Pete Baran
@pb14.bsky.social
Full speed ahead to uber-woke, net-zeroist rejoinerism
Watching Splitsville
Ashley asks Carey for a divorce so Carey stays with Paul and Julie who admit to being in an open marriage. Distraught because Ashley wants to have sex with other men, Carey has sex with Julie which infuriates Paul.Fights, partner swapping and escalation comedy ensues. Very funny
Ashley asks Carey for a divorce so Carey stays with Paul and Julie who admit to being in an open marriage. Distraught because Ashley wants to have sex with other men, Carey has sex with Julie which infuriates Paul.Fights, partner swapping and escalation comedy ensues. Very funny
February 10, 2026 at 12:04 AM
Watching Splitsville
Ashley asks Carey for a divorce so Carey stays with Paul and Julie who admit to being in an open marriage. Distraught because Ashley wants to have sex with other men, Carey has sex with Julie which infuriates Paul.Fights, partner swapping and escalation comedy ensues. Very funny
Ashley asks Carey for a divorce so Carey stays with Paul and Julie who admit to being in an open marriage. Distraught because Ashley wants to have sex with other men, Carey has sex with Julie which infuriates Paul.Fights, partner swapping and escalation comedy ensues. Very funny
Watched We Bury The Dead
The problem with films where dead people come back to life as aggressive brain damaged creatures is that no matter how much serious relationship heft you build on it, it's always going to be a zombie movie. And that comes with expectations this film doesn't fulfill
The problem with films where dead people come back to life as aggressive brain damaged creatures is that no matter how much serious relationship heft you build on it, it's always going to be a zombie movie. And that comes with expectations this film doesn't fulfill
February 9, 2026 at 11:55 PM
Watched We Bury The Dead
The problem with films where dead people come back to life as aggressive brain damaged creatures is that no matter how much serious relationship heft you build on it, it's always going to be a zombie movie. And that comes with expectations this film doesn't fulfill
The problem with films where dead people come back to life as aggressive brain damaged creatures is that no matter how much serious relationship heft you build on it, it's always going to be a zombie movie. And that comes with expectations this film doesn't fulfill
Watching Bears And Bad Men
Decent Larry Semon two reeler which really takes off when Stan Laurel turns up. A backwoods family feud that takes off when some bears get involved. The extended two bear, up and down the mountain set piece is terrific
Decent Larry Semon two reeler which really takes off when Stan Laurel turns up. A backwoods family feud that takes off when some bears get involved. The extended two bear, up and down the mountain set piece is terrific
February 9, 2026 at 9:42 PM
Watching Bears And Bad Men
Decent Larry Semon two reeler which really takes off when Stan Laurel turns up. A backwoods family feud that takes off when some bears get involved. The extended two bear, up and down the mountain set piece is terrific
Decent Larry Semon two reeler which really takes off when Stan Laurel turns up. A backwoods family feud that takes off when some bears get involved. The extended two bear, up and down the mountain set piece is terrific
February 9, 2026 at 8:56 PM
I am an African prince with a proposition for you
February 9, 2026 at 1:52 PM
I am an African prince with a proposition for you
You want to come over to us Ghanaian Sports Fans. Er...
February 9, 2026 at 12:54 PM
You want to come over to us Ghanaian Sports Fans. Er...
38. Churros. With Chocolate from San Ginés in Marbella
#agoodthing
#agoodthing
February 9, 2026 at 4:48 AM
38. Churros. With Chocolate from San Ginés in Marbella
#agoodthing
#agoodthing
Watching Second Guessing Love
She's a party planner unlucky in love whi gets very specific advice from a fortune teller
He's a modern artist who is also unlucky in love who fulfills the prediction from the FT
He(2) is an insufferably handsome narcissistic nepo baby
It shouldn't take her 80 minutes
She's a party planner unlucky in love whi gets very specific advice from a fortune teller
He's a modern artist who is also unlucky in love who fulfills the prediction from the FT
He(2) is an insufferably handsome narcissistic nepo baby
It shouldn't take her 80 minutes
February 9, 2026 at 12:27 AM
Watching Second Guessing Love
She's a party planner unlucky in love whi gets very specific advice from a fortune teller
He's a modern artist who is also unlucky in love who fulfills the prediction from the FT
He(2) is an insufferably handsome narcissistic nepo baby
It shouldn't take her 80 minutes
She's a party planner unlucky in love whi gets very specific advice from a fortune teller
He's a modern artist who is also unlucky in love who fulfills the prediction from the FT
He(2) is an insufferably handsome narcissistic nepo baby
It shouldn't take her 80 minutes
I've broadly enjoyed all the Monsterverse films post Godzilla as flawed, dumb films, but I have sympathy with your position. But I do like a bad Kaiju, like Queen Kong and the North Korean Pulgasari (though it was made by Shin Sang-Ok whilst he was kidnapped by the NK gov so perhaps I shouldn't)
February 8, 2026 at 11:04 PM
I've broadly enjoyed all the Monsterverse films post Godzilla as flawed, dumb films, but I have sympathy with your position. But I do like a bad Kaiju, like Queen Kong and the North Korean Pulgasari (though it was made by Shin Sang-Ok whilst he was kidnapped by the NK gov so perhaps I shouldn't)
Kaiju Torchwood is quite good fun but it's two storyline structure runs very much on the 50's gang being a delight and the modern kids being THE WORST
February 8, 2026 at 10:54 PM
Kaiju Torchwood is quite good fun but it's two storyline structure runs very much on the 50's gang being a delight and the modern kids being THE WORST
For posterity
(Though someone spoiled it a bit by likening it to a parade of multicoloured Melanias)
(Though someone spoiled it a bit by likening it to a parade of multicoloured Melanias)
February 8, 2026 at 10:45 PM
For posterity
(Though someone spoiled it a bit by likening it to a parade of multicoloured Melanias)
(Though someone spoiled it a bit by likening it to a parade of multicoloured Melanias)
It's all fun and games until...
Polished Floors Are Man Traps
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February 8, 2026 at 10:43 PM
It's all fun and games until...
It also has a Martini sequence that made me make myself a Martini, so it's not without pull
February 8, 2026 at 9:18 PM
It also has a Martini sequence that made me make myself a Martini, so it's not without pull
Watching Come Blow Your Horn
Sinatra plays the NY bachelor pad playboy whose kid brother comes to stay, and their parents worry he'll learn his wicked ways. Very Neil Simon and sharply funny though who is Sinatra kidding when he suggests he's just a touch over 35. He was 48 making this movie.
Sinatra plays the NY bachelor pad playboy whose kid brother comes to stay, and their parents worry he'll learn his wicked ways. Very Neil Simon and sharply funny though who is Sinatra kidding when he suggests he's just a touch over 35. He was 48 making this movie.
February 8, 2026 at 9:13 PM
Watching Come Blow Your Horn
Sinatra plays the NY bachelor pad playboy whose kid brother comes to stay, and their parents worry he'll learn his wicked ways. Very Neil Simon and sharply funny though who is Sinatra kidding when he suggests he's just a touch over 35. He was 48 making this movie.
Sinatra plays the NY bachelor pad playboy whose kid brother comes to stay, and their parents worry he'll learn his wicked ways. Very Neil Simon and sharply funny though who is Sinatra kidding when he suggests he's just a touch over 35. He was 48 making this movie.
But how would we know which were the MAN robots, which apparently is one of the most important factors in sports these days
February 8, 2026 at 8:02 PM
But how would we know which were the MAN robots, which apparently is one of the most important factors in sports these days
Yeah well, got to say Jonathon, it's not been without its challenges...
February 8, 2026 at 7:56 PM
Yeah well, got to say Jonathon, it's not been without its challenges...
Do they all make out on the ice at the end?
February 8, 2026 at 6:46 PM
Do they all make out on the ice at the end?
Today in Guardian burns, regarding criticism of Mandami not being able to melt snow with his mind or Cyclops-like eye-lasers. Though they could have mentioned the role in question was the voice of a raccoon to turn up the heat:
February 8, 2026 at 6:12 PM
Today in Guardian burns, regarding criticism of Mandami not being able to melt snow with his mind or Cyclops-like eye-lasers. Though they could have mentioned the role in question was the voice of a raccoon to turn up the heat:
Watching 55 Days At Peking
The yellowface is bad and as spectacle it takes a while to get going. The characters are 1 D cardboard:Niven posh Brit, Heston as a US soldier. Once the siege starts it has more heft, fun and fireworks.Flora Robson has gravitas as Empress Cixi but that is still a no!
The yellowface is bad and as spectacle it takes a while to get going. The characters are 1 D cardboard:Niven posh Brit, Heston as a US soldier. Once the siege starts it has more heft, fun and fireworks.Flora Robson has gravitas as Empress Cixi but that is still a no!
February 8, 2026 at 12:04 AM
Watching 55 Days At Peking
The yellowface is bad and as spectacle it takes a while to get going. The characters are 1 D cardboard:Niven posh Brit, Heston as a US soldier. Once the siege starts it has more heft, fun and fireworks.Flora Robson has gravitas as Empress Cixi but that is still a no!
The yellowface is bad and as spectacle it takes a while to get going. The characters are 1 D cardboard:Niven posh Brit, Heston as a US soldier. Once the siege starts it has more heft, fun and fireworks.Flora Robson has gravitas as Empress Cixi but that is still a no!
Watching Rodeo Christmas Romance
My Mum suckered me into this one (but she does still have the Xmas tree up), and she's a loner star rodeo rider and he's a bit PTSD ex-army dude. Throw in a ranch, snow and a lame horse and the most miniscule of complication. It can't afford a proper rodeo though
My Mum suckered me into this one (but she does still have the Xmas tree up), and she's a loner star rodeo rider and he's a bit PTSD ex-army dude. Throw in a ranch, snow and a lame horse and the most miniscule of complication. It can't afford a proper rodeo though
February 7, 2026 at 11:47 PM
Watching Rodeo Christmas Romance
My Mum suckered me into this one (but she does still have the Xmas tree up), and she's a loner star rodeo rider and he's a bit PTSD ex-army dude. Throw in a ranch, snow and a lame horse and the most miniscule of complication. It can't afford a proper rodeo though
My Mum suckered me into this one (but she does still have the Xmas tree up), and she's a loner star rodeo rider and he's a bit PTSD ex-army dude. Throw in a ranch, snow and a lame horse and the most miniscule of complication. It can't afford a proper rodeo though
Alternatively, like The Wizard Of Oz, it is a bold but somewhat oblique argument against maintaining the Gold Standard
February 7, 2026 at 11:43 PM
Alternatively, like The Wizard Of Oz, it is a bold but somewhat oblique argument against maintaining the Gold Standard
Watching The Single Standard
Garbo sees all the men fucking around behind their wives backs but the minute she has fun her boyf commits suicide. Why is there a double standard she asks, and the film answers later when she has a kid with stalwart chum hubbie and wants to run off with her artist ex
Garbo sees all the men fucking around behind their wives backs but the minute she has fun her boyf commits suicide. Why is there a double standard she asks, and the film answers later when she has a kid with stalwart chum hubbie and wants to run off with her artist ex
February 7, 2026 at 11:41 PM
Watching The Single Standard
Garbo sees all the men fucking around behind their wives backs but the minute she has fun her boyf commits suicide. Why is there a double standard she asks, and the film answers later when she has a kid with stalwart chum hubbie and wants to run off with her artist ex
Garbo sees all the men fucking around behind their wives backs but the minute she has fun her boyf commits suicide. Why is there a double standard she asks, and the film answers later when she has a kid with stalwart chum hubbie and wants to run off with her artist ex
Whereas whenever I have hired any, this has invariably been the cup of a carpenter
February 7, 2026 at 11:11 PM
Whereas whenever I have hired any, this has invariably been the cup of a carpenter