Cinema Strikes Back
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Movie reviews, news and interviews since 2004. We particularly love the unusual and absurd – kung fu, giallo, Czech New Wave, etc.
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Throw in a jazz theme, a Bat Family Voltron, Aquaman on a giant carp, Batman riding the head robot from Gurren Lagann, Wonder Woman doing a Meiko Kaji-style musical number, MUCH less Joker, more fluid animation - this was pretty damn fun.
& kudos for giving the Flash a wildly impractical roningasa.
& kudos for giving the Flash a wildly impractical roningasa.
February 9, 2026 at 5:20 PM
Throw in a jazz theme, a Bat Family Voltron, Aquaman on a giant carp, Batman riding the head robot from Gurren Lagann, Wonder Woman doing a Meiko Kaji-style musical number, MUCH less Joker, more fluid animation - this was pretty damn fun.
& kudos for giving the Flash a wildly impractical roningasa.
& kudos for giving the Flash a wildly impractical roningasa.
#Watched Batman Ninja vs Yakuza League (2025) - didn’t much care for the first BN, but Batman in an Elseworlds where the entire Justice League are brawling Yakuza in a floating Tokyo? A Yakuza Hurricane is exactly the kind of stupid nonsense I’m here for. Though shouldn’t it be a Yakuza Typhoon? /1
February 9, 2026 at 5:20 PM
#Watched Batman Ninja vs Yakuza League (2025) - didn’t much care for the first BN, but Batman in an Elseworlds where the entire Justice League are brawling Yakuza in a floating Tokyo? A Yakuza Hurricane is exactly the kind of stupid nonsense I’m here for. Though shouldn’t it be a Yakuza Typhoon? /1
Seriously, tell me my game doesn’t look more fun 😆
and way more murder
and way more murder
February 9, 2026 at 2:03 AM
Seriously, tell me my game doesn’t look more fun 😆
and way more murder
and way more murder
Man, rereading these is making me want to revisit Slaine
February 6, 2026 at 8:28 PM
Man, rereading these is making me want to revisit Slaine
#Rereading Corum #4: The Bull and the Spear (Moorcock ‘74) - the 2d trilogy truly feels like a different beast, better written, tighter plotting. Recollected it being more Irish, but man it is so deeply based in Celtic mythology, with the main antagonists being ersatz Fomorians (the “Fhoi Myore”).
February 6, 2026 at 8:27 PM
#Rereading Corum #4: The Bull and the Spear (Moorcock ‘74) - the 2d trilogy truly feels like a different beast, better written, tighter plotting. Recollected it being more Irish, but man it is so deeply based in Celtic mythology, with the main antagonists being ersatz Fomorians (the “Fhoi Myore”).
And painting tiny little football mummies
February 6, 2026 at 7:52 PM
And painting tiny little football mummies
Okay, another great one for the collection:
Larry Csonka as “Lt. Boulder”!!
Larry Csonka as “Lt. Boulder”!!
February 6, 2026 at 4:44 PM
Okay, another great one for the collection:
Larry Csonka as “Lt. Boulder”!!
Larry Csonka as “Lt. Boulder”!!
Loot that drops after defeating me:
- half empty pack of gum
- several one dollar bills
- several iPhones
- a signed 1980’s membership card to the Tick’s Mystic Order of Arachnid Vigilance with promotion sticker
- lots and lots of Kleenex
- half empty pack of gum
- several one dollar bills
- several iPhones
- a signed 1980’s membership card to the Tick’s Mystic Order of Arachnid Vigilance with promotion sticker
- lots and lots of Kleenex
February 6, 2026 at 4:41 PM
Loot that drops after defeating me:
- half empty pack of gum
- several one dollar bills
- several iPhones
- a signed 1980’s membership card to the Tick’s Mystic Order of Arachnid Vigilance with promotion sticker
- lots and lots of Kleenex
- half empty pack of gum
- several one dollar bills
- several iPhones
- a signed 1980’s membership card to the Tick’s Mystic Order of Arachnid Vigilance with promotion sticker
- lots and lots of Kleenex
Okay, was not going to chase Watchers with Watchers 2, just let it run to see who was in the credits but then:
February 6, 2026 at 12:40 AM
Okay, was not going to chase Watchers with Watchers 2, just let it run to see who was in the credits but then:
If I have one minor complaint, it’s that cheap shitty looking CGI boar, should have used animatronics. But that’s the half assed movie age we’re in.
And that Bruce Campbell portrait on the wall made me laugh so fucking hard.
And that Bruce Campbell portrait on the wall made me laugh so fucking hard.
February 5, 2026 at 2:06 PM
If I have one minor complaint, it’s that cheap shitty looking CGI boar, should have used animatronics. But that’s the half assed movie age we’re in.
And that Bruce Campbell portrait on the wall made me laugh so fucking hard.
And that Bruce Campbell portrait on the wall made me laugh so fucking hard.
#Watched Send Help (2026) - Raimi does his own version of Triangle of Sadness/Misery/Swept Away so of course it’s even nastier than any of those (even Lina threw in a little genuine sweetness). Watching a complete lunatic and a total asshole bounce off of each other - consistently entertaining.
February 5, 2026 at 2:06 PM
#Watched Send Help (2026) - Raimi does his own version of Triangle of Sadness/Misery/Swept Away so of course it’s even nastier than any of those (even Lina threw in a little genuine sweetness). Watching a complete lunatic and a total asshole bounce off of each other - consistently entertaining.
But will he have some big ole mummy tiddies
February 3, 2026 at 7:54 PM
But will he have some big ole mummy tiddies
@senplus.bsky.social @puritythrufire.bsky.social @wonggifs.bsky.social apropos of our conversation, I pulled up the old omnibus this morning to start rereading some original AvP Dark Horse comics.
February 3, 2026 at 5:51 PM
@senplus.bsky.social @puritythrufire.bsky.social @wonggifs.bsky.social apropos of our conversation, I pulled up the old omnibus this morning to start rereading some original AvP Dark Horse comics.
Must say, got a ton of watching and reading done on last week’s long flights. Watched 3 Oscar noms below and an old Rohmer.
Plus I finished the Russ Meyer book, two volumes of Frieren, Saint Young Men v2, Batman Urban Legends v1, The Yellow M, and Matt Arnold’s Eden. Felt good.
Plus I finished the Russ Meyer book, two volumes of Frieren, Saint Young Men v2, Batman Urban Legends v1, The Yellow M, and Matt Arnold’s Eden. Felt good.
February 3, 2026 at 5:48 PM
Must say, got a ton of watching and reading done on last week’s long flights. Watched 3 Oscar noms below and an old Rohmer.
Plus I finished the Russ Meyer book, two volumes of Frieren, Saint Young Men v2, Batman Urban Legends v1, The Yellow M, and Matt Arnold’s Eden. Felt good.
Plus I finished the Russ Meyer book, two volumes of Frieren, Saint Young Men v2, Batman Urban Legends v1, The Yellow M, and Matt Arnold’s Eden. Felt good.
February 3, 2026 at 5:40 PM
I watched sentimental value on an airplane. I have watched mutant girls squad in the theater twice now.
February 2, 2026 at 11:25 PM
I watched sentimental value on an airplane. I have watched mutant girls squad in the theater twice now.
I don’t know, I don’t think Trier is for me. I appreciated the ways he blurred the lines between reality and film/theater, and the performances are uniformly good, but I don’t find his work particularly engaging or moving or interesting - it just leaves me cold.
Amazing house though.
Amazing house though.
February 2, 2026 at 5:04 PM
I don’t know, I don’t think Trier is for me. I appreciated the ways he blurred the lines between reality and film/theater, and the performances are uniformly good, but I don’t find his work particularly engaging or moving or interesting - it just leaves me cold.
Amazing house though.
Amazing house though.
#Watched Sentimental Value (2025) - Solid old-fashioned drama about multiple generations of mental illness. I was kind of ready to hate Reinsve’s character again at first (theater people! shudder!), but she grew on me a bit. Like a mopey fungus. /
February 2, 2026 at 5:04 PM
#Watched Sentimental Value (2025) - Solid old-fashioned drama about multiple generations of mental illness. I was kind of ready to hate Reinsve’s character again at first (theater people! shudder!), but she grew on me a bit. Like a mopey fungus. /
I learned this weekend that there is some kind of duck sauce hoarding gene that passes through the female line in my family. I thought it was just my mom, but apparently it’s some kind of congenital mental illness.
January 31, 2026 at 9:36 PM
I learned this weekend that there is some kind of duck sauce hoarding gene that passes through the female line in my family. I thought it was just my mom, but apparently it’s some kind of congenital mental illness.
I kid, because my actual favorite Marvel jobbers are these guys:
January 31, 2026 at 1:12 AM
I kid, because my actual favorite Marvel jobbers are these guys:
Tell me it’s about these guys, everybody’s favorite jobbers
January 31, 2026 at 1:09 AM
Tell me it’s about these guys, everybody’s favorite jobbers