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@VK_HM on twitter, Val (or valondar) most places. Autistic. Trans woman. (she/her) Dublin, Ireland.
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Seated in the Stella Rathmines for a supreme Afternoon Delight of a movie.
Poster for Casablanca. A black and white photo image of Humphrey Bogart as Rick Blaine in profile (left) looking at Ingrid Bergman as Ilsa Lund in profile (right.) Out of focus elements of an airport can be seen behind them.
November 14, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Back at the IFI to see another movie. Heard Things about this one…
Photo of the wall at the Irish Film Institute showing a screen indicating that Die My Love is on at 20:50-22:48 at Cinema 1. (Afterwards screens message is empty, this is the final movie.) A poster for the movie showing Jennifer Lawrence in medium close up, head tilted slightly upwards. with bits of multicoloured paper around her can also be seen. Two plug ins areas embedded on the wall are visible on the left side of the photo.
November 13, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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In retrospect making the mascot of your TV station a cartoon character whose entire thing is he only performs for an audience of exactly one person was not in retrospect auspicious.
Screenshot of an TV advertisement for the WB, with the title backlit as a big sign in front of which stands Michigan J. Frog, a deeper cut Looney Tunes character whose mouth is wide open and who holds a cane in the hand on the left and a top hat in the hand on the right. Cartoon versions of stage lights can be seen at the bottom of the image, only darkness past the station logo.
November 13, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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Also in particular a singular era for Taz. He had his own Saturday morning cartoon. He had a Cadburys chocolate bar in the UK and Ireland. (They were like Fredos.)
Photo of a Taz Cadbury Land bar. Billed as being Milk Chicolate with a Soft Caramel Centre, the wrapper has the eponymous Looney Tunes Tasmanian Devil in the middle of a whirl, on a yellow background with jagged edges, the rest of the wrapper in purple.
November 13, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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Sure why not
Japanese cover for the novel Field of Dishonor, by David Weber. Art depicts protagonist Honor Harrington in a bright red uniform with dark blue pants, standing on a loading-type contraption attached to an in-atmosphere craft. Her treecat Nimitz is on her shoulder, small, cream and brown coloured, and truthfully more regular cat than six-legged killing machine.
November 13, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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Frinkiac screenshot from the Simpsons episode “22 Short Films About Springfield,” medium Shot of Superintendent Chalmers wearing a suit and with his mouth open, a bluish wall and open hallway behind him. A picture of flowers is on the wall visible on the left of the image over his shoulder.
November 12, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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At the IFI to see a movie I missed in Toronto.
Photo of the wall at the Irish Film Institute showing a screen indicating that Train Dreams is on at 15:40-17:22 at Cinema 1. (Afterwards screens Anemone from 18:00 to 20:01.) A poster for the movie showing Joel Edgerton in profile hefting a farm implement while trees in a forest upside down frame the sky behind him can also be seen. Two plug ins areas embedded on the wall are visible on the left side of the photo.
November 12, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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Been watching the 80s Twilight Zone revival, which has tons of interesting names in front of the camera (Bruce Willis, Helen Mireen, Morgan Freeman) and behind it (Wes Craven, William Friedkin, Harlan Ellison) and George R.R. Martin’s segments sometimes have almost quaint eighties fantasy stuff.
Richard Kiley as Lancelot du Lac, in full knightly armour on a smoky set with a piece of Stonehenge behind him, in the Twilight Zone segment “The Last Defender of Camelot.” A bright flash of white light as two armoured figures with shields battle with parts of a not real Stonehenge visible behind them. From the Twilight Zone segment “The Last Defender of Camelot.” Norman Lloyd as Merlin, in a blue wizard robe and cap and hefting a big wizard staff with a glowing blue end while there is a not real Stonehenge visible behind him. From the Twilight Zone segment “The Last Defender of Camelot.” Merlin and his staff raised with a blue ball shoots at the shadowy form of Morgan La Fey, played in this segment by Jenny Agutter, while a not real Stonehenge visible behind them. From the Twilight Zone segment “The Last Defender of Camelot.”
November 11, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Michael Shannon as Richard Strickland in The Shape of Water, standing in a bathroom (urinals visible behind him to the left of the image), his head cocked to look at something to the right out of view while his hands are next to the taps of a sink almost out of frame. Two mirrors next to him show him at another angle and otherwise out of view stalls behind him. The walls are textured green.
November 10, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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The article does not support the headline, by the way. None of the quoted complaints self-identified as a parent. Here are all of them.
Screenshot of text from the article in question. As follows: One wrote: 'Where do I even begin? Not only is this show satanic, but it's also a HUGE bad influence to all of society!' Screenshot of text from the article in question. As follows: Another shared: 'THIS SHOW IS STRAIGHT BLASPHEMY. Y'all I get it's a cartoon and it's not real, but IT DON'T MATTER.' A third commented: 'Parents beware!! This show is absolutely disgusting. It is filled with sex, violence and profanity like I have never seen before.' However some viewers took it even further by starting a petition on change.org titled 'Urge Prime Video to Remove Hazbin Hotel from Its Catalogue' Screenshot of text from the article in question. As follows: Someone wrote: 'Kids should NOT watch Hazbin Hotel. It had way too much swearing, sex, violence, and inappropriate humour and behaviour.' Another claimed that 'there are way too many sex jokes and swearing, and worst of all, kids younger than 10 are watching this... we need to do something about this'
November 10, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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Couldn’t resist
Image made with the Zohran Mamdani For New York City image generator, replacing the recognisable yellow text on a blue background with new text. First in block letters: “The twenty-first century. Mankind has colonized the last unexplored region on earth, the ocean. As captain of the seaQuest and its crew, we are its guardians.” Then the “FOR” in italics, unchanged. Finally in larger type than the previous but smaller than the first: “Beneath the surface lies the future.”
November 9, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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Wanted to do one of these
Image made with the Zohran Mamdani For New York City image generator, replacing the recognisable yellow text on a blue background with new text. First in block letters: “HEAVEN.” Then the “FOR” in italics, unchanged. Finally in larger type than the previous but smaller than the first: “Fend.”
November 9, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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I had a nickel for every time there was a streaming TV series about a depressed woman named Carol dealing with the fallout of an epochal event, I would have two nickels.
Poster for Pluribus. A yellow background with part of a face - Rhea Seehorn’s, as Carol - visible with her mouth open as if screaming, with whirls of her blond hair floating around as if in motion. Poster for Carol & The End of the World. A cartoon drawing of a woman on a motorcycle on the road, with tall trees and hills behind her (as well as a shadowy profile of her own face, facing to the right.)
November 8, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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Reading up on a shared universe
Screenshot from the Wikipedia page for Adam-12, a wall of text that ends mid-sentence and has the header ‘Connections to other Mark VII shows’. The text is as follows: ‘Adam-12, Dragnet, and Emergency! are set in the same universe and depict different aspects of the public safety infrastructure of Los Angeles. Each series has several crossover episodes with characters from other Mark VII shows. Malloy and Reed appear in the Dragnet episode "Internal Affairs: DR-20", as well as The D.A. episode "The People vs. Saydo" (the conclusion to a crossover that begins in "The Radical"). Sergeant MacDonald appears in the Dragnet episode "Personnel: The Shooting". The Adam-12 episode "Lost and Found" was set at Rampart General Hospital and featured the Emergency! cast. Malloy and Reed appeared in the Emergency! pilot movie, "The Wedsworth-Townsend Act". Despite the apparent relation between these shows, Adam-12 is shown to be a television show in one Emergency! episode, contradicting the officers' physical appearances. Several years after Adam-12's finale, Kent McCord was to appear in a planned third series of Dragnet, playing Sgt. Friday's partner, but the project was canceled due to Jack Webb's sudden death in December 1982. Since none of the scripts Webb’ and it ends here.
November 8, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Now seated in Cineworld to see in IMAX the new Predator. Moderately stoked, enjoyed Prey a lot.
Poster for the film Predator Badlands. A humanoid figure - by hairstyle presumably an eponymous Predator alien (Yautja for you nerds you know who you are), with their back to us, kneels on a barren, rocky land (extending to spiky protrusions past it and on either side) and holding a sword blade thrust downwards, glowing red.
November 7, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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Now seated in Cineworld to see in IMAX the new Predator. Moderately stoked, enjoyed Prey a lot.
Poster for the film Predator Badlands. A humanoid figure - by hairstyle presumably an eponymous Predator alien (Yautja for you nerds you know who you are), with their back to us, kneels on a barren, rocky land (extending to spiky protrusions past it and on either side) and holding a sword blade thrust downwards, glowing red.
November 7, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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Woke 2.0
November 7, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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Remember when Terry Matalas was attached to remake this? Actually that might still be happening who knows. Anyway throwing this movie on because why not.
Poster for the 1985 Wolfgang Peterson movie Enemy Mine. Stylised image of Dennis Quaid’s face in profile (on the left) looking directly at Louis Gossett Jr.’s (on the right) the latter unrecognisable in alien makeup. A starry expanse of space with a comet between them serves as the backdrop.
November 6, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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The question on everyone’s mind: is this year’s streaming miniseries about a US Presidential assassination starring HBO vets better than last year’s streaming miniseries about a US Presidential assassination starring HBO vets
Poster for Netflix’s Death By Lightning (released November 6th) starring Michael Shannon, Matthew Macfayden, Nick Offerman and Betty Gilpin. A stylised poster looking like a US flag positioned vertically with two small figures at the bottom - one on the left leaning out from behind a red bar of the flag, pointing a gun at the one on the right - above whom the red bars of the flag are jagged, as if striking him with the eponymous lightning. Poster for AppleTV’s Manhunt (tagline: The Assassination was just the beginning), with a profile in red silhouette recognisable as Abraham Lincoln, beard and stove pipe hat and all. The background behind the red is more of a creamy colour, which there is a dash of over the profile in the middle of the image. Two small figures are visible seen from above running across the image as if it were ground, both heading towards the bottom - one on the splash of colour, the other further up the image, in pursuit.
November 6, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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Two men seated in front of a neon shop sign. The one on the left is drinking from a white coffee cup and the one on the right is Silvio Dante from the TV series The Sopranos (played by Steven Van Zandt.) The screencap is from the season four episode “Christopher.”
November 5, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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Damn we should try that here
Screenshot of an Irish Times opinion article (by Jack Sheehan, though not credited in the image.) The title reads ‘Zohran Mamdani has lifted New Yorkers out of their pessimistic and reactionary funk’ and the sub-header adds: ‘The promise is simple: a city worth living in, that everyone can afford to live in’ and that is the sum total of the text in the image.
November 5, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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Seated in the Lighthouse to see the new Yorgos movie in 35mm.
Poster for the movie Bugonia. A close photo of Emma Stone, head shaven bald, looking upwards, with the image itself apparently stained by a red, blood like liquid at the top - along with some yellowish liquid beneath (though the title sits comfortably on top of the red.)
November 5, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Leonard Nimoy had a small role as a WW2 soldier in the original Twilight Zone. Brent Spiner has a small role as a Vietnam draft dodger in the 1985 Twilight Zone. Symmetry.
Leonard Nimoy in the Twilight Zone episode “The Quality of Mercy”, seared, making a fist, a man in WW2 army uniform behind him alongside jungle bits. Brent Spiner - well, his eyes and part of his nose looking through wooden slits - in the Twilight Zone 1985 segment “Dead Run.” He is wearing large glasses.
November 4, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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Star Trek: New Worlds. A planet based RTS.
Cover for the video game Star Trek: New Worlds. Two winged starships - Klingon Birds of Prey - are attacking a Federation ground base, explosions and all. Behind them can be seen two alien moons in a red sky.
November 4, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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At the IFI to see the new Kelly Reinhardt movie.
Poster for The Mastermind. A black and white photo of Josh O’Connor in a suit and tie standing confidently in medium shot against a greyish white blank background (there is nothing other than him and the title in the image.)
November 3, 2025 at 9:13 PM