Bit of a weird one from me. Romantic C-Dramas aren't my usual media, but...

Jhonen Vasquez hit his highest level of cultural prominence with Invader Zim, a Nickelodeon cartoon which benefitted from his distinctive artistic aesthetic and playfully overexcitable style. Overshadowed by fare like Spongebob Squarepants, it lasted for a bit over a season, got a Netflix special in 2019, and lives on largely through the massive amounts of … Continue reading Zim’s Invasion Blueprints: A Rough Guide To the NNYverse

🍿 The Plastic Detox (2026) was too sensationalist for my liking, but you can’t escape the message: petrochemicals are all around us, and their introduction coincides with the rise of some alarming health statistics. The documentary anchors on fertility; I am more concerned about the rise in some cancers that can’t be explained away by increased screening. Regardless, it is good to know that our Oral-B electric toothbrush can come with a bamboo extension.

Creator Gooseworx really made something terrific with TADC, which seems nearly universally adored. It might be too popular, as she had to put up, as sometimes happens with people who make much admired things, with some amount of harassment online about it, with her saying she might retreat from internet circles once it’s done. I’m … Continue reading "Sundry Sunday: The Amazing Digital Circus Approaches Conclusion"

NOTE: This post is packed with spoilers for the 1931 films Mata Hari and Dishonored. If you want to see either of those films without spoilers of any kind, don’t read until you do. For a relatively minor figure in the grand context of the Great War, Mata Hari looms large in the collective memory. … Continue reading Double feature: Mata Hari (dir. George Fitzmaurice, 1931) and Dishonored (dir. Josef von Sternberg, 1931)

Rich Lee's War of the Worlds, with Niall Glynn and Jason Coyle. At time of recording, it was ranked 20th on the list of worst movies of all time on the Internet Movie Database. Show notes, including links: https://them0vieblog.com/2026/03/22/442-war-of-the-worlds-20/ Follow us on twitter at @thetwofifty.

Don’t be so careful in time of death. In the ’50s and early ’60s, it was typical for TV sponsors to feature the show’s characters in commercials which aired during the show.  I’ve been re-watching The Beverly Hillbillies lately, and I was delighted to find this PSA from an episode which first aired in September […]

Two films with Baby Peggy, two with Harry Gribbon. All @HippFest. Baby P (Diana Serra Cary) is only around for the first ten minutes of APRIL FOOL (1926) because it’s one of those inefficient movies that opens fifteen years too early. But there is some benefit to this — firstly, we get the luminous baby […]

by Cláudio Alves In the battle of Aunt Gladys against Best Picture stars, the witch won! I don’t know about you, but I love Oscar trivia, the more meaningless, niche, and utterly useless for prediction purposes, the better. Indeed, matters of stats and precedent feel better invoked in post-Oscar talk than in the middle of the season, when folks sometimes hold on to these analyses as if they were unshakable rules. Every year, Academy Award history gains new records, new precursor combos that...

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Ready or Not absolutely did not need a sequel, which is something the filmmakers seemed to take as a challenge

Grateful to Laraine Porter’s programme notes (here) and Lawrence Napper’s intro for background detail about HIGH TREASON, enjoyed at HippFest yesterday. The second Maurice Elvey movie screened this year, it confirms his skill, while also demonstrating an even more deranged and incoherent political worldview than its obvious role model, METROPOLIS. Some of this clearly derives […]

Today’s recording opens with a trail for Bamzooki. It’s missing the very start, though. Does Barney Harwood present everything? Then it’s The Sarah Jane Adventures – Mona Lisa’s Revenge – Part 2. After Mona Lisa ribs Luke for saying he didn’t need his mum, he steps up and manages to get them away from her through the […]

Oh, so that's who Robocop was trying to arrest the other day. Good luck, Murphy. And happy birthday Simon Furman! (And Hellboy: Seed of Destruction #1 was released on this day in 1994!)

This week sees a short but clever animation from The Netherlands.

When I was a child, I only knew one horror movie, which was Gremlins, a movie that gave me nightmares for years. I thought nothing could ever scare me more than that one, but I was wrong. And it wasn't even a horror movie. One day my best friend brought... The post Traumafession:: E. T. was Extra Terrifying! By Poke Trekkie first appeared on kindertrauma.

📺 How to get to Heaven from Belfast happened, I imagine, when the Derry Girls creator Lisa McGee saw the abomination that was Bodkin and asked Netflix to fund a true (Northern) Irish mystery. Here is hoping that the Netflix fairy doesn’t realize how good of a show this is, and approves Season 2.

TOO DEEP FOR TEARS Perhaps this imagining of the young Vincent  gains extra power after the emotional hit of the recent Van Gogh at Arles exhibition; starry nights and wonder lie fresh in memory, , signals of immortal beauty from … Continue reading →

Aditya Dhar's Dhurandhar, with Siddhant Adlakha. At time of recording, it was ranked 250th on the list of best movies of all time on the Internet Movie Database. Show notes, including links: https://them0vieblog.com/2026/02/28/441-one-battle-after-another/ Follow us on twitter at @thetwofifty.

2025 fantasy, 13 episodes, light novel series adaptation: AniDB. Lady Scarlet El Vandimion is cast off by the prince to whom she's been publicly engaged since childhood. Fortunately her skills include a lot of punching. vt May I Ask For One Final Thing?

The first recording today starts with a trail for Sorry, I’ve Got No Head and one for My Almost Famous Family. Then it’s The Sarah Jane Adventures – Mona Lisa’s Revenge – Part 1. Jeff Rawle plays Mr Harding, curator of the International Gallery, who is about to open a special exhibition of the Mona Lisa. But it […]