Steven Shinder

Author of the Standalones and Stepping Stones novel series. Host of improvised movie review podcast @Delayed_Replay. Also co-host of Yesshift podcast.

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If you call yourself a fan of sci-fi, fantasy, and superhero fiction, and yet you don’t see the warning signs that you might be ushering in fascism, then you’re not very smart. You might even be stupid.

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Even if you remove The Clone Wars from the equation, I don’t think one can say it’s a plothole in Revenge of the Sith that people across the galaxy accept the rise of the Empire.

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I miss when people would read comics and not get hung up on the minutiae of what’s canon and what isn’t after a soft reboot and just accept that some of it happened and some of it didn’t.

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James Gunn when asked if ‘THE SUICIDE SQUAD’ is canon to the DCU.

“Only ‘Creature Commandos’ forward is pure canon… ‘The Suicide Squad’ has a lot of consistencies but I think of it as an imperfect memory”

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Celebrate the birthday of Tom Baker, the oldest living Doctor from Doctor Who, a show that evolves and allows many types of people to see themselves in stories.

I will not celebrate “liberation day.”

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Celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day for the dream he professed and the people he inspired.

Celebrate the birthday of the late David Lynch, who told people to fix their hearts or die. (Continued)

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Celebrate the birthday of the late DeForest Kelley, who as Dr. Leonard “Bones” McCoy was part of the first Star Trek series, which promoted infinite diversity in infinite combinations.
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Any smile I see in this inauguration broadcast is super unsettling to me, ngl.

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This might be a hard pill for some to swallow, but the super soldier serum doesn’t make Captain America. It’s all about the heart.

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Ending the night rewatching a little movie called Inland Empire. #DavidLynch

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@moreofaman_ @smilesinmay It’s 3-4, 4-5, 5-6, 6-7, and 9-10 all over again. 💔

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Venom
Madame Web
Venom: Let There Be Carnage
Venom: The Last Dance
Kraven the Hunter
Morbius

^and it looks like someone giving the middle finger, which feels apt.

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Only five episodes in but enjoying Schitt's Creek. Johnny and David really look like they could be father and son. As a bonus, their actors have the same last name. (Pronounced differently, I assume.)

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@HorrorMovieClb On the Renfield episode, what was Ashvin talking about when he said there was a new Lord of the Rings movie then? Was he thinking of the Dungeons & Dragons movie?

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I haven’t seen either of The Hobbit trilogy movies since their original releases, and my memory of them is they felt like if the Attack of the Clones droid factory sequence kept happening too frequently. #Tolkien

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For those who want to be aware of newer things: Back in Action is on Netflix, and One of Them Days, Alarum, Wish You Were Here, and Both Eyes Open are in theaters.

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@TMaster_36 @stardusthome In Rogue One I always got the vibe that her being on the run means focusing more on practicality and focusing her time and attention on the Rebellion than having to pick more complicated outfits. The Rebels to me always seemed like they had limited outfits they take with them.

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Universal made the right choice pivoting away from the shared universe model and instead doing standalone new takes on the Universal Monsters. Out of the past five films, the only one I didn’t like was The Last Voyage of the Demeter.

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@NebsGoodTakes Imagine if this were the MCU version of Bullseye.

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@gorgeousblondi3 He was all “Bow ties this, bow ties that.”

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Wolf Man (2025) > Nosferatu (2024) IMO