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The Film Optimist @filmoptimist.blog · 9h

The Streamline Pictures dub of Vampire Hunter D, after seeing a heavily-censored airing on the (then) Sci-Fi Channel.

An Orion Home Video release of Vampire Hunter D showing it as "Streamline Pictures" and "Video Comics." The back cover copy calls it "The first animated horror film for adults!"

The Film Optimist @filmoptimist.blog · 10h

Cool, cool, cool. I just took a look at Crunchyroll's store and they've completely gutted all of the usability that used to be part of Right Stuf's storefront. Anime has been driving re-adoption of physical media and they've effectively killed a favorite outlet for it.

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 10h

It’s Spooky Season! 👻🎶 All month, we're sharing spooky treasures from our collections, kicking things off with MYSTERIOUS MOSE, a 1930 cartoon featuring a proto-Betty Boop singing the eerie title song as a very strange visitor comes a calling. 🕸️ More Spooky Stuff ⤵️ archive.org/details/@ias...

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brisuscheez.bsky.social @brisuscheez.bsky.social · 14h

@filmoptimist.blog and I are checking out all the cool NEW theatre happening in CVille featured in @livearts “First Drafts”! Excited! 🎉❤️

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The Film Optimist @filmoptimist.blog · 22h

It's fascinating to me that LARPing has become shorthand for "But they're not really serious about it." Most of the LARPers I know are just INSANELY dedicated and hard-working for their *hobby.* Some have higher event coordination skills than the seasoned professionals I know.

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 23h

The man who boasts that his editor son (who works for him) watched LAWRENCE OF ARABIA on a phone, and who designs his company product to be background noise, doesn’t understand what people like about movies.

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Finding Dee Fish @findingdeefish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I'm not saying that I may have ALREADY bought a new Charlie Brown Christmas tree ornament... but... uh... yeah. I have already bought a new Charlie Brown Christmas tree ornament. lol

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The Orion @gettheorion.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Heeeeeeeere's Moopsy!

star trek lower decks fan art of the moopsy peering through lettering that says "The Mooping." The image is on a yellow background, a homage to "The Shining."

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brisuscheez.bsky.social @brisuscheez.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

@filmoptimist.blog good thing we’re cute 😘

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The Film Optimist @filmoptimist.blog · 30/09/2026

I can remember the reaction to Fred Astaire dancing with a vacuum cleaner for an ad. The necromancy of bringing dead celebrities back to life to shill products continues apace.

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SKF advert review – let’s hope this dull AI Greta Garbo is not the future

Swedish-American actor exhumed for bizarre, humourless 99 seconds that give us another reason to resent AI

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The Film Optimist @filmoptimist.blog · 29/09/2026

GOPers when the Opposition is Pres: Um, actually? If the President makes a gentle suggestion, that’s a violation of your RIGHT to be a dick as you see fit. GOPers When the Pres is Their Guy: Um, actually? The President says that word is FORBIDDEN, so you hate this country and are a criminal.

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Ringer @mmmatch.es · 29/09/2026

Normalcy is a race to the bottom, a pointless act of stripping yourself of anything that makes you even slightly unique in a futile effort to appease the unappeasable

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The Film Optimist @filmoptimist.blog · 29/09/2026

Context-free excerpt from today's car conversation with @brisuscheez.bsky.social: Me: Fine. FINE! I'll look up tutorials on how to draw EVERY PHINEAS & FERB character so I can start drawing INCREDIBLY NICHE FAN ART just because this needs to exist!

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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 29/09/2026

The UK right's current political project is to co-opt the language of antidiscrimination to make bigotry legally unimpeachable.

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brisuscheez.bsky.social @brisuscheez.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

@filmoptimist.blog and I auditioned for “A Christmas Carol” @livearts and saw @elizabanaszak_ there! So much fun! That earns a selfie in front of our year-round Christmas tree 🎄 ❤️

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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

DID YOU KNOW that my TeePublic shop currently contains NO LESS THAN THREE season-appropriate shirts? HOT DAMN. www.teepublic.com/user/chekhov...

A purple t-shirt with green hand-lettered text, which reads, "make it weird"

A black t-shirt with white hand-lettered text, which reads, "reanimate your darlings"

A black t-shirt with red hand-lettered text surrounded by a heart. The text reads, "more teeth"

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brisuscheez.bsky.social @brisuscheez.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I finished the half loop! @andrewakre when are you going to record Blockhead’s lament?!??? My stand in (@filmoptimist.blog ) only knew the first verse and that’s only goes so far in 10 miles! 😂

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brisuscheez.bsky.social @brisuscheez.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Who are these people? Attempting the 10mile loop! @filmoptimist.blog Hoping our legs don’t fall off!

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Dave Kellett @davekellett.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

COMIC: Hourly Routine

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The Film Optimist @filmoptimist.blog · 26/09/2026

I’ve had the grave misfortune of meeting Morgan Griffith twice, and may I state my considered opinion that he is a craven, weak-livered shitheel whose only concern is profitability, only priority is his own comfort, and only allegiance is to himself.

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The Film Optimist @filmoptimist.blog · 26/09/2026

Looking like one of those houses in Malibu (according to @brisuscheez.bsky.social) in my @dropout.tv hat at Cville Pride!

Two cities, one in pink and purple tie dye and the other in black and white tie dye with “Final Girl” across their chest.

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brisuscheez.bsky.social @brisuscheez.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Repping peak athleticism @charlottesvillepride 5k 💕🌈 w/@filmiptimist.blog

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The Film Optimist @filmoptimist.blog · 26/09/2026

The world agrees with me: Least controversial take ever. #AndTheSameGoesForEvita

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The Film Optimist @filmoptimist.blog · 26/09/2026

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.

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The Film Optimist @filmoptimist.blog · 26/09/2026

MUSICAL HOT TAKE: Re-listening to this soundtrack, it’s clear to me that Paul Williams 100% could have written “Jesus Christ Superstar,” but Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber could never have written “The Phantom of the Paradise.”

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Phantom's Theme (Beauty And The Beast)

YouTube video by Paul Williams - Topic

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brisuscheez.bsky.social @brisuscheez.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fridays @sugarbearcville tradition with @filmoptimist.blog 🍨🍦🍧

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The Film Optimist @filmoptimist.blog · 25/09/2026

If I've heard correctly, "Bewitched" was developed as a Dick York vehicle -- he was the stage-and-screen star who had signed a massive deal with the network. But when test audiences clicked more with Elizabeth Montgomery as Samantha, York happily took second banana status.

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Game Changer @gamechanger.dropout.tv · 25/09/2026

What is Anna's hidden talent?

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The Film Optimist @filmoptimist.blog · 25/09/2026

What? It has to be true! The Scholastic Book Fair would never lie to me!

A very Middle Grade audiobook cover features a blonde kid making a disgusted face while holding an earthworm aloft. On the table in front of him is salt, pepper, a bisected orange, peanut butter, and ketchup. The title reads, "How to eat fried worms," with the author listed as Thomas Rockwell. Another credit says, "Performance by Jay O. Sanders," and a banner at the bottom advertises, "An unabridged production."

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The Film Optimist @filmoptimist.blog · 25/09/2026

"We just gotta check and... yup, your soul's a little cracked. Maybe give your soul a nice break and we can try it again in, oh, four or five years."

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brisuscheez.bsky.social @brisuscheez.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I bought these fantastic unisex sweaters from @steelcitybrand and I love that @filmoptimist.blog and I both picked them to wear on the first cold fall day in Virginia 😂❤️

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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

SPECIFICALLY if you can get to Park Slope and your bailiwick includes LGBTQ+ rights, unhoused people's rights, LGBTQ+ sex and consent ed, clubhouses and community resources, or anything adjacent to, PLEASE HMU.

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doktor ross sewage @sewage666.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

“you’re facing federal prosecution for at least a half dozen environmental violations, now either you shut off these beams, or we shut em off for you… in 45 days”

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uosdɯᴉS ɐuɐꓷ 🦄 @danacorn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

So the sales pitch for this product is that it will eliminate your job and make your children too stupid to function.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 24/09/2026

I Accidentally Picked a Scab On My Nose I Didn't Even Know Was There and Now There's Blood So Much Blood Oh God WHY is There So MUCH Blood: The John Scalzi Story

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brisuscheez.bsky.social @brisuscheez.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Found this lovely human for a matcha date @filmoptimist.blog

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The Film Optimist @filmoptimist.blog · 24/09/2026

Having a lot of moments lately of, “Does anybody remember this character? I should do a video about th— WAIT. Waaaait. Let me check and… yup. He was created by… THAT guy. Nevermind.”

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Feena van @feenavan2099.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

You know I used to think that the villains in captain planet were too over the top and unrealistic.

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Feena van @feenavan2099.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Great news for our trans siblings in Hawai'i.

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The Film Optimist @filmoptimist.blog · 24/09/2026

Trans rights are, in fact, human rights. Pass it on.

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