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Bryan Andrews @bryandrews.bsky.social · 4h

So the premise is there was an uprising and now the replicants rule? That has the potential to be either pretty interesting or the Worst Thing.

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Bryan Andrews @bryandrews.bsky.social · 6h

If we're talking cosy and slow, Redwall could work.

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Bryan Andrews @bryandrews.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I feel like it's going to be ground zero for a new round of "cosy horror" discourse.

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Bryan Andrews @bryandrews.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

It's #LetterboxdFriday - here's my #LastFourWatched Two solid horrors and two Cronenbergs, one not so great, the other little-seen but very interesting.

M Butterfly - 3.5 stars
Hellraiser 2 - 3 stars
Hellriaser - 4 stars
eXistenZ - 2.5 stars

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Bryan Andrews @bryandrews.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Yeah, Welcome to Derry had a young Dick Hallorann. That was on the Skydance network though, so might not cross over with Carrie unless we get a sort MCU/Sony spider-man situation.

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Bryan Andrews @bryandrews.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

No last name given, so could still be a Halloran.

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Bryan Andrews @bryandrews.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

At one point in the finale, a character talks about how certain people have "shine" so I fully expect this to link into Doctor Sleep or create a Stephen King Cinematic Universe.

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Bryan Andrews @bryandrews.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It does remind me a bit of a drawing my kid did when he was three. I like to think the speech bubble represents an unpronounceable-by-human-tongue demonic language.

Some horrifying monster standing over a supine (possibly dead?) figure, with a speech bubble containing a largely unintelligible string of characters.

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Bryan Andrews @bryandrews.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Maybe Jeremy Strong's method acting is extremely fucking annoying, but at least his performance in Social Reckoning is being universally panned. Can't argue with those results.

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Bryan Andrews @bryandrews.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I'd include Six Feet Under in that category. I need to rewatch Homeland sometime. I remember it started getting a bit wacky in S2 and Brody really wore out his welcome fast, but the show gradually improved after he left and once the new characters had time to bed-in.

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Bryan Andrews @bryandrews.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I really like 21_21 DESIGN SIGHT.

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Bryan Andrews @bryandrews.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It's #LetterboxdFriday - here's my #LastFourWatched Not.a bad week, overall. I found the new Toy Story about as maudlin as I expected, but caught up on some classics and enjoyed Pamela Anderson's performance in Last Showgirl.

The Last Showgirl - 3 stars
Night of the Living Dead - 4 stars
Toy Story 5 - 2 stars
The Bird With The Crystal Plumage - 3.5 stars

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Bryan Andrews @bryandrews.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Oh boy oh boy just wait until you hear her accent

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Bryan Andrews @bryandrews.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Disappointed that this film has no apparent connection to The Fiery Furnaces.

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Bryan Andrews @bryandrews.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I loved this. I used to work with (fs pulsed Ti) sapphire lasers and just started showing SU to my kid, so it's really bringing it all together for me.

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Bryan Andrews @bryandrews.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Yeah, I'm the same - and it's not even genre specific. I wouldn't be particularly surprised if someone didn't know there was new Avengers movie coming out (for instance).

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Bryan Andrews @bryandrews.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It's on the Russian version of YT (OK dot ru) and has English subtitles, though I'm not wild about using Russian websites! I found Hatter's Ghost on there too, but that doesn't have eng subs so might also take some creativity.

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Bryan Andrews @bryandrews.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Tag yourself I'm...wait, no. No, let's not do that this time.

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Bryan Andrews @bryandrews.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It sounds like they've created the taste equivalent of a jump scare.

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Bryan Andrews @bryandrews.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I'll have to track this one down. I recently saw The Butcher and thought it was pretty good.

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Bryan Andrews @bryandrews.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It's #LetterboxdFriday - here's my #LastFourWatched Two pretty solid new takes on old genres, a great biopic by Spike Lee, and Wes Craven's New Nightmare, because I saw a reference to Wes Craven's New Nightmare in another film I watched recently.

Wes Craven's New Nightmare - 2.5 stars
Malcolm X - 4 stars
The Love Witch - 3 stars (and a heart)
Rose of Nevada - 3.5 stars (and a heart)

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Bryan Andrews @bryandrews.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Like being alone then seeing someone you know and saying "ah, speak of the devil."

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Bryan Andrews @bryandrews.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Interested in the new Anna Biller?

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Bryan Andrews @bryandrews.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

As was fairly typical for people my age, Darth Vader came to our school to talk about road safety.

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MythologyBot @mythologybot.boodoo.co · 19/09/2026

J2012 Person does not know himself.

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Bryan Andrews @bryandrews.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Regretfully blocking someone because their reply would be good addition to the "user was blocked for this post" feed.

Wesley Snipes in New Jack City meme. He's holding a gun and there's a tear rolling down his cheek.

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Bryan Andrews @bryandrews.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

There's pictures of him cycling online and I don't know if someone would notice the leg or tattoo. The evidence he was in his office at the time of the attack could be strong - e.g. if he'd sent emails shortly before or after.

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Bryan Andrews @bryandrews.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

It's #letterboxdFriday so here's #lastfourwatched I guess it was a three-star kind of week, with plenty of dinosaurs.

Jurassic Park 3
The End of Oak Street
The Lost World - Jurassic Park 2
Supergirl

All three stars.

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Bryan Andrews @bryandrews.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

But I can't STOP my LAN-accessible pods deploying to my Kubernetes cluster!

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Bryan Andrews @bryandrews.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

No, there's this one too bsky.app/profile/jav....

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Bryan Andrews @bryandrews.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Stellan Skarsgard is just incredible in this. There's a quiet moment when he's alone and he sits down and kind of slumps a little and you can *see* him age, like the years are settling on his shoulders.

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Bryan Andrews @bryandrews.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Things I was frightened of as a child: 1. A patch of stained/flaky plaster on the wall that looked like a witch. 2. Vomiting up a living, thrashing tapeworm. 3. The eventual expansion of the sun and annihilation of all life on earth. 4. Lifting a toilet seat and finding an animate demonic head

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Bryan Andrews @bryandrews.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I adore this film. It's like if one of Raymond Chandler's fix-ups were exaggerated to absurd levels.

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Bryan Andrews @bryandrews.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I like that the first environmental contaminant it lists is selenium. I've been trying to cut down on sugary snacks and got big into brazil nuts, until I found out it's possible to get selenium toxicity from eating too many.

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Bryan Andrews @bryandrews.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Funny thing - I recently gave me and my partner a mild case of food poisoning by making cannellini bean falafel. I had no idea that some beans actually need to be cooked more thoroughly than chicken!

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Bryan Andrews @bryandrews.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

ER was pretty good a writing characters out (and occasionally back in later) in way that felt very true to that sort of professional environment. Except for plot involving that one guy who was apparently cursed by helicopters.

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Bryan Andrews @bryandrews.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

It's #letterboxdfriday so here's my #lastfourwatched A fun parody, a pretty rough sequel to a personal fav by Cronenberg, a minor movie by Cronenberg himself, and a new-to-me Bergman.

The People's Joker - 3.5 stars
Scanners 2: The New Order - 2 stars
Dead Zone - 3.5 stars
Face to Face: 4.5 stars

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Bryan Andrews @bryandrews.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

So, so good. I was also really impressed weepy the lighting and use of color. Definitely a Major Bergman.

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Bryan Andrews @bryandrews.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Tonight's film: Face to Face (Bergman, 1976) Another recommendation from @cinefeast33.bsky.social and potentially a new-to-me Bergman film. I didn't know those still existed!

The poster for Ingmar Bergman's Face to Face, showing a Rorschach test featuring the mirrored face of star Liv Ullmann.

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Bryan Andrews @bryandrews.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Tonight's film: Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai (Takashi Miike, 2011). Who knows when The Samurai and the Prisoner will come to the UK, and if I'll get the chance to see in the cinema. In the meantime, Mubi has served up this one, which sounds cool.

Poster for Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samura, showing three large vertical slashes with pictures of the stars Kōji Yakusho and Ichikawa Danjūrō and a hand on the hilt of a sword. Below, to figures duel.

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Bryan Andrews @bryandrews.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

#LastFourWatched #LetterboxdFriday I recently saw some people on film bsky talking about Army of Shadows, and I finally got round to watching it. It's an Incredible film. It might actually be the best one?

Army of Shadows - 5 stars and a heart, baby!
Monkey Man - 3 stars
Universal Soldier - 4 stars
Her Private Hell - 3 stars

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Bryan Andrews @bryandrews.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Ahhh right! I did go through a phase of watching a lot of Bergman's stuff a while back, around the time he passed (on the same day as Antonioni, IIRC) but it's possible I missed this one altogether. Now I *have* to track it down.

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Bryan Andrews @bryandrews.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I must have watched this, but it's not one I have clear memories of. Might have to dig out my Big Bergman Boxset and give it a watch.

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Bryan Andrews @bryandrews.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Oh you're right, that's really nice. I listen to Junior a lot because it's on my running playlist, but I've really not dug into their other stuff as much as I should.

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Bryan Andrews @bryandrews.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Yeah, I get it there too. It particularly annoys me because there doesn't seem to be a way to tell it I'm not interested.

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Bryan Andrews @bryandrews.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I got tired of them pushing HP content so I went through and downvoted everything related to franchise, and I'm still getting the trailer before every show. I'm sure it will definitely have the same vibe as The Leftovers (which is excellent, btw).

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Bryan Andrews @bryandrews.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

It's got that trademark Filoni thing where absolutely every aspect of the story and script seems cribbed from other media. Nothing comes from real life.

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Bryan Andrews @bryandrews.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I don't know if I've ever seen it in the original Japanese, since I heard Miyazaki himself is fine with dubs. I'd be interested to know if it significantly alters the experience.

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