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Kyle Tague @kyletague.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

For sure. I’m always game for big swings, and I respect this one. My comment is more directed at the self righteous crowd implying that anyone who didn’t love it didn’t get it.

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Kyle Tague @kyletague.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Here’s the thing about DIGGER: You can pick up what it’s putting down and still not like the execution

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Kyle Tague @kyletague.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

With that said… impressive production design

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Kyle Tague @kyletague.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The Netflix WONKA game show is bizarre and dystopian. BEAST GAMES with Wonka theming. So many disillusioned or infuriated contestants get eliminated — losing their shot at winning three million very real dollars — and refuse to play along with their whimsical staged demises

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Kyle Tague @kyletague.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Boo box, door, fabric pull away, blind corner, puppet My bigger issue is I shouldn’t be able to clock where all the scares will come from as I enter the room. It was bizarrely telegraphed in many spots (though Dead Deader Deadest fared best overall in this respect I think)

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Kyle Tague @kyletague.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It felt like a budget year, but it was admittedly an impressive use of existing resources (with Stranger Things and Sinners getting the bulk of the new investments). After attending Orlando's event a few nights a week before... Hollywood has to mix up its scare tactics more.

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Kyle Tague @kyletague.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Yeah this absolutely means they’re using generative AI. What a farce.

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Kyle Tague @kyletague.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

You would like The Secret Millionaire on Netflix, which feels like a ripoff because it basically is, but with significantly sounder game mechanics and incentives like what you’re describing

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Kyle Tague @kyletague.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

STOLEN KINGDOM - the documentary about urban exploration and backstage pillaging in Disney theme parks - is really terrific. Remarkably distills many years of hyper-niche drama and mystery into an airtight 74 minutes, revealing the psyches of a variety of notorious personalities along the way.

A poster for the STOLEN KINGDOM documentary

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Kyle Tague @kyletague.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I irritated my ulnar nerve by sleeping funny on a plane. The nerve needs rest so that it can heal, but that means I can't use my dominant hand for most everyday tasks. Typing this post took 3x longer than it should've. With all the work I need to get done, not ideal!

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Kyle Tague @kyletague.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

My wife’s first comment coming out of the theater was “I wonder how he really feels about children.”

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Kyle Tague @kyletague.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

There were definitely some, uh… less than great outfits given the family environment. Despite expanding from last year, the event is clearly struggling operationally, too.

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Kyle Tague @kyletague.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Really fabulous news on all fronts!

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Kyle Tague @kyletague.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

There is a noticeably strange lack of Fast & Furious in the new Fast & Furious ride!

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Kyle Tague @kyletague.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Visited Six Flags Magic Mountain for the first time in a year-ish yesterday. Operations have meaningfully improved. Every open coaster was running two trains, with reasonably swift dispatch times. Short queues. Twisted Colossus and Scream were closed without notice, but that's Six Flags for you!

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Kyle Tague @kyletague.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Yeah, that and the baby as the 30th pledge are winners. Otherwise... more misses than hits, I think

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Kyle Tague @kyletague.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Programmed a double feature of ANIMAL HOUSE and THE HOUSE BUNNY last night. The latter is... so *weird.* Anna Faris is game as always, but it's a PG-13 movie about an orphaned Playboy bunny sexifying a loser sorority. The rating is a dead-weight anchor, neutering the comedy and mandating innuendo.

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Kyle Tague @kyletague.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I’d love to win the lottery so I could fund Jane Schoenbrun’s films indefinitely

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Kyle Tague @kyletague.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

You joke, but that sounds like a pitch that would sell 🫣

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Kyle Tague @kyletague.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I figure Coco is Rapunzel’s Lantern Festival as Avatar is to Anna & Elsa’s Frozen Journey. Not bad.

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Kyle Tague @kyletague.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

*very* much the same energy as Great Choice.

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Kyle Tague @kyletague.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

BUFFET INFINITY has the sauce. I’ve seen chatter around here singing its praises, but frankly I think folks are underselling the unique blend of absurd humor and cosmic horror. Drops on Shudder soon, but it’s worth the money to rent, too. Go in as blind as possible.

The poster for the film Buffet Infinity, featuring an oversized burger dripping with an unknown liquid

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Kyle Tague @kyletague.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

The rollout is a total mess, but I guess the latest is that after 2PM guests *can* access during normal park hours (before they inevitably cut off the line, I guess). Express guests who bought before the change may (?) have one-time access honored. RIP guests likely get to ride once before dinner.

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Kyle Tague @kyletague.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I think the most effective slashers do this. FRIDAY THE 13TH copies that intent/formula pretty well, with the carnage only becoming widely apparent in that final third, if memory serves. Once the transition occurs, you're basically stuck with cat-and-mouse, survival mode, and chases.

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Kyle Tague @kyletague.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

There’s two parts to most slashers: Before and after a critical mass of principal characters realize that killings are happening and a slasher is at large.

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Kyle Tague @kyletague.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

But LAND OF THE LOST, you say...

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Kyle Tague @kyletague.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

You know you’ve really settled into a neighborhood when the staff at your go-to Thai carryout place greet you by name. (Pink Pepper in Hollywood is great!)

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Kyle Tague @kyletague.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I have no reason to be there (so it's easy to make this decision), but after that first deadly collision, I concluded I wouldn't fly into Washington, D.C. until the current administration leaves office.

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Kyle Tague @kyletague.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I hear you. I literally scare acted for their event for 5 seasons and know all the tricks, and I still jump and holler in these things constantly. I expect there’ll be some great POV videos!

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Kyle Tague @kyletague.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

This is going to be so good. The facade for the haunted house is pretty perfect.

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Kyle Tague @kyletague.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Congrats on a great run, and sorry to hear if it wasn't your decision. Onward to even bigger and cooler things!

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Kyle Tague @kyletague.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

(these are bigger factors than most people want to acknowledge, I suspect)

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Kyle Tague @kyletague.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

The craft alone is pretty overwhelmingly awesome

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Kyle Tague @kyletague.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I suppose we’re talking about this and not the Depp of it all… but I’m not sure it’ll work out if the distraction calls attention to the apparent redundancy of the film’s premise

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Kyle Tague @kyletague.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Never mind that A CHRISTMAS CAROL very much depicts the exploits of Ebenezer’s younger years! It’s the whole Ghost of Christmas Past thing! What are we doing here.

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Kyle Tague @kyletague.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

What in the world is this tagline? I’m pretty sure Ebenezer was *always* Scrooge. There’s no before/after. It’s his literal last name!

The baffling film poster for Ti West’s Ebenezer, whose confounding tagline reads “Before He was Scrooge He Was…”

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Kyle Tague @kyletague.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I was delighted that if you watch closely, you can see his head tilts back slightly as he “anticipates” the next beat

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Kyle Tague @kyletague.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

There've been a handful of houses whose corresponding films didn't release in theaters until the event was half over! Crimson Peak basically spoiled the entire plot

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Kyle Tague @kyletague.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

That evolution was probably necessary, but it's been interesting to see the museum move away from the more critical and academic dissection of film/Hollywood history and shift toward a softer, safer "aren't the movies grand?!" bent. More interested in mythmaking than ugly truths.

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Kyle Tague @kyletague.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

The new(ish?) PONYO exhibit was also a letdown. More of a playground for children than anything befitting a legitimate museum. I hadn't realized they've rotated out many of the core exhibitions that opened with the facility and had been in place for years.

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Kyle Tague @kyletague.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Really dug the JAWS exhibition at the Academy Museum. Thorough, packed with neat artifacts, and frequently clever in its efforts to engage visitors. Learned quite a few things! The new Marilyn Monroe exhibit, sadly, was a disappointment. Shockingly surface level and mostly a collection of costumes.

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Kyle Tague @kyletague.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

We finished the assembly cut for my new movie, PREVIOUS TENANT, after some pickups on Sunday. Deeply proud of our cast and crew. Took me quite a bit longer than I would've liked, but one's wedding, a three-week honeymoon, and a new job tend to introduce delays.

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Kyle Tague @kyletague.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

No idea if this is true but I’m going to trust you

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Kyle Tague @kyletague.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Breathtakingly tone deaf as usual! Retire!

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Kyle Tague @kyletague.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

I actually really dig the first Minions. It's very "Three Stooges" and packed with great gags and hijinks.

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Kyle Tague @kyletague.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

I get they want to test their Coco animatronic tech in a real-world environment, but good lord is this misguided.

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Kyle Tague @kyletague.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Flat rides, some junior coasters, some entertainment. The latter looks solid for the target audience. But that slate could really work with typical Universal-quality theming. They just didn’t execute at that level here. There’s barely any theming at all.

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Kyle Tague @kyletague.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

I just don’t think you can in good faith use the word “immersive” to describe any of the new Universal Kids Park’s lands. They are empirically not. I get Universal marketing is going to abuse the word like everyone else, but I’m also seeing “creators” say it without irony, and it’s… revealing.

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