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Sara Michelle Fetters @moviefreaksara.bsky.social · 11h

Did I mean to rewatch WORKING GIRL tonight and get zero writing done? No. I did not. But I regret nothing.

Anyhow, wrote about this film in 2023 for its 35th anniversary. Still pretty proud about this one. Give it a read if you’re so inclined.

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 1d

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

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Sara Michelle Fetters @moviefreaksara.bsky.social · 1d

13. 1994 (first time watch)

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12. 1959

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11. 1985

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10. 1973

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Sara Michelle Fetters @moviefreaksara.bsky.social · 4d

It’s one of my figurative childhood memories, watching that with my parents at the Magic Lantern in Spokane with my parents. Going to try and convince friends who’ve never seen it - crazy! - to go along with me.

Sara Michelle Fetters @moviefreaksara.bsky.social · 4d

They’re also doing CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON layer this month, and that was the first film I ever saw in 3-D when I was like 6 or 7. Totally going to have to go to that, too. 😁

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Sara Michelle Fetters @moviefreaksara.bsky.social · 4d

Did that tonight, too. So much fun! Made me appreciate it a wee bit more. Couldn’t stop giggling throughout. ❤️

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Sara Michelle Fetters @moviefreaksara.bsky.social · 4d

That ending is just so great and so nuts. It’s honestly easy to see how Andrew Davis could go on to make THE FUGITIVE. Love it. Love it all. This film is such a kick in the pants.

#TheFinalTerror #TheLastDriveIn #MutantFam

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Sara Michelle Fetters @moviefreaksara.bsky.social · 4d

9. 1982

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Walter Chaw @mangiotto.bsky.social · 4d

Only one of my favorite slashers of all time. I didn't even know @pauletheredge.bsky.social was on here. Been trying to track him down for years! Thank you for this, Paul. It fuckin' kicks ass and has continued to do so all these 20+ years.

Stephen Graham Jones @sgj.bsky.social · 4d

Thrilled to finally have this one on DVD. Thanks again to @mangiotto.bsky.social for the rec, longtimeback. And thanks to Paul Etheredge for this copy.

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Sara Michelle Fetters @moviefreaksara.bsky.social · 4d

8. 1956

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Sara Michelle Fetters @moviefreaksara.bsky.social · 4d

Should I go see FRIDAY THE 13TH PART III in 3-D tonight even though it’s not like I’m some kind of FRIDAY THE 13TH fanatic? Tickets are only $9 so I’m deeply tempted. 🤔

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Sara Michelle Fetters @moviefreaksara.bsky.social · 5d

Terrific performance from its adorable canine lead Indy aside, this mangy spin on secluded backwoods paranormal activity is a frustrating letdown. #GoodBoy sadly was not for me.

moviefreak.com/good-boy-202...

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Sara Michelle Fetters @moviefreaksara.bsky.social · 5d

7. 1980

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Sara Michelle Fetters @moviefreaksara.bsky.social · 5d

Good answer, but…

a game board with buttons and numbers on it and a scoreboard .

ALT: a game board with buttons and numbers on it and a scoreboard .

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Sara Michelle Fetters @moviefreaksara.bsky.social · 5d

6. 1942

A pair of glass bottles, one spewing white smoke, on a glass table in a still from a classic 1942 supernatural comedy.

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Sara Michelle Fetters @moviefreaksara.bsky.social · 5d

Favorite first-time watches in Sept:

One Battle After Another (2025)
The Long Walk (2025)
Thrill of a Romance (1945)
Friday Foster (1975)
A House of Dynamite (2025)
Second Chance (1953)
Three the Hard Way (1974)
Beast of War (2025)
Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale (2025)
Mermaid Legend (1984)

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Emily "Babe" St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 6d

AI slop increasingly strikes me as one of the defining aesthetics of our era, even beyond its heavy appeal to reactionaries, so, alas, I am going to keep writing about it.

Episodes @episodesnewsletter.bsky.social · 6d

In this week's free newsletter, @emilystjams.bsky.social argues that the appeal reactionaries find in AI slop nostalgia isn't about what's present in these videos, but what's missing from them

You don't miss your childhood. You miss not being angry.

Emily St. James on AI nostalgia, fascism, and our longing for less technology.

episodes.ghost.io

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BJ Colangelo @bjcolangelo.bsky.social · 6d

SHE'S A STARRRRR! We're kicking off a month of horror on the pod by finally giving our girl Pearl the spotlight.

This Ends at Prom @thisendsatprom.bsky.social · 6d

NEW EP: PEARL (2022)

Let's kick off the Halloween season with the liberating excitement of adult films, the weird ways repression manifests, and the soul-crushing reality of your best not being enough. It's okay, Pearl, you'll always be a star to us!

Listen wherever you get your podcasts!

The This Ends at Prom episode announcement graphic for PEARL featuring Mia Goth holding an axe.

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Sara Michelle Fetters @moviefreaksara.bsky.social · 5d

Seems appropriate for today, and while still funny, nowhere near as amusing as it once was. Still a FAR SIDE classic, though. 😢

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Sara Michelle Fetters @moviefreaksara.bsky.social · 6d

(Going to start pointing out first time watches going forward as well because, why not? 🥰)

5. 1962 (first time watch)

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Sara Michelle Fetters @moviefreaksara.bsky.social · 6d

4. 2025

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David Avallone @davallone.bsky.social · 6d

A great piece that hasn’t aged a day since 1941.

Play the game the next time you’re in a room full of people. I’ve played it. I think for some people it’s almost a reflex. “Which one of you would call the Gestapo on me, and which would watch, relieved, as I was taken from my home in the night?”

Plenary Popehat Power @kenwhite.bsky.social · 6d

Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.

harpers.org/archive/1941...

Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson

harpers.org

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