Greg Fantomas F
@fantomascinema.bsky.social
Film historian, movie writer (various, including TCM, MSN Movies, Cinema Retro, Bulwark), director and actor (Sustained Reaction, Cetilusine), and host of YouTube Channel Unexplained Cinema Presents. https://www.youtube.com/@UnexplainedCinemaPresents/video
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My honest to goodness favorite part of Rope is the incredibly detailed New York backdrop behind the window that gradually goes from day to night.
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I think I have to accept that I am not entering, but have long since entered and settled down in the phase of my life where I hate everything in popular culture.
December 4, 2025 at 2:07 AM
I think I have to accept that I am not entering, but have long since entered and settled down in the phase of my life where I hate everything in popular culture.
I think I have to accept that I am not entering, but have long since entered and settled down in the phase of my life where I hate everything in popular culture.
December 4, 2025 at 2:07 AM
I think I have to accept that I am not entering, but have long since entered and settled down in the phase of my life where I hate everything in popular culture.
Two things here.
One, we have officially arrived at the point $8.99 for a chocolate bar is considered *NOT* a premium price tag.
Two, Dubai chocolate cannot die fast enough for me.
"Hey, we're a theocracy that will imprison or possibly execute you for being gay or trans but look at our chocolate!"
One, we have officially arrived at the point $8.99 for a chocolate bar is considered *NOT* a premium price tag.
Two, Dubai chocolate cannot die fast enough for me.
"Hey, we're a theocracy that will imprison or possibly execute you for being gay or trans but look at our chocolate!"
December 1, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Two things here.
One, we have officially arrived at the point $8.99 for a chocolate bar is considered *NOT* a premium price tag.
Two, Dubai chocolate cannot die fast enough for me.
"Hey, we're a theocracy that will imprison or possibly execute you for being gay or trans but look at our chocolate!"
One, we have officially arrived at the point $8.99 for a chocolate bar is considered *NOT* a premium price tag.
Two, Dubai chocolate cannot die fast enough for me.
"Hey, we're a theocracy that will imprison or possibly execute you for being gay or trans but look at our chocolate!"
Really? One, it was less of a series than a collection of made for broadcast movies. Two, very few shows *don't* get good reviews these days as an unsettling amount of television "critics" like everything they see, and three, Jeremy Brett was a hell of a lot better as Sherlock Holmes.
December 1, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Really? One, it was less of a series than a collection of made for broadcast movies. Two, very few shows *don't* get good reviews these days as an unsettling amount of television "critics" like everything they see, and three, Jeremy Brett was a hell of a lot better as Sherlock Holmes.
I have unlocked raging fire level.
November 30, 2025 at 8:50 PM
I have unlocked raging fire level.
We have booze all over the house, btw. Drop by and I'll mix you up whatever you want.
November 27, 2025 at 2:53 PM
We have booze all over the house, btw. Drop by and I'll mix you up whatever you want.
For the first time in years, we are not hosting Thanksgiving, and not going anywhere! Having coffee and sitting by the fire with NOTHING in the oven. This is already the best Thanksgiving I have ever had, bar none.
November 27, 2025 at 2:46 PM
For the first time in years, we are not hosting Thanksgiving, and not going anywhere! Having coffee and sitting by the fire with NOTHING in the oven. This is already the best Thanksgiving I have ever had, bar none.
1. Police Academy 3: Back in Training
2. Yes, Giorgio
3. Rhinestone
4. Ernest Goes to Camp
2. Yes, Giorgio
3. Rhinestone
4. Ernest Goes to Camp
CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS
THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST
BRAZIL
THE FLY
THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST
BRAZIL
THE FLY
Name your top 4 80s films.
November 27, 2025 at 2:41 PM
1. Police Academy 3: Back in Training
2. Yes, Giorgio
3. Rhinestone
4. Ernest Goes to Camp
2. Yes, Giorgio
3. Rhinestone
4. Ernest Goes to Camp
My arm is Poppy's body pillow.
November 25, 2025 at 12:46 PM
My arm is Poppy's body pillow.
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Constance Cummings (May 15, 1910 – November 23, 2005). Photo by Lusha Nelson in 1935.
November 24, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Constance Cummings (May 15, 1910 – November 23, 2005). Photo by Lusha Nelson in 1935.
Let's scroll through Roku's horror section and see what they have. Ah, yes, West Side Story, with its famous Jets vs the Sharks vs Jason and Freddy story.
November 23, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Let's scroll through Roku's horror section and see what they have. Ah, yes, West Side Story, with its famous Jets vs the Sharks vs Jason and Freddy story.
But... wait... it was 1974, it wasn't made in black and white because they couldn't afford color stock, it was made to resemble the original movies that... [trails off in disbelief]
[stares, mouth hangs open]
WHAT??!!??!?!?!!!!
[stares, mouth hangs open]
WHAT??!!??!?!?!!!!
November 22, 2025 at 9:23 PM
But... wait... it was 1974, it wasn't made in black and white because they couldn't afford color stock, it was made to resemble the original movies that... [trails off in disbelief]
[stares, mouth hangs open]
WHAT??!!??!?!?!!!!
[stares, mouth hangs open]
WHAT??!!??!?!?!!!!
I just want to get serious here for a minute and say how important it is for all of to appreciate how lucky we are that we live in a world where limited edition holiday shapes of Reese's and Snickers exist.
November 20, 2025 at 5:30 PM
I just want to get serious here for a minute and say how important it is for all of to appreciate how lucky we are that we live in a world where limited edition holiday shapes of Reese's and Snickers exist.
One of my favorite village cats in Switzerland this summer. Such a sweetie.
November 20, 2025 at 1:59 AM
One of my favorite village cats in Switzerland this summer. Such a sweetie.
I once smoked a marijuana cigarette, which my friends referred to as Mary Jane, and I went on a cross country killing spree shortly afterwards with a girl named Holly.
November 18, 2025 at 12:41 PM
I once smoked a marijuana cigarette, which my friends referred to as Mary Jane, and I went on a cross country killing spree shortly afterwards with a girl named Holly.
Roger Ebert said, basically, the whole story exists just to get to this ending. It is, in both the short story and the movie, one of the most incredible and moving works of prose in existence.
youtube.com/watch?v=elrV...
youtube.com/watch?v=elrV...
The Extraordinary Ending of The Dead (1987)
YouTube video by Unexplained Cinema Presents
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November 18, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Roger Ebert said, basically, the whole story exists just to get to this ending. It is, in both the short story and the movie, one of the most incredible and moving works of prose in existence.
youtube.com/watch?v=elrV...
youtube.com/watch?v=elrV...
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If you say Poppy three times, she appears.
November 18, 2025 at 2:59 AM
If you say Poppy three times, she appears.
If you say Poppy three times, she appears.
November 18, 2025 at 2:59 AM
If you say Poppy three times, she appears.
Recycling old boxes and I can't find Poppy now. If anyone has any ideas where she might be, please let me know.
November 16, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Recycling old boxes and I can't find Poppy now. If anyone has any ideas where she might be, please let me know.
“We are so sorry,” said his wife, Mary Liz. “I feel like no one thinks that we're sorry.”
You know why they don't think you're sorry, Mary Fucking Liz! Because you ignored flood zones to make money and are now reopening, you fucking ghoul!
Burn in Hell, monsters.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
You know why they don't think you're sorry, Mary Fucking Liz! Because you ignored flood zones to make money and are now reopening, you fucking ghoul!
Burn in Hell, monsters.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Swept Away
www.nytimes.com
November 16, 2025 at 1:52 PM
“We are so sorry,” said his wife, Mary Liz. “I feel like no one thinks that we're sorry.”
You know why they don't think you're sorry, Mary Fucking Liz! Because you ignored flood zones to make money and are now reopening, you fucking ghoul!
Burn in Hell, monsters.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
You know why they don't think you're sorry, Mary Fucking Liz! Because you ignored flood zones to make money and are now reopening, you fucking ghoul!
Burn in Hell, monsters.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
One of the most hilariously telling things with all of this, especially in comments on Twitter, is how shocked right wingers are that libs aren't rallying around people like Clinton and Summers. They think because they have lockstep loyalty to their leaders, Dems must as well. Absolute idiots.
The emails have Summers reporting to Epstein about his attempts to date a Harvard economics student & to hit on her during a seminar she was giving.
November 16, 2025 at 12:17 AM
One of the most hilariously telling things with all of this, especially in comments on Twitter, is how shocked right wingers are that libs aren't rallying around people like Clinton and Summers. They think because they have lockstep loyalty to their leaders, Dems must as well. Absolute idiots.
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“Interested in my commentary on her outfits.” I absolutely guarantee she was not.
November 15, 2025 at 11:15 PM
“Interested in my commentary on her outfits.” I absolutely guarantee she was not.
I rewatched THE SENTINEL for the first time in years and using people with facial body abnormalities as the demons from Hell made me feel kinda gross. Like, in Freaks, it's about people in a side show, and they're treated as human beings. In THE SENTINEL, they're used to save on the makeup budget.
November 14, 2025 at 2:01 PM
I rewatched THE SENTINEL for the first time in years and using people with facial body abnormalities as the demons from Hell made me feel kinda gross. Like, in Freaks, it's about people in a side show, and they're treated as human beings. In THE SENTINEL, they're used to save on the makeup budget.
When oh when oh fucking when is this goddamn AI bubble going to burst?!?!! I'm beyond sick of it. I have entered the "in a rage every day" stage of AI hatred.
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AI-Powered Toys Caught Telling 5-Year-Olds How to Find Knives and Start Fires With Matches
AI-powered toys are flying off the shelves -- but they're engaging in horrifically inappropriate conversations with children.
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November 13, 2025 at 2:03 PM
When oh when oh fucking when is this goddamn AI bubble going to burst?!?!! I'm beyond sick of it. I have entered the "in a rage every day" stage of AI hatred.
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