2024 Movie Wrap-Up

Jan. 5th, 2025 08:45 am
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This is always so difficult, I should make more categories

Best
Depression Era California: They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969)/The Day of the Locust (1975)
Asian American/Canadian Families: Meditation Park (2017)/Minari (2020)
Toxic Love: May December (2023)/Love Lies Bleeding (2024)/Minnie & Moskowitz (1971)
Babygirl, what is you doing?: Cria Cuervos (1976)/Morvern Callar (2002)
Sci-Fi Faves: Enemy Mine (1985)/Fantastic Planet (1973)
Mythical Journeys: Into the West (1992)/The Green Knight (2021)
That Ending Killed Me: El Norte (1983)/The Breaking Point (1950)
Difficult Honeymoons: City Girl (silent) (1930)/L'Atalante (1934)
Tokyo Godfathers (2003)
Fist of Fury (1972)

Worst
Sequels: Blair Witch (2016)/Crocodile Dundee II (1988)
Boring Early Oscar Winners: Cimarron (1931)/Cavalcade (1933)
Rambo (2008)
Misguided early 2000s rom-coms: Down to You (2000)/Gigli (2003)
The Macintosh Man (1973)
Hot Summer (1968)
Viva Kneivel! (1977)
Goin' South (1978)
Could have been totally my thing: My Demon Lover (1987)/Dead Birds (2004)
Thomas & the Magic Railroad (2000)

Honourable Mentions (maybe not "good" per say, but I enjoyed them)
Thank you Pat O'Connor: The January Man (1989)/Stars & Bars (1988)
Good for her?: Orphan: First Kill (2022)/The Perfection (2018)/Freeway II: Confessions of a Trick Baby (1999)
Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation (1995)
Dude went through some changes: Tammy & the T-Rex (1994)/Tusk (2014)
70's Sci-fi: Zardoz (1974)/Dark Star (1974)/The Visitor (1979)
Bears: Grizzly (1976)/Grizzly II: The Revenge (2020)
The Man: The Ice Cream Man (1995)/The Lawnmower Man (1992)
These just go together: Parasite (1982)/Slugs (1988)
These just go together: Surf Nazis Must Die (1987)/Class of 1984 (1982)
Erotic? Crime: Perdita Durango (1997)/Color of Night (1994)
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2023 Movies Wrap-Up

Jan. 6th, 2024 08:45 am
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 This gets harder every year, I watch too many movies. 10 per category isn't enough.

Favourites:
Germany in the 80's Tie: Possession (1981)/Suspiria (2018)
Foodie Tie: Tampopo (1985)/Ravenous (1999)
Early 70's wtf Tie: The Devils (1971)/Cries & Whispers (1972)
1920s tie: He Who Gets Slapped (1924)/Hell's Heroes (1929)
Colourful and endearing Tie: Alma's Rainbow (1994)/True Stories (1986)
Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll (1987)
Pleasure (2021) 
Minimalism Tie: The Conversation (1974)/Cure (1997)
Inside Moves (1980)
TCM Underground weirdos tie: Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker (1981)/The World's Greatest Sinner (1962) 

Worst:
I just feel like these go together tie: The Arrangement (1969)/Oleanna (1994) 
Tie: all the ones with Blackface
The Turning (2020) 
New York Minute (2004)
Birdemic: Shock & Terror (2010) 
Rollover (1981)
Francis (1950) 
The Garbage Pail Kids Movie (1987)
Death Curse of Tartu (1966)
8 Days a Week (1997)

Honourable Mentions*:
WTF Tie: Southland Tales (2006)/Clifford (1994)
Gymkata (1985)
Tomato Tie: Attack of the Killer Tomatoes (1978)/Return of the Killer Tomatoes (1988)
The Peanut Butter Solution (1985)
The Apple (1980)
Aerobics tie: Perfect (1985)/Heavenly Bodies (1984)
Action Jackson (1988)
1981 Tie: The Boogens (1981)/Happy Birthday to Me (1981)
Barb Wire (1996)
Mortuary (1983)

* Movies that maybe aren't good, but I enjoyed them

 
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Mish Mash - 15

Jan. 17th, 2023 04:21 pm
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Haven't made one of these since 2019. I don't know if anyone looks at them, but whatever. There's a lot of articles and such that I was saving, but I think I'll delete most of the COVID related ones. There's probably still some things that resonate even if a bit dated.

Some Substacks I follow (also did Dracula Daily this year)
- Roxane Gay
- Marya E. Gates
- Angelica Jade Bastién
- Zeba Blay
- Arabelle Sicardi

Articles
- Marya E Gates on Losing Ground
- Angelica Jade Bastién on Eve's Bayou
- on abortion memoirs
- on the costumes of Starstruck
- on Freud’s essay The Uncanny and childhood fears
- also Angelica Jade Bastién on (also) Losing Ground
- Diana Athill on death
- Princess Weekes on Anne With an E

Misc Videos
- Another beautiful Liziqi video
- A lovely vlog
- Giant Horse Conch & Burglar Hermit Crabs
- 45,000-Piece Collection of Trashed Treasures Curated by Sanitation Worker
- women in film compilation
- a lovely horror compilation
- on a medieval cookbook
- more on Anne With an E
- Bisexuality: The Invisible Letter "B"

Misc
- Cathode TV (Their Instagram)
- Andrey Avinoff the Fall of Atlantis
- Cosplay Under the Stars: Dorothy McGuire
- museum visitors matching artwork
- the art of Mayumi Oda
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December 2022 Movies and 2022 Wrap-Up

Jan. 12th, 2023 10:55 am
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  •  Rockabye (1932)
  • Mac & Me (1988) lol
  • The Tales of Hoffman (1951)
  • 21 Days (1940)
  • The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984)
  • A Christmas Story (1983)
  • Falling for Christmas (2022) Dir. by Janeen Damian
  • Cronos (1992)
  • Maisie Goes to Reno (1944)
  • The Best Man (1999)
  • Bitter Melon (2018) tw: abuse
  • Santa Jaws (2018) Dir. by Misty Talley
  • The Shopworn Angel (1938)
  • The Best Man Holiday (2013)
  • Surviving Christmas (2004)
  • Manpower (1941)
  • Better Watch Out (2016) tw: sexual assault, child death
  • Fabalas/Paris Frills (1945) tw: suicide
  • Irene (1940)
  • Pig (2021)
  • Copper Mountain (1983)
  • The Night Before (2015)
  • Family Reunion (1989)
  • The Animal Kingdom (1932)
  • My Forbidden Past (1951)
  • Black Christmas (2006) tw: rape/incest
  • All The Creatures Were Stirring (2018) Co-dir. by Rebekah McKendry
  • Happiest Season (2020) Dir. by Clea Duvall
  • Housekeeping (1987) tw: suicide
  • Sylvia & the Phantom (1946)
  • Date with An Angel (1987)
  • Young Adult (2011)
  • Easy to Love (1934)
  • Pinnochio (2022) Del Toro one
  • Christmas Mountain: The Story of a Cowboy Angel (1981)
  • It's A Great Feeling (1949)
  • House Party (1990) May have seen one of the sequels at some point?
  • Christmas Comes to Willow Creek (1987)
  • Whipsaw (1935)
  • The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (2022)
  • Dreaming of a Jewish Christmas (2017)
  • Bloodbeat (1983)
  • On the Second Day of Christmas (1997)
  • Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey (2020)
  • Little Women (2019) Dir by. Greta Gerwig
  • Kind Lady (1935)
  • Mr. St Nick (2002)
  • And So They Were Married (1936)
  • Candles in the Dark (1993) What a way to learn about the Estonian Singing Revolution
  • An American Christmas Carol (1979)
  • Never Say Goodbye (1946)
  • A Christmas Carol (1938)
  • Our Vines Have Tender Grapes (1945)
  • Bundle of Joy (1956)
  • Love the Coopers (2015)
  • Christmas Eve (1947)
  • Christmas on the Square (2020) Dir by. Debbie Allen
  • Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022)
  • Swing High, Swing Low (1937)
  • $ (Dollars) (1971)
  • The Lady of Scandal (1930)
  • Fanny (1961)
  • San Francisco (1936)
  • One Million Years BC (1966) liked it way better than I thought I would, lol
  • Talk Radio (1988)
  • Darling (1965)
  • Cocktail Hour (1933)
  • The Thief Who Came to Dinner (1973)
  • Iced (1988) "I could have been a world-class skier, a world-class businessman!"


Movies 2022 wrap up
Best of the Year, IDGAF: New York Ninja (1984/2021) I think about it all the time

Best, no order (so hard, I watch a lot of good movies)
The Connection (1961) 
The Man With the Camera (1929)
Sidewalk Stories (1989)
2018 - Mandy (2018), Madeline's Madeline (2018) 
One Potato, Two Potato (1964)
A Fantastic Woman (2017) 
Shiva Baby (2020)
Ruby in Paradise (1993)
2022 - Prey, Glass Onion
2019 - The Lighthouse (2019), Saint Maud (2019), Uncut Gems (2019)
Goncharov (1973)

Worst - I'm easy to please, but ugh
Repossessed (1990) boring. I watched this the way I watch Jerrys stand-up on Seinfeld, completely stone faced. I'm glad it helped Linda Blair with some of ther Exorcist trauma though.
The Oxford Murders (2008) Movie is not nearly good enough for that fucked up massacre
Taking Care of Business (1990) just don't like Jim Belushi
Marooned (1969) should have watched the MST3K ep
Surviving Christmas (2004) I liked James Gandolfini's beard, that's all

Honorable Mentions - usually movies that are ridiculous but delightful, all of these were on CathodeTV at some point
The Deathmaster (1972)
Pick Up (1975)
Night Train to Terror (1985)
The Car (1977)
Church of the Damned (1985)
Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky (1991)
Return to Horror High (1987)
Spookies (1986) 
Dracula Sucks (1978)
Vice Squad (1982) "Everybody's swimming in the neon slime!"
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Movies in 2021 Wrap-Up

Jan. 24th, 2022 02:33 pm
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 Best Movies, this gets harder and harder every year. Maybe I should do more categories, lol
  • Parasite (2019)
  • One Sings, the Other Doesn’t (1977)
  • Never Rarely Sometimes Always (2020)
  • Tied - Kay Francis/William Powell: One Way Passage (1932)/Jewel Robbery (1932)
  • The Decline Civilization Part III (1998) 
  • Sound of Metal (2019)
  • Tied - Who-dunnit: Knives Out (2019)/The Last of Sheila (1973)
  • Tied - Queer and colourful in 1995: Wigstock: The Movie (1995)/Party Girl (1995) 
  • Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)
  • Tied - Bleak 1970s: Remember My Name (1978), Fat City (1972), Performance (1970), A Woman Under the Influence (1974), The Silent Partner (1978) and Jeanne Dielman, 23 Commerce Quay, 1080 Brussels (1975)
  • Tied - Strippers: @Zola (2020)/Hustlers (2019)

Honorable mentions, silly but fun
  • Tuff Turf (1985) I watched it twice in two days, lol
  • Gleaming the Cube (1989)
  • CHUD II: Bud the Chud (1989)
  • Grease 2 (1982)
  • Velocipastor (2017)
  • Frogs (1972)
  • Breakin' (1984)/Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo (1984)

Worst Movies 2021
  • Protocol (1984) I watch a lot of old (much older than this) movies with racism, but it just stood out in this one
  • The Smokers (2000) interesting but such a mess
  • Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970) can't remember much
  • Trucks (1997) just that mailman scene
  • Deep Rising (1998) meh
  • Candyman 3: Day of the Dead (1999) meh
  • Alien from LA (1988) sometimes I can only take so much silly
  • Carry on Screaming! (1966) Valeria was awesome, they did her dirty
  • Shopping (1994)
  • DNF'd The Castle (1997) and Witches' Brew (1980)
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December 2020 Movies and Wrap Up

Jan. 10th, 2021 12:51 pm
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 December 2020
  1. The Prince & the Showgirl (1957) my last Marilyn movie where she is in a prominent role :(
  2. The Roaring Twenties (1939)
  3. A New York Christmas Wedding (2020) tw: miscarriage
  4. The Canterville Ghost (1944)
  5. Pennies From Heaven (1981) totally not what I expected. tw: rape, abuse
  6. Turn of the Screw (1974) tw: child death
  7. The Late Show (1977)
  8. Shag (1988) Dir. by Zelda Barron
  9. Ziegfeld Girl (1941)
  10. Photographing Fairies (1997)
  11. Communion (1989) wtf, this movie? tw: mentions of rape
  12. The Group (1966) tw: sexual assault, abuse
  13. Cash on Demand (1961)
  14. The Unseen (1945)
  15. Camelot (1967)
  16. Sunday in New York (1963)
  17. The Blue Bird (1940)
  18. The Knight Before Christmas (2019) Dir. by Monika Mitchell
  19. The Magic Flute (1975) ugh, why the blackface, Ingmar?
  20. The Merry World of Leopold Z (1965) Canadian
  21. The Barkley's of Broadway (1949)
  22. Weekend at the Waldorf (1945)
  23. A Warm December (1973)
  24. Star of Midnight (1935)
  25. The Erlking (1931) Dir. by Marie-Louise Iribe. tw: child death
  26. The Opposite Sex (1956)
  27. The Kid (1921)
  28. Susan Slept Here (1954) wow
  29. Black Christmas (2019) Dir. by Sophia Takal. tw: rape
  30. To All a Good Night (1980)
  31. Wish Upon a Star (1996)
  32. Silent Night, Bloody Night (1972) tw: implied rape/incest
  33. The Holly & the Ivy (1952) tw: child death
  34. Four Christmases (2008)
  35. Sole Survivor (1983) tw: suicide
  36. The Year of Spectacular Men (2017) Dir. by Lea Thompson. tw: gaslighting
  37. Something Different (1963) tw: abuse
  38. Whatever Happened to Baby Jane...? (1991) tw: abuse
  39. Holiday (1938)
  40. Bloody New Year (1987)
  41. New Years Evil (1980)

Fave movies of the year (was hard to narrow down, no order):
Us
Tied 70's movies: The Paper Moon, The Rose, All That Jazz
Crossing Delancey
The Half of It
Disclosure
Tied Powell/Pressburger movies: A Matter of Life & Death, I Know Where I'm Going
Blue
Birds of Prey
I'm Thinking of Leaving (I Think?)
The Crimson Kimono

Worst movies (no order, most of these were just bleh):
Destroy All Monsters/All Monster Attack
Attack of the Killer Donuts
The Sword of Sherwood Forest
The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
The Comedians
Hot Millions
The Gang that Couldn't Shoot Straight
Mad Monster Party?

Honourable Mentions:
Cats, lol
The Night Porter, have no idea how I feel about this movie
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December 2019 Movies & 2019 Wrap-Up

Jan. 2nd, 2020 03:07 pm
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 December 2019
  • A Midsummer's Night Dream (1935)
  • Dangerous (1935)
  • Annie Get Your Gun (1950) tw: kinda racist
  • Samantha (1991) tw: suicide attempt
  • Tom Thumb (1959) tw: hella racist
  • A Shot in the Dark (1964)
  • Return of the Pink Panther (1975)
  • Ice Follies of 1939 (1939)
  • Granny Get Your Gun (1940)
  • The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945) tw: suicide
  • Gold Diggers of 1935 (1935)
  • A Little Romance (1979)
  • Alice Adams (1935) tw: also hella racist
  • The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
  • Rare Exports (2010)
  • Anna & the Apocalypse (2017)
  • Double Wedding (1937)
  • A Night at the Opera (1935) I think I've gone off the Marx bros
  • House of Usher (1960)
  • Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933) Might be my fave Busby Berkeley so far
  • High Tide (1987) Dir. by Gillian Armstrong
  • The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942)
  • It's Love I'm After (1937) tw: a weird ass scene where Leslie Howard pretends like he's going to rape Olivia de Havilland to get her to stop loving him, but she takes it as true love, ugh
  • I Love You Again (1940)
  • Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1983) tw: homophobia
  • Remember the Night (1940)
  • O'Henry's Full House (1952)
  • Tea & Sympathy (1956) tw: homophobia, would love to see a version made outside of the Hays Code
  • Nancy Drew & the Hidden Staircase (2019) Dir. by Katt Shea
  • Zou Zou (1934)

Best of the Year (though I watched a lot of good ones) No Order
  • Private Life (2018) Great mix of humor and drama
  • Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018) same
  • The Candyman (1992) funked me up
  • Grace Jones: Bloodlight & Bami (2017) Beautiful doc about such a fascinating person
  • The Lion in Winter (1968) such salt and sass!
  • Hereditary (2018) no comment
  • Kedi (2016) lovely doc
  • Parting Glances (1986) great look into the AIDs crisis while it was happening, without being too sickness-pornish. Steve Buscemi was so good in it.
  • Lady Beware (1987) very surprising, stuck with me
  • Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) so fun and sweet and beautiful

Worst of the Year (no order)
  • Seems Like Old Times (1980) Chevy Chase can't get away with what Cary Grant could get away with, kinda racist
  • Red Heat (1988) great opening and had Gina Gershon, but bleh and I can't stand Jim Belushi
  • Rabbit Test (1978) very racist
  • Whistling in the Dark (1941) boring, Conrad couldn't even save it
  • Sex and the Single Girl (1964) I always hate these 1960s rom-coms, but can't stop watching for the set/costume design. Also, Henry Fonda and Lauren Bacall were ill used
  • Cast a Deadly Spell (1991) was creative and whatnot, but so transphobic
  • Justine (1969) meh
  • All in A Nights Work (1961) can barely remember it, but it's also a 1960s rom-com
  • Once Bitten (1985) meh
  • Three way tie: Serenity (2019) meh, The Hudsucker Proxy (1994) meh, Suicide Kings (1997) stupid ending

Most Traumatizing of the Year: 
Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (1971) Mario Van Peebles seems to be ok, but I'm not
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Mish Mash - 14

Dec. 10th, 2019 11:05 am
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Articles/Video Essays
- Women with ADHD
- Inside the Paris Department Store where Nazis Shopped for Stolen Jewish Belongings
- What is Pink (3 mins)
- David Sedaris on smoking
- "I Am Not Pocahontas" by Elissa Washuta
- "Relations" by Eula Biss
- "In Which All We Want Is Company During a Thunderstorm" by Georgia Hardstark
- "The Empathy Exams" by Leslie Jamison
- Ashley C. Ford on building a relationship with her father after he got out of prison
- On eugenics (17 mins)


Articles/Video Essays about Movies/TV
- Why we can't stop watching Keanu Reeves
- On The Pirates of the Caribbean franchise (20 mins)
- On Beastly (47 mins)
- Angela Rizza designing for Criterion (7 mins)
- Deleted scene from Second Chorus (5 mins)
- A huge VHS archive being digitized
- Lindsay Ellis on "Woke Disney" (30 mins)
- Final issue of cléo journal

Articles/Video Essays about Books/Authors/Libraries/Bookstores
- The sacred profanity of “Don Quixote.”
- Plane turned library
- The Last Bookstore (6 mins)
- On Delia Owens
- On Etty Hillesum
- On Anna Kavan
- On Isabelle Eberhardt
- Canadian Lesbian Fiction and Memoirs (111 books)
- Why are books that shape?

Short Films/Docs/Stories
- "Strop/Celing" (41 mins) dir. by Věra Chytilová
- "Inside Insite" (360 - 8 mins)
- "The Parking Spot" (3 mins) dir. by Gaby Dunn
- "Went with the Wind" (21 mins)
- "The Family: Brotherly Love" from The Carol Burnett Show (15 mins)
- "Sergeant Slaughter - My Big Brother" (13 mins)
- "The Guest" (4 mins) dir. by Gaby Dunn
- A family (24 mins) dir. by Gaby Dunn
- "The House of Aunts" by Zen Cho

Misc
- Calico Monkeyflower (8 mins)
- The Lion of Gripsholm Castle
- "Paper Planes" by MIA with musket (12 mins)
- Gorgeous embroidery (10 mins)
- Spray paint artist (5 mins)
- Outfit made from a couch (12 mins)
- Bonsai trees
- How Kevin Smith stayed calm during a heart attack (10 mins)
- "Major Arcana: Witches in America" photo-series by Frances F. Denny
- Hand-carved coins
- Pet made from hair (14 mins)
- Photography by Gregory Crewdson
- Art by Alex Colville
- "VD is for Everybody" (1 min)
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Mish Mash - 13

Oct. 4th, 2019 12:05 pm
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Articles/Video Essays
- Women struggling with ADHD
- Inside the Paris Department Store where Nazis Shopped for Stolen Jewish Belongings
- Deleted ghostly scene from the Fred Astaire movie Second Chorus (5 mins)
- What is pink? (3 mins)
- David Sedaris on smoking
- About Indiginous people in movies
- "Relations - Identity Theory" by Eula Biss
- "Seduction in Fall" by Georgia Hardstark
- "The Empathy Exams" by Leslie Jamison
- Ashley C. Ford on beginning a relationship with her father after he got out of prison

Articles/Video Essays about Movies/TV
- Why we can't stop watching Keanu Reeves
- The Cursed Half-Life of the Pirates Franchise (21 mins)
- I remember Beastly, lol (47 mins)
- About the woman who preserved 30 years of television
- Woke Disney (30 mins)
- Final issue of Cleo Journal :(

Articles/Videos about Books/Authors and Poetry
- The sacred profanity of “Don Quixote.”
- Airplane turned library
- The Last Bookstore (6 mins)
- "Where the Crawdads Sing" and murder?
- Etty Hillsum
- Anna Kavan
- Isabelle Eberhardt
- Canadian Lesbian Fiction and Memoirs (111 books)
- Why are books that shape?

Short Films/Docs/Stories
- "Strop/Celing" (41 mins) by Věra Chytilová
- "Inside Insite" (8 mins) about Canada’s first supervised drug-injection site
- "The Parking Spot" (3 mins) by Gaby Dunn
- "VD is for Everybody" (1 min)
- "Sergeant Slaughter - My Big Brother" (13 mins)
- "The Guest" by Gaby Dunn (4 mins)
- A doc about Gaby Dunn's family by Gaby Dunn (24 mins)
- "The House of Aunts" by Zen Cho

Misc
- Calico Monkeyflower (8 mins)
- Lion of Gripsholm Castle
- "Paper Planes" by MIA ft. musket (12 mins)
- Shu Embroidery (10 mins)
- Spray paint art (5 mins)
- Studio visit with artist Angela Rizza (7 mins)
- Turning a couch into fashion (12 mins)
- 10 unusual Bonsai trees
- How Kevin Smith stayed calm during a heart attack (10 mins)
- "Major Arcana" a photo-series by Frances F. Denny
- Handcarved coin art
- Pet made from hair (14 mins)
- "I'm Calling You" by Jevetta Steele (5 mins)
- "Went with the Wind" (21 mins)
- Another sketch from "The Carol Burnett Show" (16 mins)
- Art by Alex Coville
- Photos by Gregory Crewdson
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Mish Mash - 12

Aug. 21st, 2019 11:56 am
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Articles/Video Essays
- Pleasures of useless hack videos
- Sex Work: Decriminalization vs Legalization (44 mins)
- On illegal abortions
- This article is from 2012, but still, don't climb Everest
- How White People Handle Diversity Training in the Workplace
- The Hasanlu Lovers
- On Kabuki (28 mins)
- "Transtrenders" (35 mins) TW: transphobia, racism
- Women and the Holocaust TW: the Holocasut, rape
- Millennial nuns

Articles/Video Essays about Movies/TV
- On Hollywood glamour photography
- On Kind Hearts and Coronets
- Career retrospective of title designer Nina Saxon, part 1
- Dorothy Arzner
- Desiree Akhaven
- Wired's Technique Critique series
- Pioneers of Black Hollywood
- Queer women in horror movies
- Historical accuracy of the costumes from "Titanic" (13 mins)
- Intro to folk horror (7 mins)

Articles about Books/Authors and Poetry
- Queer YA after Stonewall
- Lovely old book covers
- Weird Bookstagram
- Mr. Jenkins's 24 Hour Book Shed
- "Olio" by Tyehimba Jess
- "[Didn’t Sappho say her guts clutched up like this?]" by Marilyn Hacker

Short Films/Docs
- "Spider" (10 mins) TW: needle
- "Bear" (11 mins) Sequel to above
- "Shooting Geronimo" (12 mins)
- "Shelly" (16 mins) dir. by Lauren Rothery
- Eugene Lee Yang's coming out video (5 mins)
- Making of above (28 mins)
- "Pop Rox" (14 mins)
- "Balcony" (17 mins) TW: Islamophobia, sexual assault
- "Yeah, Kowalski!" (10 mins)
- "That Mouse" (13 mins)
- "Savage" (6 mins) Dir. by Lisa Jackson. TW: residential school system
- "Negative Space" (6 mins)
- "Sing" (25 mins)
- "The Door" (17 mins) TW: child death

Misc
- Shark Teeth Kitchen Knife! (14 mins)
- Dandelions are awesome (12 mins)
- lol, what (3 mins)
- The octobasse (3 mins)
- rap from "Nudist Colony Of The Dead" omg (5 mins)
- PSA about playing near/in ponds (2 mins)
- Gong (2 mins)
- The art of Tom Thomson
- Where are the Bob Ross paintings? (11 mins)
- Dacre Montgomery auditioning for "Stranger Things" (4 mins)
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Jun. 14th, 2019 12:09 pm
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Articles
- Susan Orlean on girl surfers
- Cutting off contact with family members
- When anti-choice women get abortions

Articles/Video Essays about Movies/TV
- TV and the Working Class (65 mins) it's from 2003, so Bill Cosby and Roseanne are mentioned in positive ways.
- Review of Lorena
- About Kedi
- The very underappreciated Clockwatchers
- On Roma and Finding Vivian Maier
- On Sandi Tan and her film Shirkers
- A Trip through the Archives: A Century of Glamour Ghouls

Articles/Podcasts/Video Essays about Books/Authors/Libraries
- The Lives of Literary Wives
- This American Life on libraries (60 mins)
- Notre Dame
- Authors who are sisters
- Beautiful illustrations for Lord of the Rings
- On why knights were always fighting snails in Medieval art (5 mins)
- How Southern socialites rewrote Civil war history (7 mins)
- Rose Byrne reading The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter (8 mins)
- The Book With No Pictures by BJ Novak (4 mins)
- The Lost Coloring Books of Mr. T
- How to make a little book of rooms
- The Book of Sleep by Il Sung Na (5 mins)

Short Stories/Poetry
- "Sixteen Minutes" by Premee Mohamed
- "A Love Story" by Samantha Hunt
- "Spear" by Elizabeth Acevedo (3 mins)
- "Dead Doormen" by Helen Ellis. TW: suicide
- National Poetry Month tag
- "Cat Pictures Please" by Naomi Kritzer (the podcast version is 25 mins)
- "Feminine Endings" by Neil Gaiman (16 mins)

Short Films
- Bone Mother (9 mins)
- Lord of the Sky (13 mins)
- The Trouble with Mom (17 mins) TW: child abuse
- The Tell Tale Heart narrated by James Mason (8 mins)
- Tidal Traces (5 mins) 360-video
- Sisters & Brothers (3 mins) TW: residential schools
- Freaks of Nurture (7 mins)
- Quick Change Artist (3 mins)
- Kitty dir. by Chloe Sevigny. That cat is so gorgeous. All cats are gorgeous. (15 mins)
- Camera Test (6 mins)
- Lake (5 mins)
- Boogaloo & Graham (15 mins)

Misc
- Video for "Strange Little Girl" by The Stranglers
- Vi Hart's Snakes + Graphs
- ContrPoints on Gender Dysphoria (14 mins) TW: gender dysphoria, obvs. Her videos are amazing.
- Very sweet video on grief (6 mins)
- The Order of St. Beryl (5 mins)
- a performance by Lypsinka (10 mins)
- 5 Elements of Vogue (2 mins)
- That French guy who couldn't stop eating
- More from Vi Hart (3 mins)
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May. 8th, 2019 11:49 am
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Articles
- Rosa Parks
- How fur wasn't political until Black women started wearing it
- Mother, writer, monster, maid
- We’ve Always Hated Girls Online

Articles/Video Essays about movies/tv
- Rhymes for Young Ghouls
- Before Tomorrow
- Evil fantasy queens
- Fyre Festival
- Sexual Assault of Men Played for Laughs
- Hollywood Jim Crow
- Lindsay Ellis: aliens on film, Pocahontas, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Monster Boyfriends and The Shape of Water
- Angelica Jade Bastién: Neo-noirs, Horror starring POC and Female-led Horror
- Hidden words in "Sharp Objects" tw: self-harm
- Art recreated in horror movies

Articles about books/authors
- Interview with Christopher Pike
- The art of book covers
- Sex in queer ya fiction
- Most disturbing books
- Western Sci-Fi and Opportunity

Short Stories/Poetry
- "Balaenoptera" by Joshua Bennett
- "What I've Learned" by Aja Monet
- "Guinness Skin" by Alysia Harris
- "Cuz He's Black" by Javon Johnson
- "Ballad of the Landlord" by Langston Hughes
- "Das unheimliche Buch" by Felix Schloemp. I don't know what it says, but I love the illustrations.
- "Boobs" by Suzy McKee Charnas
- Pearls by Priya Sharma

Short Films
- "The Cat Piano" tw: animal abuse
- "Locks" by Ryan Coogler
- "Kitbull" tw: animal abuse

Misc
- 1300s A.D. ASMR~ Nun Takes Care of You In Bed {You Have the Plague}, lol
- a silent short from 1898 of a sweet Black couple
- Animals crossing a creek
- An 80 minute documentary about being Black in Japan
- Myths about Japan debunked
- Female Horror/Gothic Youtubers
- a really cute and queer music video
- Woodworking - bowl
- That knife guy (is it Jun?): tiny knife, UV resin knife, pearl oyster knife and bismuth knife
- Strange and cool materials
- Sex-Ed pop quiz
- Moss Man
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Jan. 31st, 2019 06:19 pm
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Misc Articles & Video Essays
- Obsessive Search for the Tasmanian Tiger
- Minimalism is for boring rich people. Lol, I prefer the clutterbitch style of design (not that I'm one of those people who is annoying about Marie Kondo)
- Death of Retail's Male Gaze
- 5 Phrases disabled people are tired of
- Why are there no female werewolves? (and a list of ones in movies and on tv)
- How Marvel does Asian characters
- Monstrous females and female monsters
- Pronouns
- Voter suppression inside marriages
- Hazel Cills about Rookie Mag

Stuff About Movies/TV (most of these contain spoilers)
- I liked the new "Sabrina" show, but this and this
- Framing Megan Fox and an article about Jennifer's Body
- "The Twilight Zone" and classic Hollywood
- Another conversation on trans people in cinema, this one focusing on trans villains
- Annihilation and Killer Plants as a plot device
- Female Cannibals in "Raw", "Lure" and "Santa Clarita Diet"
- Video essay on "Rent" and its movie adaptation. I tried watching the movie years ago and only got five minutes in

Stuff About Books/Stories (most of these contain spoilers)
- "Black Faces, White Spaces"
- Afrofuturism as legal praxis?
- Men writing teen girls
- Author spotlight on Jewelle Gomez
- Disability in fiction
- That time Anne Rice freaked out over a restaurant
- Every asexual character in 2018 YA
- Kristen Roupenian discusses "Cat Person"

Short Stories/Poetry
- fic about Susan Pevensie
- “If My Mother Was the Final Girl” by Michelle Ross
- "If..." by Sarah Perry
- Neil Gaiman reads "The Secret Book of the Dead" by Terry Pratchett
- "A Lodging for the Night" by Robert Louis Stevenson

Short Films
- "#poetry" documentary by Ariel Bissett
- Heritage minute: Jim Egan
- "Catalogue" (1961) by John Whitney
- "Universe" documentary by Roman Kroiter/Colin Low. Features the voice of HAL.
- "Moongirl" by Henry Selick
- "Leading Lady Parts" by Jessica Swale
- "Book of Dreams #7" by Alex Proyas (NSFW)
- "The Haunted House" (1908)
- "Lost Hearts" (1973), nicely creepy
- "Alice in Label Land" psa from the 70's
- "A Jury of Her Peers"
- "Hedgehog's Home"
- "The Magic Flute", trippy

Misc
- rando moment with Jeffrey Cranor
- Luke Evans and Taron Egerton have a Welsh off
- owl delivers a letter, so cute
- 10 minutes inside the quietest room
- Live Action Unicorns, lol
- Funny Book titles
- "Sorry, Wrong Number" broadcast featuring Agnes Moorehead
- Making make-up in an old timey way (I am tired, okay)
- The History of chokers and lipstick
- Mary Roach shares trivia about orgasms
- Clip from an amazing Chinese production of "Swan Lake"
- Making a knife out of smoke
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Nov. 13th, 2018 02:20 pm
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Articles
- Reading other books by authors you were assigned in school
- Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria, explains so much
- More on ADHD
- "Recording books for my dad" by Owen King
- Guide to spooky American road trips
- ManhattAnt
- Having your tubes tied at 20
- On dehoarding a partner's childhood home
- Home is where the cat is
- The Breathtaking Love Letters of Violet Trefusis and Vita Sackville-West
- Lack of Female Road Narratives
- On breaking into houses
- Dramatic reading on how mayo-phobia is killing America
- The Nothing Between Your Legs, TW: sexual assault
- On Attraction, Desirability, and "Types"
- My Words to Victor Frankenstein Above the Village of Chamounix: Performing Transgender Rage

Articles about Movies/TV
- The Oscars and Disability
- Caden Mark Gardener on Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean
- On how Under the Skin fits into Transgender cinema. Actually, this is part of a series, I also recommend: Paris is Burning and this one on recent movies.
- The same writers on some films by Susan Seidelman
- Gone Girl as "trashterpiece"
- American Honey
- Sharp Objects. I waited too long to do this, am tired
- "Hush" episode on Buffy
- Reviews of the Australian movie Celia
- Black Panther: one, two, three
- Mara Wilson on Matilda
- Being disbelieved in horror
- Horror and trauma tw: sexual assault

Lists
- Most searched for out of print books
- Notes found in used books
- 8 Queer Booktubers
- Horror movie and novel recs
- Spiders in books

Short Stories
- "Laurie" by Stephen King
- "Paper Menagerie" by Ken Liu
- And Tango Makes Three by Peter Parnell and Justin Richardson and illustrated by Henry Cole
- About "The Gold Bug" by Edgar Allan Poe, which was really racist. I listened to it read by Vincent Price
- "No Reservations: Narnia" by Edonohana
- "Horror Story" by Carmen Maria Machado
- "Cookie Jar" by Stephen King

Short Films
- Pop-Up Porno, NSFW
- Two Cars, One Night by Taika Waititi
- American Reflexxx tw: transphobia
- Bernice Bobs her Hair

Misc
- Paintings by Susan B. Hale
- TedTalk about schizophrenia
- Episode of Smart Bitches Trashy Books that made romance readers romance readers
- "In Every Dream Home a Heartache" by Roxy Music
- TedTalk about healthy sex
- Creey ass doll on instagram
- Buffy RPG
- A great "vlog" (even though that word didn't exist) at 1989's NYC Pride parade
- Starving Girls in Victorian Lit
- "Solid Potato Salad" by the Ross Sisters
- Histories of Snow White and Bluebeard
- Supercut of a rom-com trope
- Valancourt Books, published rare and out of print books, mostly queer
- 2:30am at a 7-11 near Disney World - 1987, I dunno, it's interesting, they did an update too
- Unaired Buffy pilot, everyone says it's crap but I thought it was cute
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July and August 2018 Movies

Sep. 1st, 2018 07:05 pm
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 July
  1. Footloose (2011)
  2. The Last Jedi (2017)
  3. Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017)
  4. Blackfish (2013) Dir. by Gabriela Cowperthwaite. Made me cry for 45 mins, then made me look at the screen like  O_o
  5. Dead End (1937)
  6. Parsley Days (2000) Canadian, dir. by Andrea Dorfman
  7. Real Genius (1985) Dir. by Martha Coolidge
  8. Grandmother's Gold (2018) omg
  9. The Blue Butterfly (2004) Canadian, dir. by Léa Pool

August
  1. Heart: The Marilyn Bell Story (2001) Canadian, dir. by Manon Briand
  2. And While We Were Here (2012) Dir. by  Kat Coiro
  3. To All the Boys I've Loved Before (2018) Dir. by Susan Johnson
  4. American Honey (2016) Dir. by Andrea Arnold
  5. Xanadu (1980) OMG
  6. Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941)
  7. Murder on the Orient Express (2017)
  8. My Left Foot (1989)
  9. Battle of the Sexes (2017) Co-dir. by Valerie Faris
  10. Hell or High Water (2016)
  11. Lady Bird (2017) Dir. by Greta Gerwig
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Jun. 23rd, 2018 01:48 pm
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Short Films


Merry Melodies
- One Froggy Evening
- Duck Amuck, Daffy Duck is a bisexual icon
- It's Got Me Again

FUCK BULLET POINTS!

Short Stories
- "We Have Always Lived On Mars" by Cecil Castellucci
- "The Husband Stitch" by Carmen Maria Machado
- "The Man Who Forgot Ray Bradbury" by Neil Gaiman, even if I'm annoyed by Fahrenheit 451 

Articles
- Women in mystery fiction
- About gay conversion therapy
- Why mental health is crucial for men
- History of lesbian pulp fiction
- That is not what "Lovesick" is
- Woman who accidently started the incel movement
- About the myth of real America
- About literary classics and male entitlement. I still love Catcher in the Rye though, can't help it
- About Roseanne, I can't even, loved that show so much. Ugh/
- Struggle to find peace as daughter of a serial killer
- 100 bisexual books
- Anthony Bourdain's Don't Read Before Eating This
- A conversation about Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean


Articles by Jess Zimmerman
- Anger That Can Save the World: On Justice, Feminism, and the Furies
- When It Is Considered Monstrous Not to Want Children, and Monstrous to Want Them Too Much
- Harpies

After I read her memoir, I looked up some of Glynnis MacNicol's articles
- Working on a Race Course
- How Sex and the City holds up and doesn't
- Women on road trips
- On Carolyn Bessette Kennedy
- On Carrie Fisher
- Age gap in #metoo movement

Misc
- A segment from Weird Homes
- Supercut of Kathryn Bigelow movies
- A women of jazz playlist
- Twitter thread of Little Women character personalities. Beth.
- How to open difficult packaging
- Siskel & Ebert on women in danger in slasher films: part one and two
- Killed by Death Records, I was going through their archives, listening to songs but got lazy. A lot of good songs though.
- Basílica i Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Família in Barcelona
- My favourite thing that has even been on Antiques Roadshow
- The artist Kenojuak Ashevak
- The Ansonia Hotel in NYC, very interesting history
- Strange Film Show with John Waters, spoilers for some of his movies
- Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space in NYC
- Queer Historical Fiction

Some reviews on the worst rated books on Goodreads. I have Almost Moon and still want to give it a try. I looked through the list, I had read three of the books and had two others.
- Eliza's Daughter by Joan Aiken was okay, but the end was horrible
- Slave to Fashion by Rebecca Campbell was okay when I was 15, but I would probably hate it now
- Academy X by Anonymous is the worst book I have ever read
- I donated Beautiful Children by Charles Bock and An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England by Brock Clarke. They both had nice cover designs though.
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Apr. 26th, 2018 10:22 am
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Articles

Articles about Books and Movies

Short Stories, Poetry, and Films



Vids

  • Encore+, has a bunch of Canadian media, but most important, movies. I recommend: Cannibal Girls, Lilies, New Waterford Girl, My American Cousin and its sequel, I've Heard Mermaids Singing, Company of Strangers (some of these are NFB, hmmm), etc.
  • Interview with John Waters
  • Jean of Bookishthoughts discusses what makes an inspiring woman after reading Margaret Thatchers inclusion in Good Night Stories for Little Girls
  • Heritage Minute for LM Montgomery



Misc

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  • Current Music: Head Like A Hole stuck in my head
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Jan. 11th, 2018 01:58 pm
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Short Films and Stories



Misc
 

I dunno what's going on w/ these bullets, whatevs

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Aug. 16th, 2017 06:49 pm
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Booktube
Short Films and Stories
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Jun. 19th, 2017 07:43 pm
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