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Shane Wilson @shanewilson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

My run of Halloween horrors kicks off with an insane asylum adventure in which no one is what they seem… unless they seem crazy cause, yeah, they’re all crazy. Patrick McGoohan? Amanda Plummer? Some British guy who’d rather be doing Shakespeare? (No, seriously, he’s in Branagh’s HENRY V.) Let’s go.

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Shane Wilson @shanewilson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It’s Jim Henson’s 90th birthday! I chose to mark the occasion by watching a pair of his early experiments in filmmaking: the Oscar-nominated surreal dream TIME PIECE and the existential nightmare THE CUBE. See what an anxious, fretful Henson looked like years before Boober Fraggle.

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Shane Wilson @shanewilson.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

For the first time ever, I made bagels. Boiled ‘em and everything. And they’re actually pretty tasty. L’shana tovah, everyone.

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Shane Wilson @shanewilson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Claire Denis’ particular gift is dispensing with narrative, jettisoning linear time, erasing the reliability of character, and making you love her for all of it. The intruder is coming from inside the chest cavity, and L’INTRUS is coming at you from all directions.

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Shane Wilson @shanewilson.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

If you’re going to build a film around a hero who is a sentient placenta, you had best not miss your opportunity to be weird. Through extreme earnestness, this film hits the target squarely.

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Shane Wilson @shanewilson.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

One for the great Cassandra Wilson, whose “New Moon Daughter” is one of the best albums, full stop.

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Shane Wilson @shanewilson.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

We all know that the mind of a teenager is a twisty labyrinth with wildly changing climates, random side passages, and complete unpredictability. But what if you could see that for yourself? I give you the movie that puts the whole messy landscape on display.

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Shane Wilson @shanewilson.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Raise a stein to the Czech filmmakers back in 1967 who realized that the most potent nuclear apocalypse isn’t the one with all the death and destruction. It’s the one where all basic humanity has been stripped away. Seek out apocalyptic fantasies elsewhere.

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Shane Wilson @shanewilson.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

@klobuchar.senate.gov Senator, we thought you’d be interested to know that our son moved into his new dorm room today.

Door sign outside Yale University, Farnam Hall Room A32.

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Shane Wilson @shanewilson.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

This is the superhero movie Marvel doesn’t have the guts to make. And with good reason, because it’s crazy, operatic, and over-the-top, with every character coming out worse for the journey. You think the next Avengers movie is gonna be like that?

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Shane Wilson @shanewilson.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

It’s a pair of shorts from the Queue de la Weird. One is about cruelty to children, one is about cruelty to human-sized chickens. Strangely, one is more affecting than the other. Think you can guess which? Hint: they both feature eating bugs.

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Shane Wilson @shanewilson.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Well, whaddaya know. If it isn’t Rip Torn, sexual dynamo. Come watch the first film to combine the pseudo-documentary genre and found footage with the death of the sexual revolution. See you in Kip’s Bay!

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Shane Wilson @shanewilson.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

This is just an A+ headline. All facts, and yet all shade.

An AP headline reading “Trump talks up the economy at a Las Vegas casino”.

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Aaron Meyers @aaronmeyers.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

"Today is August 4, 2026" There Will Come Soft Rains By: Ray Bradbury

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Shane Wilson @shanewilson.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Well, my son was supposed to play Lollapalooza this evening, but the rain put the kibosh on that. Curse you, gods!

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Shane Wilson @shanewilson.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Judging from how many of their dumb ads I see, I expect to learn soon that Meowdoku is owned by Shen Yun.

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Shane Wilson @shanewilson.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

If you wanted to showcase the music of your favorite chanteuse — Grace Chang, for example — you could do a lot worse than making her songs the soundtrack to your sad elegy about the slow-motion collapse of society due to environmental catastrophe and a pandemic that turns people into roaches.

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Shane Wilson @shanewilson.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

It’s fun to look back at when Paul Verhoeven’s whole DGAF thing was working to his advantage. “More crazy?”says Paul. “Don’t mind if I do.”

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Shane Wilson @shanewilson.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Hey, remember that time Newsboys made a movie? Ok, I’ll back up. Remember Newsboys? Hmm, alright… are you familiar with the genre contemporary Christian music? Great, well, imagine one of those bands decides the time is right for a vaguely surreal romp through a circus, and you get this.

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Shane Wilson @shanewilson.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Maine, the choice is obvious.

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Shane Wilson @shanewilson.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Hang on… has anyone ever seen Mitch McConnell and Tom Kean, Jr. at the same time? Suspicious.

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Shane Wilson @shanewilson.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

With documentaries, the weird factor is often not measured in the moviemaking as much as it is in the subject of the movie. So it goes with this one, following a monomaniac who shields his nuttiness behind scholarship. For the Einstein fan, it might be a disappointment.

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Shane Wilson @shanewilson.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

The economically disadvantaged being plied with sex and drink to distract them from their condition? Mental illness exploited? Smacked down every time they try to better themselves? Yeah, that’s so 1971. You certainly wouldn’t see anything like that today, right? Shuji Terayama would like a word.

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366 Weird Movies @366weirdmovies.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

"...a recursive loop drags [Rose] and her friend Greta into the inescapable maze of the cornfield, with escape leading inevitably back to the farmhouse. It’s very nearly 'Groundhog Day' meets 'Drag Me to Hell'."--Shane Wilson (@shanewilson.bsky.social) on "Rows" (2015)

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IT CAME FROM THE READER-SUGGESTED QUEUE: ROWS (2015)

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Shane Wilson @shanewilson.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

“What’s your favorite idea? Mine is being creative!” I’m delighted to write about this hilarious horror show that is definitely not for kids, even if the aesthetic is more kid-friendly than some shows actually aimed at children. Web shorts and full-length episodes alike are fun and terrifying.

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Shane Wilson @shanewilson.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Me and the Coen boys have a real hit-and-miss history. However, this one worked for me. With what may be their final collaboration; Joel & Ethan have revealed the Old West for the mix of spectacular beauty and rueful kismet that it is.

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Shane Wilson @shanewilson.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

I’m way behind on sharing my reviews, so let’s start catching up this fascinating curiosity that starts out slow and weird and ends up slow, introspective, emotional, transgressive, and weird. Bring it on, Card People!

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Shane Wilson @shanewilson.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

@joewilson.bsky.social Happy Birthday! Sorry for steering Dad away from you, but he’ll be there soon enough.

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Shane Wilson @shanewilson.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: anyone who manages to cobble together a script and a cast, who captures those words on film or video, and edits them into a complete feature has accomplished something remarkable. By this standard, DAYMAKER is a huge achievement. And I’ll stop there.

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Shane Wilson @shanewilson.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Come for Glen Campbell singing like Elvis. Leave because the movie never gives Glen Campbell the chance to sing like Elvis. Come on, movie, make with the rooster who sings like Elvis!

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Shane Wilson @shanewilson.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

You have to hand it to the curators of this house of horrors: they manage to combine more that 20 different artistic styles and animation techniques into a unified whole purely by virtue of an unrelenting tempo and an embrace of shock value. It certainly never wavers.

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Shane Wilson @shanewilson.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

A very happy Sondheim-Shatner birthday to all who celebrate.

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Shane Wilson @shanewilson.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Finally, the film that brings together the two plot elements that were always meant to be together: punk rock with conjoined twins.

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Shane Wilson @shanewilson.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Holy crap, I think I won my Oscar pool.

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Shane Wilson @shanewilson.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Well, that last-second screening of Elio isn't gonna happen, so I think we can bring down the curtain on this year's Oscar nominee binge. And it was a pretty good haul, with 7 Best Picture nominees, and at least one film viewed in every category but one. Here's the breakdown:

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Shane Wilson @shanewilson.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

It is 7am. It is pitch black. WHERE’S ALL THE SAVED DAYLIGHT? IN A BANK?

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Shane Wilson @shanewilson.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

There’s something genuinely charming about a guy sitting at his computer, Final Draft open to a blank screen, and the light bulb goes on in his head: “You know what the coolest part of The Matrix movies was? The Architect!” And then the words begin to flow.

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Shane Wilson @shanewilson.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

“Young Sherlock” was an absolutely pleasant binge. Real cotton candy, brain-free entertainment. Perfectly cromulent. But my god, this show features some of the most spectacular costuming I’ve ever seen. Just stunning work on the clothes front.

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Shane Wilson @shanewilson.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

In today’s world of rapidly evolving tech, vanishing privacy, and the explosion of AI, “LFO” has valuable advice for us all: if your nerdy neighbor who never leaves his house and always wears fancy headphones invites you over for coffee, you need to say no.

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Shane Wilson @shanewilson.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Who’s now seen all 15 Oscar short film nominees? This guy! Animated and short film have very clear top choices for me. Documentary is a little trickier. Gotta think that one over.

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Shane Wilson @shanewilson.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Let’s give for it up for the one cop out there defunding himself. Harvey Keitel finds new ways to bottom out in the film that Abel Ferrera seems to have made with the express intention of angering the Vatican, even though it’s about as vigorous a defense of the mystery of faith as you’ll ever find.

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Shane Wilson @shanewilson.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Holy crap, it’s my old stomping ground at KTSB.

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Shane Wilson @shanewilson.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Watching a Takeshi Kitano movie is like a box of chocolates: you never know which Beat you’re gonna get. SONATINE provides us with sad, reflective Beat; he’s ready to dole out the punishment, but he’d sure rather play paper sumo.

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Shane Wilson @shanewilson.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Holy smokes, I completely forgot to share my review of the light-hearted retro-apocalypse TURBO KID. If you’re the kind of person who wishes the 80s never left, thinks what every Mad Max film is missing is a perky ingenue, and wants more Michael Ironside featured roles, then I’ve got just the flick.

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Shane Wilson @shanewilson.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

You have to admire a cinematic adaptation of a literary classic that admits up front, “Can’t do it. Maybe we can do SOME of it.” So it goes with PASSAGES FROM JAMES JOYCE’S FINNEGAN’S WAKE, which looks at an absurdist, nonsensical melange of language and decides to just do some of that. Slainte.

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Shane Wilson @shanewilson.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

It’s mighty impressive that, of the five Oscar nominees for Best Song, (a) three of them are bad, (b) one of them is god awful, and (c) none of those are the KPop song.

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Shane Wilson @shanewilson.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

I’m a little less than an hour into F1, and the idea that this is one of the 10 best motion pictures of 2025 is… confounding.

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Shane Wilson @shanewilson.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Honored once again to give a film its due in the Weird Movie Pantheon. If Richard Kelly ever gets around to finishing this confusing epic, it’s not like it’s going to get any less strange in the process. But let’s also hear it for the stars who committed to act in this thing, logic be damned.

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