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After my longest break yet, I pop back up just in time to want to go back into hiding, being Election Day and all. In the meantime, here are my ramblings on two horror movie marathons I attended in October: 1. "They're Here" at Brain Dead Studios in Los Angeles, where I watched the following haunted house-themed films in 16mm: Amityville II: The Possession (1982); Something Evil (1972); Poltergeist II: The Other Side (1986); The Others (2001); The Entity (1982); and House (1985) 2. "Camp Frida: British Invasion" at The Frida Cinema in Santa Ana, where I watched the following UK-based horror movies: Ghostwatch (1992); The Legend of Hell House (1973); The Blood on Satan's Claw (1971); Theatre of Blood (1973); Dracula (1958); and Xtro (1982) Click here for the blog version of this episode.

I ramble general grumperies about not taking part in general arguments, before discussing three films from 2022: the coming-of-age 80s period piece Armageddon Time, directed by James Gray, and starring Anne Hathaway, Jeremy Strong, and Banks Repeta; the Marvel sequel Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, directed by Ryan Coogler, and starring Letitia Wright, Angela Bassett, and Tenoch Huerta; and the sci-fi horror flick M3GAN, directed by Gerard Johnstone, and starring Allison Williams and Violet McGraw.Click here for the blog version of this episode.

I talk about an incident at work that kinda/sorta/not really happened, before discussing three recent viewings: The 1969 erotic thriller/black comedy The Laughing Woman, directed by Piero Schivazappa, and starring Philippe Leroy and Dagmar Lassander; Ti West's X prequel Pearl, from 2022, directed by West, and starring Mia Goth; and the 1991 "ultimate road movie" Until the End of the World, directed by Wim Wenders, and starring William Hurt and Solveig Dommartin. Click here for the blog version of this episode.

As a fan of the movie podcast "Trick or Treat Radio", I decided to play along by watching the same films they covered in 2021, and forming my own "Top 13" list of favorites. Visit the Trick or Treat Radio podcast if you want to hear fun genre talk. Note: This episode was originally intended to be released January 2022, but I had issues with the intro, which I felt was too dark. Normally, I don't care about such things, but I didn't want to start off the New Year with such a bad vibe. I prefer to save such gloom for June. So I ended up editing it down by 2/3, leaving it a relatively tame shadow of its former self -- and it *still* seemed too bleak. So I shelved it. Well, cut to a few months later, 2022 is shaping up to be yet another mother, I stopped caring, and so here it is. I've since deleted the longer version, but I'm sure those thoughts will pop up here and there in future posts, that is, if there *is* a future. See, my mind is always good at brewing up awfully negative things like that.

In which I ramble about two Netflix films starring The Adorable Amy Adams. First, the 2020 adaptation of J.D. Vance's memoir, Hillbilly Elegy, directed by Ron Howard and written by Vanessa Taylor; co-starring Glenn Close, Gabriel Basso, Haley Bennett, and Frieda Pinto. Then I follow with 2021's The Woman in the Window, based on the novel by A.J. Finn, directed by Joe Wright, and written by Tracy Letts; co-starring Gary Oldman, Julianne Moore, Jennifer Jason Leigh, and Anthony Mackie.

It's listener request fulfillment time, so listen as your humble rambler awakens the sleeping giant of Whovians with his ignorant lack-of-knowledge as he rambles about the 1996 made-for-television film Doctor Who: The Movie, starring Paul McGann, Sylvester McCoy, Daphne Ashbrook, and Eric Roberts as The Master. Click here for the blog-written version of this episode. And click here for listener Kris Wallace's awesome book "Chuck Solace and the Mystic of Meridian" from Migrant Publishing.

Five months into the new year, I figured it was high time to get back in the saddle with my perverted player-hating ramblings on Jonah Hill's directorial debut from 2018, the semi-autobiographical coming-of-age film, Mid90s, starring Sunny Suljic, Katherine Waterston, Lucas Hedges, and Na-kel Smith. Click here for the blog version of these ramblings.

By request, I ramble about Disney's 2017 live action Beauty and the Beast, directed by Bill Condon, starring Emma Watson, Dan Stevens, Luke Evans, Kevin Kline, and plenty of familiar faces providing their voices. Then I ramble a bit about the 1991 animated film as well. Click here for the blog version of these ramblings.

The 1998 talking bird film Paulie -- directed by John Roberts, written by Laurie Craig; starring Tony Shalhoub, Hallie Eisenberg, Gena Rowlands, Cheech Marin, and Jay Mohr as the voice of Paulie -- is one of actress Amy Adams' favorite films. I heart Amy Adams, so I checked the movie out to see if it was as precious as her.Click here for the written version of these ramblings on my blog.

Just in time for the holidays, I ramble about my visit last October to the 12th Annual Dusk-to-Dawn Horrorthon at the Aero Theatre, where we watched: An American Werewolf in London; Popcorn; The Tingler; Hack-O-Lantern; Shocker; Brainscan; and Death Bed: The Bed that Eats. At this rate, I'll be posting episodes about Christmas movies by Easter. Anyway, enjoy listening to Fuckhead refer to Death Bed writer/director George Barry as "John Barry", even though he had his name written in front of him.Click here for the written version of these ramblings on my blog.