Ian Shade
@ianshade.bsky.social
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Ian Shade
@ianshade.bsky.social
· Sep 7
I trust the people I follow to give me as straight a shot as the media landscape allows--but I need to find some other way to filter the atrocity influx. Always been more of a lurker, but I can't lean on microblogging anymore, in any form. So like Facebook, I'll still post links to my work here...
Steeple your hands to hypnotize
A review of Operation Kid Brother (1967)
Not even a parody! Only real laugh I got is when the whine-gravel voice actor dubbing Neil says that he came from Edinburgh; otherwise, if you gave this script to Lewis Gilbert, we'd probably rank it ...
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January 10, 2026 at 10:38 AM
Steeple your hands to hypnotize
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January 8, 2026 at 2:29 AM
This is a vetted fundraiser for the family of Renee Good, the woman who was killed by ICE in Minneapolis.
www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...
www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...
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ICE observers in the Twin Cities are in need of dash cams to prevent further intimidation and frivolous claims.
Cams are $110, memory cards $35, and ship to us directly via this wish list: www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...
If you've been looking for a way to help, we'd sure appreciate it!
Cams are $110, memory cards $35, and ship to us directly via this wish list: www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...
If you've been looking for a way to help, we'd sure appreciate it!
January 6, 2026 at 3:05 AM
ICE observers in the Twin Cities are in need of dash cams to prevent further intimidation and frivolous claims.
Cams are $110, memory cards $35, and ship to us directly via this wish list: www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...
If you've been looking for a way to help, we'd sure appreciate it!
Cams are $110, memory cards $35, and ship to us directly via this wish list: www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...
If you've been looking for a way to help, we'd sure appreciate it!
Made to order, prêt-à-porter @splicedpersonality.bsky.social
A review of Reflection in a Dead Diamond (2025)
We already view Bond films, or the Bond film canon, through a lens of simultaneous fiction and reality; works of conscious absurdity made by actors and filmmakers whom we recognize immediately as dist...
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January 8, 2026 at 3:01 AM
Made to order, prêt-à-porter @splicedpersonality.bsky.social
"I just wanted to talk to Jim."
A review of Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond (2017)
The cringe of kayfabe; the unpopular understanding that no one likes to be the butt of the joke, not even Kaufman or Carrey; the admission that it takes a certain contempt for humanity--not for its co...
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January 1, 2026 at 5:31 AM
"I just wanted to talk to Jim."
Blitzen and Nixon
A review of Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (1964)
Discovered too late that the hour-and-nine-minute-long version available on Wikipedia was a version that the site itself called "severely truncated," but I had about as good a time as I could possibly...
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December 26, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Blitzen and Nixon
Truly outrageous
A review of KPop Demon Hunters (2025)
The one frustration about the Lexicon, and by extension the Library, is how it is largely monocultural--and how it feels to lack a clear path outside it, beyond knowing that it cannot be fixed by read...
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December 25, 2025 at 4:45 AM
Truly outrageous
Sure hope I'm not using up all my best material!
A review of Ella McCay (2025)
Less insane than what was pitched to me by my comrades, but not by much. Watched on the same day as The Search for SquarePants, a welcome touch of the old goofball magic, and in a head-to-head, this c...
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December 24, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Sure hope I'm not using up all my best material!
Congratulations to @splicedpersonality.bsky.social and @rajandelman.bsky.social for being at the same Redford double feature at the Brattle. Whatever ills I'm trying to avoid on social media, I will accept these strange little brushes of Venn familiarity, observable only from the opposite coast
December 21, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Congratulations to @splicedpersonality.bsky.social and @rajandelman.bsky.social for being at the same Redford double feature at the Brattle. Whatever ills I'm trying to avoid on social media, I will accept these strange little brushes of Venn familiarity, observable only from the opposite coast
Ultimatum.
A review of Wake Up Dead Man (2025)
Been thinking over these past few entries, about whether or not I've looked hard enough for solutions to my various vexes; day jobs and holiday schedules are a pain, but exhaustion aside, there must b...
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December 18, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Ultimatum.
Patriot act.
A review of The American President (1995)
So, so painfully earnest in a way that I'll have to consider that earnest as a lens through Reiner's filmography--playing upon the perpetual American desire/need to see our leaders as fundamentally go...
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December 16, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Patriot act.
It ain't me, it ain't me
A review of Live Free or Die Hard (2007)
Somehow the only straight action film to which I pledge any real allegiance? One thing to love a generally unloved movie, another to say that it deepens for you on each viewing--the kind of dramatic d...
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December 14, 2025 at 10:08 AM
It ain't me, it ain't me
In the summer, in the city, in the summer, in the city
A review of Die Hard With a Vengeance (1995)
Plenty to discuss across media, given his history, given its own understanding of Christmas in summer--how John McClane is so easy to adapt into an otherwise irrelevant work. How that whole screenplay...
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December 11, 2025 at 9:26 AM
In the summer, in the city, in the summer, in the city
BONUS!!!!!!!
A review of The Lost Chapter: Yuki's Revenge (2025)
Watched during whatever discussion I'm trying to foster about John McClane and the Library as a function of the past, so to ignore it while it's in the conversation would be too great an irony. Watche...
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December 11, 2025 at 1:36 AM
BONUS!!!!!!!
Noun to verb
A review of Die Hard (1988)
Ten years later, after finally reading Roderick Thorp's Nothing Lasts Forever. Not exactly a surprise that the film burns off the ambiguity of the novel, but I'm a little taken aback by the dedication...
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December 9, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Noun to verb
Father Monsignor (third Relic)
A review of Wake Up Dead Man (2025)
I did what little had to be done. -- Doctor Sheppard, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Christie) First of the Benoit Blanc films where I didn't get to encounter Rian Johnson in person--not that I was in a...
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December 4, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Father Monsignor (third Relic)
Just haunting back to acknowledge how well Mamdani understood this
And I wonder how we apply that to Trump, an idiot on most levels, a bully with no pretenses. A figurehead, not an ideologue—for all the talk about co-presidents, ANY person with conversational skills could take a half-hour to alter the course of Trump’s policy towards any wing, any direction.
November 26, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Just haunting back to acknowledge how well Mamdani understood this
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Hello, welcome to The Post Trans People Can Reply To With Links To Their Creative Work In Games (Or Whatever) So You Can Read The Replies And Find Cool New Stuff.
I'd explain how it works but I'm pretty sure I just did.
I'd explain how it works but I'm pretty sure I just did.
November 20, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Hello, welcome to The Post Trans People Can Reply To With Links To Their Creative Work In Games (Or Whatever) So You Can Read The Replies And Find Cool New Stuff.
I'd explain how it works but I'm pretty sure I just did.
I'd explain how it works but I'm pretty sure I just did.
U.S. Dollars : New Dollars conversion
A review of The Running Man (2025)
I'm just an ex-con tryin' to go straight and get my kids back. -- Bender the Offender, the Ultimate Robot Fighting League (not real, like pro wrestling, but fixed, like boxing), "Raging Bender," Futur...
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November 18, 2025 at 4:24 AM
U.S. Dollars : New Dollars conversion
What do you believe in?
A review of Alice, Sweet Alice (1976)
Fuck, this is so great, but it was predictable enough that I would be helpless before it; if I'm trying to build my own spiritual framework through my totemistic obsessions, there's the jealous protec...
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November 17, 2025 at 7:01 AM
What do you believe in?
The great, dead Jack Warden
A review of Used Cars (1980)
Wondering if this is the answer to the question of prolificity and consistency asked at Dracula: Dead and Loving It: I don't know if I can even call it a good film, because Lordy it's a long one, but ...
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November 16, 2025 at 7:13 AM
The great, dead Jack Warden
See, this is why I have lousy penmanship
A review of The Bad Seed (1956)
Overwrought and squeamish, but it's my own fault for knowing the premise, and the conclusion, for too long without following through. Somehow imagining some post-Psycho sensationalism, I came up all b...
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November 15, 2025 at 8:56 PM
See, this is why I have lousy penmanship
Undeniable, but somehow not a revelation on the big screen?
A review of Back to the Future (1985)
Perhaps more concerned with the cause and effect of harder science fiction than what we believe a comedy would allow? The question from the outset is whether Marty is a loser, if not on par with Georg...
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November 14, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Undeniable, but somehow not a revelation on the big screen?
That's right, I did the fifth one
A review of Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers (1989)
A single VHS rental in high school before this addition to the Library, which makes it my least-seen of the series, including Season of the Witch--and it's pretty clearly where things got off the rail...
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November 7, 2025 at 6:17 AM
That's right, I did the fifth one