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Father uses sons’ drawings as inspiration for anime transformations

By: Thomas Romain (twitter | instagram | youtube | patreon)

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So proud of her!!! 🐶💖😭

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Soviet Winnie the Pooh illustration

First Soviet edition of the Pooh books - illustrated by Alisa Poret (1960)

Lidia Shulgina

Eduard Nazarov

Viktor Chizhikov (1986)

Boris Diodorov (1989)

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Hey Craig :)! I just got the Shudder application for my TV. I remember you mentioning it a couple of months back. Do you have any movie recommendations? They don't have to be Japanese or even horror (they can be thriller,psychological etc.). I noticed some Giallo films too (which I know you like as well). Let me know :).

Sure!

Ten of the Best Horror Movies to Watch on Shudder

Spider Baby

Maybe the best example of southern gothic horror by Jack Hill, the man who would go on to direct two of my favourite movies, Coffy and Foxy Brown. Updates the 20s-30s old dark house style plot for the 60s. It’s one of the most unique horror films I can think of.

Rigor Mortis

I know this has become my go-to recommendation, but it really is something people need to see. While it works that much better if you’ve seen the Mr Vampire series it still works incredibly well in its own right. Jiangshi are almost exclusively found in comedy horror films, so it’s great to see a film that takes them a little more seriously.

Return of the Evil Dead

My favourite of the Blind Dead series. This second entry does away with the slow, creepy pace of the first film and goes all in on creating a really entertaining siege film ala, Night of the Living Dead. 

Turkey Shoot

Battle Royale before Battle Royale, Turkey Shoot loosely adapts The Most Dangerous game in typical 80s Aussie cinema fashion. Set in a dystopian future where the rich pay to hunt and kill social deviants with all the energy of Mad Max. It’s equally as grim as it is silly. Also, one of the hunters has a werewolf man as a pet. 

Black Christmas

The original North American slasher film, and still my favourite. It might not be the right time of year to watch it, but Black Christmas is so much more than just a Christmas horror film.

The Evil Eye (The Girl Who Knew Too Much)

Not a horror film, but if you’re looking to get into giallo movies it’s a good idea to start with the first! More a parody of crime novels than the meaner edged psycho-thrillers that would come later, The Girl Who Knew Too Much follows an American girl in Italy who is actually quite excited to be caught up in a murder mystery. It’s worth watching for the style alone.

A Tale of Two Sisters

Probably a movie anyone following this blog has seen already, but if you haven’t it’s a definite recommendation and still my favourite Korean horror film. It also has maybe the best horror soundtrack since…

Tetsuo: The Iron Man

Again, another film followers of this blog have likely already seen, but an essential movie nonetheless. It’s up there with Evil Dead and Texas Chainsaw Massacre as far as brilliant independent horror films go. 

City of the Living Dead

A few years ago I would have recommended The Beyond over this, but as I get older I find this to be maybe the best of Fulci’s 1980s output.  Incredibly loose in terms of plotting, and defines dream logic every bit as much as Argento’s Inferno it’s a great atmospheric watch if you’re looking for style. While it is insanely violent, it isn’t guilty of lingering as long as some of Fulci’s other films from the period, which does wonders for its pacing.

Don’t Look Up

Not the best Japanese horror film ever, but as Hideo Nakata’s first feature-length horror film it’s an interesting part of Japanese horror history. Doesn’t quite come together, but has the same style Nakata would go on to use in Ring. At only 70 minutes it’s a really brisk watch.

Some Honourable Mentions:

Baba Yaga, Frightmare, Inferno, ISaw The Devil, High Tension, Pieces, Black Sabbath, Angst, Nosferatu, Belladonna of Sadness, ZombieHolocaust. 

If you like the look of anything on this list, consider a trial of Shudder through this link. It’s an affiliate link, but every little helps me start my new channel. :)

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“If we know, and do nothing, we are worse than the murderers hired in our name. If we know, then we must fight for your life as though it were our own—which it is—and render impassable with our bodies the corridor to the gas chamber. For, if they take you in the morning, they will be coming for us that night.”

— James Baldwin, An Open Letter to My Sister, Miss Angela Davis

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This mother has held the same beautiful sign at nearly every NYC Pride March since 1971 –– the year her two lesbian daughters came out. 

Frances Goldin is now 94. “When I [first] saw the reaction from the marchers to my sign, I was incredibly moved. People would run up to me with tears in their eyes and thank me for being so supportive. They would say ‘Will you call my mother/father? Will you be my mother??’ These kids are so desperate for their parents to love and support them for who they are.” 

📸: SALLY GOLDIN/GINA KAYSEN⠀

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Behind The Scene at the Black Panther London Premier

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Batman Beyond - S1E7: “Shriek” (1999)

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BROWN DOG

You may be the most cynical, born and bred, citified lefty like me — instinctively skeptical of big concepts like “patriotism”, relatively foreign to hunting culture, unused to wide open spaces, but spend any length of time traveling around Montana and you will understand what all that “purple mountains majesty” is all about, you’ll soon be wrapping yourself in the flag and yelling, “America, fuck yeah!” with an absolute and non-ironic sincerity that will take you by surprise. You will understand why and what people fought and died for — or at least perceived themselves to be fighting and dying for when, either defending Native American hunting grounds against Custer, or “defending America” against foreign aggressors — and you will be stunned, stunned and silenced by the breathtaking, magnificent beauty of Montana’s wide open spaces.

Even in Butte, a place as scarred, poisoned and denuded by rapacious capitalist excesses as a place could be, you will see things, beautiful, noble even — a testament to generations of hard work, innovation and the aspirations of generations of people from all over the world who traveled to Montana to tunnel deep into the earth in search of gold and then copper, a better life for themselves and their families. Even the hard men, the copper barons who sent them down into the ground, you will find yourself begrudgingly admiring their determination, their outsized dreams, their unwavering belief in themselves and the earths ability to provide limitless wealth.

And when you look up at the night skies over Montana, it’s hard not to think that we can’t be alone on this rock, that there isn’t something else out there or up there, in charge of this whole crazy ass enterprise.

Or at least, that’s what I was thinking, after a long day of pheasant hunting, perhaps a bit too much bourbon, and Joe Rogan demonstrating an Imanari choke from omoplata (he damn near cranked my head off). I flopped onto my back, stared up at the universe and thought, as I always do in Montana, “damn! I had no idea the sky was so big!”

We show you a lot of beautiful spaces and very nice people in this episode, but its beating heart, and the principal reason I’ve always come to Montana is Jim Harrison, the poet, author and great American-a hero of mine — and millions of others around the world.

Shortly after the filming of this episode, Jim passed away, only a few months after the death of his beloved wife of many years, Linda.

It is very likely that this is the last footage taken of him. To the very end, ate like a champion, smoked like a chimney, lusted (at least in his heart) after nearly every woman he saw, drank wine in quantities that would be considered injudicious in a man half his age, and most importantly, got up and wrote each and every day — brilliant, incisive, thrilling sentences and verses that will live forever. He died, I am told, with pen in hand.

There were none like him while he lived. There will be none like him now that he’s gone. He was a hero to me, an inspiration, a man I was honored and grateful to have known and spent time with. And I am proud that we were able to capture his voice, his words, for you.

I leave you with a poem Jim wrote. We use it in the episode, but I want to reprint it here. It seems kind of perfect now that Jim’s finally slipped his chain.

BARKING The moon comes up. The moon goes down. This is to inform you that I didn’t die young. Age swept past me but I caught up. Spring has begun here and each day brings new birds up from Mexico. Yesterday I got a call from the outside world but I said no in thunder. I was a dog on a short chain and now there’s no chain.

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Terry Crews Says Hollywood Talent Agency is Out to Get Him

A while ago, Terry Crews alleged Adam Venit, a powerful Hollywood executive, had sexually assaulted him at a party. He is a major player at WME (William Morris Endeavor) a talent agency in Hollywood and Crews former partner.

(WME is run by Ari Emmanuel, brother of Rahm Emmanuel. Ari Emmanuel is who the Ari Gold character in “Entourage” is based on.)

Now Terry says he is the target of some very sophisticated attacks. He recently posted this thread on Twitter:

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“If we know, and do nothing, we are worse than the murderers hired in our name. If we know, then we must fight for your life as though it were our own—which it is—and render impassable with our bodies the corridor to the gas chamber. For, if they take you in the morning, they will be coming for us that night.”

— James Baldwin, An Open Letter to My Sister, Miss Angela Davis

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This mother has held the same beautiful sign at nearly every NYC Pride March since 1971 –– the year her two lesbian daughters came out. 

Frances Goldin is now 94. “When I [first] saw the reaction from the marchers to my sign, I was incredibly moved. People would run up to me with tears in their eyes and thank me for being so supportive. They would say ‘Will you call my mother/father? Will you be my mother??’ These kids are so desperate for their parents to love and support them for who they are.” 

📸: SALLY GOLDIN/GINA KAYSEN⠀