit in movies.
Also, maybe my favorite writing credit in movies.
November 10, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Rewatching at work. Two of my favorite lines in movies ever are from this scene: "You oughta wean her. She's old enough." and "She tried to sit in my lap while I was standing up."
Also, maybe my favorite writing credit in movies.
Also, maybe my favorite writing credit in movies.
Dreamt I was roommates with Aubrey Plaza and it wasn't even an erotic dream. What the hell, subconscious mind?
November 10, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Dreamt I was roommates with Aubrey Plaza and it wasn't even an erotic dream. What the hell, subconscious mind?
Went to a couple of movies yesterday. Been a while since I did a double feature.
November 9, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Went to a couple of movies yesterday. Been a while since I did a double feature.
Stanley Cortez shot some of the most beautiful films in the history of movies, as the OP shows. He also shot They Saved Hitler's Brain, The Navy vs. The Night Monsters, and The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini. DPs gotta eat, I guess...
November 6, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Stanley Cortez shot some of the most beautiful films in the history of movies, as the OP shows. He also shot They Saved Hitler's Brain, The Navy vs. The Night Monsters, and The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini. DPs gotta eat, I guess...
June Squibb is a treasure. She picked Seven Samurai, Children of Paradise, Paris is Burning(!!!!), and Godzilla. 95 years old and still wise and curious.
June Squibb's Closet Picks
YouTube video by CRITERION
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October 27, 2025 at 5:17 PM
June Squibb is a treasure. She picked Seven Samurai, Children of Paradise, Paris is Burning(!!!!), and Godzilla. 95 years old and still wise and curious.
Seated for Frankenstein. The drive was long.
October 25, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Seated for Frankenstein. The drive was long.
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Good for her. I sent along some money.
Chappell Roan Unveils Midwest Princess Fund for Trans Youth — and She’s Already Raised $400K
Chappell Roan Unveils Midwest Princess Fund for Trans Youth — and She’s Already Raised $400K
Chappell Roan has announced her Midwest Princess Project for trans and LGBTQ+ youth, and the fund has already raised $400K.
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October 23, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Good for her. I sent along some money.
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Netflix paid Wrightson's widow for the rights to reference his work. He's credited in the end credits. Not everything in there is 100% Wrightson, but his influence is in there. Check out the pics in this post. It's a beautiful film that any Frankenstein fan will love.
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Bought my tickets for Del Toro's Frankenstein at the Hi Pointe in St. Louis on Friday night. It's a three hour drive and, believe me, I'd rather not, but my local theaters have all failed me.
(When @realgdt.bsky.social posted this image I knew I would move heaven & earth to see this in a theater).
(When @realgdt.bsky.social posted this image I knew I would move heaven & earth to see this in a theater).
October 23, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Netflix paid Wrightson's widow for the rights to reference his work. He's credited in the end credits. Not everything in there is 100% Wrightson, but his influence is in there. Check out the pics in this post. It's a beautiful film that any Frankenstein fan will love.
bsky.app/profile/krel...
bsky.app/profile/krel...
Bought my tickets for Del Toro's Frankenstein at the Hi Pointe in St. Louis on Friday night. It's a three hour drive and, believe me, I'd rather not, but my local theaters have all failed me.
(When @realgdt.bsky.social posted this image I knew I would move heaven & earth to see this in a theater).
(When @realgdt.bsky.social posted this image I knew I would move heaven & earth to see this in a theater).
October 21, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Bought my tickets for Del Toro's Frankenstein at the Hi Pointe in St. Louis on Friday night. It's a three hour drive and, believe me, I'd rather not, but my local theaters have all failed me.
(When @realgdt.bsky.social posted this image I knew I would move heaven & earth to see this in a theater).
(When @realgdt.bsky.social posted this image I knew I would move heaven & earth to see this in a theater).
I'm the least religious person you know, but I swear the current president continues to tick the boxes of the antichrist. This week's evidence:
"They that are filthy let them be filthy still, Let them reach the throne of filthiness with all their might,"
Revelation 22:11'
Cue Johnny Cash.
"They that are filthy let them be filthy still, Let them reach the throne of filthiness with all their might,"
Revelation 22:11'
Cue Johnny Cash.
Johnny Cash-The_Man_Comes Around
YouTube video by TheJohnnyCashChannel
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October 20, 2025 at 2:26 PM
I'm the least religious person you know, but I swear the current president continues to tick the boxes of the antichrist. This week's evidence:
"They that are filthy let them be filthy still, Let them reach the throne of filthiness with all their might,"
Revelation 22:11'
Cue Johnny Cash.
"They that are filthy let them be filthy still, Let them reach the throne of filthiness with all their might,"
Revelation 22:11'
Cue Johnny Cash.
Thought the fighter jet dropping shit on protesters thing was made-up. Then I saw it. Everything about it is the worst thing our civilization has ever produced, including the administration who posted it.
October 19, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Thought the fighter jet dropping shit on protesters thing was made-up. Then I saw it. Everything about it is the worst thing our civilization has ever produced, including the administration who posted it.
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Long live the king of the monsterfuckers and a true hero
Guillermo del Toro on 'Frankenstein': 'AI can go f**k itself!'
Guillermo del Toro on 'Frankenstein': 'AI can go f**k itself!'
"Art is not only necessary, it is urgent. And AI can go f*ck itself!” Guillermo del Toro is a guest of honour at this year’s Lumière Film Festival. He presents his adaptation of Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein", which audiences got to see on the big screen before it streams on Netflix next month.
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October 18, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Long live the king of the monsterfuckers and a true hero
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Pretty much every single one of these new government accounts is posting rage bait. It's possible (like 100% guaranteed) they are trying to provoke people here on purpose, so don't fall for it. Blockity block block block.
Gotta block ‘em all!
Here’s the one-stop shopping blocklist to disappear the Trump regime accounts that swarmed Bluesky yesterday.
Flush these turds HERE -
bsky.app/profile/did:...
Here’s the one-stop shopping blocklist to disappear the Trump regime accounts that swarmed Bluesky yesterday.
Flush these turds HERE -
bsky.app/profile/did:...
October 18, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Pretty much every single one of these new government accounts is posting rage bait. It's possible (like 100% guaranteed) they are trying to provoke people here on purpose, so don't fall for it. Blockity block block block.
I wrote a few thousand words on Corman's version of The Pit and the Pendulum over at my movie blog this week. I'm running out of the Corman Poe movies at this point.
The Pendulum Swings
“And then there stole into my fancy, like a rich musical note, the thought of what sweet rest there must be in the grave.” ― Edgar Allan...
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October 16, 2025 at 1:11 AM
I wrote a few thousand words on Corman's version of The Pit and the Pendulum over at my movie blog this week. I'm running out of the Corman Poe movies at this point.
Wrote about Tremors (1990) for my October blogging project. Long overdue, it seems.
Shakin' All Over
I originally saw Tremors (1990, directed by Ron Underwood) when it was in theaters and then never afterwards. I may have seen bits of it ...
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October 10, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Wrote about Tremors (1990) for my October blogging project. Long overdue, it seems.
This is my dance about how much transphobes suck.
October 10, 2025 at 5:24 AM
This is my dance about how much transphobes suck.
My horror movies this weekend. One evergreen classic. One fun romp. (1/3)
October 6, 2025 at 5:10 PM
My horror movies this weekend. One evergreen classic. One fun romp. (1/3)
Notorious
Strangers on a Train
Lifeboat
maybe
Strangers on a Train
Lifeboat
maybe
OK, what's everyone's top 3 Hitchcock films? Mine are:
PSYCHO
VERTIGO
SHADOW OF A DOUBT
#TCMParty #RearWindow ^JW
PSYCHO
VERTIGO
SHADOW OF A DOUBT
#TCMParty #RearWindow ^JW
October 6, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Notorious
Strangers on a Train
Lifeboat
maybe
Strangers on a Train
Lifeboat
maybe
I haven't seen an episode of Friends or Love Actually, either. I don't feel like there's a hole in my education, but those are pretty big cultural touchstones.
Inspired by a post I just saw in which someone admitted they hadn’t seen a single episode of Friends nor the film Love Actually… what cultural hole do you have that’s a bit weird for your generation?
I’ll go first: I haven’t seen Dirty Dancing.
I’ll go first: I haven’t seen Dirty Dancing.
October 5, 2025 at 9:57 PM
I haven't seen an episode of Friends or Love Actually, either. I don't feel like there's a hole in my education, but those are pretty big cultural touchstones.
I wrote about the Korean horror movie, H, at my movie blog this morning. It reallllly want's to be Kurosawa's Cure.
Look Into My Eyes
H (2002, directed by Jong-Hyuk Lee) appeared right at the crest of the K-horror boom of the early aughts, so it found its way into relati...
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October 5, 2025 at 3:25 AM
I wrote about the Korean horror movie, H, at my movie blog this morning. It reallllly want's to be Kurosawa's Cure.
So, I'm on my blogging bullshit again, with a look at T-Blockers for the October Horror movie challenge and for Aaron Christensen's Scare-A-Thon in support of the International Rescue Committee. This had a fast turnaround because I had a bug up my butt about it. Blame (waves arms around) all this.
Waiting on the Worms
For some incomprehensible reason, my local Pride celebration was held this year on the first weekend of October. The organizers and the lo...
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October 4, 2025 at 2:45 AM
So, I'm on my blogging bullshit again, with a look at T-Blockers for the October Horror movie challenge and for Aaron Christensen's Scare-A-Thon in support of the International Rescue Committee. This had a fast turnaround because I had a bug up my butt about it. Blame (waves arms around) all this.
I'm starting my annual October horror film blogging with a look at the first two sequels to 1933's The Invisible Man. Both were released in 1940, so second wave Universal horror. One is pretty good. The other is less so....
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Not Fade Away
I'm sure I saw The Invisible Man Returns (1940, directed by Joe May) when I was a kid, but I didn't remember much except some of the spec...
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October 2, 2025 at 6:24 PM
I'm starting my annual October horror film blogging with a look at the first two sequels to 1933's The Invisible Man. Both were released in 1940, so second wave Universal horror. One is pretty good. The other is less so....
krelllabs.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...
krelllabs.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...