Skot Christopherson
@skotchris.bsky.social
Writer, editor, film enthusiast, Cartesian dualist. Still appreciates a well-maintained lawn
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Happy Holidays! We're all having a little rest, so there will be no "Yelling About Movies" episodes this Friday... or next Friday. We'll return Friday, January 9, with our big "5+1" episode where we pick our faves from the past year. Until then, thanks for watching, and zzzzzzzz.
#YabtM 🎥 #filmsky
#YabtM 🎥 #filmsky
December 23, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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"I love lamp." But, 21 years later, do we still love ANCHORMAN: THE LEGEND OF RON BURGUNDY (2004, D. Adam McKay)? #YabtM 🎥 #CineMastodon #filmsky
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Anchorman #YabtM Episode 253
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December 19, 2025 at 9:24 PM
"I love lamp." But, 21 years later, do we still love ANCHORMAN: THE LEGEND OF RON BURGUNDY (2004, D. Adam McKay)? #YabtM 🎥 #CineMastodon #filmsky
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gv_m...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gv_m...
Pretty sure nobody in cinematic history has ever described HAL 9000 as "a goof."
December 17, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Pretty sure nobody in cinematic history has ever described HAL 9000 as "a goof."
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December 16, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Time for my annual post!
ELF (2003) vs JOKER (2019)
• Set in fictionalized New York City (Gotham, a version of NYC with Gimbel's)
• Orphaned
• Diagnosed with delusional impairment
• Theatrical dress in public
• Extreme difficulty controlling emotional states
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ELF (2003) vs JOKER (2019)
• Set in fictionalized New York City (Gotham, a version of NYC with Gimbel's)
• Orphaned
• Diagnosed with delusional impairment
• Theatrical dress in public
• Extreme difficulty controlling emotional states
(More)
December 16, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Time for my annual post!
ELF (2003) vs JOKER (2019)
• Set in fictionalized New York City (Gotham, a version of NYC with Gimbel's)
• Orphaned
• Diagnosed with delusional impairment
• Theatrical dress in public
• Extreme difficulty controlling emotional states
(More)
ELF (2003) vs JOKER (2019)
• Set in fictionalized New York City (Gotham, a version of NYC with Gimbel's)
• Orphaned
• Diagnosed with delusional impairment
• Theatrical dress in public
• Extreme difficulty controlling emotional states
(More)
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Way too online, pt 2: In director Kiyoshi Kurosawa's thriller CLOUD (2024) a blank, amoral man reselling items in online auctions provokes the ire of his customers. We discuss.
#YabtM 🎥 ##filmsky
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#YabtM 🎥 ##filmsky
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クラウド Kurado (Cloud) #YabtM Episode 252, Film 1
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December 12, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Way too online, pt 2: In director Kiyoshi Kurosawa's thriller CLOUD (2024) a blank, amoral man reselling items in online auctions provokes the ire of his customers. We discuss.
#YabtM 🎥 ##filmsky
www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-UB...
#YabtM 🎥 ##filmsky
www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-UB...
Boston crime films are a special and rarified subgenre. The crimes are never that serious, everyone is likeable, they've got that cute accent, and Dunkin' is usually involved. #YabtM
"A bestiary of Boston shitheads." (Tadd, nailing it.) I think most of us enjoyed THE INSTIGATORS (2024), this week's second wild and woolly entry from director Doug Liman. We discuss. #YabtM 🎥 #filmsky
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yDk...
The Instigators #YabtM Episode 251
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December 6, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Boston crime films are a special and rarified subgenre. The crimes are never that serious, everyone is likeable, they've got that cute accent, and Dunkin' is usually involved. #YabtM
An unusually lurid tale of an airline pilot turned drug smuggler for the CIA, AMERICAN MADE (2017) combines Doug Liman's fast-cutting action-movie style with oversaturated, unreliable-narrator storytelling he perfected in GO (1999). #YabtM
"It's a fun lie based on a true story," was director Doug Liman's description of AMERICAN MADE (2017). It's one of two Liman films we watched this week for Yelling About Movies. Here's our discussion.
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#YabtM 🎥 #filmsky
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American Made - #YabtM Episode 251
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December 5, 2025 at 7:50 PM
An unusually lurid tale of an airline pilot turned drug smuggler for the CIA, AMERICAN MADE (2017) combines Doug Liman's fast-cutting action-movie style with oversaturated, unreliable-narrator storytelling he perfected in GO (1999). #YabtM
Most of the guys really liked this supernatural allegory set in Cold War West Berlin. I found it very uneven and graced by some of the most egregious overacting this side of a high school production of "Bye Bye Birdie." Good creature effects, tho. #YabtM
Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t. Take POSSESSION (1981, D. Andrezej Zulawski). We discuss. #YabtM 🎥 #filmsky
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Possession #YabtM Episode 250
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November 28, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Most of the guys really liked this supernatural allegory set in Cold War West Berlin. I found it very uneven and graced by some of the most egregious overacting this side of a high school production of "Bye Bye Birdie." Good creature effects, tho. #YabtM
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Senator Ruben Gallego didn't mince words. Read the full daily bulletin: www.meidasplus.com/p/today-in-p...
November 24, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Senator Ruben Gallego didn't mince words. Read the full daily bulletin: www.meidasplus.com/p/today-in-p...
THE CAINE MUTINY is about a mutiny on a WWII minesweeper to replace a captain whose nerves are shot. But this film was made in the 1950s and needed the cooperation of the US Navy-- so the overall tone is stridently patriotic. But the subversive elements are still there. #yabtm
In the classic WWII Naval saga THE CAINE MUTINY (1954, D. Edward Dmytryk) Humphrey Bogart plays a ship captain who's brittle, insecure, and disliked by his crew—but the film has more nuance than to make him an outright villain. We discuss. #YabtM 🎥 #filmsky www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFo0...
The Caine Mutiny #YabtM Episode 249
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November 21, 2025 at 7:42 PM
THE CAINE MUTINY is about a mutiny on a WWII minesweeper to replace a captain whose nerves are shot. But this film was made in the 1950s and needed the cooperation of the US Navy-- so the overall tone is stridently patriotic. But the subversive elements are still there. #yabtm
What really sells this zombie comedy, which is so sharp it almost overwhelms the whole film. If you see a character alive at the beginning, you'll see them again later, undead. And yes, it's a film about choosing a path towards personal growth, which is very odd. #yabtm
An underachiever rises to the occasion—the occasion being a zombie apocalypse—in SHAUN OF THE DEAD (2004, D. Edgar Wright). Here's our discussion. #YabtM 🎥 #filmsky www.youtube.com/watch?v=613i...
Shaun of the Dead #YabtM Episode 248
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November 14, 2025 at 10:13 PM
What really sells this zombie comedy, which is so sharp it almost overwhelms the whole film. If you see a character alive at the beginning, you'll see them again later, undead. And yes, it's a film about choosing a path towards personal growth, which is very odd. #yabtm
Alfred Hitchcock's follow-up to PSYCHO, THE BIRDS was almost as popular. He does something interesting here: He gives us two reasons for the massive bird attack. One is unexplained, the other is supernatural. #YabtM
Bodega Bay besieged by THE BIRDS (1963, D. Alfred Hitchcock). We discuss. #YabtM 🎥 #filmsky www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOwK...
The Birds #YabtM Episode 248
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November 14, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Alfred Hitchcock's follow-up to PSYCHO, THE BIRDS was almost as popular. He does something interesting here: He gives us two reasons for the massive bird attack. One is unexplained, the other is supernatural. #YabtM
Super peculiar film about a filmmaker who travels to a rural Kurdish village in Iran to learn about their funerary practices. That never happens. What happens is he finds himself in "Quirky Town." Lots of strange stuff occurs, which of course is to be expected in Quirky Town. #yabtm
Still, waiting: An Iranian film crew sent to document a funeral finds itself becalmed in a tiny village, waiting for an old woman to die. We watched THE WIND WILL CARRY US (1999. D. Abbas Kiarostami) Here's our discussion. #YabtM 🎥 #filmsky www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-l3...
The Wind Will Carry Us (باد ما را خواهد برد bād mā rā khāhad bord) #YabtM Episode 247
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November 8, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Super peculiar film about a filmmaker who travels to a rural Kurdish village in Iran to learn about their funerary practices. That never happens. What happens is he finds himself in "Quirky Town." Lots of strange stuff occurs, which of course is to be expected in Quirky Town. #yabtm
The first entry into this week's "Visit to Quirky Town" theme, LOCAL HERO involved a junior executive from a Texas oil company traveling to an eccentric Scottish town to basically buy the place. Everybody in town is wacky. Even his boss (Burt Lancaster) is wacky. #yabtm
A Texas oil company representative dispatched to negotiate the purchase of a tiny coastal town in Scotland gets more than he bargained for in LOCAL HERO (1983, D. Bill Forsyth) Here's our discussion. #YabtM 🎥 #filmsky www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3Kc...
Local Hero #YabtM Episode 247
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November 7, 2025 at 7:40 PM
The first entry into this week's "Visit to Quirky Town" theme, LOCAL HERO involved a junior executive from a Texas oil company traveling to an eccentric Scottish town to basically buy the place. Everybody in town is wacky. Even his boss (Burt Lancaster) is wacky. #yabtm
Only a guy confident in his masculinity would allow this to be published
November 6, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Only a guy confident in his masculinity would allow this to be published
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It was my turn this week so I chose a movie I love and a movie I'd never seen. They mirrored each other in some ways—in other ways they were very different. #YabtM 🎥 #filmsky
We're out in the boondocks this week. Two new episodes of Yelling about Movies drop this Friday. 🎥 #filmsky
November 6, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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😎😎😎😎 GOOD THINGS CAN STILL HAPPEN 😎😎😎😎
November 5, 2025 at 5:22 AM
😎😎😎😎 GOOD THINGS CAN STILL HAPPEN 😎😎😎😎
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If you’re still in line, STAY IN LINE
November 5, 2025 at 1:04 AM
If you’re still in line, STAY IN LINE
Very rare movie pairing this week: Same director, same star, VERY different movies. #YabtM
October 21, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Very rare movie pairing this week: Same director, same star, VERY different movies. #YabtM
My sign, No Kings 2 Rally, Colma California (where all the cemeteries are).
October 18, 2025 at 10:36 PM
My sign, No Kings 2 Rally, Colma California (where all the cemeteries are).
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1975 dystopia week continues with A BOY AND HIS DOG (Directed by L. Q. Jones). You'll recognize a lot the post-apocalyptic tropes... but with a kinky, misogynistic spin, because Harlan Ellison. Here's our discussion.
#YabtM 🎥 #filmsky www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJ1x...
#YabtM 🎥 #filmsky www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJ1x...
A Boy and His Dog #YabtM Episode 244
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October 17, 2025 at 7:45 PM
1975 dystopia week continues with A BOY AND HIS DOG (Directed by L. Q. Jones). You'll recognize a lot the post-apocalyptic tropes... but with a kinky, misogynistic spin, because Harlan Ellison. Here's our discussion.
#YabtM 🎥 #filmsky www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJ1x...
#YabtM 🎥 #filmsky www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJ1x...