AI Slop really is biting Youtube, IG, and Spotify. Even my wife, sis and dad who don’t care and just want a pleasant playlist are caught off guard they’ve heard fake artists and fake albums. But it’s (more…)
My Birthday Month Movie Marathon of July 2025 is probably a world record: 66 films in one month.
This was for the record books. I am really proud, and it was really fun, but it was ultimately challenging and exhausting. And totally worth it. I watched as many films as I could possibly watch in (more…)
The NYT Times Top 100 Films of the 21st Century, Printable list with columns, PDF, and easy full list.
Here’s the article, my list, the full list below just to copy and paste, or dear friends… a PDF and Word Document, 2 pages, 3 columns! at this Google Drive link: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1L31odpEKyQOFjOPivOXdBeScy8P3rJyQ?usp=sharing NYT (more…)
A Bite Size Deep Dive of why Alex Garland is one of our best Directors (and writers) in modern film history.
Coming from some disingenious online blograg discussion, I started hammering away at my thoughts on Alex Garland. I think he’s delivering some of the most important filmwork of the last decade+, and (more…)
The greatest DVD Audio Commentary Tracks of all time! Spinal Tap, Tropic Thunder, Sideways, Ebert, Goodfellas, and many more!
I just found out Goodfellas has a commentary track with Henry Hill and the FBI agent who busted him doing the commentary. And I’ve been rabbit holing my collection for commentary, and my research spiraled (more…)
A lost Roger Ebert article from American Film Magazine, March 1981: ” Why movie audiences aren’t safe anymore” about first person perspective horror slasher genre films.
“I’d like to know more on the subject” – my jaw dropped take that America just does not change. [shakes head] Fishybits thoughts first: In interest of academic rigor of film history, neither professions (more…)
My Fangoria Top 10 Horror Movies of all time, for the Top 100 vote!
Without further adieu, my top 10 horror films of all time, up to 2024: 10. Ex Machina, Alex Garland 9. Possessor, Brandon Cronenberg 8. The Fly, David Cronenberg 7. Jacob’s Ladder, Adrian Lyne 6. (more…)
Ridley Scott’s “Ridleygrams” for Alien, aka his unbelievably detailed and thought out storyboards that is another side to his professional fame.
More about this talent and his process here:
I think about Channel Local 58 a LOT. Some of the best and most unsettling horror out there.
I’d love to march in here and play at verite, and pretend it’s real. This is a transgressive experiment in art house filmmaking, I haven’t researched the gent, but I almost imagine this was a film school (more…)
Lovecraft was a horrible human that created a runaway universe of cosmic horror. Here’s a few wonderful films.
So Cosmic horror is essentially the psychic damage of being given the keys to an incomprehensible universe, and going mad because of it. It’s unknowable, and it will drive you mad with sadness, fear, and (more…)