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dandock.bsky.social
Writer at Crunchyroll, Polygon, WIRED, Vulture, GamesRadar, Inverse, Pokemon, Paste Magazine and other places / Rep'd by Aevitas Creative / Author of Monster Kids: How Pokémon Taught A Generation To Catch Them All / Picked Charmander
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I wrote about King of the Hill and the show's core idea that no one is too good to change: www.gamesradar.com/entertainmen...

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Take a minute to appreciate the absolutely immaculate background artwork from WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT.

submitted 14 hours ago • 16 comments

Happy 32nd Anniversary🦖🎉🍾✨ #JurassicPark #JurassicWorldRebirth

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I'm not saying that a pro wrestler can't be typically handsome, but there is something particularly effective about a guy that's as wide as a van that acts like he's trying to get into a fight at a gas station.

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This was the Rivoli in NYC. 50 years ago this AM I was in a car with the nervous director of “Jaws” and Albert Brooks heading over there. The director wondered whether there’d be a line. There was. It went around the corner and far beyond. He really hadn’t known this could happen. What a day!

submitted 19 hours ago • 22 comments

A recommendation! HANGOVER SQUARE (1945) is a masterful horror-noir about a classical composer - pianist who goes into murderous fugue states when he hears certain sounds, forgetting his acts when he wakes up. Atmospheric and ominous, with a climax that has to be witnessed. The bonfire scene alone..

submitted 18 hours ago • 15 comments

I wrote about King of the Hill and the show's core idea that no one is too good to change: www.gamesradar.com/entertainmen...

submitted 19 hours ago • 3 comments

Hey, I'm accepting book pitches for @barrelhouse.bsky.social for our new nonfiction series, For What It's Worth. Book-length essays (25-30K words) on a pop cultural obsession, ideally with a personal angle that makes the book something only you could write.

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went through a big JCVD phase last year and while I was researching Hard Target, I found an interview with John Woo where he discusses what it was like working with Sam Raimi on that set. it's become one of my all-time favorite behind-the-scenes stories.

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A very clear-headed book, one that's necessary reading even if you really like Stan Lee. There's a lot of empathy granted to him and his particular talents, especially when you recognize how his fluctuating ego made him such a prime target for grifters.

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Throughout the writing of my book MONSTER KIDS, I got tired. Did I have replay Pokémon Blue again? How many more 4Kids press releases do I have to sift through? Wow, the Battle City arc of Yu-Gi-Oh! is wayyy longer than I remember. But I never got tired of hearing "Butter-Fly."

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Deliverance is one of my favorite films because there's a real sense that Hollywood had previously lied to us about our place in the world. We imagined that we'd nobly conquered the natural territories, but these myths about our expansion had simply made us soft for the picking.

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Before the release of 28 Years Later, I wrote about 28 zombie films that represent one of cinema's most unkillable subjects and how its evolution has matched that of the wider horror genre: www.vulture.com/article/best...

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Jun Fukuda is less fondly remembered as a Godzilla director than Ishiro Honda, but his films are a hoot. And more often than not, they end with stuff like this - Godzilla bleeding from the head and neck, getting stabbed in the eye by a spider, ripping off a robot's head. Fukuda knew how to party.

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lmao found old mouse doodle requests, cerato, allo & mongolian death worm

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If you ordered my book 🤩ED WOOD: MADE IN HOLLYWOOD USA🎥 directly from the publisher @orbooks.bsky.social it will be shipping very imminently (like this week or next). Last chance to get the 15% preorder discount! orbooks.com/catalog/ed-w...

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If it's Saulnier, I'm there.

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When we talk about the "revolutionary" comedy of the '70s, it's usually in relation to trailblazing stand-up comics, early SNL, confrontational literary voices, etc. But Dr. Demento assembled such a wide array of both crowd-pleasing and esoteric talent. A tremendously underrated impact.

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Diablo, the latest Marko Zaror/Ernesto Díaz Espinoza collab (this time starring Scott Adkins), lived up to my high expectations, with great action and an all-time unhinged villain performance by Zaror. My review of my favorite martial arts movie of the year: pvguide.substack.com/p/diablo-rev...

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Deliverance is one of my favorite films because there's a real sense that Hollywood had previously lied to us about our place in the world. We imagined that we'd nobly conquered the natural territories, but these myths about our expansion had simply made us soft for the picking.

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this is a sith lightsaber, from the war. I keep it on a shelf right next to my stormtrooper armor and imperial officer’s uniform. I’ve even got a verified chunk of the death star from yavin. I’m just a collector. I just think the history is interesting. no, I don’t have any rebel stuff

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ICYMI: I wrote about nearly 100 years of zombie films and how the undead have evolved through nearly every trend that cinematic horror has had to offer.

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