Saw a local screening at OFX with a panel that included the local journalist who reported on this case for the local news despite forceful pressure from Kerr-McGee & its bedfellows. Getting to have a Q&A in the presence of so many folks who were there for this event reminds just how recent it was that we grappled with nuclear energy, yet our collective memory seems to be forgetful as data centers encroach on stolen land and nuclear propositions are coming through the back doors of local jurisdictions. Very important film -- very nuanced, very ambivalent, a smidge long & meandering, but important.

Went in blind not even knowing it was an adaptation of the video game & barely knowing it was a Markiplier project. Just curious about the grassroots box office situation. Saw it late, late at night in a theater of maybe 4 patrons. I kinda waned in & out of grogginess, and I think it made my viewing experience much more bearable & metacontextually in line with the tone of the film. I'm not sure I'd recommend it to anyone outside of genre fans & Markiplier followers, but it is indeed a big boy movie that surpasses much of the lower-budget studio garbage if only for its utter passion & dedication to doing the thing. I'm glad I was able to see it, if only to have seen it.

Caught this at the local underground theater on a Monday with a crowd of maybe two dozen. This movie demands to be seen with jovial company. I had a blast. I could criticize the occasional moment that tried my patience or made my eyes roll, but there was always an insane moment of hilarity in the next moment that made me forget.

How can a caricature of such professed creative endowment -- proven, in my opinion, by his music and fashion, which I rather liked -- be so uninspired in the execution of his own 'Opus'? I'm afraid that a run of the mill slasher flick has more ingenuity in its bones than this. Also, how does a guy whose Wikipedia page is literally just 2 sentences get a director's chair with A24 and John Malkovich?

I listened back to the Cinematic Schematic podcast episode on this (hosted by 2 Oklahomies), and they compared this favorably to Longlegs, suggesting that while both films had a disappointing reveal, it worked better in Weapons. I actually prefer how Longlegs did it, tbh. And while we're comparing, I also think the child/parent dynamic and escalation into camp was better in Cobweb, but it seems folks panned Cobweb, if they saw it at all.

This one has been on my list for a while. "Drink your Nehi and eat your coney"

Lots of people told me about this one. Excited to finally watch it.

Watched this some 15 years ago and only understood one frame of mind at the time. I was too unlearned to know the references, too young to notice the subtext, too confused to put together the pieces. That it still worked at the time in all of those contexts, I think, says a lot about how great this film is and how it works on multiple levels. On this second watch, I picked up way more, had the knowledge base to connect the meaning of its scientific and mythic references, was able to see the forest for the trees. It's a tiny enough film that it doesn't swing for huge fences and get muddled the way Aronofsky's The Fountain does, for example, but its themes are so monumentally existential that it is nonetheless able to tackle everything from the confines of its high-contrast black-and-white apartment, set against the backdrop of a frenetic NYC. Are order and chaos truly opposing forces? Or is there a method to the madness that we are simply too small to see? Can both be true at once? And what does it ultimately mean for us? If we found the answers to the working of the universe, what actions could we possibly take to live up to the awe of such knowledge? If we saw the full range of colors in the world instead of the three hues our eyes comprise of, would we not come to understand how much of our truth has been folly all along? Pi tackles so much more than this, says so much with so little, that I could ponder various ideas it works with for pages upon pages. I couldn't have said the same 15 years ago, and I suppose that's a reminder that all things are relative. Perhaps even the truth.

Just finished watching "The Running Man" (2025)

This is so fun and weird…

What a beautiful wild film!!

Second Oscar movie- One Battle After Another. Favorite so far! This was so great.

Been curious to see this since it released, and yeah, it's the kind of thing I wanna like more than I actually do. Granted, if it actually managed to pull off everything it's trying to do, it would be a miracle. Still a welcome voice in the world of U.S. immigration films and urban workforce stories. Plus, it's got Tilda Swinton, continuing to prove that she can find nuance in even the basest of caricatures.

What was up with this movie? Can someone explain the music choices? The camera work? The absolute refusal to give us a character arc until, debatably, the last 5 minutes of a 2.5-hour film? All of the excitement I felt in the directorial choices of this thing crumbled over that runtime as I realized that none of this was going to pay off. A memorable movie, to be sure, full of top notch filmmaking and fresh choices, but it was all in service of...what exactly? Unless I find some enlightenment eventually, I would only ever put this on again to hate-watch it.

Trying to watch all the Oscar nominated movies in the next couple of months. This was WILD.

This sequel was a swing and a miss. It was like watching the middle of a movie. It seemed to pick up right where the last one left off, without any intro at all. Then took a left turn diving into weird storylines that only provided stomach turning gore for extended periods, then ended oddly leaving no resolution nor any curiosity for what might come next. As oddly as it ended, it was a welcome end.

gonna check this one out tonight.

Beautiful documentary of John Candy made by his friends. What a wonderful life, and an incredible legacy.

I've really liked the Knives Out series, but I've also never gone back to any of them to see what new revelations come from repeat viewings. I feel this third installment probably has a ton. It tackles a LOT. But on a basic entertainment level, I was less enthused despite the subject matter being very on point & relevant to my interests. Not quite sure how I feel about this one, but it was definitely good.

Caught a free screening of this at Bookish in OKC. Someone said afterward that this movie was doing "elevated horror" 50 years before A24, and I have to agree. Honestly much better than its already good reputation.

Watched Christmas Day 2025

I’ll always say it loudly and proudly!! Bob Clark is the king of Christmas. He gave us the cozy one you watch with your family (A Christmas Story) and the nasty little miracle you watch after they go to bed (Black Christmas).

Just finished watching "Oddity" (2024)

Silent Night, Bloody Night is one of those movies that's lived three lives and picked up three names along the way: Silent Night, Bloody Night, Night of the Dark Full Moon, and Death House, depending on which poor distributor was trying to sell it that decade. It did its first stint on drive-in screens, vanished into the fog, then got dug up by Elvira on Movie Macabre and handed a scrappy little cult heartbeat. After that it slid into the public domain and now wanders through bargain-pack VHS, dollar DVDs, and sketchy streams like a grimy little zombie film that refuses to stay dead. And tonight I hope you enjoy it #SilentNightBloodyNight #ChristmasHorror #PublicDomainHorror #CultHorror #70sHorror #DriveInHorror #Elvira #ForTheDeadTravelFast #AnalogHorror #ObscureHorror #freemovie #horrormovie

Beautiful, haunting, devastating. I loved it. 10/10

Emily found this one so we decided to give it a watch.

This one is hilarious

BLACK SUNDAY (1960) A witch pulled out of her grave, eyes burning through time, hungry for blood and payback. Barbara Steele feels like a curse given a face. Beautiful, hollow, and cruel, staring straight past the characters and into you. Crumbling castles, rain on stone, masks of pain nailed to living flesh. It plays like a bad dream you half-remember from childhood and can’t quite shake. What lingers for you: the moment she first rises, or the slow spread of her curse afterward? #BlackSunday #BarbaraSteele #ItalianHorror #GothicHorror #60sHorror #ForTheDeadTravelFast

If you like Horror Anthology films have you seen #deadofnight ?

Watched Superman 2025 for the first time a few days back and I highly recommend it. James Gunn outdid himself in this story about immigrants, belonging, and self-discovery. PLEASE WATCH IF YOU HAVEN'T!!! THIS IS THE SUPERMAN IVE BEEN ASKING FOR!!

Had a slow day without kiddos running around so decided to watch something I’ve only just heard about…

What. The. Eff. I read the book and this movie still hit me right in the gut.

Death in the mid-1800s was fast, messy, and uncontainable. Wooden coffins leaked and splintered, ground gave way above them, and illness dripped out into the world of the living. In an era of cholera panics and premature burial, one man decided the solution wasn’t a more attractive box, but a brand new machine for the dead. His name was Almond Dunbar Fisk. Fisk didn’t make a box. He made a shell. A coffin that fit the body, crafted entirely of cast iron, with a glass window over the face and an airtight seal. The lid locked down, the body within was insulated from insects, air, and moisture. Decay would slow. Internal gases would build. The body itself became a sealed specimen, neither corpse nor artifact, but a maddening, beautiful limbo in between. Affluent families, politicians, and senior officers clamored for them. Especially when travel was involved, when a body had to reach its final resting place over thousands of miles. Zachary Taylor was laid to rest inside one. Dolley Madison as well. Horror is partly clinical detachment, the detail and exactness of the unnatural. Metal screws biting into iron rim. Rubber gaskets swelling the seal. A glass plate framing a face that could be studied one final time as if under museum glass. Memorial, medical study, and private obsession with outrunning death all at once. You can view it as a matter of public health, of status, or as the ultimate way people wanted to believe they could manage death, with the right engineering. It’s why we see the Fisk coffin in Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein. Perfect set dressing for a century struggling between veneration and revival. It was a container, sure. But it was also a 19th-century attempt to hack time, chemistry, and mortality with human hands. So few remain today. Some rest in museums. Others are still out there, buried under cemeteries, iron ribs still intact, lids unbroken, rooms of stale air preserved around bodies that may be far better off than anyone treading on top of them suspects.

Finally sitting down to watch this.

Just finished watching "Mad God" (2021)

#messiahofevil Messiah of Evil feels like wandering into a nightmare you only half remember. I love how it pulls you into a slow, haunted fog. Its one I dont hear people talk about near enough. #moviefriday #watchamovieonlavishmade #horrorfilms

I showed two of my kiddos the film today and they were immediately into it. Tablets and devices down and they just lived in the world for a little bit. I try to remember when my youngest first watches a classic and I won't forget this one. #moviemoments #memories #beingpresent #classicfilms

Just finished watching "We Summon the Darkness" (2019)

Currently watching "No One Will Save You" (2023)

One of my all time favorite movies! Free Palestine, fam.

Just finished watching "Spree" (2020)

Currently watching "V/H/S/Halloween" (2025)

Just finished watching "Barbarian" (2022)

Day 3

late night watch! :)

Day 2 Film 2

Just finished watching "Satanic Panic" (2019)

No idea if its good but gonna give it a watch

So far this is wild!!

This one is gonna be fun.

The title doesn't lie! Fun movie filled with a ton of great gags. #movies

Currently watching "The Keep" (1983)

Today is a perfect day for this one. #returnofmichaelmyers #horror #fall #falltemps #horrorfilms

Just finished watching "Koyaanisqatsi" (1982)

This is the perfect movie for September 1st!

Okay we switched up the movie.

This film is not great by any stretch of the imagination, but it's got this autumnal aesthetic that I absolutely long for in movies. While more of a drama than horror it's still something I enjoy playing to get into the Halloween spirit. Oklahoma doesn't usually do a good job of making it possible, but if I keep my house cold enough... light enough fall candles and turn on these types of films... it's close.

This is such a fall movie. Absolutely love. 🍁 🍂

Saw TCM for Texas Chain Saw Day earlier this month.

One of my favorites of all time.

Cobweb is such a fun film, especially on this rainy day. Small American town with an Autumn Halloween season atmosphere. Lizzy Kaplan and Anthony Starr do incredible in their roles as the creepy parents. Everything about this movie is as creepy as it possibly could be. GO WATCH THIS FILM NOW. #horrorfilm #cobweb #movies #cinema #halloweenfilms #lizzykaplan #anthonystarr #unsettling #cobwebthemovie #creepy

VHS versions are my favorite. #nostalgia #bootleg #vhs #vhsbootleg

At the drive in!!

Just finished watching "Fat City" (1972)

Just finished watching "Sinners" (2025)

I want to see this. I've heard awesome things. Anyone seen it yet?

Just finished watching "Menace II Society" (1993)

This is my favorite film of all time.

This is how you know you have the best horror loving friends. When I told them @Emily Richardson was watching sleepaway camp for the first time here were their responses 🤣

@Emily Richardson and I have been watching films that were interesting in due to theme and aesthetics, and Pariah was the film we picked last night. This movie felt real and grounded and broke your heart the way life can and will. It was a beautiful film. #moviereview #quickreview #bradfordyoung #cinema

Gonna check this one out

Watching this one tonight on this scorching Augtober evening.

What a silly fun film.

Before all the rest, there was. HEATHERS. So brilliant. What’s your damage man?

Wanted a fun fall film.

So excited to see this one on vhs

Rewatching this one… but this time on VHS

First thoughts

We found it on VHS and now we’re home and watching it.

I’ve been waiting since I was a teenager to watch this one! So excited.

What a wild movie @Emily Richardson @Rebecca

We can share audio memos now

I'm going to attempt to find some time to watch Companion today. Has anyone seen it? What are your thoughts?

Anyone watched sinners?

Gonna start sharing the movies I'm watching to review here.....watched this yesterday! (Review to follow) Always open to feedback and others' thoughts

Watching Insidious again for a project and here are my thoughts so far. … this one feels predominantly handheld. Real loose, natural, almost doc-style in spots. But then there are these moments where the camera slows down and gets super steady, and it feels wrong in a rad way. Like when the entity shows up, the whole vibe shifts. Suddenly you’re not in the room anymore. You’re being watched. And then it slips right back into handheld like nothing happened. It’s subtle but you FEEL it.

Watched Bring Her Back because I’m going to be DP’ing a project that’s pulling some visual inspiration from it. It’s a dark film. Not just in the way it looks, but in what it sits with. I’m usually pretty critical of these modern family-trauma horror stories. A lot of them feel like they just want to shock or suffocate you. But this one had heart. It didn’t feel like it wanted to punish the audience. It had something to say, and the characters felt real. I appreciate it the fact it didn't use grief as a set dressing. It had real opinions and I felt them.