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Associate Editor @talkfilmsociety.com Host of Keanu Believe It podcast, featured on various others. Talks too much about movies, cartoons, and Keanu. ♿️ he/him Letterboxd: https://boxd.it/8EtJ

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Alex struggling to open the soup can is one of the saddest things from a movie last year.

14.03.2026 23:24 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Here’s hoping for a Justin Long appearance in Resident Evil, too.

14.03.2026 22:26 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Uh oh I put on WEAPONS again. Good thing it’s great.

14.03.2026 22:01 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 2

Yesssssssss. Need some new Carney

14.03.2026 21:42 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A Simpsons character in a board room says “I keep telling you, he’s 73 years old… and he’s dead”

A Simpsons character in a board room says “I keep telling you, he’s 73 years old… and he’s dead”

14.03.2026 20:39 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Ryan Murphy crawls out of his money cave and pitches a totally original show about a supernaturally gifted teenager who deals with trauma and stuff

14.03.2026 19:51 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The double edged sword for sure. My dad is a tall guy with a loud voice so that helped. But yeah getting around the hall was definitely the biggest challenge.

14.03.2026 17:23 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

My first year I was able to take full advantage of being in a wheelchair where security basically just let us skip every panel line. So we got to see everything we wanted while still getting to enjoy other parts of the con. It ruled.

14.03.2026 17:19 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

God I loved my years there. I made it in right before it became a true circus. I mean it was wild but we were able to twist it to our whims in ways I know we couldn’t if we went back now.

14.03.2026 17:14 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Is that SDCC? Looks remarkably like the chairs and lighting I removed but it has been 15 years.

14.03.2026 17:12 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Well now I’m tearing up

14.03.2026 17:11 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Correct, AJ

14.03.2026 17:04 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Today’s mood: Interlinked. Within cells. Interlinked.

14.03.2026 17:00 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Should Chopper, the talking shape changing reindeer, work in live-action? Probably not. But he absolutely does thanks to the combo of Mikaela Hoover and the artists nailing the look by fully embracing his manga/anime roots.

13.03.2026 20:13 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Ryan Coogler is almost certainly winning at least one Oscar in a couple days and that fuckin’ rules.

13.03.2026 16:56 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I posted this specifically during the scene where Nami wakes up after fainting. Dude got me close to tears.

13.03.2026 01:18 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Taz Skylar is doing great work as Sanji in OPLA S2.

13.03.2026 01:11 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

And they absolutely pulled off Zoro killing 100 bounty hunters in live-action. Mackenyu has the goods.

12.03.2026 01:24 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

ONE PIECE, E203. Gotta say it’s nice to re-experience the Baroque Works assassins in small doses. You get their fun quirks without them becoming irritating.

12.03.2026 01:21 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Pokémon Pokopia is great. Already lost four hours to it on my first session. I love doing favors for my pocket monster buddies. Going to make Charmander my bestie, obviously.

11.03.2026 23:55 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Not to pit artists again each other but Kacey Musgraves is who a certain “biggest act in the world” wishes they were. She crossed over into pop while holding on to her country roots. She’s cool, a bit edgy, a hell of a singer, and her songs feel truly authentic.

11.03.2026 18:19 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

She’s so cool and talented.

11.03.2026 18:13 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Exactly what I needed today.

11.03.2026 18:03 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

That would rock. Or a Predator riff on The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

11.03.2026 18:02 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

HANNA rocks. Joe Wright could make only crap for the rest of his career and I’ll still buy the guy a drink for that one.

11.03.2026 18:00 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Predator but sword and sandal survival epic. Coolest.

11.03.2026 17:57 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Understandable. Bet it was a tough balancing act to make them lovable but also look tough without giving away the game right away. Love the design of teenager Bud in the ending the most.

11.03.2026 17:55 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Ohh I gotcha. Yeah the editor in question made a bad note, glad Trachtenberg ignored it.

11.03.2026 17:46 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Wish I could give an in person hug, cyber one will have to suffice. 🫂

11.03.2026 17:43 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I need some cozy and I want to ease back into video games (haven’t played in almost two months, combo of health issues/depression) so I bought POKÉMON POKOPIA. I’m going to build a community with my freakish human form Ditto.

11.03.2026 17:42 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0