We Are The Sprocket Holes vol. 557

 stand-out viewing for the semi-automatic swiss cheese toddler puppet show that was May.

(April)

Z CHANNEL: A MAGNIFICENT OBSESSION (2004, dir. Xan Cassavetes)

really cool artifact from the glory days of IFC. 

X (2022, dir. Ti West)

the right mix of "another" and "not just another." 

WYRMWOOD: APOCALYPSE (2021, dir. Kiah Roach-Turner)

does so much on what is probably less than a fifth of the budget of the latest Resident Evil gimmick.

MACHETE KILLS (2013, dir. Robert Rodriguez) 

this felt less like a RR film and more like a RR send-up of the Black Keys RR send-up. 

HARDGORE (1975, dir. Michael Hugo)

another one to add to the chamber whenever some washed-up out of touch smarmy contrarian fence-riding boomer assbag lectures you about how the porn from their day wasn't "weird, mean, and rapey". while they were micro-milking their pork digit in the woods to crumbled bra ads, those with taste knew where the true power lay. 

GHOSTBUSTERS AFTERBIRTH (2021, dir a paternal-methane huffing trust fund dildo)

this shit is so bad made Oliva Wilde get hit with contact ugliness. 

DOCTOR STRANGE IN THE MULTIVERSE OF MADNESS (2022, dir. Sam Raimi) 

eh. its called "the MULTIVERSE of MADNESS", but they only really hang in like 2 or 3 different universes, and they aren't really that mad, either. eh. 

DEMENTED (1980, dir. Arthur Jefferys)

title is an understatement. 

APOCALYPSE AFTER: THE SHORT FILMS OF BERTRAND MANDICO (2010-18, dir. Bertand Mandico)

THE SADNESS (2021, dir. Rob Jabaz)

my own private everything everywhere all at once. 

GO. OUT. SIDE. vol. 50

 This is an observation that the Red Letter Media guys have made over the years, that contemporary filmmakers seem to believe that simply making a reference your audience understands to be a reference is somehow inherently entertaining. But why? The massively successful Spiderman: No Way Home was essentially two and a half hours of “hey, remember Spiderman? Remember that other Spiderman? Remember Dr. Octopus? Remember when Willem Dafoe said that line? Remember? Huh?” The nadir of this style of mythmaking may be Ready Player One, where beloved nerd references keep wandering onscreen for no discernible purpose. (“Hey, the Iron Giant! He’s here, for some reason!”) That movie and the book it’s based on are a firehose of stuff you remember that you liked before. But while we might feel a twinkling of emotion when we encounter those references, we do so because those movies and shows were actually good, were capable of wringing emotional resonance out of us themselves. Today’s reference media attempts to cut the line by borrowing that resonance from the past. It’s a sad statement about our power to create meaning in fiction and, if nothing else, will inevitably lead to diminishing returns.

Yes, I Got That Reference. But Who Cares?

reference culture is a human centipede

We Are The Sprocket Holes vol. 556

 

Park Chan-wook Teases New Western, Sci-Fi, and Serial Killer Films

NEGATION ASPIRATION vol. 326 / U.S.A.! U.S.A.! vol. 275

 

Time is ticking to replace the Pentagon’s 1970s-era Doomsday planes

Built to survive a nuclear attack, these Air Force aircraft are expected to fly well past their 50th birthday.

GO. OUT. SIDE. vol. 49

 

Stranger Things’ 1980s nostalgia has long passed its sell-by date

Netflix’s hit sci-fi series is part of a wave of films and TV shows mining viewers’ nostalgia for the recent past. It’s a shame ‘Stranger Things’ can’t conjure a more authentic remembering of the decade, 

GO. OUT. SIDE. vol. 48

 

New Profile of High On Fire’s Matt Pike Spotlights the Anti-Semitic Origins of His Conspiracy Theories

NERRRRRRRRRRRD! vol. 184

 

Chick tracts artist Fred Carter has died

We Are The Sprocket Holes vol. 555

 

Pooh and Piglet on a Rampage: Director Details the Plot of Upcoming ‘Winnie the Pooh’ Horror Movie

#gorenoise vol. 150

 When police raided a makeshift wooden hut located deep in a jungle, they were confronted with the grotesque living conditions of a secretive cult. There were maggots crawling around food preparation sites, 11 dead bodies in coffins, and some 30 disciples who regularly consumed the bodily fluids of a leader they endearingly called “Father.”

The cult commune was believed to have been thriving in northeastern Thailand’s Chaiyaphum province for at least four years before it was discovered. At its heart was the spiritual leader Tawee Nanla, a white-haired man in his mid-70s whose followers were convinced he possessed magical healing abilities, which led them to consume his feces, urine, skin flakes, saliva, and cigarette butts.

Disturbing Details Keep Emerging About This Bizarre Poop-Eating Cult

Negation Aspiration vol. 326

That shooting wasn’t the only sign of a fractured approach to women and girls. A teen girl told VICE News that he had contacted her on a “Tinder for kids” app, but after she rejected him, he added her on Instagram and tagged her username in a photo of guns.

In screenshots shared with VICE News, the girl, Anita, messaged the gunman, “WHAT. What your guns gotta do with me.”

“Idk,” he replied. “Be grateful I tagged you.”

In another message sent hours before the shooting, he said that he had “a lil secret,” in a possible reference to his deadly plans.

“Now people are attacking me for it and they think I'm his girlfriend, which I am not,” Anita told VICE News. (She declined to share her second name with VICE News, citing privacy concerns.) “Aside from these interactions, I know nothing about him.”

She continued, “Most people are actually very supportive and saying that it's not my fault, but a handful of people are still saying that I should have predicted what he was going to do.”

That, too, is a frequent response after a mass shooting: suggestions that a girl or woman is, in some way, to blame, especially for saying “no” to a boy or man.

After a student shot and killed at least 10 people in a high school in Santa Fe, Texas, in 2018, news outlets ran with the narrative that he had opened fire after being rejected by a girl. That same year, after a Maryland student shot two students, including one who had a “prior relationship” with him, the Associated Press dubbed him a “lovesick teenager.” 

“It actually sends a chilling message to young women, which is, ‘Here is the cost of saying no,’” CJ Pascoe, a University of Oregon associate sociology professor who studies masculinity and sexuality in high school, told VICE News at the time. “What would be really great is if journalists would take that moment to perhaps highlight the expectations of masculinity for young men and to perhaps open a discussion about alternate ways to be a man.”

‘They Think I'm His Girlfriend’: People Are Blaming a Random Girl for Texas Shooting

Mass shootings in the United States tend to be committed by men with a past of domestic violence and a poisonous relationship toward women.

AHHHHHHHHHH vol. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

 Trump’s overall endorsement track record looks more dismal by the week. His endorsed candidate against Idaho Gov. Brad Little lost by a 20-point margin last week, and his chosen Pennsylvania Senate candidate, Dr. Mehmet Oz, is heading to a recount against businessman David McCormick after last week’s election—far from a resounding victory for Trump. North Carolina Rep. Madison Cawthorn lost his primary last week too, after a last-minute Trump endorsement.

Trump Just Got His Ass Handed to Him in Georgia

We Are The Sprocket Holes vol. 554

 

Iranian Serial Killer Movie ‘Holy Spider’ — Which Pushes Envelope With Nudity, Sex and Graphic Strangling Scenes — Stuns Cannes

GO. OUT. SIDE. vol. 47

QAnon’s Chief Enabler Ran a Website Where He Brushed Off Concerns About Pedophilic Content

A little-known archive unveils a dark irony behind the right’s child protection conspiracy.

Negation Aspiration vol. 325

 Duterte, who leaves office on June 30, has been criticized by human-rights groups for the extrajudicial killing of more than 6,000 people suspected of petty drug offenses.

Duterte Dismisses Comparisons to Putin by Clarifying: ‘I Kill Criminals, Not Kids and Elderly’

GO. OUT. SIDE. vol. 46

For some kids of a certain age at a certain time, the blonde-haired Gadget — who, let’s stress, is a cartoon mouse — was something of a, shall we say, epochal figure in one’s development. And, as Broderick noticed, some of them took to the anonymous message board to vent their frustration at what happens to her in the movie: She’s hooked up with Zipper, the housefly, and produced an army of mouse-bug hybrids.

Some of the posts are apoplectic. “Did they stop to consider for a second how this would affect her hoardes [sic] of loyal fans?” one 4chan user steamed. Another condemned the idea of a mouse commingling with a “filthy insect that feeds off excrement” and producing “maggot-vermin abomination offspring.”

A search on the 4chan board finds still more. “It’s not even about Gadget or you f*cks, it’s about the PRINCIPLE of it,” one wrote. “She represented childhood innocence, and (((they))) corrupted that idea on purpose.” Another wrote, “Bros, how do i cope the fact that the waifu of my infancy got f*cked by a fly?”

4chan Users Are Up In Arms Over What Happens To Gadget, The Cartoon Mouse, In The ‘Chip ‘N Dale: Rescue Rangers’ Movie

Books... are FUN vol. 34

 These fragments and letters are epistolary grenades, fragments of finitude, auto-autopsies, in which Artaud’s pen — filled with ink or blood or shit — became a scalpel with which he incised (inscribed) himself, forcepping his memories, retracting his theories, scissoring his fears in the reflection of the page; so much so that his auto-consumption resembled Michel Lotito’s ingestion of bicycles, televisions and even a Cessna 150 airplane — after all, there is nothing more indigestible than the self. 

letters to an other

By Steve Finbow.

NERRRRRRRRRRRD! vol. 183

 For the first new Sin City stories in more than twenty years, Miller is writing a special one-shot illustrated by legendary Italian artist Milo Manara. 

Frank Miller Presents: Why the Acclaimed Comic Book Creator Is Reviving Sin City and Ronin

Awwwwwww Yeah vol. 254

 

Meet the ‘Hermettes’: A Secret Society of Women Who Prefer to Be Left Alone

#truecrimepowerelectronics vol. 55

 

Arby’s manager, subject of child pornography investigation, peed in milkshake mix, police say

- Arby’s 

- CP investigation

- pee pee shakes 

That’s an N Casio Poe hat trick roit ere

Oh I Get It vol. ;+{()

 

Red Power Ranger actor charged in multimillion-dollar PPP Covid relief fraud scheme

#truecrimepowerelectronics vol. 54

 

Armie Hammer and his family are the subject of a new ID and Discovery Plus special

U.S.A.! U.S.A.! vol. 274 / GO. OUT. SIDE. vol. 45

 

Embarrassed Madison Cawthorn Vows ‘Dark MAGA’ Takeover

We Are The Sprocket Holes vol. 553

 

David Cronenberg Breaks Down Cannes Walkouts, His New Film’s Sexuality, and Why Netflix Turns Him Down

We Are The Sprocket Holes vol. 552

 

19 seconds of George Miller's Three Thousand Years Of Longing is already a hell of a lot of movie

Awwwwww Yeah vol. 253

 

‘Emmanuelle’: Lea Seydoux Reviving Iconic Erotic Character For Audrey Diwan’s English-Language Debut

We Are The Sprocket Holes vol. 551

 Brought forth by artist and historian Thomas Negovan’s Century Guild in conjunction with famed experimental filmmaker E. Elias Merhige, Penthouse’s archives from the set of Caligula are coming back in the form of a tabletop book featuring never-before-seen set pictures and anecdotes, and a brilliant new version of the movie which follows closely with Gore Vidal’s original screenplay.

CALIGULA Is Back! (Exclusive)

A new book and restoration by Century Guild returns one of Hollywood’s most notorious movies to the collective consciousness.

#gorenoise vol. 149

 

Neil Patrick Harris apologizes for Amy Winehouse corpse decoration used in 2011 party

Booker Man is the Bastard vol. 11

 

Unpacking the Sasha Banks and Naomi Drama: What Happened and What's Next?

Oh I Get It vol. *+()

 

Cluttercore: Gen Z’s revolt against millennial minimalism is grounded in Victorian excess

NERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRD! vol. 182

 

The Multiverse Swallows Everything — Including Politics

The omnipresent sci-fi concept reflects a serious lack of real-life imagination.

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH vol. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

 

The Crypto Crisis Has Been Very Bad for White Nationalists

#truecrimepowerelctronics vol. 53

 

‘The Staircase’ Documentary Makers Request HBO Max Disclaimer For TV Drama After Being “Betrayed”

We Are The Sprocket Holes vol. 550

 

Natasha Lyonne 

Is a Bloodthirsty 

Delight in a New 

Trailer for 

Cult Classic 

All About Evil

U.S.A.! U.S.A.! vol. 273 / Negation Aspiration vol. 325

The scope of Cawthorn’s troubles is broad, the implications transcending mere politics. More than 70 interviews with people who know Cawthorn, who have worked for him and against him, allies and enemies, activists and operatives and longtime watchers of politics here in the mountains of western North Carolina, paint a picture of a man in crisis. Cawthorn, they say, is an immature college dropout with a thin work resume, a scofflaw and serial embellisher who was neither qualified nor prepared for the responsibility and the scrutiny that comes with the office he holds. They describe him as a person whose ongoing physical pain and insecurities have made him unusually susceptible to the twisted incentives of a political environment and a Trump-led GOP that prizes perhaps above all else outrage and partisan attack.

“He’s not OK,” said Michele Woodhouse, the former Republican chair of the 11th District who’s now running against him. “He’s very unwell,” said a Republican strategist familiar with Cawthorn. “The recovery is not complete,” said David Rhode, a fellow Hendersonville native who knew Cawthorn pre-politics but now works for Wendy Nevarez, another one of Cawthorn’s current opponents. “He’s got some deep issues that will probably never go away,” said Chuck Archerd, a Republican who ran against him in 2020. “It’s never going to be just totally fine,” said a friend.

‘He’s Not OK’: The Entirely Predictable Unraveling of Madison Cawthorn

A string of embarrassing incidents has led many to question whether the young congressman from North Carolina was really ready for the job.

#truecrimepowerelectronics vol. 52

 

Shannan Gilbert had called 911 and said someone was trying to kill her. That call lasted about 22 minutes. There were three other calls. The search for her led to the discovery of four women in burlap sacks in a matter of days. 

Gilgo Beach Update: Shannan Gilbert's Long-Secret 911 Calls Are Out. Listen Here

Oh I Get It vol. ()+%

 

Urine-Drinking Anti-Vax Leader Pisses Off Florida Judge

Negation Aspiration vol. 324

"Really, this put the nail in the coffin for me about the way I look at the world, and it's been heavy as fuck," he continued, referring to his life during the pandemic. "I feel like there's no happy ending for any of us in the way that we've set everything up — government and just everything. I feel like it's just gonna be darker and darker from here on out. And that's a lot for a person to think about all the time. It basically stole whatever little bit of innocence I had left or any little blinder I had on to the way shit is. It's been heavy, dude. This has been a heavy fucking thing for me… I'm arrested by all of this right now and by my own feelings. It's just brought my anxiety to an ultimate head, basically. It's to the point where I've gotta do something."

THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER Frontman TREVOR STRNAD Dead At 41

Awwwww Yeah vol. 252

 

The Sex Ed Wars Will Never End

We Are The Sprocket Holes vol. 549

 

Vincent Cassel Starring in David Cronenberg’s ‘The Shrouds,’ FilmNation and CAA Launching Sales in Cannes (EXCLUSIVE)

Awwwwwww Yeah vol. 251

 

Dr Strange actress faces jail after she and her Taekwondo 'master' husband plied girl, 13, with rum and sexually abused her 'once or twice a month' over three years

We Are The Sprocket Holes vol. 548

 

David Cronenberg Expects ‘Crimes of the Future’ Walkouts at Cannes ‘Within the First Five Minutes’

"Some guy said that he almost had a panic attack."