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Anthony Strand @durwoodclapper.bsky.social · 11m

There's still these Perds, these Perds, these Perds

Anthony Strand @durwoodclapper.bsky.social · 52m

Starfleet Academy TV show looks exactly like a CW show. Take that as a positive or negative as you see fit.

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Anthony Strand @durwoodclapper.bsky.social · 1h

Yeah, I don't love it. Like you say, it's very dull. But it's just *such* a unique artifact.

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Anthony Strand @durwoodclapper.bsky.social · 1h

The Criterion Century #89:

Häxan (dir. Benjamin Christensen, 1922)

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A ★★★★★ review of Häxan (1922)

The Criterion Century #89: Häxan (dir. Benjamin Christensen, 1922) This movie is split into seven parts, and they're all super interesting. It starts out with a slideshow presentation about the histor...

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Anthony Strand @durwoodclapper.bsky.social · 1d

Diane Keaton is not the 79-year-old whose obituary I hoped I would read today

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Anthony Strand @durwoodclapper.bsky.social · 1d

Kay certainly isn't the Diane Keaton Type we would come to know and love.

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Anthony Strand @durwoodclapper.bsky.social · 1d

My wife went to see Mumford & Sons on Thursday with our niece, and I'm delighted that they had a great time, but now she's been playing Mumford & Sons music all day and none of it sounds like anything.

Simply impossible to remember any of these songs while they're happening, let alone later.

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Anthony Strand @durwoodclapper.bsky.social · 1d

I just found out that Louis Sachar released a novel for adults this year! I can't even imagine what that's like!

www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/773581...

The Magician of Tiger Castle by Louis Sachar: 9780593952306 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

• AN INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER • AN INDIE NEXT LIST PICK • A LIBRARY READS PICK • The beloved author of Holes presents his first adult novel, a modern fantasy classic of forbidden...

www.penguinrandomhouse.com

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Anthony Strand @durwoodclapper.bsky.social · 2d

Here's the Batman '66 version of Scarecrow, a character who never appeared on that show but is clearly designed here to look like a cameo guest star in a costume.

Anthony Strand @durwoodclapper.bsky.social · 2d

By the third issue, they're teaming Cheetah up with Clayface, who's just a regular cartoon character. What are we even doing here?

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Anthony Strand @durwoodclapper.bsky.social · 2d

The Wonder Woman TV show largely didn't feature her comics villians, so it theoretically should be fun to see them here. But there's absolutely no attempt to make them feel like they're a late-70s TV version.

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Anthony Strand @durwoodclapper.bsky.social · 2d

Wonder Woman '77, on the other hand, is basically just a normal Wonder Woman comic except it's set in the 70s. Diana looks like Lynda Carter, and Steve Trevor looks like Lyle Waggoner, but otherwise it seems to be set in the normal comics DCU.

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Anthony Strand @durwoodclapper.bsky.social · 2d

The Batman '66 comic from around the same time is a love letter to the Adam West TV show.

In 30 issues, almost every villain from the show appeared, and the tone was always as close to the TV show as possible. You could imagine these stories happening on the screen.

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Anthony Strand @durwoodclapper.bsky.social · 2d

I'm bouncing around through time reading every Wonder Woman comic published since 1986, and right now I'm reading the Wonder Woman '77 comic. It's a real stark reminder that no one actually cares about that TV show very much.

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Anthony Strand @durwoodclapper.bsky.social · 3d

Anthony Strand’s review published on Letterboxd:
The Criterion Century #88:

Carnival of Souls (dir. Herk Harvey, 1962)

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A ★★★½ review of Carnival of Souls (1962)

The Criterion Century #88: Carnival of Souls (dir. Herk Harvey, 1962) Outside of this movie (if you can indeed call it a movie), Herk Harvey mostly directed industrial films. This feels exactly like o...

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Anthony Strand @durwoodclapper.bsky.social · 3d

I can't believe it took me 13 years to think of this.

Anthony Strand @durwoodclapper.bsky.social · 3d

*clears throat*

Don't Trust the Bee Movie TV Juniors in Apartment 23-Movie TV Juniors

Thank you for your time.

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Anthony Strand @durwoodclapper.bsky.social · 3d

*clears throat*

Don't Trust the Bee Movie TV Juniors in Apartment 23-Movie TV Juniors

Thank you for your time.

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Anthony Strand @durwoodclapper.bsky.social · 5d

From least-bad to worst:

Revenge of the Creature
House of Dracula
Son of Dracula
Abbott & Costello Meet Jekyll & Hyde
The Mummy’s Tomb

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Anthony Strand @durwoodclapper.bsky.social · 5d

Right, it's one of the greatest things ever made. It's the only one I watch annually.

Anthony Strand @durwoodclapper.bsky.social · 5d

Phantom of the Opera, because years of isolation turned America bitter and ugly

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Anthony Strand @durwoodclapper.bsky.social · 5d

Everything you've heard about the Spanish version being more effective is true! It's better in every way except the casting of Dracula!

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Anthony Strand @durwoodclapper.bsky.social · 5d

Werewolf of London (1935) is so much better than The Wolf-Man (1941)! It's moody, the makeup design is cooler, and it's a real bummer that they just took a mulligan and tried again six years later.

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Anthony Strand @durwoodclapper.bsky.social · 5d

I'm a Lon Chaney Sr. man every time. Phantom isn't even my favorite role of his - that would be The Unknown - but he made every character feel distinct.

Junior seems like Lennie from Of Mice and Men in every role, up to and including the time he played Dracula.

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Anthony Strand @durwoodclapper.bsky.social · 5d

Honestly, I feel like the answer is that James Whale didn't direct it.

I agree that it's an absolute gem. It's almost a half-hour than the first two, but it makes use of every second.

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Anthony Strand @durwoodclapper.bsky.social · 5d

Well, as of ten minutes ago, I've seen all 34 classic Universal Monster movies. Ask me anything!

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