Erin Snyder

Calling it now: in another five-to-ten years she'll pivot to directing and be great at that, too.

Everyone's just assuming this manager was illegally fired for being trans, but has anyone considered he might have been let go for something else that doesn't align with Chili's values, such as serving edible food and/or treating customers with respect?

I'd be remiss if I didn't bring up "The White Reindeer," too (the 1952 Finnish folk horror film, not the 2013 Christmas movie). Not *technically* a vampire movie, but more like a folkloric vampire story than 99% of Hollywood vampire flicks.

And it's SO GOOD.

There's also a bunch of 70's exploitation with feminist themes: The Velvet Vampire, Lips of Blood (most Jean Rollin vampire flicks are at least somewhat relevant, in fact), and a bunch of other ones I'm forgetting.

Sister Midnight, A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, Red Snow, and *maybe* Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person all might count. All very good movies, at the very least.

I started a new novel about a week ago, and I think it's the most enjoyable experience I've ever had writing.

No idea whether that will continue through the whole thing or if it will result in a better book or anything, but regardless... it feels fantastic.

During the Ice Age there were otters the size of lions that hunted in packs in grasslands.

Maybe? Horror's weird - sometimes clustering just seems to make people more likely to go see them.

Alternatively, you could clone the giant, carnivorous otters that used to exist. Those actually might kill you, but it'd be a freaking adorable way to die.

I want a version of Jurassic Park, but instead of dinosaurs they clone dwarf mammoths, and everyone visiting the park loves it until a few mammoths escape their cages, then everyone loves it even more because kids get to play with tiny, hairy elephants, and it's just like two hours of that.

"But Doctor," Pagliacci said, "clown even still possible."

McQuarrie a good pick to oversee this, too. His approach to movies feels a bit like Milius' without all the weird right wing stuff*.

*At least that we know about.

My LIFE is a Community joke!

I'm not competing with Gene here (cause I'd lose - look at the detailed paneling, the carpeting, the brick: I know a masterpiece when I see one). But if we're sharing pictures of action figures, here's something my wife and I cooked up more than a decade ago: "Away Team in a Manger."

Rambo v Superman: Dawn of Justice

We're living in a post-Everything Everywhere All At Once world.

Best Picture Ranking (limited to the six I've seen, obviously):

Stealth Vampire Movie
Trains
Stealth Witch Movie
Stealth Alien Movie
Stealth Alternate Reality War Movie
Frankenstein

But whether you agree with that or not, death of the artist certainly never just meant separating your enjoyment of a piece of entertainment from the consequences of giving money to horrible people.

If that's your goal, the term you're looking for is, "nihilism."

We should probably retire the whole "death of the author" thing, anyway: in a world where all art is being digested by plagiarism machines, authorial intent matters. I'd argue it's what separates art from whatever gen AI is doing.

I think part of the disconnect is that I kept getting pulled out by stuff that's blatantly historically inaccurate, despite understanding the movie isn't going for historical accuracy.

a woman in a red dress stands in front of a crowd while a man shakes her hand Alt: Gif from the movie, Hamnet, showing Agnes watching the play, Hamlet.

I liked Hamnet, but not as much as I feel like I should have. It's a weird situation where I feel like this should be hitting me harder given how I usually react to this kind of thing and how well it's put together, but it's not fully connecting with me. #filmsky

And Antarctica. Or maybe the North Pole. I don't know. Maybe I'm thinking of Alien Versus Predator. It all kind of blends together.

I'm like 80% certain goo was involved.

The longer this goes on the more convinced I become that the sum total preparation the US did for this war consisted of fine-tuning prompts until ChatGPT told them their dumb idea was guaranteed to work.

This is very good advice you'd be wise to follow as a general strategy for picking movies every day, particularly if you like watching good movies with interesting things to say.

Down, definitely down. Then, when the clock reached the concrete, the pieces sort of went to the sides.

Same as every daylight savings day.

Time to buy a new clock!

If someone visits the US she'd NEVER demand answers to sensitive topics from them like that...

....Those questions only come after they've been driven off the road by masked federal agents and taken to a concentration camp in another state.

That's just common courtesy!

He could have just gone with the, "we loved the pitch, but as we were making it the movie the narrative wasn't coming together, etc.," boilerplate, and this would have all been forgotten, just like the movie.

What on Earth compelled him to respond with the most dickish answer imaginable?

If true, good. If someone doesn't enjoy the medium, it's better they sit the category out than vote for the movie they recognize from ads.