John Ananias
@burtonesque.bsky.social
The frozen yogurt of people: Fine, but no one's first choice. Film person/aspiring filmmaker. @Burtonesque89 on Letterboxd. I blather on about movies and SNL and Futurama/The Simpsons and the Tim Burton oeuvre, and there's very little else to me.
Well...thoughts on the #Oscars news, because that seems like something I'd post:
www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general...
www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general...
December 17, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Well...thoughts on the #Oscars news, because that seems like something I'd post:
www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general...
www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general...
This is, as far as I can recall, the first time I've seen a studio's Facebook - ANY social media - page "congratulate" a movie on its appearances on the Oscars SHORTLISTS. Interesting to ME, but...I'm clinging to anything that's not entirely dire.
December 17, 2025 at 12:45 AM
This is, as far as I can recall, the first time I've seen a studio's Facebook - ANY social media - page "congratulate" a movie on its appearances on the Oscars SHORTLISTS. Interesting to ME, but...I'm clinging to anything that's not entirely dire.
Don't.
TOY.
With.
Me.
TOY.
With.
Me.
December 10, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Don't.
TOY.
With.
Me.
TOY.
With.
Me.
I went a bit long in my reply, so here's a copied-and-pasted pic of that rather than a bunch of separate posts.
November 30, 2025 at 1:38 AM
I went a bit long in my reply, so here's a copied-and-pasted pic of that rather than a bunch of separate posts.
That's nothing - George Burns was only 22 when he made OH, GOD!
November 26, 2025 at 11:42 PM
That's nothing - George Burns was only 22 when he made OH, GOD!
I should be able to put BATMAN: MASK OF THE PHANTASM here. You and your blasted bias against animation, you Academy cowards of 1994 and mostly still now!
#Cinematrix
#Cinematrix
November 16, 2025 at 8:54 PM
I should be able to put BATMAN: MASK OF THE PHANTASM here. You and your blasted bias against animation, you Academy cowards of 1994 and mostly still now!
#Cinematrix
#Cinematrix
Mentioned this on Sat. but now it's with a picture:
We don't endorse "breaking" in this house, but these faces after a particularly zealous reading from Dismukes in "Flight Announcement"...nice, quite endearing, and they didn't really break. #SNL
We don't endorse "breaking" in this house, but these faces after a particularly zealous reading from Dismukes in "Flight Announcement"...nice, quite endearing, and they didn't really break. #SNL
November 11, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Mentioned this on Sat. but now it's with a picture:
We don't endorse "breaking" in this house, but these faces after a particularly zealous reading from Dismukes in "Flight Announcement"...nice, quite endearing, and they didn't really break. #SNL
We don't endorse "breaking" in this house, but these faces after a particularly zealous reading from Dismukes in "Flight Announcement"...nice, quite endearing, and they didn't really break. #SNL
All lowercase AND ditching a vowel? Ugh, how 2019, so cringe.
[Editor's note: Sarcasm...but also, kids, ditching uppercase and/or vowels doesn't make you interesting.]
[Editor's note: Sarcasm...but also, kids, ditching uppercase and/or vowels doesn't make you interesting.]
November 10, 2025 at 6:45 PM
All lowercase AND ditching a vowel? Ugh, how 2019, so cringe.
[Editor's note: Sarcasm...but also, kids, ditching uppercase and/or vowels doesn't make you interesting.]
[Editor's note: Sarcasm...but also, kids, ditching uppercase and/or vowels doesn't make you interesting.]
October 31, 2025 at 4:58 AM
"𝐹𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑝/𝑓𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑝/𝑖𝑡'𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑓𝑒𝑐𝑡 𝒃𝒍𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒔𝒉𝒊𝒑..."
October 30, 2025 at 11:47 PM
"𝐹𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑝/𝑓𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑝/𝑖𝑡'𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑓𝑒𝑐𝑡 𝒃𝒍𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒔𝒉𝒊𝒑..."
Hey, shoutout to Jack Skellington for teaching a lot of youngsters - such as myself way back when - about 𝑒𝑛𝑛𝑢𝑖.
October 25, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Hey, shoutout to Jack Skellington for teaching a lot of youngsters - such as myself way back when - about 𝑒𝑛𝑛𝑢𝑖.
Any reason CHAINSAW MAN - whatever that is - is using the original #SNL logo font or something close to it?
Do I need to get out the yarn for ANOTHER conspiracy wall?
Do I need to get out the yarn for ANOTHER conspiracy wall?
October 25, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Any reason CHAINSAW MAN - whatever that is - is using the original #SNL logo font or something close to it?
Do I need to get out the yarn for ANOTHER conspiracy wall?
Do I need to get out the yarn for ANOTHER conspiracy wall?
If you thought the SECOND TR*** ADMINISTRATION was going to be any different...I have some magnificent ocean-front property to sell you here in FL.
October 24, 2025 at 7:22 PM
If you thought the SECOND TR*** ADMINISTRATION was going to be any different...I have some magnificent ocean-front property to sell you here in FL.
Check this out, I'm about to be very ME and a week+ too late with this one:
Whoever your Role Model is, THIS is the only "Sally" 𝐼 care about this time of year.
Whoever your Role Model is, THIS is the only "Sally" 𝐼 care about this time of year.
October 21, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Check this out, I'm about to be very ME and a week+ too late with this one:
Whoever your Role Model is, THIS is the only "Sally" 𝐼 care about this time of year.
Whoever your Role Model is, THIS is the only "Sally" 𝐼 care about this time of year.
But that second one...what if he interrupts a sketch that's NOT even the cold open? If it's, like, 20 minutes later, THAT'S GREAT AND FRESH, RIGHT?!"
Me being a bit broken while a certain sketch was in progress:
Me being a bit broken while a certain sketch was in progress:
October 21, 2025 at 1:10 AM
But that second one...what if he interrupts a sketch that's NOT even the cold open? If it's, like, 20 minutes later, THAT'S GREAT AND FRESH, RIGHT?!"
Me being a bit broken while a certain sketch was in progress:
Me being a bit broken while a certain sketch was in progress:
I see I'm not the only one who'd had that thought.
I'd have lost a bet if I were into that sort of thing.
I'd have lost a bet if I were into that sort of thing.
October 19, 2025 at 7:25 AM
I see I'm not the only one who'd had that thought.
I'd have lost a bet if I were into that sort of thing.
I'd have lost a bet if I were into that sort of thing.
Okay, EW has their George Santos prediction, but I'M now wondering, as we're surely ALL wondering: Is Bowen STILL straight?!
I might put money on getting a third of those tonight, because they're pre-tapes as is, and sure, why not do another with Sabrina Carpenter? #SNL
I might put money on getting a third of those tonight, because they're pre-tapes as is, and sure, why not do another with Sabrina Carpenter? #SNL
October 19, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Okay, EW has their George Santos prediction, but I'M now wondering, as we're surely ALL wondering: Is Bowen STILL straight?!
I might put money on getting a third of those tonight, because they're pre-tapes as is, and sure, why not do another with Sabrina Carpenter? #SNL
I might put money on getting a third of those tonight, because they're pre-tapes as is, and sure, why not do another with Sabrina Carpenter? #SNL
I...hate the writing of this headline - and any company with "content" in its name IS an enemy of the state, in my own book - but I will watch this doc.
October 14, 2025 at 3:48 AM
I...hate the writing of this headline - and any company with "content" in its name IS an enemy of the state, in my own book - but I will watch this doc.
I've always know that Donny was the shadiest Ninja Turtle.
October 9, 2025 at 1:57 AM
I've always know that Donny was the shadiest Ninja Turtle.
2/3 of the movies I watched in a theater yesterday were directed by spouses (or as good as) of SNLers. i guess, "Get with the program," Jay Roach.
October 3, 2025 at 5:31 PM
2/3 of the movies I watched in a theater yesterday were directed by spouses (or as good as) of SNLers. i guess, "Get with the program," Jay Roach.