Michael P Spillers 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[Michael P Spillers 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @MPSpillers]

For #Tolkien ‘s birthday today, I’ll be diving into this beautiful little leather-bound box set of “The World of Tolkien” from @DavidDayBooks. 📚 🐉 🧙🏼‍♂️ “Elen síla lúmenn’ omentielvo!” ✨

[Michael P Spillers 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @MPSpillers]

@nimrodelf

[Michael P Spillers 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @MPSpillers]

I blasted the theme song all the way home, my own fantasies about that lost “college kid” experience dancing in my head. 🎓🔥🎶 #ManInMotion

[Michael P Spillers 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @MPSpillers]

As devoted as I am to 1980s pop culture, #StElmosFire was never on my radar. Maybe it was the dreaded “Rated R” (strictly forbidden in our house). It certainly wasn’t the plot - at 16, I was OBSESSED with “college kids.” 🧵

[Michael P Spillers 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @MPSpillers]

There was a time-machine moment that struck me: when the Brat Pack realizes one of their friends is becoming a #Republican, and they just sort of shrug, change the subject, and move on with their lives. God, what a time it was. 🧵

[Michael P Spillers 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @MPSpillers]

@DioVolka better, worse, better, worse, better, worse, better…

[John Flickinger @theFLICKpick]

Rainy, lazy day = 80s feel-good nostalgia movies in bed.

“Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.” 🍿

[A Time to Keep @no_grave_]

There's something special about the color green

[Michael P Spillers 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @MPSpillers]

Co-starring John Heffernan in flashbacks of Tolkien’s earlier years. 🐉

[Austin Freeman @DrAustinFreeman]

We need Jonathan Pryce as Tolkien before it's too late

[Elle Lookbook @EvaLovesDesign]

Edinburgh, Scotland

[Michael P Spillers 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @MPSpillers]

Oh, and watching it in @4dxusa didn’t hurt. Seats bumping and swaying, water and smoke spraying all around—it was an immersive ride, my favorite time at the movies this year. A ‘guilty pleasure’ minus the guilt. Can’t wait to see it again!

[Michael P Spillers 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @MPSpillers]

I can’t even think about #DefyingGravity yet… I’m still processing #GladiatorII !
Fans of the original aren’t loving the new one. I think that’s why it affected me so differently. The first film never really stuck with me - chalk it up to where my head was at back in 2000?

[Michael P Spillers 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @MPSpillers]

...propelling our new hero from warrior to slave to #gladiator , and ultimately face-to-face with emperors in an audacious “more is more” retelling of the original story. It’s cyclical on purpose. It’s not meant to feel grounded. It’s meant to feel mythical.

[Jason Ragosta @JasonRagosta]

#revisiting the original #Poltergeist which remains one of the greatest films of all time 🙌🏼🔥❤️🔥🤘🏻