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John Harden @giantspecks.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 2h

Chewed up by the dream factory: this week on Yelling About Movies, noir visions of Hollywood and the people it drives to the brink: SUNSET BOULEVARD (1950, D. Billy Wilder) and IN A LONELY PLACE (1950, D. Nicholas Ray). Two new episodes of Yelling About Movies […] [Original post on sfba.social]

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John Harden @giantspecks.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

Down and dirty: Barbara Kopple's Oscar-winning doc about Kentucky coal miners on strike, HARLAN COUNTY U.S.A. (1976) asks "Which Side Are You On?" & reminds us of the historic importance (and current decline) of the American labor movement. #CineMastodon #monly […]

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John Harden @giantspecks.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

Lost in America: in 1970 actress Barbara Loden cemented her place in film history by writing, directing and starring in WANDA, a gritty study of a rudderless working-class woman. Here's our discussion. #YabtM 🎥 #CineMastodon #film #movies #monly www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncopHMN0i-U

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John Harden @giantspecks.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

@stevenray Plemons has a small but consequential role. In a movie that goes big, Goodman goes bigger 😆

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John Harden @giantspecks.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

I bought a ticket and saw DIGGER last night. My take (if somehow you need another take on this movie) is that it's neither as bad as some are saying nor as good as others are saying. What begins as a broad and not-so-funny farce about climate disaster adds layers […] [Original post on sfba.social]

Movie poster for "Digger" Tom Cruise in a burgundy suit gripping a shovel, his face is a black-and white photo with a trickle of red blood on his temple

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John Harden @giantspecks.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

one for the Trekkies 🥲 Michael Forest, who guest starred in an "OK"-level episode of TOS but turned in a memorable performance as the Greek god Apollo. Also responsible for one of the best moments in the original series blooper reels. #StarTrek

A Facebook post from Michael & Denise Okuda
18 hours ago
We mourn the passing of our friend, actor Michael Forest, who left us this week. Born Gerald Michael Charlebois, the man who played Apollo on Star Trek was 97. Michael indulged me by posing for this photo in 2022.
(Photo shows the actor in his 90s, gripping a model of the starship Enterprise, as his character Apollo did in the original series episode "Who Mourns for Adonis?"

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John Harden @giantspecks.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada for Tax Purposes (Add “for Tax Purposes” to a movie:)

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John Harden @giantspecks.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

Depressing Barbara Week, or, When the Venn diagram is pretty much a circle. Two new episodes of Yelling About Movies drop this Friday. #YabtM 🎥 #film #movies #Cinemastodon #monly

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John Harden @giantspecks.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

Depressing Barbara Week, or, When the Venn diagram is pretty much a circle. Two new episodes of Yelling About Movies drop this Friday. #YabtM 🎥 #film #movies #Cinemastodon #monly

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John Harden @giantspecks.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

Your options are digging coal, or robbing a bank. It's American Bleak Week on Yelling About Movies, and we're getting real with WANDA (1970, D. Barbara Loden) and even realer with landmark doc HARLAN COUNTY U.S.A. (1976, D. Barbara Kopple). Two new episodes drop […] [Original post on sfba.social]

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John Harden @giantspecks.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

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John Harden @giantspecks.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

@taraprice "...was a wealthy septuagenarian widow..." I mean, how dare she

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John Harden @giantspecks.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

Seriously, personal space is SO valuable. In this episode we cringe our way through a bromance gone wrong in FRIENDSHIP (2024, D. Andrew DeYoung) Here's our discussion. #YabtM 🎥 #film #movies #CineMastodon #monly www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1kU1w0VEf8

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John Harden @giantspecks.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

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John Harden @giantspecks.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

In security: Seth Rogen is a mall cop with delusions of grandeur in OBSERVE AND REPORT (2009, D. Jody Hill). Here's our discussion. #YabtM 🎥 #CineMastodon #film #movies #monly www.youtube.com/watch?v=gh3wOk2m7KQ

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John Harden @giantspecks.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

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John Harden @giantspecks.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

What is the film against which all others may be measured? No, not that. Not that either. Two new episodes of Yelling About Movies drop this Friday. #YabtM 🎥 #film #movies #Cinemastodon #monly

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John Harden @giantspecks.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

What is the film against which all others may be measured? No, not that. Not that either. Two new episodes of Yelling About Movies drop this Friday. #YabtM 🎥 #film #movies #Cinemastodon #monly

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John Harden @giantspecks.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

Pileup in the friend zone: this week on Yelling About Movies we rubberneck at disasters in human connection with OBSERVE AND REPORT (2009, D. Jody Hill) and FRIENDSHIP (2024, D. Andrew DeYoung). Two new episodes drop this Friday. #YabtM 🎥 #film #movies #Cinemastodon #monly

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John Harden @giantspecks.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

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John Harden @giantspecks.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

A mummy is stalking the nursing home and geriatric probably-Elvis (Bruce Campbell) and probably-not-JFK (Ossie Davis) have to fight him. High concept doesn't get much higher than in BUBBA HO-TEP (2002, D. Don Coscarelli). Here's our discussion. #YabtM 🎥 #film #movies #CineMastodon #monly […]

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John Harden @giantspecks.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

Defense for the offense: in THE PEOPLE VS. LARRY FLYNT (1996, D. Milos Forman) Woody Harrelson plays the infamous pornographer and free-speech activist. Here's our discussion. #YabtM 🎥 #CineMastodon #film #movies #monly www.youtube.com/watch?v=5t48m1kyfNg

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John Harden @giantspecks.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

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John Harden @giantspecks.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

Our friends gave us a new lamp fixture for the tiki bar, I think it goes #tiki

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John Harden @giantspecks.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

Blame DOGE. Two new episodes of Yelling About Movies drop this Friday. #YabtM 🎥 #film #movies #Cinemastodon #monly

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John Harden @giantspecks.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

Blame DOGE. Two new episodes of Yelling About Movies drop this Friday. #YabtM 🎥 #film #movies #Cinemastodon #monly

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John Harden @giantspecks.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

American originals: this week on Yelling About Movies we get quality time with larger-than-life characters in BUBBA HO-TEP (2002, D. Don Coscarelli) and THE PEOPLE VS. LARRY FLYNT (1996, D. Milos Forman). Two new episodes of Yelling About Movies drop this Friday […] [Original post on sfba.social]

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John Harden @giantspecks.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

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John Harden @giantspecks.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

New prescription, w/ clip-on sunglasses. I know kung fu

kitchen selfie modeling new skinny sunglasses and doing my best movie poster scowl

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John Harden @giantspecks.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

Bad blood: if one of your co-workers was an alien, would you know? Would HE know? In this episode we happily revisit one of Chris's all-timers, John Carpenter's THE THING (1982). #YabtM 🎥 #CineMastodon #film #movies #monly www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BWaLfq5-lE

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John Harden @giantspecks.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

With LEGEND (1985) director Ridley Scott set out to create a new fairy tale. The result is lavish, atmospheric, and deeply odd. Regardless, RIP the great Tim Curry, who makes this thing watchable. #YabtM 🎥 #film #movies #CineMastodon #monly www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YMhsTNqC00

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John Harden @giantspecks.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

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John Harden @giantspecks.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

Now that we know passing the Turing test means jack all, all our legacy #scifi with computer/robot characters hits different. I won't ascribe personhood to anything but a person. #AI has flipped me onto the side of that admiral or whatev who wanted to take Data apart to see how he worked

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John Harden @giantspecks.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

Chris comes to bury LEGEND, not to praise it. OK, ends up praising it a little. Two new episodes of Yelling About Movies drop this Friday. #YabtM 🎥 #film #movies #Cinemastodon #monly

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John Harden @giantspecks.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

Chris comes to bury LEGEND, not to praise it. OK, ends up praising it a little. Two new episodes of Yelling About Movies drop this Friday. #YabtM 🎥 #film #movies #Cinemastodon #monly

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John Harden @giantspecks.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

One became a horror classic, the other, a cult curiosity: this week on Yelling About Movies we discuss John Carpenter's THE THING (1982) and Ridley Scott's LEGEND (1985). Two new episodes of Yelling About Movies drop this Friday. #YabtM 🎥 #film #movies #Cinemastodon #monly

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John Harden @giantspecks.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

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