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Just saw a guy absolutely nail Yukon Cornelius—'Sil-verrrr!' His wild imitation had me laughing out loud. Instant flashback to cozy '60s TV nights, stop-motion puppets, and misfit dreams. Pure nostalgic joy! pic.twitter.com/TmeEovG3HD

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Sean Cunningham, the director of Friday the 13th, is very vocal that Friday the 13th’s theme is not the one that many pundits and horror ‘experts’ have claimed – namely that “sinners must be punished”. They often cite the fact many of the teens that are engaging in sex or other activities die, while the one that did not survives. Instead, Cunningham saw the whole story as “bad things happening to good people for no apparent reason.” He also rejected Gene Siskel’s complaint that the film was “misogynistic”. Cunningham said the film is not meant to be sexist, and both males and females get punished equally in this movie.

John Carpenter was similarly dismissive when critics complained that Halloween was pushing an old testament puritanical sex-must-be-punished-by-death moral code on the audience. Debra Hill, his co-producer and screenwriter on the project said in response: “I think people are reading moral and sociological messages into a simple horror story that has no agenda to lecture the audience in any way.”

So, all those pundits and critics that say early horror movies were puritanical are just projecting their own interpretations on something that was never intended to be the case.

I recently had a flashback to my own college days when The Gamers movie from Dead Gentlemen came up in my Youtube feed. No series has captured the personalities and real-life nonsense of 90’s and early 2000’s DnD playing with friends so well.

Sit down and give them a watch. This is what the internet was originally designed for. Not monetization and influencer videos, but sharing passions and having fun.

One of their follow-on movies:

Even in mid-2000’s people waxed nostalgic about old DnD:

and of course – the original Summoner Geeks:

There is a fabulous scene in Life of Brian where Brian is caught writing ‘Romans go home!’ on a wall. But his Latin is terrible so he makes a bunch of mistakes in his graffiti. He’s then accosted by a Roman soldier who exactly mimics the dressing down one would get by an overbearing Latin teacher. Even better – everything they discuss is100% grammatically accurate.

polýMATHY walks us through exactly what they were saying (if you don’t know any Latin):

It looks like one of Netflix’s most interesting interactive experiences, Bandersnatch, has been removed from Netflix. However, someone has decided to extract and put it up online at playbandersnatch.com. Go give it a playthrough before it’s likely removed.

“I’m in my 40’s now. When I was a kid, I used to have tons of my favorite books that I wanted to see made into movies. Now, in 2025, I hope the exact opposite for any story I love.”

I saw this quote on a movie buff forum and couldn’t agree more. Classic stories are butchered, re-imagined by people who don’t even know the source material, or reframed for ‘modern’ sensibilities.

We do have examples of amazing Lord of the Rings from Peter Jackson – and then abominations like the follow-up series on Amazon that shows the show runners don’t understand the basics of the source material nor the intent of the author that wrote it.

This nearly dialog-free short film from OTOY and director Carlos Baena uses de-aging tech to bid a farewell to the Captain Kirk – and Spock. The film was created with help from William Shatner and the Nimoy estate for the Roddenberry Archive