Steve Carlson
@lcosgrove.bsky.social
The lonely Magellan of disreputable exploitation cinema. Death merchant and amateur onion peeler. I like things that look like mistakes. He/him.
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Possibly the hardest I’ve ever laughed doing this podcast
Some men just wanna watch the world burp
November 18, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Possibly the hardest I’ve ever laughed doing this podcast
Looking forward to getting to the end of these Wright puzzles, if only so I can go one day without having to think about the damn Oscars.
Vulture Cinematrix No. 602: Nov 18, 2025
I got 9/9 Correct
Score: 2562
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Vulture Cinematrix No. 602: Nov 18, 2025
I got 9/9 Correct
Score: 2562
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Edgar Wright’s Cinematrix No. 5: November 18, 2025
Can you name an Oscar-nominated Stanley Kubrick movie?
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November 18, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Looking forward to getting to the end of these Wright puzzles, if only so I can go one day without having to think about the damn Oscars.
Vulture Cinematrix No. 602: Nov 18, 2025
I got 9/9 Correct
Score: 2562
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Vulture Cinematrix No. 602: Nov 18, 2025
I got 9/9 Correct
Score: 2562
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Only one square I'm embarrassed about, I'll take it
November 18, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Only one square I'm embarrassed about, I'll take it
YOU'VE GOT MAIL still strikes me as fundamentally miscalculated.
November 17, 2025 at 10:22 PM
YOU'VE GOT MAIL still strikes me as fundamentally miscalculated.
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Our 3yo woke up at 2:30am and needed to get up for a while because he was too “inspired” to sleep. He said he needed to draw pictures for us. For his Mom, he drew a happy sun. For me, he drew “Mustard Penis,” a guy who shoots mustard from his penis. I have annotated the drawing with his explanations
November 17, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Our 3yo woke up at 2:30am and needed to get up for a while because he was too “inspired” to sleep. He said he needed to draw pictures for us. For his Mom, he drew a happy sun. For me, he drew “Mustard Penis,” a guy who shoots mustard from his penis. I have annotated the drawing with his explanations
My kid, through her school, has gotten her hands on a copy of GarageBand, so she's doing what comes naturally: she's making Baby's First Noise Music.
November 17, 2025 at 9:13 PM
My kid, through her school, has gotten her hands on a copy of GarageBand, so she's doing what comes naturally: she's making Baby's First Noise Music.
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FOLKS, @boxofficegross.bsky.social Ep. 37 WANTS TO PLAY A GAME!!! @wormsgreenrealm.bsky.social and I fly solo and head to the dungeon to cover the cruel, rote, quirky, nostalgic, unequivocally huge stupid hit SAW II!!!
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November 17, 2025 at 6:05 PM
FOLKS, @boxofficegross.bsky.social Ep. 37 WANTS TO PLAY A GAME!!! @wormsgreenrealm.bsky.social and I fly solo and head to the dungeon to cover the cruel, rote, quirky, nostalgic, unequivocally huge stupid hit SAW II!!!
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Very surprised at what scored a mere 2% in one of the corners.
Vulture Cinematrix No. 601: Nov 17, 2025
I got 9/9 Correct
Score: 2620
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Vulture Cinematrix No. 601: Nov 17, 2025
I got 9/9 Correct
Score: 2620
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Edgar Wright’s Cinematrix No. 4: November 17, 2025
Can you name a Glen Powell movie based on a book?
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November 17, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Very surprised at what scored a mere 2% in one of the corners.
Vulture Cinematrix No. 601: Nov 17, 2025
I got 9/9 Correct
Score: 2620
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Vulture Cinematrix No. 601: Nov 17, 2025
I got 9/9 Correct
Score: 2620
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Sometimes you just gotta watch something that's unassailably great, like objectively so, and just let it wash over you, with your only reaction being DA MOVIEZ, I LUV EM
In totally unrelated news, I'm rewatching THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER.
In totally unrelated news, I'm rewatching THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER.
November 17, 2025 at 5:09 AM
Sometimes you just gotta watch something that's unassailably great, like objectively so, and just let it wash over you, with your only reaction being DA MOVIEZ, I LUV EM
In totally unrelated news, I'm rewatching THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER.
In totally unrelated news, I'm rewatching THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER.
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My #SuperlativeCannedGoo tweet from the old place is making rounds again. Support co-op cranberry growers!
November 17, 2025 at 1:52 AM
My #SuperlativeCannedGoo tweet from the old place is making rounds again. Support co-op cranberry growers!
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Good news: If you would like to watch Ricky Jay and His 52 Assistants on YouTube I have done a painstaking 4k upscale of this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0gW...
November 17, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Good news: If you would like to watch Ricky Jay and His 52 Assistants on YouTube I have done a painstaking 4k upscale of this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0gW...
Top five film genres:
- beefy dudes make stuff explode
- crazed killers or monsters make people's bodies explode
- stoic samurai make opponents' arteries explode
- martial arts masters make people's bones explode
- Buster Keaton
- beefy dudes make stuff explode
- crazed killers or monsters make people's bodies explode
- stoic samurai make opponents' arteries explode
- martial arts masters make people's bones explode
- Buster Keaton
Top five film genres:
- pre-WW2 Hollywood comedy where plot’s tertiary at best, all vibes
- French or Italians lookin’ fabulous, talkin’ sophisticated
- your dad loves this movie & now that you’re 50 so do you
- porn is art when it’s softcore & everyone dresses nice
- L.A. Rebellion
- pre-WW2 Hollywood comedy where plot’s tertiary at best, all vibes
- French or Italians lookin’ fabulous, talkin’ sophisticated
- your dad loves this movie & now that you’re 50 so do you
- porn is art when it’s softcore & everyone dresses nice
- L.A. Rebellion
Top 5 movie genres:
The 60s coulda been cool but kinda sucked, but what came after was worse - American
The 60s coulda been cool but kinda sucked, but what came after was worse - French
Weird stuff happens to baffled but sardonic guy/girl
The horror of existence
Sex has made us insane
The 60s coulda been cool but kinda sucked, but what came after was worse - American
The 60s coulda been cool but kinda sucked, but what came after was worse - French
Weird stuff happens to baffled but sardonic guy/girl
The horror of existence
Sex has made us insane
November 16, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Top five film genres:
- beefy dudes make stuff explode
- crazed killers or monsters make people's bodies explode
- stoic samurai make opponents' arteries explode
- martial arts masters make people's bones explode
- Buster Keaton
- beefy dudes make stuff explode
- crazed killers or monsters make people's bodies explode
- stoic samurai make opponents' arteries explode
- martial arts masters make people's bones explode
- Buster Keaton
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The latest donor request, for @dillamonster.bsky.social, covering his own 2024 feature GUT INSTINCT and its playful formal experimentation into the "facts" behind conspiracy theories. (As disclosed in the review, he and I go back a ways to the old Usenet newsgroups.) letterboxd.com/scottrenshaw...
A ★★★★ review of Gut Instinct (2024)
[Full disclosure: The filmmaker, Doug Dillaman, has been an online acquaintance going back decades] Among the many eminently quotable moments in Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to ...
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November 15, 2025 at 10:22 PM
The latest donor request, for @dillamonster.bsky.social, covering his own 2024 feature GUT INSTINCT and its playful formal experimentation into the "facts" behind conspiracy theories. (As disclosed in the review, he and I go back a ways to the old Usenet newsgroups.) letterboxd.com/scottrenshaw...
Best score today was a 2%, and I'm reeeeal surprised by what it was.
Vulture Cinematrix No. 599: Nov 15, 2025
I got 9/9 Correct
Score: 2638
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Vulture Cinematrix No. 599: Nov 15, 2025
I got 9/9 Correct
Score: 2638
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Edgar Wright’s Cinematrix No. 2: November 15, 2025
Can you name Sissy Spacek movie based on a book or a play?
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November 15, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Best score today was a 2%, and I'm reeeeal surprised by what it was.
Vulture Cinematrix No. 599: Nov 15, 2025
I got 9/9 Correct
Score: 2638
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Vulture Cinematrix No. 599: Nov 15, 2025
I got 9/9 Correct
Score: 2638
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Death to All was a great show, but if I'd known I was getting two hours (!!) from the headliner, I would have sprung for VIP tickets instead of General Admission. Because my old ass needs to sit down.
November 15, 2025 at 5:10 AM
Death to All was a great show, but if I'd known I was getting two hours (!!) from the headliner, I would have sprung for VIP tickets instead of General Admission. Because my old ass needs to sit down.
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I can tell that there are young people at this death metal concert because the air is thick with cotton candy air freshener
November 15, 2025 at 1:21 AM
I can tell that there are young people at this death metal concert because the air is thick with cotton candy air freshener
Just saw an advertisement for some financial service telling me to go to "grannyshots dot com" and oh no you don't, you're not tricking me into stumbling into something that has to do with a different kind of withdrawal.
November 14, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Just saw an advertisement for some financial service telling me to go to "grannyshots dot com" and oh no you don't, you're not tricking me into stumbling into something that has to do with a different kind of withdrawal.
You mean the "dump all the small films into 1500 AMCs for a week and let God sort 'em out" strategy isn't working? Shocking.
While I'm ranting: It takes time, nurturing, strategy, and deep knowledge of release patterns and regional idiosyncrasies to nurture a film from, say, October deep into awards season. That's how smaller movies used to make money. And I'm not seeing a lot of distributors eager to put in that effort.
November 14, 2025 at 9:35 PM
You mean the "dump all the small films into 1500 AMCs for a week and let God sort 'em out" strategy isn't working? Shocking.
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Just remembering how Dixie Flatline's payment for the Straylight job was to have his sim erased.
November 14, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Just remembering how Dixie Flatline's payment for the Straylight job was to have his sim erased.
Roger Corman's HOW I MADE A HUNDRED FILMS IN HOLLYWOOD AND NEVER LOST A DIME, and PORTNOY'S COMPLAINT.
alright let’s get something more pleasant going. what two books would you leave out on your coffee table so a reporter can mention you have them. doesn’t matter if you’ve read them. for me it’s Pale Fire (which I did read) and Ulysses (got like 15% of the way in)
November 14, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Roger Corman's HOW I MADE A HUNDRED FILMS IN HOLLYWOOD AND NEVER LOST A DIME, and PORTNOY'S COMPLAINT.
Watching JULIE & JULIA and the main thing I've noticed so far is that Amy Adams and her husband have an excellent orange stripey cat and I hope it gets more screen time.
Also Amy Adams is doing a LOT of face acting.
Also Amy Adams is doing a LOT of face acting.
November 14, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Watching JULIE & JULIA and the main thing I've noticed so far is that Amy Adams and her husband have an excellent orange stripey cat and I hope it gets more screen time.
Also Amy Adams is doing a LOT of face acting.
Also Amy Adams is doing a LOT of face acting.
I should not have to know who Olivia Nuzzi is, please stop trying to force this information into my brain cells
November 14, 2025 at 6:13 PM
I should not have to know who Olivia Nuzzi is, please stop trying to force this information into my brain cells
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He doesn't know how to use things that are old enough to have a period.
why could Epstein not type a sentence to save his life
November 12, 2025 at 9:44 PM
He doesn't know how to use things that are old enough to have a period.
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Hallmark friends: If you buy a month or two of the streaming app Hallmark+, you can get your entire holiday fix even if you’re a cord-cutter. This year I highly recommend MERRY CHRISTMAS, TED COOPER! which is very sweet and quite funny.
November 14, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Hallmark friends: If you buy a month or two of the streaming app Hallmark+, you can get your entire holiday fix even if you’re a cord-cutter. This year I highly recommend MERRY CHRISTMAS, TED COOPER! which is very sweet and quite funny.
My monthly film discussion group is doing Nora Ephron this time, so I figured I'd read one of her essay collections before we meet, and folks... that was a terrific idea, she's a delightfully witty and acerbic writer.
November 14, 2025 at 1:30 AM
My monthly film discussion group is doing Nora Ephron this time, so I figured I'd read one of her essay collections before we meet, and folks... that was a terrific idea, she's a delightfully witty and acerbic writer.