Due to potential future scheduling difficulties, I bumped this one up. It might be in jeopardy of removal from free streaming. Also I am anticipating the fury over showing a musical last week. And not just any musical, a totally incoherent one that the director/writer apologized for on IMDB! How dare I! Well, that is what the Summer of Strange is about. Movies that sat in my queue forever, because I thought they were too odd to post. According to Tubi, I have 574 such movies and I might want to seek help. After this summer’s anniversary I am going to delete all of them and start over. 4 years of Glibflick!
Anyway, consider this a soothing balm to spread over the wound caused by last weeks’ musical. It is a highly rated science-fiction/horror film based on the H.P. Lovecraft story of the same name. It’s directed by a celebrated wild man, Richard Stanley, who got fired from his own production of Island of Doctor Moreau in 1996 (That linked article is a hell of a read!). This is his return to the directorial chair.
So what is it about? Here is a summary from IMDB:
A story of cosmic terror about The Gardners, a family who moves to a remote farmstead in rural New England to escape the hustle of the 21st century. They are busy adapting to their new life when a meteorite crashes into their front yard. The mysterious aerolite seems to melt into the earth, infecting both the land and the properties of space-time with a strange, otherworldly color. To their horror, the Gardner family discover that this alien force is gradually mutating every life form that it touches…including them.
Honestly watching this reminded me of Meow Wolf, and how fantastic it is to walk through their installations. Sadly Meow Wolf does not have Nicolas Cage doing his finest madman acting in it. If Nicolas ever conducts tours through Meow Wolf I shall be there, regardless of cost.
So watch! Or don’t! Everything is voluntary! I am hoping tonight was just one quick scheduling change, so next week we will watch Space Milkshake! One other thing, this week marks my 200th movie post! Not quite the anniversary post, but that is cool. Never thought I’d get to this point.
“One other thing, this week marks my 200th movie post! ”
Happy non-Anniversary!!!
Crazy.
It feels like I’ve watched maybe a dozen?
You’ve watched way more than that.
It is a highly rated science-fiction/horror film based on the H.P. Lovecraft story of the same name.
Oh yeah
Honestly watching this reminded me of Meow Wolf, and how fantastic it is to walk through their installations.
🙂
One other thing, this week marks my 200th movie post!
200 posts is a good run. Thank you RJ for doing this. And thanks to all the regular contributors for doing what they do.
Diving into the movie.
One thing, as I watched this for the second time:
The Alpaca farm schtick is a solid 30 minutes before the real action starts. Jump ahead if you just want to see freaky stuff.
Heresy! I don’t do that with books or movies.
“200 posts is a good run. Thank you RJ for doing this.”
Heartily concur. These movies aren’t my bag, but I greatly appreciate the weekly feature.
Who is the brunette leaning on the TV?
Don’t know.
Looks a bit like Demi Lavato.
The commercials come fast this time.
The visuals look good.
There is a TON of commercials!
I’m watching it from a file, but uBlock removes Tubi commercials, and makes PlutoTV crash.
No more than usual Tubi fare and way fewer than television.
Yeah, good photography.
Nic “I’ll Do Anything For a Buck” Cage!
*presses play*
He’s not a very believable angry dad.
Hard to believe after, what, five hundred or so starring roles?
He does freak out a time or two.
Nic Cage broke Abed’s brain.
I think it’s Nick “I’ll take any movie to payoff my tax debt” Cage.
News from Texas!
https://www.star-telegram.com/news/state/texas/article310873590.html
I had nothing to do with it!
He has quite the shitlordy wine cellar.
I guess there is a hint of things to come where Nic Cage has a drink when his son is… not right.
PROVIDENCE! Lovecraft’s stomping ground.
+1 Arkham – which I think doesn’t exist.
Arkham, Kingsport, Dunwich, Innsmouth all don’t exist. They were based on North Shore, Massachusetts towns.
I poked around. Dunwich was probably inspired by Athol, which in central MA.
I’ve been to Athol!
Watched Nic Cage get all whacky and loved it.
Such an odd person. He’s remarkably successful, and I can’t see why (other than his name). Yet, showing up to work is a skill many don’t have. d
*****
A Big Thought got in the way.
Odd conversation with my parents. And myself.
“(other than his name)’
I assumed you meant the Coppola connection, but looked it up to be sure. Thus, TIL that Jason Schwartsman (Or However ones spells it) is also part of that clan, fucksake, nepotism explains a lot of shitty casting and shitty movies.
Happy anniversary.
It’s been a fun ride, between all of the zombies and musicals.
As It Should Be.
The dog looks ominous.
Gaffer: Pedro Paiva. Very good. In a movie about alien colours, a gaffer is required.
Also stars Joely Richardson? Hubba hubba.
A movie with eighteen producers? That’s a lot of producing.
Watched “The Thicket” the other night, everyone involved was apparently a producer, I get the writer and the star(s) wanting in on the royalty money but there must have been seven or eight screens of three or four Producers and executive producers.
They gender swapped “Cut Throat Bill” but honestly Juliette Lewis did a solid job, it worked. However, they axed “Hog” from the script and that was some capital “B” Bullshit right there. The midget from GOT did well.
Yup. She’s blessed with some top shelf bone structure. The kind that ages well.
I don’t remember bratty kids in the original story, but I guess you can’t have a modern movie without them.
Congrats on 200, I don’t watch all the movies you post, but I have watched and enjoyed many on weekends.
I finally got my wife to watch A Scanner Darkly last Saturday.
Oh, nice!
I do like a mom who calls out her daughter when she’s being a trashy whore.
I love A Scanner Darkly.
Go ‘way, fuckin’.
Rico Suave’s teeth are ridiculously white.
/Make Teeth Believable Again
He’s got a smartphone 😯.
I don’t think I have seen one in a visual medium before. Yeah, I don’t watch anything recent.
Hahaha. I think that sometimes myself.
The latest stuff I watch regularly is from the aughts and teens and it’s all flip-phones and blackberrys. Think Bones or Parks & Rec.
Anything newer isn’t on cable and it’s probably all garbage anyway so there’s that.
Jesus, I have playing way too much Zelda. I see a well – I want to jump down it. I see a lizard – I want to grab it.
That’s not normal?
I try to grab every lizard I run across.
Took the boy on his first camping trip and had to look at a snake for a minute before i picked it up. Even then I wasent sure it wasn’t a rattle snake. Didn’t strike at
Me so there was confirmation.
Oooh, what was it?
Daughter finally told me to turn it off when the people started melting together.
40 minutes in… 😳🤯
Yes, it quickly gets tense. Or tenser, depending on your opinion of Nick Cage’s dad impression.
See comment above. My daughter was hiding.
A whole lot of failed sanity checks.
News you can use:
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/jeff-charles/2025/07/17/gun-rights-groups-sue-usps-over-law-banning-mailing-of-handguns-n2660412
200th ?
You are doing the Lord’s work and I appreciate it.
CBS to Cancel ‘Late Show With Stephen Colbert’ Citing ‘Financial Decision’
I saw! I was delighted. People need actual entertainment at night.
Saw that on NY Post. The hagiography of that leftist puke from there of all places was vomitous.
It will probably be replaced with informercials. I can’t see anything actually “entertaining” in that time slot anymore.
Lol. I wonder if any lessons will be learned.
I will applaud the further collapse of legacy media (of which Colbert is a sycophantic part).
I would just like to thank RJ for anchoring the Thursday night slot for so long. 200 is a good run and greatly appreciated by the TPTB. Kudos to you, RJ!
Thank you sir!
“‘The’ The Powers That Be” think quite a lot of yourselves don’t we.
Pipe down mister. All y’alls came up that one.
The Retards That Run This Place also applies.
That was a pretty good movie. Thanks RJ!
It really was.
I just got to start it back up for the Alpacapuddle.
+1
Pulpy fun.
200th episode? I came here for the clip show and I get Nick Copal…er…Cage
Seriously, 200 is a great run. Thank you. I would watch every one, my wife is what usually prevents this. One recent exception was Spirit of ’76. She begrudgingly acknowledged liking it, which I could tell by her not demanding I turn it off and then actually laughing at parts.
She should watch this one! Lots of cute Alpacas and wholesome family humor!
At least for the first 30 minutes.
The weird thing is… it was well-made, and entertaining enough… but I’ll probably never watch it again. I don’t know what to make of that.
Two times was enough for me.
200 is a fantastic run. Thanks R.J.
Two fucking hundred. And with an HPL inspired flick.
This guy, RJ…
[whispers “you are not a god,you are not a god” in RJ’s ear as we do the thing in the chariot for the crowd]
“Do the thing…”
Watching The Aftermath on Amazon…. I’ve never seen this one before.
I have to First this to 100 for your 200th.
Off to the races, reprobates!
Good, strong opinion to start the day. It’ll be uneventful, and so shall yours.
Onward and up!
Music for Shpip
Server squirrels
Friyay! Get yer groove on, Glibpeeps.
🙈👒🧴🌞
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-u6DvRyyKGU
🎶🎶
I’ve been trying to break out of a rut, why would I stick to the groove?
Relevant
Mornin’, reprobates!
200 posts, RJ? Mazel tov!
Good morning, ‘patzie, Ted’S., U, Sean, and EfE!
Morning, GT.
How are you today, U?
I want to get something written, but I’m at work again, which means no writing for at least eight hours plus commute.
One of the flowers on the pepper plant my be proceeding on to fruiting, but I’m not entirely sure. I’m still on a drive not to use any leave for as long as I can so that my reserves reaccumulate.
Hang in there! Just a few more hours and you’ll have the whole weekend to write!
Go, you baby pepper! ::no bell pepper emoji on my laptop 😞::
I know! I keep wanting to use it and it doesn’t exist.
I’ve already started fretting that I’ll sit down to write and draw a blank 😱
Speaking of emojis, my laptop seems to have lost the ability to search for a specific emoji, so I have to scroll down the “list” to find the ones I want. 😒
💩
😄
suh’ fam
yo whats goody
Good morning, homey!
If you expect any bills from The Big Local Hospital System What Got Hacked, go over them with a fine-toothed comb. I got a statement (with a balance supposedly “past due,” 😒) that didn’t match the “balance due” shown on the website, and neither reflected a big payment I’d made back in May.
I was just thinking about your ties to a local-ish college. And ex-wife’s (and a lot of my money, too).
97X…..BAM! The future of rock and roll.
I’ll post it again in the morning links, but an update on a story I posted earlier this week:
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20250718_06/index.html
Good morning, Anarchists Lite!
Been in DC for the week, working, seeing the sights, dining at some of their fine restaurants.
DC voters deserve what they get, good and hard.
Good morning! Yesterday was the absolute worst weather I’ve ever shot in.
Today is glorious
I did poorly shooting, but well on the random drawings, so that’s nice.
🤷♂️
Not every day can be the best, or you wouldn’t appreciate the best.
Good morning all. Good news:
I have noticed near zero mosquitoes this year and while I am enjoying that I have been a bit alarmed about it as well. After an hour or so reading here is what I found –
Global warming strikes again: We are having an unusually cool, wet year worldwide. This has seriously affected the mosquito population worldwide. They are more highly sensitive to environment than I thought they were. People from all over the world are noticing fewer to no mosquitoes. I thought it was just me in my local area but no…I got very curious when 4×20 and some others also noted they had no skeeters. No mosquitoes in Minnesota? That seemed too weird to ignore.
While this is good news for most there are spotty places that are experiencing the opposite.
I guess the news media is too busy talking about the Epstein scandal to look into something that affects EVERY SINGLE PERSON IN THE WORLD. I dont know what the numbers are now but up until not that long ago mosquitoes were the number one cause of death in the world. They were killing more than all other causes combined.
I wish we could have a summer like this every year. I hope y’all are all in no mosquito areas.
Interesting topic: We have the ability to eradicate mosquitoes from the planet (at least we tell ourselves we do). Many consider this an ethical dilemma. Would that be wrong? Should we not do that? What about dragon flies and purple martins?
It is not an ethical dilemma. Fuck mosquitoes. The martins and dragon flies will eat other things. Apparently the mosquito is not the primary food source for any species. Kill them. Kill them all.
Yes!
I barely had any mosquitos either and it was great. Fuck those outdoor ruining assholes. I only hate swarming yellowjackets more.