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Home of Nick Knacks, a show-by-show retrospective on Nickelodeon. You can call me Gregiffer. Bi, they/them. youtube.com/user/poparena
Catching up on some recent movies, plus a Tatsuya Nakadai film in tribute to his recent passing.
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November 14, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Catching up on some recent movies, plus a Tatsuya Nakadai film in tribute to his recent passing.
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Well fuck me in the ass, this IS better than bullion!
November 12, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Well fuck me in the ass, this IS better than bullion!
There's no way in hell that THIS is better than bullion...
November 12, 2025 at 2:56 AM
There's no way in hell that THIS is better than bullion...
Looking at what's entering the public domain in January, and it looks like 2026 belongs to the girls.
November 8, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Looking at what's entering the public domain in January, and it looks like 2026 belongs to the girls.
Sometimes I boot up Google Street View and go to my late grandfather's house. Years ago, the cameras caught him working on his yard, facing away. Nearest thing to a ghost you can get, I imagine. It makes me wonder what echos we'll all leave behind. What I'll leave behind.
November 7, 2025 at 6:28 AM
Sometimes I boot up Google Street View and go to my late grandfather's house. Years ago, the cameras caught him working on his yard, facing away. Nearest thing to a ghost you can get, I imagine. It makes me wonder what echos we'll all leave behind. What I'll leave behind.
Coming up on Sample Platter, a "special double-length episode of a Butch Hartman show where our young boy protagonist tussles with a future version of themselves from an evil timeline" double feature!
November 4, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Coming up on Sample Platter, a "special double-length episode of a Butch Hartman show where our young boy protagonist tussles with a future version of themselves from an evil timeline" double feature!
Probably the Deathscythe, because that's the one Duo piloted and I had the biggest crush of Duo. Also scythes are badass weapons for a giant robot.
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November 3, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Probably the Deathscythe, because that's the one Duo piloted and I had the biggest crush of Duo. Also scythes are badass weapons for a giant robot.
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Ignore the shaving cut and the five o'clock shadow. I'm really a kid, just like you!
November 3, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Ignore the shaving cut and the five o'clock shadow. I'm really a kid, just like you!
Girl, I'm gonna have a STORY to tell after this month
November 3, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Girl, I'm gonna have a STORY to tell after this month
"THREWW"
I might be too stupid to make videos anymore.
I might be too stupid to make videos anymore.
October 28, 2025 at 8:26 PM
"THREWW"
I might be too stupid to make videos anymore.
I might be too stupid to make videos anymore.
Still on my Halloween kick.
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October 24, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Still on my Halloween kick.
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Well into the Halloween season
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October 10, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Well into the Halloween season
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Because it's Halloween season, "Def by Temptation" from director James Bond III.
October 8, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Because it's Halloween season, "Def by Temptation" from director James Bond III.
September 30 October 1
October 1, 2025 at 9:54 PM
September 30 October 1
Ah, my favorite Nickelodeon show, "The Wren & Stimpy."
September 20, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Ah, my favorite Nickelodeon show, "The Wren & Stimpy."
If you liked THE LONG WALK and are looking for other movies about dystopian America forcing young people to cross a large stretch of land in a lethal test, I highly recommend the 1971 film PUNISHMENT PARK.
September 12, 2025 at 2:54 AM
If you liked THE LONG WALK and are looking for other movies about dystopian America forcing young people to cross a large stretch of land in a lethal test, I highly recommend the 1971 film PUNISHMENT PARK.
They made a Jar Jar Binks candy where you ate his tongue.
September 8, 2025 at 8:42 PM
They made a Jar Jar Binks candy where you ate his tongue.
A "Pathetic White Guy Struggles with Violent Activism" double feature, one of Madonna's flops, and catching up on Zach Cregger after watching Weapons.
September 5, 2025 at 7:10 PM
A "Pathetic White Guy Struggles with Violent Activism" double feature, one of Madonna's flops, and catching up on Zach Cregger after watching Weapons.
The Trial (Orson Welles, 1962)
September 5, 2025 at 4:24 PM
The Trial (Orson Welles, 1962)
And it was through them that I first encountered the story of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. I had always known Frankenstein as a pop culture character, but I didn't know what it was all about. And GIC didn't skimp on the details, even the weird adopted siblings incest romance thing was in there.
September 3, 2025 at 4:15 AM
And it was through them that I first encountered the story of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. I had always known Frankenstein as a pop culture character, but I didn't know what it was all about. And GIC didn't skimp on the details, even the weird adopted siblings incest romance thing was in there.
You know what doesn't get enough love? Great Illustrated Classics. It was/still is this line of books that rewrote classic works of literature for a children's reading level, but they only simplified the prose, I don't recall them ever censoring or changing the plot itself. They got me into reading.
September 3, 2025 at 4:12 AM
You know what doesn't get enough love? Great Illustrated Classics. It was/still is this line of books that rewrote classic works of literature for a children's reading level, but they only simplified the prose, I don't recall them ever censoring or changing the plot itself. They got me into reading.