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Jake S.
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Lover of film, UFOlogy, and cryptozoology.

Film critic/historian, amateur author.
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#NowWatching on #hulu:

“Together,” by Michael Shanks, 2025, Australia/United States

#bodyhorror #romance #horror #folkhorror #alisonbrie #DaveFranco #filmsky #horrorsky #moviesky
January 6, 2026 at 1:14 AM
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#NowWatching on #bluray:

“It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World,” by Stanley Kramer, 1963, United States

#epic #comedy #slapstick #comedians #CriterionCollection #filmsky #moviesky
December 31, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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#NowWatching on #Peacock:

“Bugonia,” by Yorgos Lanthimos, 2025, Ireland/UK/US

#comedy #crime #scifi #alieninvasion #emmastone #JessePlemons #filmsky #moviesky
December 28, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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#NowWatching on #Peacock:

“Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale,” by Simon Curtis, 2025, United Kingdom

#perioddrama #drama #costumedrama #downtonabbey #JulianFellowes #filmsky #moviesky
December 27, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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#NowWatching on #HBOMax:

“Gremlins,” by Joe Dante, 1984, United States

#comedy #horror #christmasmovies #phoebecates #gizmo #filmsky #moviesky #horrorsky
December 25, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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#NowWatching on #DisneyPlus:

“The Muppet Christmas Carol,” by Brian Henson, 1992, United States

#disney #jimhenson #charlesdickens #christmasmovies #muppets #filmsky #moviesky
December 25, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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#NowWatching on #DisneyPlus:

“Mickey’s Once Upon a Christmas,” by Jun Falkenstein, Alex Mann, Bradley Raymond, Toby Shelton, & Bill Speers, 1999, United States

#christmasmovies #disney #mickeymouse #handdrawnanimation #filmsky #moviesky #christmassky
December 25, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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#NowWatching on #vhs:

“Godzilla,” by Roland Emmerich, 1998, United States

#kaiju #godzilla #zilla #vhstapes #Nostalgia #action #moviesky #filmsky #vhssky
December 18, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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#NowWatching on #Netflix:

“Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery,” by Rian Johnson, 2025, United States

#comedy #crime #mystery #BenoitBlanc #filmsky #moviesky
December 17, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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#NowWatching at #Cinemark:

“Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair,” by Quentin Tarantino, 2006, United States

#killbill #quentintarantino #70mm #uncut #unrated #action #filmsky #moviesky
December 16, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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#NowWatching on #BluRay:

“The Princess Bride,” by #RobReiner, 1987, United States

#CriterionCollection #comedy #fantasy #romance #RIP #Filmsky #Moviesky
December 15, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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"AI is the asbestos in the walls of our technological society, stuffed there with wild abandon by a finance sector and tech monopolists run amok. We will be excavating it for a generation or more."

This piece on AI by Cory Doctorow is spectactular.

pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/p...
The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI (permalink) Last night, I gave a speech for the University of Washington's "Neuroscience, AI and Society" lecture series, through the university's Computational Neuroscience Center. It was called "The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI," and it's based on the manuscript for my next book, "The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI," which will be out from Farrar, Straus and Giroux next June:
December 9, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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#NowWatching on #criterionchannel:

“Zatoichi’s Flashing Sword,” by Kazuo Ikehiro, 1964, Japan

#japanese #samurai #action #25daysofZatoichi #criterioncollection #filmsky #moviesky
December 10, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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#NowWatching on #criterionchannel:

“Grand Hotel,” by Edmund Goulding, 1932, United States

#bestpicture #drama #romance #GretaGarbo #filmsky #moviesky
December 9, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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#NowWatching on #criterionchannel:

“Zatoichi and the Chest of Gold,” by Kazuo Ikehiro, 1964, Japan

#japanese #samurai #action #25daysofZatoichi #criterioncollection #filmsky #moviesky
December 9, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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#NowWatching on #criterionchannel:

“Zatoichi on the Road,” by Kimiyoshi Yasuda, 1963, Japan

#japanese #samurai #action #25daysofZatoichi #criterioncollection #filmsky #moviesky
December 6, 2025 at 6:21 AM
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#NowWatching on #DVD:

“Sátántangó,” by Béla Tarr, 1994, Hungary

#Hungarian #blackandwhite #drama #longmovie #filmsky #moviesky
December 5, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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#NowWatching on #criterionchannel:

“Zatoichi the Fugitive,” by Tokuzô Tanaka, 1963, Japan

#japanese #samurai #action #25daysofZatoichi #criterioncollection #filmsky #moviesky
December 5, 2025 at 4:48 AM
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#NowWatching on #criterionchannel:

“Blossoms Shanghai,” by Wong Kar-Wai, 2023-, China/Hong Kong

#tvshow #shanghai #criterioncollection #wongkarwai #filmsky #tvsky
December 4, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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#NowWatching on #criterionchannel:

“New Tale of Zatoichi,” by Tokuzô Tanaka, 1963, Japan

#japanese #samurai #action #25daysofZatoichi #criterioncollection #filmsky #moviesky
December 4, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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#NowWatching on #criterionchannel:

“The Tale of Zatoichi Continues,” by Kazuo Mori, 1962, Japan

#japanese #samurai #action #25daysofZatoichi #criterioncollection #filmsky #moviesky
December 3, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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I had a dream that Director David Lowery made a film about the origin of the Morlocks from HG Wells’s “A Time Machine,” and now I need that to be a real movie.
December 2, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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#NowWatching on #Peacock:

“How the Grinch Stole Christmas,” by Ron Howard, 2000, United States

#familyfriendly #grinch #drseuss #jimcarrey #filmsky #ChristmasSky #moviesky
December 2, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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#NowWatching on #criterionchannel:

“The Tale of Zatoichi,” by Kenji Misumi, 1962, Japan

#japanese #samurai #action #25daysofZatoichi #criterioncollection #filmsky #moviesky
December 1, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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#NowWatching on #Hulu:

“Shanghai Noon,” by Tom Dey, 2000, United States/Hong Kong

#action #comedy #western #jackiechan #filmsky #moviesky
November 30, 2025 at 2:29 AM