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Ryan Robotham @ryanjrobotham.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Build a trilogy out of 3 unrelated films...

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Ryan Robotham @ryanjrobotham.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It was either the Wicked Witch from The Wizard of Oz or the drowning music in the original Sonic the Hedgehog games.

The Wicked Witch of the West from The Wizard of Oz (1939)

Running underwater in Sonic the Hedgehog 2

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Ryan Robotham @ryanjrobotham.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Looking back, I think my relationship with films, books, TV and music improved as my relationship with neurodivergence improved, especially possibly having AuDHD. It meant living in the real world, and having less time for them as I get older, but it means I cherish them all the more.

The Lord of the Rings trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien

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Ryan Robotham @ryanjrobotham.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"Illustration isn't art." Seriously though, The Sand Horse was one of the most haunting books I ever read when I was very little, and the gorgeous illustrations are a core reason why.

The Sand Horse
Story by Ann Turnbull
Pictures by Michael Foreman

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Ryan Robotham @ryanjrobotham.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The Descent Up until lockdown, this was a movie I refused to watch! Monsters screaming in your face in an enclosed echoey cave? Nah! And I don't think it's a coincidence that my beard started turning grey when I did get to it!

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Ryan Robotham @ryanjrobotham.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

"I've been denied everything, EVEN MY REVENGE!" - Goliath from Gargoyles

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Ryan Robotham @ryanjrobotham.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

This is practically the current WW3 tensions news coverage in the UK: Today on the Daily Wormtongue - "Helm's Deep has one weakness!"

"Helm's Deep has one weakness, it's outer wall is solid rock but for a small culvert at its base, which is little more than a drain."

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Ryan Robotham @ryanjrobotham.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Share a movie soundtrack you love from the 2000s. 🎥🎶💿

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Ryan Robotham @ryanjrobotham.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

And now, some of Coyote vs ACME's imagery and commentary feels resonant of the 2008 financial crisis, and it's disturbing how little it's aged. James Gunn and Jeremy Slater began developing the story in 2015 which is close enough to the crash for it to have some influence, even unintentionally.

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Ryan Robotham @ryanjrobotham.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I’m not religious but i believe in several holy trinities

Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimli in The Lord of the Rings

Broadway, Lexington, and Brooklyn from Gargoyles

Dusk, Thorn and Luna, The Hex Girls from Scooby Doo and the Witch's Ghost

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Ryan Robotham @ryanjrobotham.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

The Wright Way, a Ben Elton sitcom from 2013 about health and safety inspectors (yes, really) that somehow managed to take all the things that made Elton's work on the police sitcom, The Thin Blue Line divisive (a show I just find okay), and did them worse!

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Ryan Robotham @ryanjrobotham.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Repost if your account is a safe place for the trans community 💙🩷🤍

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Ryan Robotham @ryanjrobotham.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

It's just occurred to me that even if Coyote vs ACME never mentions or intended it, Wyle E. Coyote's history as the overconfident but bumbling villain of his cartoon shorts inherently lends itself to the relevant issue of "perfect victim" sentiment.

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Ryan Robotham @ryanjrobotham.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Twister might actually be one of the most accurate depictions of AuDHD, bordering on a case study, before neurodivergent depictions in media were more widely intentional and explicit, especially the love triangle as a cautionary tale about masking as a harmful foundation for relationships.

Helen Hunt as Jo Harding and Bill Paxton as Bill Harding

Alan Ruck as Rabbit, Phillip Seymour Hoffman as Dusty Davis, and Sean Whalen as Sanders

Bill Paxton as Bill Harding and Jami Gertz as Melissa Reeves

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Ryan Robotham @ryanjrobotham.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

This is Disney Animation's second longest film after Fantasia, and it doesn't need to be!

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Ryan Robotham @ryanjrobotham.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Tony Goldwyn for me. The voice of Disney's Tarzan himself.

Tony Goldwyn in One Battle After Another

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Ryan Robotham @ryanjrobotham.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

90s Neurodivergent Interdependence Double-Bill

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Ryan Robotham @ryanjrobotham.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Drop a FanCast of Your Own. Dan Stevens as David Xanatos from Gargoyles

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Ryan Robotham @ryanjrobotham.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

I definitely liked the Speak No Evil remake better, and it's for this reason, in the original, the only ND coded characters were the children, and they figuratively and literally had no say in the matter. Here, they're still ND coded, but they have actual more-than-the-bare-minimum agency! (1/2)

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Ryan Robotham @ryanjrobotham.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Tim Curry and Tony Jay, they were EVERYWHERE in the 90s and early 2000s, and I'm still finding obscure roles they played.

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Ryan Robotham @ryanjrobotham.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Something about Scott's blowup on TV in X-Men 97 speaks to me as an autistic; it's hard enough to explain your choices and emotions, but in a world that seemingly knows better, it soon becomes clear that your accommodation, what's fair, what's rude and polite, it's still as conditional as before.

Cyclops/Scott Summers: Because you're normal.

Cyclops/Scott Summers: Because I have to stomach your questions and prove that I'm a person.

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Ryan Robotham @ryanjrobotham.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

The fact that Coyote vs ACME is considered "indie" now, even by the term's loose definition today, feels like the perfect metaphor for how things that seemed like no-brainers for successful filmmaking and storytelling, for ANY type of movie, hell, any medium, for adults or children, feel fringe now!

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Ryan Robotham @ryanjrobotham.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

#DisclosureDay With a terrific cast of performances from Emily Blunt down to the extras, the heartstopping visuals, John Williams' powerful score, and the engaging thriller plot, Spielberg brings his classic style of entertainment, suspense, and heart right into modern issues.

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Ryan Robotham @ryanjrobotham.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

#MastersOfTheUniverse Travis Knight brings the world of Eternia to life with visuals and action straight out of Saturday morning, and the performances are terrific, even... that guy, you just have to be forgiving of that awkward moment/self aware humour style which is running on fumes at this point.

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Ryan Robotham @ryanjrobotham.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

The original Speak No Evil from 2022 might be one of the most nihilistically neurotypical films I think I've ever seen in my life, and I think I hate it!

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Ryan Robotham @ryanjrobotham.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

#Backrooms Creepy atmosphere, scares that range from fun to disturbing, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Renate Reinsve give intense performances, and Parsons has great potential as a director, even if the plot, and the lore as presented on its own might leave you a bit lost.

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Ryan Robotham @ryanjrobotham.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Just about to book my ticket for Backrooms. Up front, outside of the teaser, I'm going in blind, I'm not familiar with the creepypasta, and I don't know if it's an "I'm old" thing, an "outside my autism range" thing or both, but I don't even know what a creepypasta is.

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Ryan Robotham @ryanjrobotham.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

It's stupid to get emotionally invested in animation. Cartoons can't hurt you. The Cartoon:

The Butcher Bird impaling baby fieldmice on thorns in The Animals of Farthing Wood

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Ryan Robotham @ryanjrobotham.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

The premise of the SWAT Kats revival comic; villains subjugating the system through control of technology, and our neurodivergent heroes have to contend with getting older, and their lifetime of minimum wage work and ambitious side-hustling coming to nothing! Everything's a millennial metaphor now!

SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron - Megakat City Has Fallen

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Ryan Robotham @ryanjrobotham.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

#Hokum If you liked the haunted house/murder mystery fun of Oddity, you'll like Damian McCarthy's scary hotel thrill ride with plenty of suspense and creepy imagery with a great performance from Adam Scott at the centre.

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Ryan Robotham @ryanjrobotham.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Madkat from SWAT Kats, a British comedian possessed by a ghost jester lashing out at people who don't find him funny. On a rewatch, I wasn't even TRYING to make connections to Ricky Gervais or Russell Brand, but Roddy McDowell's vocal choices feel eerily prophetic! He even says "You're cancelled!"

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Ryan Robotham @ryanjrobotham.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

My take on the Ted Turner/SWAT Kats thing is "both things are true," the executives misconstrued his stance on IMITABLE violence and their incompetent network/merchandise meddling got it cancelled, but Turner should've read the room given how reactionary the issue of media violence has always been!

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Ryan Robotham @ryanjrobotham.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Journey to Jo'burg, one of my favourite books from when I was about 10 or 11, it was such an emotionally intense read about poverty, racism, and systemic violence in the apartheid years of South Africa, I'm surprised I finished it at that age. I consider it required reading.

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Ryan Robotham @ryanjrobotham.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

#TheSheepDetectives Charming performances from the humans to the vocal work for the sheep, the comedy, both dialogue and slapstick, is perfectly written, you'll find one bawler for every chuckle... and you'll be bawling for how surprisingly sad and heartbreaking its themes of memory are.

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Ryan Robotham @ryanjrobotham.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Bit of a deep cut, but A Man There Was from 1917, based on Henrik Ibsen's poem, Terje Vigen.

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Ryan Robotham @ryanjrobotham.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Just finished watching Fruitvale Station; obviously it's great to see Ryan Coogler's feature debut, a masterfully crafted film, compelling visual storytelling, raw yet tender character writing and acting, and the build-up to its historically bitter end is stomach churning.

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Ryan Robotham @ryanjrobotham.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

I used to find Barton Fink and Inside Llewyn Davis self-indulgent and judgemental of struggling artists. Watching Blue Moon after seeing the extent of Gamergate's societal influence, I now see the Coens and Linklater self-conceptualising as the failed artist to be both therapeutic and empathetic.

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Ryan Robotham @ryanjrobotham.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Just from film, the success of Superman won't stop the Paramount-WB merger, the success of Hoppers won't stop Pixar pivoting from "director's catharsis" and "family therapy," the success of Project Hail Mary was mired by Andy Weir revealing that some writers who use subtext ARE cowards! (2/2)

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Ryan Robotham @ryanjrobotham.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

The problem people have with "hopecore" seems less about it being a thing, more over the unconscious need for the capitalist status quo to validate it, because that needs is why every radical empathy-based counterculture movement since the 60s become dying trends faster than they get popular. (1/2)

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Ryan Robotham @ryanjrobotham.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

🎶You're Playing With the Big Boys Now.🎶 🎶Playing With the Big Boys Now.🎶 Oh that's pretty.

Hotep and Huy about to sing "Playing with the Big Boys" in The Prince of Egypt (1998)

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Ryan Robotham @ryanjrobotham.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Post your favourite film from the year you turned 18.

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Ryan Robotham @ryanjrobotham.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

#TheDrama It's a fluffy romcom skinned alive as Zendaya and Robert Pattinson play a couple whose wedding plans fall apart over a dark secret in a dark comedy that's both and so messed up in its humour that you will cringe for laughing in public!

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Ryan Robotham @ryanjrobotham.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

What makes Moses running away in The Prince of Egypt so devastating is Rameses genuinely wants to help, but when you realise or experience something inherently wrong with your upbringing, talking can't solve it. It's not that you can't explain it, it's that they fundamentally WON'T UNDERSTAND IT!

Moses telling Rameses "Go ask the man I once called 'Father.'" in The Prince of Egypt (1998)

Moses running away in The Prince of Egypt (1998)

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