Category: movies/tv

Well, Annihilation. But I like saying it like a monster truck, or a wrestler. Just caught it at the cineplex. It’s a good time. Here’s some un-spoilerfree bullet points on/about it, since I don’t really have any kind of thesis to build a proper write-up around:

• the skull-faced anteater bear does what the bear did in The Revenant: steals the show in the best way. And? It talks like the flowers in The Ruins do. Which is always a bonus.
• this adaptation—and, note,

I dial up John Carpenter every chance I get. Whether he’s tolerating the person asking questions or not—and of course he’s good with Garris—there’s always something to learn:

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Had this stranded in a tab for weeks, finally cued it up just now. Good stuff:

http://nerdsthatgeek.com/blogs/the-death-of-the-fanboy …

Season 4, episode 3, “The Final Problem.” It’s up there with X-Files‘ 3.20 / “Jose Chung’s ‘From Outer Space,” now. So amazing. Five or six pics that I think sum it up:

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Looks to be halfway between, say . . . The Void and Coherence, maybe? Either way, I’m game. Thanks to Matt Pridham for the headsup.

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Hey, cool:

https://youtu.be/p2n2yJL3aog

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Who knew, right? May have to swing by there next time I’m in Portalandia.

No worries, though. “The Elvis Room” is still a ThisIsHorror chapbook, still a short film.…

From the unwatched tab:

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For the first time ever, I kept a running tab of the best of every month:

• for January
• February
• March
• April
• May
• June
• July
• August
• September
• October
• November
• December

It’s not everything I read/watch/listened to. Just the stuff I dug.

And? I had this big idea that I’d peel back through all those, dither and negotiate about which is actually my favorite whatever of the year. But what I’m right-now finding? I like to remember better, on the idea that if it was good, …

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