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I like games

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It seems like too much of a coincidence that John Lantern and Hal Lantern happen to have the same last name…

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Thought this was THE Moon Lee and got super excited.

[La Biennale di Venezia @la_Biennale]

#BiennaleCinema2026 #Venezia83 #VeniceOpen #FuoriConcorso #OutOfCompetition

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@biurinho Kane Hodder!!

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Thought this was about this Thai GL movie from a couple of years back:

[jim 🍉 @bymuracommie]

i might have a guess

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Always good to see some Last Night love around here.

[Jane Schoenbrun @sapphicspielbrg]

last night was an instant cult classic

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I found the official Hausu restaurant.

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@isaacrrr7

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Resident Evil Survival Unit

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@oderiviere Remember Me fans, assemble!!!

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It’s 2026…the Spice Girls should have been lording over us on their hoverboards by now.

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@LurioZzz

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@Bossskuno @binobinobi @elbetillo @saulnier_jeremy @thecraigwallace John Wick: Chapter 4 (dir. Chad Stahelski)
Seeds (dir. Kaniehtiio Horn)
Class of '07 (showrunner: Kacie Anning)

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Some late-to-the-party faves/recs:

Frankie Freako (dir. Steven Kostanski)
The Paradise of Thorns (วิมานหนาม) (dir. Naruebet Kuno)
Millie Lies Low (dir. Michelle Savill)
Look Back (dir. Kiyotaka Oshiyama)

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(cont.)

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@Bossskuno @binobinobi No abras la puerta (2022) (dir. Humberto Hinojosa Ozcáriz)
Bone Tomahawk (dir. S. Craig Zahler)
Blue Ruin (dir. Jeremy Saulnier)
Todd and the Book of Pure Evil (S2) (showrunner: Craig Wallace)

@elbetillo @saulnier_jeremy @thecraigwallace

(cont.)

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@eakasit13 @AlsoBlair @ChrisReading Thunderbolts* (dir. Jake Schreier)
Clown in a Cornfield (dir. Eli Craig)
Sinners (dir. Ryan Coogler)
Deathstalker (dir. Steven Kostanski)

@jakeschreier @RyanCoogler

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Late, but some faves from 2025:

Halabala (ฮาลาบาลา ป่าจิตหลุด) (dir. Eakasit Thairaat)
The Toxic Avenger (dir. Macon Blair)
The Surrender (dir. Julia Max)
Time Travel Is Dangerous (dir. Chris Reading)

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(cont.)

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@hell_line0 Dr. Louks?

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How are the Avengers fighting Doomsday when Superman already killed him in BvS???

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H.P. Lovecraft High School

[Sandy Petersen 🪔 @SandyofCthulhu]

One of the great failures of modern cinema is that when they adapt or remake something, the director is filmed with hubris that he can do it "better", not realizing his job is to present the original vision in a new form.

It was done well by Peter Jackson for Lord of the Rings. He knew which parts of the book needed to be focused more in a film (Paths of the Dead) and which parts could be ignored (Tom Bombadil). He didn't try to "fix" the original works - he adapted it to a movie format, which has different needs from a book.

It was done well by HPLHS when they did The Whisperer in Darkness. They added extra characters to the early story, so Wilmarth would have people to have conversations - in the original take, everything happens in letters or inside Wilmarth's head. Also, the climax of the written story happens about an hour into the movie. But cinema needs more than that reveal, so it goes on for another 30 minutes, to its advantage I think, and does not betray the story's promise.

It was done poorly by Green Lantern which was so bad that Hector Hammond was more interesting than the hero.

It was done poorly by The Scarlet Letter (1995) which turned a tale of hypocrisy and societal blindness into an erotic thriller.

And it's being done poorly even as we speak by some ego-huge and talent-small hack in Hollywood to a tale we would otherwise have enjoyed. It's gotten so bad that every time Hollywood mentions a new adaptation, the knee-jerk reaction of the potential fans is "ugh" and nervousness rather than excitement.

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The Prestige (2006, dir. Christopher Nolan)