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“have you seen the palm trees in 'Halloween'? they’re hard to spot” There are a ton of palm trees in "Halloween" (1978), which is supposed to take place in Haddonfield, Illinois (shot in southern California). Some are more prominent than others.

the Myers' house... palm tree in the foreground

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Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 01/10/2026

I made a seamless edit reconstructing Michael Myers’ return to Haddonfield using footage, dialogue and music from four “Halloween” films. See the full version (with and without VHS treatment) here: fxrant.blogspot.com/2025/10/hall...

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Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 01/10/2026

A rare awesome movie+politics-centric post from Threads. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

Tomorrow, God willing, Eric Schmitt will be questioning these two gentlemen. A picture of David Keith next to a picture of Keith David.

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Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 30/09/2026

"Citizen Kane" (1941) • "Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers" (1988) promotional still photograph

citiizen kane shot of kane in front of infinity mirrors

halloween 4 of michael myers in front of infinity mirrors

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Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 29/09/2026

A very good read. Pirating the Pirates - Notes from the underground of film preservation, by Devan Scott mubi.com/en/notebook/posts/pi...

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Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 28/09/2026

I know Variety/Hollywood Reporter/Indiewire/Deadline (and The Golden Globes/GoldDerby) are all owned by the same company, and they basically live off of "For Your Consideration" ads bought by studios, but sometimes some good writing+reporting comes out of those outlets. But not today.

What Will David Ellison Name His Mega Hollywood Studio?
It can't be Paramount Skydance Warner Bros. Discovery. So that leaves a few options...

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Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 28/09/2026

I'm reasonably aware of how time works but it really blows my mind that the temporal distance between the release of "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan" (1982) and the premiere of "Star Trek: The Next Generation" was only FIVE (5) YEARS

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Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 28/09/2026

"Computers don't think. If we had programmed this to come out a car instead of a monkey, you'd be looking at a hairy Buick." "No Way Out" (1987), with a remarkably prescient summary of how machine learning can work with "restoring" images

a series of images from the movie NO WAY OUT where they do a remarkable job summarizing how machine learning works in "restoring" a photograph

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Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 25/09/2026

Explain to me as if I'm a child why the Cubs have clinched a playoff spot and the Padres — who have a better record — have not yet clinched a playoff spot.

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Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 24/09/2026

The time I was on The Incomparable to talk about “Pitch Black” (2000). What a picture. www.theincomparable.com/theincompara...

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Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 22/09/2026

this one from "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan" is one of my very favorite moments in all of cinema and I'm very glad Mike included it

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Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 21/09/2026

So many to choose from I just think they’re neat letterboxd.com/journal/how-...

Marge Simpson holding a split diopter shot

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Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 21/09/2026

Watching "Citizen Kane" (1941) the way it was meant to be seen — an 80's era NTSC telecine stretched to the wrong aspect ratio played on an airplane seat back monitor.

A frame from citizen Kane seen on an airplane

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Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 18/09/2026

"I can always spot 'CGI'" - - - - - - - - - toupee fallacy

The crowd thing is a true epidemic. I have not seen one example of a CGI crowd that works. GET IT OUT OF YOUR MOVIE! If it's in your treatment, write another scene

TOUPEE FALLACY A form of selection bias in which a thing whose quality is measured in terms of being difficult to detect is wrongly judged to be of poor quality in general, caused by the fact that most people only notice poor-quality instances of A form of selection bias in which a thing whose quality is measured in terms of being difficult to detect is wrongly judged to be of poor quality in general, caused by the fact that most people only notice poor-quality instances of

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Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 17/09/2026

BREAKING NEWS: The new James Bond actor has been chosen and it's this guy. www.tiktok.com/@jrw21/video...

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Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 16/09/2026

What scene makes you emotional no matter how many times you've seen it?

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Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 15/09/2026

BREAKING: Nick Rivers will no longer be opening for Ed Sheeran

Nick Rivers (Val Kilmer) in the movie "Top Secret!" (1984)

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Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 15/09/2026

"Halloween Kills" (2021), with a bonus flashback shot

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Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 15/09/2026

"Halloween Kills" (2021)

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Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 12/09/2026

some of my favorite shots of Michael Myers in somewhat reverse chronological order "Halloween Ends" (2022)

michael myers in halloween ends, looking all burnt up

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Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 11/09/2026

fxrant.blogspot.com/2026/09/appl...

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Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 10/09/2026

"Star Trek: Into Darkness" (2013), visual effects by ILM. VFX supervisors Roger Guyett and Patrick Tubach, animation supervisor Paul Kavanagh. Lighting by Joseph Metten, FX smoke thrusters and FG clouds by Branko Grujcic, sky by Masahiko Tani, compositing by Todd Vaziri.

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Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 08/09/2026

"Rear Window" miniatures by davidminiatures on IG, 1:87 scale www.instagram.com/p/Dcy6jvQCb...

1:87 scale miniature of the courtyard in the movie Rear Window

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Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 07/09/2026

sneak peek - i'm still working on what's the best way to present this (maybe as 16:9, cropping the anamorphic footage but punching in on the POV shots, I dunno)

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Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 06/09/2026

Has there ever been a proper score released for "Dunkirk" because whatever this is doesn't contain barely any of the final score.

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Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 05/09/2026

again... how are these people watching movies [classic case of the question "is this someone using their real name bragging about their ignorance or simply engagement bait under their real name", either way maybe social media was a mistake]

I watched Back To The Future 1 and 2 about 1,000 times as a kid.
I never realized until watching them this week with my daughter that Marty's girlfriend was a different actress in 1 and 2.

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Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 02/09/2026

Auralnauts are back youtu.be/SOiOOD5IK7k?...

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Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 02/09/2026

just one of the amazing scenes from "Dave" no CGI, just pure creativity

four images from the movie DAVE of Dave making the best sandwich in the history of cinema

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Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 02/09/2026

"Dave" (1993) fuckin rocks.

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Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 31/08/2026

me, blasting a voice memo of my voice saying "stop having dumb opinions on movies that have reshoots" outside the bedroom window of people who say dumb stuff (oh, and this scene was a ✌️"'reshoot'"✌️.) (yes, this scene is this dark)

the movie "Say Anything" (1989) with jon cusack holding a boom box over his head

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Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 31/08/2026

oooh i know which one it is

"The Social Reckoning' and 'Cliff Booth' Had Reshoots. Why Is That a Disaster?
Are three upcoming films from major directors really in trouble, or has a six-month awards season made us dumber (not smarter) about film production?

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Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 30/08/2026

Post your getaway vehicle(s)

The Landmaster from the movie damnation alley

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Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 30/08/2026

“The Simpsons” s06e04, first aired October 2, 1994 “Pulp Fiction” released wide in theaters October 14, 1994.

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Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 30/08/2026

it's so rarely "the teams that worked on this were so creative and resourceful, amazing that they were able to accomplish this in 2009" and it's almost always "boy, computers' gigaflops must have been a good rendering engine GPU's and whatnot" computers don't make visual effects, people do

Friendly reminder that this shit melted the computers they were rendering him on. Remarking on the VFX of Transforrmers 2

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