Tony Lee
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Reader (mostly comics), writer (mostly non-fiction), watcher (films/movies & TV). Life-long fan of sci-fi media, Science Fiction critic & editor.
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Tony Lee
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· Feb 1
PREMONITIONS - the magazine anthology of science fiction, horror stories, and genre poetry.
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Max (son of Anthony Minghella) directs Elisabeth Moss, in SHELL, chasing #TheSubstance dollar, into lobsterama realm for a monster-movie of black-comedy. Silly and splattery, but quite funny!
November 25, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Max (son of Anthony Minghella) directs Elisabeth Moss, in SHELL, chasing #TheSubstance dollar, into lobsterama realm for a monster-movie of black-comedy. Silly and splattery, but quite funny!
Frankenstein Sunday double-bill... What difference does 50 years make?
November 23, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Frankenstein Sunday double-bill... What difference does 50 years make?
Booster for Jess Varley's watchable SF-horror movie THE ASTRONAUT, starring #KateMara and #LaurenceFishburne.
November 23, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Booster for Jess Varley's watchable SF-horror movie THE ASTRONAUT, starring #KateMara and #LaurenceFishburne.
Gripping political-thriller with no-nukes themes, A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE stacks up well against Twilight's Last Gleaming and By Dawn's Early Light. Is it Kathryn Bigelow's best movie? No, her directing on Near Dark, Blue Steel, Strange Days, and Zero Dark 30 was better, and they all broke new ground.
November 22, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Gripping political-thriller with no-nukes themes, A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE stacks up well against Twilight's Last Gleaming and By Dawn's Early Light. Is it Kathryn Bigelow's best movie? No, her directing on Near Dark, Blue Steel, Strange Days, and Zero Dark 30 was better, and they all broke new ground.
Quite amusing #B-movie, #TheASTRONAUT combines body-horror (Hammer's #QUATERMASS Xperiment), creepy #UFOlogy (Shyamalan's #SIGNS), and fantastic #weirdness of #XTRO. Feature-debut of writer-director #JessVarley, this #SF vehicle for Kate Mara & Laurence Fishburne lacks originality but is good fun.
November 22, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Quite amusing #B-movie, #TheASTRONAUT combines body-horror (Hammer's #QUATERMASS Xperiment), creepy #UFOlogy (Shyamalan's #SIGNS), and fantastic #weirdness of #XTRO. Feature-debut of writer-director #JessVarley, this #SF vehicle for Kate Mara & Laurence Fishburne lacks originality but is good fun.
A modestly entertaining comedy-drama, with varied killers after a mobster's missing money, this remains an oddly lightweight crime-thriller by usual standards of director Darren #Aronofsky. With a hero haunted by tragedy and late-1990s culture, it never quite succeeds beyond scope of genre oddity.
November 22, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Your morning meta...
November 22, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Your morning meta...
When you're too lazy to twist your arm... magnetic light-bulbs.
November 20, 2025 at 5:48 PM
When you're too lazy to twist your arm... magnetic light-bulbs.
If you liked Takashi (Godzilla Minus 1) Yamazaki's live-action movies #PARASYTE 1 & 2, manga-inspired TV show PARASYTE: THE GREY also delivers weird alien-invasion body-horrors with briskly sketched characters. Blending comedy with crazy action, here's a tale of plastic-reality transformations.
November 19, 2025 at 6:45 PM
A modestly entertaining comedy-drama, with varied killers after a mobster's missing money, this remains an oddly lightweight crime-thriller by usual standards of director Darren #Aronofsky. With a hero haunted by tragedy and late-1990s culture, it never quite succeeds beyond scope of genre oddity.
November 19, 2025 at 6:18 PM
A modestly entertaining comedy-drama, with varied killers after a mobster's missing money, this remains an oddly lightweight crime-thriller by usual standards of director Darren #Aronofsky. With a hero haunted by tragedy and late-1990s culture, it never quite succeeds beyond scope of genre oddity.
On starship Dystopia...
November 19, 2025 at 7:34 AM
On starship Dystopia...
If you liked Takashi (Godzilla Minus 1) Yamazaki's live-action movies #PARASYTE 1 & 2, manga-inspired TV show PARASYTE: THE GREY also delivers weird alien-invasion body-horrors with briskly sketched characters. Blending comedy with crazy action, here's a tale of plastic-reality transformations.
November 18, 2025 at 9:41 AM
If you liked Takashi (Godzilla Minus 1) Yamazaki's live-action movies #PARASYTE 1 & 2, manga-inspired TV show PARASYTE: THE GREY also delivers weird alien-invasion body-horrors with briskly sketched characters. Blending comedy with crazy action, here's a tale of plastic-reality transformations.
Interestingly, the RPJ tune isn't on this. It's the jazz-tinged orchestral stuff.
November 18, 2025 at 7:08 AM
One of the best 1990s' noir thrillers, Peter Medak's ROMEO IS BLEEDING bundles dozens of subgenre cliches (including, but not only - blonde, brunette, and redhead) while Gary Oldman's already-corrupt cop self-destructs without much prompting by wealthy, ruthless mobsters. Fun!
#Noirvember #movies
#Noirvember #movies
November 17, 2025 at 8:34 PM
‘dark forces are stirring up anger’
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
November 17, 2025 at 12:52 PM
‘dark forces are stirring up anger’
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Not the droids they're looking for?
November 17, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Not the droids they're looking for?
November 16, 2025 at 5:42 PM
One of the best 1990s' noir thrillers, Peter Medak's ROMEO IS BLEEDING bundles dozens of subgenre cliches (including, but not only - blonde, brunette, and redhead) while Gary Oldman's already-corrupt cop self-destructs without much prompting by wealthy, ruthless mobsters. Fun!
#Noirvember #movies
#Noirvember #movies
November 16, 2025 at 2:48 PM
One of the best 1990s' noir thrillers, Peter Medak's ROMEO IS BLEEDING bundles dozens of subgenre cliches (including, but not only - blonde, brunette, and redhead) while Gary Oldman's already-corrupt cop self-destructs without much prompting by wealthy, ruthless mobsters. Fun!
#Noirvember #movies
#Noirvember #movies
4 Yorkshiremen would like a word...
November 16, 2025 at 2:29 PM
4 Yorkshiremen would like a word...
'TUC said the watchdog (OBR) had effectively served as a “cheerleader for austerity” since its establishment...'
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
UK budget watchdog in danger of strangling economic growth, says TUC boss
Paul Nowak says OBR should be modernised to ditch ‘hardwired’ support for austerity economics
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 12:12 PM
'TUC said the watchdog (OBR) had effectively served as a “cheerleader for austerity” since its establishment...'
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Do OMD regret this dance-anthem now, I wonder... www.youtube.com/watch?v=GH7M...
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Tesla Girls
YouTube video by OMDVEVO
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November 15, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Do OMD regret this dance-anthem now, I wonder... www.youtube.com/watch?v=GH7M...