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Bryant Durrell @innocence.com · 03/10/2026

Happy #DayOfDredd! True story: my friend @cemurphy.bsky.social wrote me into Mega-City One so it’s a little bit my day too, I say.

Screenshot from a book. The text:

He mumbled, "M'name's Durrell," and rubbed his shoulder. "What the hell was that?”

"Aikido. What do you want, Durrell?"

His eyes shifted nervously. "Can we talk somewhere else?”

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Bryant Durrell @innocence.com · 02/10/2026

Most of this week's #LastFourWatched happened yesterday, and if that feels like a day full of societal critique, it was. I'm gonna turn off my brain and binge the OG RE movies this weekend. 📽️

Four movie posters, with ratings:

Digger: 3.5 stars
Bad Apples: 3.5 stars
Primetime: 4 stars
Resident Evil: 3 stars

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Bryant Durrell @innocence.com · 26/09/2026

Late breaking #LastFourFriday! Quiet week, in-laws in town, but I’m pretty happy with the mix. Should finish the Criterion Murderous Melodrama collection this weekend. 🎥

Four movie posters with star ratings:

Portrait in Black: 2 stars
The Weight: 4 stars
The Man In The White Suit: 3.5 stars
The Long Day Closes: 4 stars

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Bryant Durrell @innocence.com · 25/09/2026

He’s perfect. I have several minutes of this one and some pals playing around and I’m tempted to just keep uploading clips.

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Bryant Durrell @innocence.com · 18/09/2026

Agnes continues to be one of the two best cats, and Jacques isn’t much of a lap kitty (although he’s affectionate) so Agnes gets to be in all the photos. 🐈‍⬛

A black cat, sitting on a lap looking upwards happily.

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Bryant Durrell @innocence.com · 18/09/2026

The #LastFourWatched week started with a relevation of a movie from Francesco Rosi and continued well from there. Not in this post because I haven't logged it yet: To Sleep with Anger WOW. 📽️

Four movie posters, with ratings:

The Decline of the American Empire: 3 stars
Home from the Hill: 3 stars
World of Tomorrow Episode Two: The Burden of Other People's Thoughts: 4 stars
Christ Stopped at Eboli: 4 stars

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Bryant Durrell @innocence.com · 15/09/2026

Illustrious Corpses. To be fair I haven’t seen Army of Shadows yet.

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Bryant Durrell @innocence.com · 14/09/2026

For @cemurphy.bsky.social and any other Irish who’d be amused, my local coffee shop menu.

A nicely chalked coffee shop menu for Claddagh Coffee. There are the usual coffees, a weekend breakfast sandwich, and a range of signature lattes with goofy Irish names, from The Claddagh to O’Danny Boy to the Dropkick Murphy.

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Bryant Durrell @innocence.com · 14/09/2026

This is clickbait. The first ministers are meeting, yes, but it’s in their capacity as party leaders rather than as national leaders, and they’re affirming the right of their countries to seek independence, not declaring independence.

Bogus clickbait post from politicsuk.com:

“NEW: The leaders of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland will meet tomorrow to sign a joint declaration for all three countries to gain independence from the UK”

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Bryant Durrell @innocence.com · 11/09/2026

Happy #LastFourWatched. Apparently it was Sirk week in my household -- Imitation of Life made my top 100 list. 📽️

Four movie posters, with ratings:

Hope: 3 stars
Imitation of Life: 5 stars
Written on the Wind: 4 stars
Spartan: 3.5 stars

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Bryant Durrell @innocence.com · 09/09/2026

Darling Agnes enjoying the view from our new place. 🐈‍⬛

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Bryant Durrell @innocence.com · 05/09/2026

#LastFourFriday and I'm rolling again. An accidental 2026 release ppairing, a great Nicholas Ray, and a lovely stage adaptation. Good week. 📽️

Four movie posters, with ratings:

Coyote vs. Acme: 3.5 stars
Bigger Than Life: 4 stars
Buddy: 2.5 stars
One Night in Miami...: 4 stars

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Bryant Durrell @innocence.com · 03/09/2026

Dear Paramount: maybe catch up on more recent developments in Harry Knowles’ life before using his blurbs?

Text from a product listing for an upcoming Blu-ray:

“From Academy Award winning director Peter Jackson comes the extraordinary story about one girl's life, and everything that came after. When 14-year-old Susie Salmon was murdered, she left her unfinished life behind. But now from her place in a strange but beautiful in-between world, she must help her father catch her killer and protect her family before she can finally move on. Filled with thrilling suspense, hope and the redeeming power of love, it's ‘One of the best films of the year. Incredibly powerful.’ - Harry Knowles, Ain't it Cool News”

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Bryant Durrell @innocence.com · 03/09/2026

The great thing about moving is you gotta look at all the stuff you keep meaning to do something with and long story short I just ordered a frame to fix this lovely ink sketch of my old Living Forgotten Realms PC, Reed. He’s a halfling dragon sorcerer.

An ink sketch of a halfling, holding a spear and charging into battle. He’s surrounded by an energy construct shaped like a dragon, roaring furiously. At the bottom hand lettered text says “Reed’s Dragon Charge”. It’s signed “Peter”.

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Bryant Durrell @innocence.com · 02/09/2026

Without saying your age, what is your favorite movie that came out when you were 20 years old?

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Bryant Durrell @innocence.com · 30/08/2026

I read Quantico next, skipping way ahead in his career, and the women are not sidelined which is cool. Now I’m on the sequel, Mariposa, and I can see I’m gonna be fascinated by Bear’s politics for a while.

Several paragraphs from Greg Bear’s Mariposa:

“The following internal warning from the Federal Reserve and the Department of the Treasury has never been released to the public and, god willing, never will be.

In order to qualify for all necessary further loans from IFPC, the United States executive branch, with the agreement of the Federal Reserve, the Secretary of the Treasury, and three congressional committees, has agreed to a special troubled nation loan protocol.

Certain national assets are valued and offered up as collateral. Central authority is ultimately invested in an automated system known as MSARC—Mutual Strategic Asset Recovery and Control—which can trigger massive reallocations and call in loans, effectively putting a debtor nation into instant receivership.

Should MSARC decide to act, collateral assets guaranteed under the loan agreements will immediately be transferred to IFPC.

Financial corporations and investment funds around the world can then call the political shots through a Reallocation Committee.

If MSARC so decides, for the first time in our history, foreigners will hold almost complete economic and political control of—and so they will own—the United States of America.

MSARC poses the greatest threat to this nation since the Cold War—maybe greater.

And it’s our own damned fault. We do hate paying taxes, and we do love all our precious government services. Squealing piggies at the trough.”

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Bryant Durrell @innocence.com · 28/08/2026

Back in the saddle for #LastFourWatched -- all of these were watched in thw Twin Cities! Two very different thriller classics and a couple of pretty good movies with some flaws; venues included the local Alamo and MSP's Main Cinema. 📽️

Four movie posters, with ratings:

Cape Fear: 4 stars
Marie Antoinette: 3.5 stars
The End of Oak Street: 3.5 stars
The Fast and the Furious: 4 stars

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Bryant Durrell @innocence.com · 27/08/2026

We took a walk down our new street today and I was pleased by this view.

A quiet semi-urban street with cars parked along it. To the immediate right there’s a wall covered with icy; to the left you can see first trees, then a white three story house, and off in the distance a cathedral.

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Bryant Durrell @innocence.com · 26/08/2026

Hanging at the minor league baseball game right next to downtown, as you do.

The left side of CHS Field in St. Paul, stands not full half an hour before first pitch, with a brick building and skyscraper in the background.

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Bryant Durrell @innocence.com · 24/08/2026

Probably this isn’t my real answer but my 2026 answer is Matapanki, because you need a microbudget Chilean anti-fascist anti-colonialist punk superhero movie in your life.

Poster for Matapanki. The title of the movie is in big rough lettering across the top on a black background; the body of the poster is a black and white photo of an angry Chilean youth with a torn paper effect left to right covering his eyes. The inset left by the “tear” is red tinted showing the other characters in the movie.

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Bryant Durrell @innocence.com · 21/08/2026

And on the road again after charging up, eating an unassuming breakfast, and packing up the cats. Last leg, short day, almost at new home.

A highway sign with one arrow pointing upwards towards Bismarck and one pointing rightwards towards Minneapolis.

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Bryant Durrell @innocence.com · 20/08/2026

Thanks to @kerthulhu75.bsky.social we were inspired to stop off quickly at the Theodore Roosevelt National Park which uh wow. Just wow.

The North Dakota Badlands from the Painted Canyon Visitor Center. It’s all sandstone outcroppings and canyons and majestic vistas.

A closer photos of outcroppings in the North Dakota Badlands from the Painted Canyon Visitor Center.

One prominent outcropping on the canyon floor of the North Dakota Badlands from the Painted Canyon Visitor Center. It’s striated and gorgeous.

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Bryant Durrell @innocence.com · 20/08/2026

New best friend. Glendisarus is amazing.

A ten foot tall metal Triceratops statue from head on. He’s next to some light brush. He has a half-pugnacious, half-whimsical look.

Sideways view of the head of a ten foot tall metal Triceratops statue. You can see the road past him. His eye is a road reflector circle in red.

Couple of middle aged people in front of a ten foot tall metal Triceratops statue. The statue is out of focus. He’s on the left wearing a Scarecrow Video T-shirt, she’s on the right, they’re smiling.

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Bryant Durrell @innocence.com · 19/08/2026

The day wears on. Our sightseeing today is Greycliff Prairie Dog State Park, which is very small. Much like a prairie dog. They aren’t at all bashful; pardon the poor photo. We also drove past Livingston, and waved to I guess Kelly Reichardt filming locations.

A prairie dog chomping on grass. It’s the same color as the grass. There’s a burrow in front of it, also the same color as the grass.

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Bryant Durrell @innocence.com · 19/08/2026

Little piece of Seattle in Montana! I guess I do believe that Western-style teriyaki is Seattle’s food now.

A sign for dobi’s teriyaki with a stylized Seattle skyline, including a prominent Space Needle and half of Mount Rainer.

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Bryant Durrell @innocence.com · 19/08/2026

Art deco splendor at Cafe Mimosa in downtown Missoula. Good coffee. Good food.

A cafe, with big windows showing the street beyond. It’s decorated in gold and pink, with a small bar to the left. The light fixtures are angular floral designs in pink on the one side, and stepped cones on the other.

A cafe with floor to ceiling windows, open to the street.

Huevos rancheros in a white-enameled cast iron pan, with a hefty chunk of avocado and a nice chipotle drizzle on top.

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Bryant Durrell @innocence.com · 19/08/2026

Brief stop at Old Mission State Park, a Jesuit mission which is the oldest building remaining in Idaho. We’re not doing a ton of sightseeing on this trip but if something interesting is right off the highway, sure.

Outside the mission, looking north over the Rockies. There’s a gift shop/museum building down a hill.

The outside of the mission — a pretty standard mission, pillars on the outside, curved facade and a cross on top.

The altar and surrounding area inside the mission.

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Bryant Durrell @innocence.com · 18/08/2026

Brief pause along the Columbia River at Grandfather Cuts Loose the Ponies, first of many metal sculptures along our route.

Fifteen steel life sized sculptures of horses positioned as if galloping along a bluff in central Washington state.

View of the Columbia River and the I-90 bridge across it from a vista point above the highway.

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Bryant Durrell @innocence.com · 15/08/2026

My little void Agnes is taking care of me in her own way: lying against my stomach refusing to otherwise acknowledge me. Cats! Nice to know she noticed me feeling ill. (Old picture but it captures her spirit.)

Agnes, a black cat, sitting on my lap and looking away from me.

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Bryant Durrell @innocence.com · 14/08/2026

Awfully sporadic week for this #LastFourFriday -- our TV is packed. It was still fun watching Jean Rollins and Hideki Anno do their thing. Also I finally started World of Tomorrow -- thanks, Dropout! 📽️

Four movie posters, with ratings:

The Nude Vampire: 3.5 stars
Gunbuster: The Movie: 3.5 stars
Ready or Not 2: Here I Come: 3 stars
World of Tomorrow: 4 stars

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Bryant Durrell @innocence.com · 13/08/2026

Every time I see that shot of Gillian Anderson’s theatre in Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, I turn into a film bro and murmur “ah, the Bergman homage.” I think I’m making shit up. 🎥

Hannah Einbinder arriving at the cinema on Camp Miasma grounds. It’s a low slung building with a sign reading “cinema” above the double doors, and many windows. The background is a wintery wilderness with a mountain and trees covered in snow.

Ingmar Bergman’s private screening room on the island Faro. It’s a former barn, painted white.

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Bryant Durrell @innocence.com · 11/08/2026

Blast from my D&D 4e Living Forgotten Realms past, brought to you by the effort I’m investing in scanning all the gaming paperwork I’ve saved over the years: my fighter Collin.

Complex character sheet showing a level 9 fighter.

Reverse side of the fighter’s character sheet.

Second page of the fighter’s power cards

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Bryant Durrell @innocence.com · 10/08/2026

Jimothy’s older cousin? Spotted at Seattle’s Woodland Zoo.

A sloth bear curled around his food toy.

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Bryant Durrell @innocence.com · 08/08/2026

Cramming in one more #LastFourWatched before packing and moving really gets in the way of my movie viewing. Um, ignore that first one, I had to update an old short. Anyhow finally saw the Nolan; it was fine. 📽️

Four movie posters, with ratings:

In the Darkness of Time: 3.5 stars
The Odyssey: 4 stars
The Outlaw Josey Wales: 3.5 stars
A Special Day: 4.5 stars

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Bryant Durrell @innocence.com · 01/08/2026

Ballard stores are fully on the Jimothy bandwagon.

A hand-drawn sign on the front of a sliding door:

“Jimothy is on the loose. Find him in the store for a reward!”

There’s a picture of Jimothy between the two sentences.

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Bryant Durrell @innocence.com · 31/07/2026

Apparently after Fantasia I like watching classics. Come for the discovery of how cynical Minnelli could be, stay for the lukewarm Supergirl take. 📽️

Four movie posters, with ratings:

Some Came Running: 4 stars
Ninotchka: 4 stars
Supergirl: 3 stars
Wanda: 5 stars

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Bryant Durrell @innocence.com · 28/07/2026

Don’t make promises Sony can’t keep.

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Bryant Durrell @innocence.com · 28/07/2026

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn’t Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, or Alice In Chains.

The cover of Aimee Mann’s album I’m With Stupid, which is fridge magnets on a white fridge spelling out the title of the album and her name. At the bottom left of the photo she’s peering into the half open fridge.

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Bryant Durrell @innocence.com · 25/07/2026

It’s Juliette Binoche in Mauvais Sang, in part because Denis Lavant is such a thumb of a man he provides the perfect contrast. But I’d accept Binoche in anything she’s ever been in.

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Bryant Durrell @innocence.com · 19/07/2026

Bruce McDonald receiving the Canadian Trailblazer Award at #Fantasia2026, much to his surprise. “I’m gonna walk around the streets just holding this.” He seems delighted.

Bruce holding up a black statue of a pegasus in front of a movie screen.

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Bryant Durrell @innocence.com · 18/07/2026

Standing ovation from the audience for Jane Schoenbrun and Hannah Einbinder after Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma. #Fantasia2026 📽️

Theater full of people standing and cheering. The filmmakers are barely visible on the stage far below, in front of the Fantasia splash screen.

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Bryant Durrell @innocence.com · 17/07/2026

A fairly random #LastFourWatched which includes the first movie of Fantasia. The Huston really clarified to me why Burton was such a star.

Four movie posters, with ratings:

Kung Fu: 3 stars
Saturday Fiction: 3.5 stars
Habit: 4 stars
The Night of the Iguana: 4 stars

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Bryant Durrell @innocence.com · 16/07/2026

Landed in Montreal and found the right lockbox (in a cluster of 20 or so on a fence) to get us into our AirBnB. Good to be back. Time to sit around being mildly jealous of everyone who’s seeing the new Refn until it’s time for our late movie. #Fantasia2026

Rue Crescent in Montreal, from a balcony about ten floors up, looking north. The street is lined with bars and restaurants. You can see the plateau between a couple of buildings to the north.

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