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Jonathan Watkins

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I spent nine years writing for CinemaSins. I still spend way too much time thinking about movies. Now I write about them at Reel Fixation. www.reel-fixation.com Letterboxd: boxd.it/8aB9

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Jonathan Watkins @samloomis13.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Halloween III: Season of the Witch was dismissed for years because Michael Myers wasn’t in it. Now I sometimes wonder if the pendulum has swung too far in the other direction. Franchise Fixation continues with Halloween’s strangest sequel. 🎃 www.reel-fixation.com/franchise-fi...
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Halloween III: Season of the Witch — From Underrated to Almost Overrated?
Michael Myers is gone. Killer masks, androids, Stonehenge, and one unforgettable commercial take his place. Revisiting Halloween’s strangest sequel 44 years later.
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Jonathan Watkins @samloomis13.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I bet you didn't realize you needed a ridiculously long review of Halloween II tonight, but I've got you covered. My trip through the Halloween franchise continues at Reel Fixation. 🎃 www.reel-fixation.com/franchise-fi...
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Franchise Fixation: Halloween II (1981)
The night he came home isn't over yet, but three years later, horror had already changed.
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Jonathan Watkins @samloomis13.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
So, I started a thing. After nine years writing silly jokes about movies for CinemaSins, I decided it was time to write about why I actually love them (and sometimes why I don't). It's called Reel Fixation—retrospectives, franchise deep dives & movie/TV rabbit holes. www.reel-fixation.com
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Reel Fixation
Obsessed with movies. Focused on the details.
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Jonathan Watkins @samloomis13.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Oh. I read that but I didn’t remember for some reason.
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Jonathan Watkins @samloomis13.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Jaws is one right? What’s the 2nd one?
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Jonathan Watkins @samloomis13.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Been there
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Jonathan Watkins @samloomis13.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
I wish I enjoyed Primate as much as everyone else seems to be.
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Jonathan Watkins @samloomis13.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Violent Night is essentially an ‘80s kid movie with a little more gore thrown in, but not as much as you’d think.
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Jonathan Watkins @samloomis13.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Watching Paul W.S. Anderson’s debut film, Shopping, and it is wild someone watched this and said “Get that man a fucking Mortal Kombat movie.” I mean I’m glad they did, but weird that this led to that.
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Jonathan Watkins @samloomis13.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
I wish there was someone whose job it was to just resurrect Fred Dekker projects that were never made. His Godzilla movie sounds awesome for instance. And I get his Predator movie has flaws, but I still kind of love it. www.joblo.com/fred-dekker-...
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Fred Dekker wrote a scrapped Cliffhanger sequel called Cliffhangers
Next year, we're getting a Cliffhanger reboot, but it won't be based on a script Fred Dekker wrote called Cliffhangers
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Jonathan Watkins @samloomis13.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Very nice, It: Welcome to Derry. Very nice.
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Jonathan Watkins @samloomis13.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
He’s a huge blind spot for me.
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Jonathan Watkins @samloomis13.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
I prefer Trespass anyways
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Jonathan Watkins @samloomis13.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Looks like I’ll be in the minority, but Zootopia 2 didn’t really work for me. Felt like a rehash of the first one’s point-of-view and not done as well, and committed a lot of sequel sins that always bother me. There were still fun moments, but just not enough for me personally.
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Jonathan Watkins @samloomis13.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
She really does
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Jonathan Watkins @samloomis13.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Sisu: Road to Revenge is as insane and entertaining as the first Sisu. I hope showing this as the Screen Unseen gets more eyes on it because this is a movie to enjoy with big crowds. #AMCscreenunseen
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Jonathan Watkins @samloomis13.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
I’m not a huge fan of most of the Disney live action remakes I’ve seen, but I also don’t understand why the existence of them pisses so many people off. The originals still exist.
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Jonathan Watkins @samloomis13.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Now You See Me Now You Don’t is silly fun in the best way. A nice surprise.
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Jonathan Watkins @samloomis13.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Biggest complaint about The Running Man 2025 is not enough Katy O’Brian.
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Jonathan Watkins @samloomis13.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Man, I’m not sure I’m capable of disliking an Osgood Perkins movie, so with that being said, I really liked Keeper.
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Jonathan Watkins @samloomis13.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Been trying to hit 52 books for the last several years and never quite got there and this year did it with 49 days left. I’d like to thank the Academy…
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Jonathan Watkins @samloomis13.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
I don’t get the phones either. But to each their own and all that.
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Jonathan Watkins @samloomis13.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
get to know your mutuals! list 10 random things you like 1. Sushi 2. Chicago Cubs 3. The Thin Man franchise 4. Libraries 5. Kurt Vonnegut novels 6. White Water Rafting 7. Fall leaves 8. Miami 9. Banana Pudding 10. Diet Dr. Pepper
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Jonathan Watkins @samloomis13.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Watching 1947’s The Unsuspected. This might be the most underrated classic film noir that I’ve seen. Gets better every time I watch it, and it’s one of my favorite Audrey Totter performances. Claude Rains is great as well. #Noirvember
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Jonathan Watkins @samloomis13.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
I loved it. Kind of amazing how there’s never an era when a “body snatchers” story doesn’t work.
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Jonathan Watkins @samloomis13.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Same. Love locked room mysteries.
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Jonathan Watkins @samloomis13.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Episode 1 of Pluribus is 🔥
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Jonathan Watkins @samloomis13.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
And agree on Devil’s Backbone.
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Jonathan Watkins @samloomis13.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
I don’t know that I will but it’s a movie that I found enough interesting about it, I could see myself giving it another chance down the road.
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Jonathan Watkins @samloomis13.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Apologies. I was just recounting my experience with it. I definitely wasn’t questioning what you said.
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Jonathan Watkins @samloomis13.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
I did get to see it in a theater in 94 but not sure how wide the release was.
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Jonathan Watkins @samloomis13.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
It’s a movie I would say is worth a watch. But yeah, I’m glad Yorgos exists, but he’s hit or miss for me.
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Jonathan Watkins @samloomis13.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
I did not like Bugonia, but will not be shocked if I like it better in multiple viewings.
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Jonathan Watkins @samloomis13.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Are there people who think all PG-13 movies are terrible and all R-rated films are great? Because, a lot of these comments about the rating of Predator: Badlands seem to be saying that. And they’re mostly coming from accounts who clearly love them some PG-13 superhero films.
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Jonathan Watkins @samloomis13.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Really excited to see Predator: Badlands. I still maintain this franchise is one of the very few with more than three entries that doesn’t have a single bad movie in it. I’m not counting the “vs. Predator” ones.
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Jonathan Watkins @samloomis13.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
First 2 episodes of It: Welcome to Derry are so good.
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Jonathan Watkins @samloomis13.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
When I see “Best of Television” lists, I always feel the need to remind people there was great television made prior to 2000. A ton actually.
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Jonathan Watkins @samloomis13.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
The best decision Miramax made when they had the rights to the Halloween franchise was casting Busta Rhymes, and you’ll never convince me otherwise.
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Jonathan Watkins @samloomis13.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Hell yeah, Scream 7! Let’s do this!
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Jonathan Watkins @samloomis13.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
I’m totally fine with movies being different from the books, but this was one that bugged me a little more than most but still a very fun movie.
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Jonathan Watkins @samloomis13.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Wasn’t sure what to expect from It: Welcome to Derry, but I will say the first episode was pretty fantastic.
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Jonathan Watkins @samloomis13.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
I do enjoy this movie. I do wish they had kept the Pendergast character in and we got more books in the series adapted though.
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Jonathan Watkins @samloomis13.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
I don’t know if we have that here or not but I’ll give the candy to whomever and I have a 14 year old daughter that is still going to do it this year.
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Jonathan Watkins @samloomis13.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Bugonia worked for me until it didn’t. And man, when it stopped working it just went off a cliff.
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Jonathan Watkins @samloomis13.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Secured my ticket to see GDT’s Frankenstein next week on the big screen @belcourttheatre.bsky.social and cannot wait!
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Jonathan Watkins @samloomis13.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Doing an X-Files rewatch. Today’s episode is Eve, which was the episode where I realized this was must watch TV for the foreseeable future back in 1993.
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Jonathan Watkins @samloomis13.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Hate it for the Mariners fans but go Jays, fuck the Dodgers.
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Jonathan Watkins @samloomis13.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
I knew the had to be a Curtains reference. I hope this gets more people to check out Curtains. www.slashfilm.com/1999123/blac...
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The Forgotten '80s Horror Movie That Inspired Black Phone 2 Director Scott Derrickson - SlashFilm
Black Phone 2 has been drawing parallels to Freddy Krueger and A Nightmare on Elm Street, but a forgotten '80s slasher was a horrific inspiration.
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Jonathan Watkins @samloomis13.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
And you clearly had 22 gajillion. I don’t know why you’re being so modest.
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Jonathan Watkins @samloomis13.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Great pun
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