Michael May 🎄
@michaelmay.bsky.social
Reader, movie-watcher, podcaster, sometimes writer, aspiring listener. St Paul, MN. There is no them; there's only us.
December 27, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Rewatch for me, but new to Diane this year. I don't know that it's going on the annual watchlist, but I sure do love its heart.
A ★★★★½ review of That Christmas (2024)
Dadgummit, Richard Curtis, you've done it again. Just when I thought I knew what the message was (and was disappointed by it), the movie went, "Psych! I'm actually about how that's NOT the message!" J...
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December 26, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Rewatch for me, but new to Diane this year. I don't know that it's going on the annual watchlist, but I sure do love its heart.
New to everyone this year. What a cast. I wish I liked the movie more.
A ★★★ review of Oh. What. Fun. (2025)
I'm giving it an extra star just for the amazing cast. The theme of the movie is strong. Mom's are overworked and underappreciated around the holidays, so I'm all about a love letter to them and the w...
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December 26, 2025 at 8:03 PM
New to everyone this year. What a cast. I wish I liked the movie more.
New to me this year.
A ★★★ review of Call Me Claus (2001)
I love Whoopi Goldberg enough to carry me through the Miracle on 34th Street/Ernest Saves Christmas mash-up plot. Her transformation from Maureen O'Hara in Miracle to Oliver Clark in Ernest isn't smoo...
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December 26, 2025 at 8:02 PM
New to me this year.
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Hope you enjoy the special @crestwoodhouse.bsky.social holiday episode that dropped today with guest @spidey004.bsky.social !
This year the Crestwood House has pit out the winter decorations for a special holiday episode. Join @paxholley.com as he leads @michaelmay.bsky.social, @shawnrobare.com and special guest @spidey004.bsky.social through the Legend of Hell House from 1973!
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December 23, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Hope you enjoy the special @crestwoodhouse.bsky.social holiday episode that dropped today with guest @spidey004.bsky.social !
I sure love Christmas, but I'm also VERY much looking forward to getting back to routine with this week's movie queue.
Michaelplex - Now Showing
If I owned a multiplex, here's what would be on the marquee this week.
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December 26, 2025 at 7:17 PM
I sure love Christmas, but I'm also VERY much looking forward to getting back to routine with this week's movie queue.
Beautiful, gracious thread about the temptation to take the easy way and the benefits of resisting.
If I had been in college and generative AI could have let me turn a photo or a drawing into a Gustave Dore-style woodcut (something I really wanted to do), I would've used it in a heartbeat, and I never would have learned to define form using cross-contour lines.
December 26, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Beautiful, gracious thread about the temptation to take the easy way and the benefits of resisting.
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Ilona Massey in Frankenstein Meets the Wolfman (1943).
December 19, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Ilona Massey in Frankenstein Meets the Wolfman (1943).
New Friday. New Favorites.
December 26, 2025 at 6:30 PM
New Friday. New Favorites.
There may be a theme in this week’s #LastFourWatched
December 26, 2025 at 6:12 PM
There may be a theme in this week’s #LastFourWatched
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Somewhere, a demon just got its wings! Let's goooooooo
This year the Crestwood House has pit out the winter decorations for a special holiday episode. Join @paxholley.com as he leads @michaelmay.bsky.social, @shawnrobare.com and special guest @spidey004.bsky.social through the Legend of Hell House from 1973!
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December 22, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Somewhere, a demon just got its wings! Let's goooooooo
Read this in a bookstore over the holiday. Figured I'd want to buy it when I was done, but sadly I did not.
Michael's review of Hansel and Gretel
3/5: King and Sendak should be a great combination and this is one of my favorite fairy tales, but this isn’t a true collaboration and it shows. Sendak of course died in 2012, so he’s not illustrati...
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December 26, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Read this in a bookstore over the holiday. Figured I'd want to buy it when I was done, but sadly I did not.
Fav movies of 2025.
So far. I'm not locking anything in until next week, but I don't imagine this changing.
So far. I'm not locking anything in until next week, but I don't imagine this changing.
December 26, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Fav movies of 2025.
So far. I'm not locking anything in until next week, but I don't imagine this changing.
So far. I'm not locking anything in until next week, but I don't imagine this changing.
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Me in 2020 on AfterLunch: “Christmas Vacation 2 is terrible and I’ll never watch it again.”
Me in 2025: “We just finished Christmas Vacation, let’s watch that Cousin Eddie sequel!
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Me in 2025: “We just finished Christmas Vacation, let’s watch that Cousin Eddie sequel!
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December 26, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Me in 2020 on AfterLunch: “Christmas Vacation 2 is terrible and I’ll never watch it again.”
Me in 2025: “We just finished Christmas Vacation, let’s watch that Cousin Eddie sequel!
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Me in 2025: “We just finished Christmas Vacation, let’s watch that Cousin Eddie sequel!
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I listened to the audiobook of Richard Matheson’s “Hell House” and followed it up by watching the film adaptation and got to talk to @paxholley.com, @michaelmay.bsky.social, and @shawnrobare.com, about it in the ever-spooky @crestwoodhouse.bsky.social. Must be THIS tall to listen.
December 22, 2025 at 1:24 PM
I listened to the audiobook of Richard Matheson’s “Hell House” and followed it up by watching the film adaptation and got to talk to @paxholley.com, @michaelmay.bsky.social, and @shawnrobare.com, about it in the ever-spooky @crestwoodhouse.bsky.social. Must be THIS tall to listen.
Santa brought me a candy bar that cost one billion dollars!
December 25, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Santa brought me a candy bar that cost one billion dollars!
Merry Christmas, friends!
And remember: when Charles Dickens has a British officer refer to pirates as “cursed cock-chafers” in his classic Christmas story, “The Perils of Certain English Prisoners,” he’s not being uncharacteristically crass. A cockchafer is a kind of beetle. I looked it up!
And remember: when Charles Dickens has a British officer refer to pirates as “cursed cock-chafers” in his classic Christmas story, “The Perils of Certain English Prisoners,” he’s not being uncharacteristically crass. A cockchafer is a kind of beetle. I looked it up!
December 25, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Merry Christmas, friends!
And remember: when Charles Dickens has a British officer refer to pirates as “cursed cock-chafers” in his classic Christmas story, “The Perils of Certain English Prisoners,” he’s not being uncharacteristically crass. A cockchafer is a kind of beetle. I looked it up!
And remember: when Charles Dickens has a British officer refer to pirates as “cursed cock-chafers” in his classic Christmas story, “The Perils of Certain English Prisoners,” he’s not being uncharacteristically crass. A cockchafer is a kind of beetle. I looked it up!
Happy Jólabókaflóðið, everyone.
December 25, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Happy Jólabókaflóðið, everyone.
Screw off, Apple. Especially if you can’t tell the difference between me listening to headphones and me listening to an external speaker.
December 24, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Screw off, Apple. Especially if you can’t tell the difference between me listening to headphones and me listening to an external speaker.
At the beginning of the month I debated whether I was going to try to finish Dickens’s Christmas Stories in one season. Dickens made my decision by throwing in pirate stories that have nothing to do with Christmas. They’re fun, but killing the vibe.
Gonna work through it a little every year.
Gonna work through it a little every year.
December 24, 2025 at 5:10 PM
At the beginning of the month I debated whether I was going to try to finish Dickens’s Christmas Stories in one season. Dickens made my decision by throwing in pirate stories that have nothing to do with Christmas. They’re fun, but killing the vibe.
Gonna work through it a little every year.
Gonna work through it a little every year.
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December 19, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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This year the Crestwood House has pit out the winter decorations for a special holiday episode. Join @paxholley.com as he leads @michaelmay.bsky.social, @shawnrobare.com and special guest @spidey004.bsky.social through the Legend of Hell House from 1973!
cultfilmclub.com/crestwood-ho...
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December 22, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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Spent some Christmas time at the mall today. Not super busy in the middle of a workday, but nice to see it bustling.
December 22, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Spent some Christmas time at the mall today. Not super busy in the middle of a workday, but nice to see it bustling.
Share a '90s television show that deserves more love.
December 22, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Share a '90s television show that deserves more love.