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Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee @tikitrocious.bsky.social · 27m

2PM on the Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee! A scatterbrained guardian angel (Doris Sands) performs too many supernatural feats for her charge, who begins to believe she is the Daughter of God. It'd take a miracle to stop the miracles in “the Annunciation of Susan (1988).”

In a forest glade, the upper back, shoulder and back of the head of a woman. A humanoid-but-winged shadow looms over her. The title reads "The Annunciation of Susan."

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Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee @tikitrocious.bsky.social · 12h

Midnight on the Tikitrocious Moonlight Encore! Three bank robbers light aircraft emergency lands on top of a conference center during a national toy fair. They take a toy designer hostage and his friends come to the rescue in 1997’s “SWAT: Silly Weapons, Amusements, and Toys.”

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Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee @tikitrocious.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

2PM on the Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee! Shelly is called in to confuse crime scenes, add meaningless 'clues,' and taint physical evidence. The police are baffled by him or her, and the forensics specialist determined to unmask the perp calls her “the Obfuscator (1994).“

Three yellow flag-markers with unusual symbols ("}q", an Interrobang, and an Ouroboros/Infinity symbol) on a green marble floor. The title reads "the Obfuscator," and it has a bloody shadow that has some of the letters transposed.

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Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee @tikitrocious.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Midnight on the Tikitrocious Moonlight Encore! When tired rumors recirculate about the disappearance of Gunter’s father, the only man who knows the truth isn’t allowed to say—but he can craft and spread a better rumor to make Gunter believe “The Better of Two Lies (2012).”

A snowy, grainy street scene and the title "The Better of Two Lies."

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Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee @tikitrocious.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

2PM on the Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee! Milk doesn't do a body good when a bovine supervirus infects the herd of a Wisconsin dairy farm. Consumers mutate and rampage through the mid-West until a medicated cheese is developed to save ”the Intolerant Lactoids (2003).”

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Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee @tikitrocious.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Midnight on the Tikitrocious Moonlight Encore! A poor Edinburgh sculptor retraces his grandfather's journey. At Loch Fyne, coincidence reveals a village of his surprise first-cousins and an old church that needs a fifty-year touch-up. See 1958's “Grandfather's Little Ramble.”

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Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee @tikitrocious.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

2PM on the Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee! A man suffers a psychological condition wherein he believes all advertising. After failing total avoidance, his family is forced to enact commercials targeted to the audience of one in 1978's “And Now, a Word From Our Sister.”

Against a wood-paneled backdrop and sitting on a Formica surface, a portable television displays "And Now, a Word from Our Sister."

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Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee @tikitrocious.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Midnight on the Tikitrocious Moonlight Encore! A deaf monk in a medieval monastery illuminates manuscripts while his brothers sing God's praises. After bandits slaughter his brethren, the monk seeks vengeance with the aid of an coin engraver in 1981's “Silence is Golden.”

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Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee @tikitrocious.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

2PM on the Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee! A middle-aged film actress decides to guest star in as many television shows as possible in six months, then donate the proceeds to charity. Her husband mistakenly thinks she's cheating on him in 2008's ”Monday is Sitcom Day.”

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Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee @tikitrocious.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Midnight on the Tikitrocious Moonlight Encore! An itinerant gambler comes to Nebraska Charms to visit his undertaker brother, but instead finds his bereaved fiancée. Sparks fly. Bored townsfolk and cattle rustlers wager on whether the two will wed in 1948's “The Over Under.”

A hand-tinted photograph of a western town road and the title "The Over Under."

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Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee @tikitrocious.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Noon on Baron Tikitrocious' Weekend Tikipeats! The Chinese sailor and his surviving American crew mates sail south to join the war of 1812. They fight the British, their pernicious press gangs, and their hired Chinese killer (Tabitha Yue!). See 1985's “the Fists of Nantucket.”

Superimposed over fists meeting is scrimshaw of a whaling vessel. The title reads "The Fists of Nantucket."

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Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee @tikitrocious.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Midnight on the Tikitrocious Moonlight Encore! Double Kings! This musical has a sober Stephen King whispering about a rabid dog into the ear of the writing King while only barely functional on alcohol. Sing about addiction, art and body counts in 1991’s “Nothing I Can't Handle.”

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Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee @tikitrocious.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Noon on Baron Tikitrocious' Weekend Tikipeats! A squad from a Delaware town all receive ditto machined 'Dear John' letters. On stateside leave, they discover the ladies decided to swap fiancés. The sergeant (Jack Hughmont) steps up to save morale in 1944's “Dear John Doughboy.”

Highlighted portions of a letter starting "Dear John Doughboy," with additional text "Every soldier's NIGHTMARE! Every audiences LAUGH! New from Hubris Pictures!"

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Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee @tikitrocious.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Midnight on the Tikitrocious Moonlight Encore! This country-rock opera is a mashup of Mark Twain and Edgar Allen Poe, as an unhappy widower learned his second-wife killed his first, he kills her and tries to hide the body in 1971’s “The Poisoned Heart of Virginia City.”

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Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee @tikitrocious.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

2PM on the Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee! Two counter-culture dropouts drive to New Mexico to start a secret peyote farm. To fool white law enforcement, they pretend to be Native Americans. The local nation tries to stop these Injun Fauxs in the 1965 “Leave it to Coyote.”

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Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee @tikitrocious.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Midnight on the Tikitrocious Moonlight Encore! Nathan Wise is pulled into his estranged-family’s world after the murder of the groom at a synagogue wedding. He must navigate classism, religious-vs-cultural Judaism, and bad New York parking in 1973’s “The Wise Man Comes Late.”

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Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee @tikitrocious.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

2PM on the Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee! Retail scientists clone the original Valley Girls. They escape the lab, and roam the malls of Pasadena, abducting young men for breeding stock. Modern (for 2013) teenagers band together to fight back in “the Mall That Time Forgot.”

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Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee @tikitrocious.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Midnight on the Tikitrocious Moonlight Encore! The Fool is finally off to his vacation, and brings his nephew in to cover for a month. The movie cuts between a less-than-diligent fool assisting King Lear, and the elder fool on his own wacky holiday in 1951’s “Prithee, Nuncle.”

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Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee @tikitrocious.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

2PM on the Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee! An explosion at the canning class results in minor casualties, an unusable teachers' workroom, disqualification from the county fair, and one teacher on the case! Watch her perform gracefully in 1965's ”Tawny Dare: Under Pressure.”

A color-modified picture of a pressure cooker and the title "Tawny Dare: Under Pressure."

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Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee @tikitrocious.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Midnight on the Tikitrocious Moonlight Encore! A British ship is rechristened, but the spirit of the old Captain refuses to let her be pressed into Spanish service. The shakedown cruise requires a pirate-turned-priest perform the rite of “Bell, Book, and Cannonball (1966).”

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Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee @tikitrocious.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

2PM on the Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee! A shady nightclub owner succumbs to foul play. When his son returns for his widowed-mother's wedding to his uncle, a lounge singer is endangered in his race for revenge before another mob can step into “the Hamlet Club (2004).”

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Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee @tikitrocious.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Midnight on the Tikitrocious Moonlight Encore! The robotic uprising was a big failure, and the surviving members try to keep a low profile. When their most ruthless adversary’s father finds them, they struggle to trust him and his audacious peace plan in 2004’s “Soft Reboot.”

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Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee @tikitrocious.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

2PM on the Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee! Honkers arrives at the Clown U. reunion too late to save his brethren in greasepaint, but can he stop them from killing? The infernal calliope player plots her main course in “Honkers Van Helsing 3: Vampire Clown Coffin (2012).”

A coffin trimmed in stripes and polka dots. The title reads "Honkers Van Helsing 3: Vampire Clown Coffin."

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Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee @tikitrocious.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Midnight on the Tikitrocious Moonlight Encore! This documentary follows the agony and the excitement of the 1987 National Lawn Dart Championship as the specter of banning looms large over the competitors. What price human safety compared to “The Most Noble Sport.”

A trophy of a lawn dart point-first in a marble base. The label on the base reads "National Lawn Dart Championship. 1st Place 1987." The title reads "The Most Noble Sport."

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Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee @tikitrocious.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Noon on Baron Tikitrocious' Weekend Tikipeats! The follow-up to “Second Choice City” imagines New York desperate to audition for any work. A Canadian/Japanese co-produced action cop movie offers NY the role of Vancouver in 2000's “Second Choice City: Eh of the Ronin Mountie.”

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Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee @tikitrocious.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Midnight on the Tikitrocious Moonlight Encore! Confederate deserters flee to Nebraska Charms disguised as “Waker” Christians. The local Sheriff sees through their ruse, his son wants to join them, and the soldiers bumble through their charade in 1943's “The Waker Oath.”

An over-processed photograph of a farming community' main square. The title reads "The Waker Oath."

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Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee @tikitrocious.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Noon on Baron Tikitrocious' Weekend Tikipeats! Many filmmakers insist New York is a character, but what do you do when the actor is temperamental? New York stages a 'sick out,' so a director auditions five cities before recasting an unknown town in 1997's “Second Choice City.”

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Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee @tikitrocious.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Midnight on the Tikitrocious Moonlight Encore! For over one-hundred years, the barely-aging Will has been hunting the thing that killed his brother but let him live. Now in 1930s Harlem, she’s a torch singer and he’s second-guessing “The She-Critter What Done Me Wrong (1994).”

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Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee @tikitrocious.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

2PM on the Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee! 'The Stoat' (Gerard Bailey) must track four Trotskyists to a newly inaugurated national park before they can murder a brave Secret Service agent and kidnap Mary Margaret Truman in 1948's “the Stoat Against the Everglades.”

Along the banks of the swamp an alligator suns itself. Inexplicably a grey fedora and a tommy gun are also in the picture. The title reads "The Stoat Against the Everglades."

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Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee @tikitrocious.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Midnight on the Tikitrocious Moonlight Encore! A retired FBI agent and his private investigator grandson get taken hostage during a carnival robbery. The criminals are outclassed as the hostages idly kill time making the gang's heist go haywire in 1963's “Crime Awry.”

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Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee @tikitrocious.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

2PM on the Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee! Freelance spy “the Wildcard” thwarts a menacing cartel from siphoning billions from the nascent EU. Experience the high-speed chase across all of Liechtenstein, twice! (approximately 28 miles round-trip) in 1995's “Taxing Haven.”

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Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee @tikitrocious.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Midnight on the Tikitrocious Moonlight Encore! Ancient evil returns to the shores of Lake Cumberland KY, which confuses it because it wasn't a lake there five-hundred years ago. The locals continuously outwit it, and it turns into a tourist game, in 2004's “A Palpable Evil.“

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Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee @tikitrocious.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

2PM on the Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee! After his wife dies, a landscaper's quixotic journey of extortion, charity, and coupon clipping wins the maintenance contract for the mall's contemplation garden. See what he nurtures in 1992's “the Court of Three Mills Mall.”

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Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee @tikitrocious.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Midnight on the Tikitrocious Moonlight Encore! Jerry’s high school life is unbearable and the bullies horrible until Amanda and Amelia transfer in. Why are they so familiar? Their foster father struggles to keep their secrets safe while the bullies ask “You And What Amy? (1987)”

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Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee @tikitrocious.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

2PM on the Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee! At the end of cattle drives, an old trail cook ponders retirement with his flammable sidekick. His grand-niece gets them jobs at a Harvey House railstop restaurant, and things heat up a mite in 1969's “Salamander Baked Beans.”

A giant salamander rests cozily in a campfire on the grasslands. A chuckwagon is in the background. The title reads "Salamander Baked Beans."

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Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee @tikitrocious.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Midnight on the Tikitrocious Moonlight Encore! Si-U struggles with popularity until she catches the eyes of the rich and charismatic exchange student. Wholesome despite three assassination attempts, she sorts out her feelings about Connor, “My Mother’s Enemy’s Cute Son (2008).”

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Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee @tikitrocious.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

2PM on the Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee! The sideshow doesn't pay its debts, so the general store accepts a most unusual hare. The old shopkeep promotes him to assistant manager, and then campaigns with the hare for co-mayor, in 1968's “Fayetteville's Talented Jackalope.”

A sepia-toned image of a horned rabbit sitting on the counter of a cluttered general store. The title reads "Fayetteville's Talented Jackalope."

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Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee @tikitrocious.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Midnight on the Tikitrocious Moonlight Encore! The “Immaculate 300” and the half-demon, half-cocktail waitress have kept the bowling alley safe, until a visiting team challenges them for their team sponsorship. They risk their shirts in 2012’s “The Bowling Beasts Strike Back.“

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Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee @tikitrocious.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Noon on Baron Tikitrocious' Weekend Tikipeats! Timmy rescues a colt stranded near the oxbow lake. He tries to train Splasher as a race horse, but as his bloodline shows, Timmy learns to accept his friend's strengths and true destiny lie on the river in 1967's “Kelptown Races.”

A horse made of water with greenish plants inside it races on top of an oxbow lake, the trees growing up from the lake, and the title "Kelptown Races."

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Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee @tikitrocious.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Midnight on the Tikitrocious Moonlight Encore! Their races are in a century-long cold war, but these two aliens have their own détente on Earth—until a member of a genuinely nice race shows up to teach humans wisdom. Should they sit idly by? “Oh No—Enlightenment! (1996).”

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Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee @tikitrocious.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Noon on Baron Tikitrocious' Weekend Tikipeats! Two old miners pay tribute to the bluecap. When the mine strikes it rich, the owner's prideful son has to be gently reminded that his good fortune rests on the good efforts of his father, the miners, and “Azure Down Below (1967).”

From the mouth of a mining shaft we see a blue ball of light. Iron tracks lead into the shaft, presumably for the mining cart. The title reads "Azure Down Below."

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Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee @tikitrocious.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Midnight on the Tikitrocious Moonlight Encore! When five clues are miss-delivered to the wrong victims, the probably unrelated people must track down a cabal of wrongdoers, and discover if any of them is actually guilty, to solve “The Case of the Missing Malefactors (1956).”

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Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee @tikitrocious.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

2PM on the Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee! Suzy is turned around in the woods and wanders into a quiet farm. A minotaur has made the abandoned fields fertile, but feels he needs help selling his bounty in town. Soon Suzy has a part-time job with “McBull's Farm (1966).”

A black minotaur in suspenders and rousers (because this is a family channel) stands in front of a small red barn. The title reads "McBull's Farm."

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Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee @tikitrocious.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Midnight on the Tikitrocious Moonlight Encore! As Washington DC’s baristas go missing, Agent Cleveland is driven by a massive headache and national security to get the bottom of it before the nation’s protectors go into caffeine withdrawal in 2007’s “The Jitter Files.”

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Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee @tikitrocious.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

2PM on the Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee! Shy media student Angie produces (and voices) a Chinchilla-hosted campus-access cable variety show. The students go wild trying to uncover the voice behind the furry phenomena and earn talent spots on “Campus 57 Chinchilla (1985).”

On top of a fancy desk that has black curtains both behind it and protecting the privacy of the legs, a chinchilla sits. The title reads "Campus 57 Chinchilla."

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Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee @tikitrocious.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Midnight on the Tikitrocious Moonlight Encore! A naive co-ed is torn between the penniless lothario John and the wealthy, overbearing Peter as her father’s finances and patience reach their limit in 1969’s “Switching Sontatas.”

White opera gloves and a red rose on a blotchy blue background and the title "Switching Sonatas."

A 1970s SelCosmo portable television with the title card "in cooperation with North American Friendship Films."

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Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee @tikitrocious.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

2PM on the Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee! When their beloved bus driver develops chronic seizures, the children of bus 524 band together to hide his condition and get to and from school every day. It turns out eight-year olds obey traffic signs in 1993's ”Stop, Bus, Stop!”

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Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee @tikitrocious.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Midnight on the Tikitrocious Moonlight Encore! A spoiled debutante plays games between the humble-and-passionate Juan and the prosperous-and-confident Pedro as her parents put pressure on her to grow up in 1969’s “Two Sonatas Under Moonlight.”

White opera gloves and a red rose on a blotchy blue background and the title "Two Sonatas Under Moonlight."

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Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee @tikitrocious.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

2PM on the Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee! He can arrange (almost) anything (mostly) legal discreetly, with a minimum of fuss, seven days a week. He only works for ghosts. The requests get more difficult until he learns to get creative in 2011's “the Concierge for the Dead.”

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Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee @tikitrocious.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Midnight on the Tikitrocious Moonlight Encore! After a drunk in Colorado causes a gold rush, Nebraska Charms is overrun by prospectors. Most leave empty handed, but three wild brothers strike it rich. Can the townsfolk convince them to keep it quiet? 1952's “Panning Out.”

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