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Would I recommend a movie to you? Find out with a simple yes or no. Gala does this over on Instagram and I had to join in on the fun!

RT @MoviesThatMaher: Where is Zack Snyder’s Next Film? Zack Snyder's The Last Photograph premiered at TIFF on September 13, and more than a month later, it still has no distributor. The film Snyder has been trying to make since the mid-2000s and shelved in 2016, then self-produced through his Stone Quarry banner screened as an acquisition title, and no studio or streamer has picked it up yet. Snyder even joked before the premiere that it might be the only time the film is ever shown. The reasons are not hard to guess. The movie was shot in just 32 days in Colombia on a reported $10 million budget, with Snyder serving as his own cinematographer, and the TIFF reaction was rough, it sits around 20% on Rotten Tomatoes, with critics calling it bloated, grim, and overlong. Reports from the festival said buyers who screened it found the violence excessive and the production quality below what they'd expect, and TIFF didn't even arrange a press screening for it. So the strangest part of the story is that the update is that there is no update. A former DEA operative searching the South American jungle for his missing niece and nephew, shot by one of the most famous directors alive, and right now its only public screening is a single TIFF premiere. If a buyer doesn't step in soon, Snyder's passion project risks becoming the rare movie that premiered at a major festival and simply vanished.

I say yes!

Can AI bring something new to a classic horror film? Thursday 10/29 at 5PM PT we're screening Francis Ford Coppola's DEMENTIA 13, followed by an AI-generated reimagining of one of its scenes with director Jason Ferrell in attendance. Watch on Pulp Time.

I started the week off by watching Olivier Assayas' excellent slow-burn The Wizard of the Kremlin. Paul Dano is excellent, metering his speech in a soft and languidly potent crawl, and though Jude Law doesn't even attempt to hide his English accent he's a perfect stand-in for Vladimir Putin. What's your watch week look like?

Happy Monday! What movie are you watching to get the week started off right?

Fritz Lang’s surreal precursor to Hitchcock’s Rear Window is not to be missed!

Don't forget that you get two free movie watches every month on your account on Pulp Time. What do we recommend for this weekend? Fritz Lang's The Woman in the Window. Halloween doesn't always have to be horror ... crime can be scary too!

Pulp Time’s Draft collaborative screenwriting software is free for all.

Today's the day to start your script, and @postboxrebel is showing us how Draft is getting them organized to get their script on the page.

RT @pulptimetv: One of the greatest reveals in horror history. Lon Chaney's legendary makeup in THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (1925) still holds up more than a century later, even with no music. Watch the film on Pulp Time.

RT @loganlofgren: Here is the full story regarding the recent allegations against Lance Oppenheim

RT @RoyPrice: Most of the people who promoted mismanagement in media over the past 8 years are now out of power and that regime is over. If you’re a mid-level apparatchik who was aligned with that cause, can you pivot your brand from super political to super entertaining? We will see.

RT @pulptimetv: Congratulations to Jenny. This sort of recognition for your work is an amazing accomplishment for any filmmaker. Everyone should go and listen to her interview! You are a BOSS!

Here's the first 10mins of my BBC Radical interview. Go and watch it on BBC Sounds or BBC News (link below).

Incubus (1966) live watch party today at 5pm PT on Venu vidi la malaltbuĝetan hororan filmon kun William Shatner, reĝisoritan de Leslie Stevens, kiu estas fama pro tio, ke ĝi estis filmita tute en la planlingvo Esperanto!

RT @fiveoutofnine: So basically, today PHP got two critical bugs that let anyone run code on your server without even logging in, which is bad, and then the details leaked before the patch was even out, which is worse, and it works on WordPress and MediaWiki and Magento and Joomla and Laravel, and Censys says like 1.5 million servers are running a version with no fix, so the NSA was like "take your system offline," and the FBI was like "take your system offline," and CISA and the UK and CERT-EU were all like "take your system offline," and then the Prime Minister of Japan, the actual Prime Minister, posted at 5:55 in the morning telling 48.8 million people to take their system offline, so everyone took their system offline, like the Dutch cybersecurity agency took its own website offline, and the Dutch parliament went offline, and the Port of Rotterdam went offline, and Finland and France and Denmark started pulling government sites, and Wikipedia went down, and went down, and Asana and GOG and Something Awful went down, and the University of Vienna's webmail went down for some reason, and that's just PHP. Because GitLab also dropped a CVSS 10.0, which is the highest score they give out, for a bug that's been there since 2014, so that's every self-hosted GitLab for twelve years, and then LiteLLM 1.107.0 got hijacked and shipped a credential stealer and a remote access trojan in every single wheel and the Docker images, including latest, and you didn't even have to import it, just installing it was enough, and it's the second time this year, and then Railway paused every deployment on the entire platform because someone got into the environment variables, so now everyone has to rotate every secret they've ever stored there, and TiDB Cloud said someone was walking around inside with stolen credentials for basically a month and an extortion group says they took 10.6 terabytes, and Zeabur got breached for the second time in two months and is just shutting down, like the whole company, and Node.js patched remote code execution and a TLS bypass, and CISA says Plex is being actively exploited, and someone took over 300 Tor exit relays to steal SSH passwords, and SafePay ransomware has hit over 600 critical infrastructure orgs, and India's biggest bank filed a data loss incident, and Japan has been in an official state of emergency in cyberspace since October 9, which honestly explains the 5:55 AM post. Oh, and eMudhra, a certificate authority that's issued over 60 million certificates, whose entire job is proving websites are who they say they are, was supposed to be using private keys that are random numbers over a hundred digits long, and one of them was 4. Just 4. And the others were like 66 and 237. Anyway, it's Wednesday.

RT @aworthystory: Alfred Hitchcock, a master of cinema, once said: “For me, a film is 99% finished with the screenplay… Sometimes, I dream of an IBM machine in which I’d insert the screenplay at one end, and the film would emerge on the other end complete and in color.” He not only dreamt of what super intelligence is today… But he likely also knew the etymology of the word “cinema”, which literally means “to write movement”. Once you realize that your human-made script is cinema in itself… Any tool you use to bring it to life (including AI) doesn’t make it any less cinematic than any other artist using a different tool to do it.

I was fortunate enough to once converse with William Shatner in Esperanto. He is still to this day perfectly fluent, and was talking circles around me! Be sure to come to this special watch party of the great William Shatner in Incubus at See you all there!

William Shatner starred in a 1966 horror movie filmed entirely in ESPERANTO. It's called INCUBUS, and we're watching it LIVE this Thursday 10/22 at 5 PM PT on Pulp Time. Create a free account and use one of your 2 monthly free movie unlocks to join. 🎬

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RT @benwehrman: Captain Kirk is officially a flat-earther.

Bob Byington is a brilliant Austin auteur, and I encourage everyone to join the watch party for Harmony and Me.

We are LIVE with Director Bob Byington in one hour. Join us at 9AM PT for a live watch party of Harmony and Me.

RT @pulptimetv: Our last watch party got us curious about another movie... GONE WITH THE WEST is now streaming on

I finally bit the bullet and updated my iPhone from iOS18 to iOS27.0.1 and it’s such crap now. Everything is noticeably worse. Steve Jobs warned of this when he spoke of the salesmen running the company. I’m seeing his cautionary warning in action.

Any advice on adjusting this borked system to function. I hate the keyboard experience.