bram-kawa.bsky.social
Writer of stuff. Reader and reviewer of more.
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As for Wilson's, it sounds fab. Like one of those Corman Poe films with Vincent Price. Cheers!
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And let's not forget I AM SCROOGE where it all takes a turn, as the saying goes.
Seriously, unless someone does the original Matheson Hammer script for I AM LEGEND, I'm so ready for this one (as has been Bill Nighy for decades now, I'm sure. Can we convince him to do the audio book, at least?)
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Fascinating question. As a postmodernist, I'm inclined to wonder if he is a) saved b) tricked into some self-deluded illusion of it by bad dreams and too much Welsh rarebit or c) doomed to repeat the cycle at the next telling/Christmas. 😉
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Twice as amusing story when you count in the fact that the film's villain is an AI. Now waiting to see whether reports of the film's box office and attendance stats are also manufactured.
We've already been taken over. Not with a Matrix/Skynet bang, but with a Mission Impossible whimper.
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Absolutely lovely. 🎩
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I can only hope they will respect that and not use his likeness, voice or whatever.
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I've grown to accept Constantine over the years as an alternative Hellblazer adaptation, but if they're having script troubles now, it's partly because the first film milked all the good stuff from the comics, chewed it up and regurgitated it, and now they got nothing to draw on and go somewhere.
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Arguably, horror has always been the bastion of the indie/art film, from NOSFERATU onwards. But I totally feel you: the genre's skill to fly under the radar gives it so much leeway to try stuff no one else will do these days.
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A 9-year-old's idea of an adventure story with all the cast taking it totally seriously is my definition of excellence. Recently re-watched Fritz Lang's SPIES, and it was exactly that back then, too.
Apropos: your MASH ON IMPOSSIBLE 🎩 reminded me of the Quixote joke in Asterix: "Windmills? Charge!"
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The secret origin of Swan Lake, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty and The Princess & the Frog in one - with incest? We couldn't make this up.
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OK, I'm sold. Now I know what the film will be about and it's great. Sold. Take my money.
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...and now I can't help hoping for a Logan/Ka-Zar/Conan team-up.
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An obvious disciple of the fee, fo, fi, fum school of poetry.
Is the worm an earthworm or a dragon, btw? These first few stanzas really build on the suspense...
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Both black and white AND color? I'm impressed.
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A postmodern take!
(And "John MaClean"? Why has no one ever done this?)
Did you get the idea while watching that this started out as a parody ("Cleaning lady forced into DH scenario", possibly starring Melissa McCarthy) until some exec said, "No, it's a blockbuster actioner with Daisy Ridley!"?
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So glad you like it! Great series, great comic!
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I'd welcome a miniseries for the exact reasons stated in the article, but my problem with THE 13th WARRIOR on release was the story itself. "Arab Warrior landing in the midst of BEOWULF" was a cool concept crippled by "let's make it the 'true' story" mentality - like 2004's KING ARTHUR was.
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Barbara Gordon and Thomas Blake. I can't even think of them without associating them with you.
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Totally irreverent as well as irrelevant, but a piece of memory just dropped into my cortex of this conversation about comics between you, me and the great Bob Eaglestone.
Me: CHURCH AND STATE. That's the one where Cerebus becomes Pope, was it?
Adam: Cerebus becomes Pope?!?
Bob: Twice.
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I would have applauded this if the all-night marathon involved watching a few other classic horror movies along with UNTIL DAWN. As it stands, it's a pointless gimmick without even some William Castle charm.
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That reboot of Dixon Hill in the Cool Britannia 90s was always going to be controversial.
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Werewolf?
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Airplane!, Top Secret!, Police Squad! and the first Naked Gun are among my top 1980s comedies. The formula and ZAZ's humour were really fresh back then - like Mel Brooks tripping.
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Lavender. Alfred is old school.
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Ordered the Mabuse set, having already collected the Lang Mabuse films. As a longtime giallo fan, I'm overjoyed we're finally getting some krimi as well in May!
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Well, three Affairs in, they might as well call it The Thomas Crown Long-term Relationship.
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I like the movie. It's not my favorite Wyatt Earp film - for that I'd go to MY DARLING CLEMENTINE and GUNFIGHT AT THE OK CORRAL - but it's good. Kilmer is one of the best things in it.
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A remake of a remake? That story feels like it's all played out.
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You reminded me of one of my favorite comics with Hulk - this little gem by James Kochalka, drawn for a Marvel benefit special.
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Sure sounds better than "Pascal produced the Sony Spider-Man Universe without Spider-Man films and Heyman produced Wonka".
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Amazon's reboot will erase everything but him - the true blue, American Bond. Never mind those expensive British import fakes. They're about to be tariffed all to copyright hell.
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"Who's People magazine's sexiest man alive in 2025?Cast him!"
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Thank you so much. Been a fan since Cairo!
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I hope people, being one of them. 👍
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I love the book (I, Claudius bits included😉) and both the film versions. One of the top political thrillers.
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Somehow reading this tweet triggered memories of The Manchurian Candidate and "Fortunate Son". Which is a favorite song of mine. Funny how memory works, as Raymond Shaw might say.
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Fascinating use of tech, indeed.
The fragment describing Merlin as the most handsome man ever seen in Christian lands should create an interesting casting challenge for the upcoming inevitable movie adaptation of the Vulgate Merlin.
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Hey, @warnerbrospictures.bsky.social: why don't you tear down the water tower and your New York street set while you're at it?
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I do appreciate some subtitles with my opera but I totally get your view on the other matter. Fiction is so diversified anyway that there's room for everyone, and certainly without imposing things on others.
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I'd read that!
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This ain't the end
Revenant friend
This ain't the end
My undead friend, no end
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Saw that at the cinema.
Good movie. Probably the last made with the mindset "Comic books? That's way too silly". Didn't even go for the concession of the guy wearing a skull T-shirt. "Frank wouldn't wear a skull T-shirt." Tbh, they weren't that wrong.
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3 of mine, too. That class action? Count me in.
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Meta must pay for this. In the words of Lennon and McCartney:
Paperback writers (take them to the cleaners)
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Watching Kate Bush's "Babooshka" video I always thought she was dressed as Red Sonja, so I'm just happy I'm not the only one who thought so.
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So the blockbuster IP machine seems to be failing.