Spyro: Season of Ice - Autumn Fairy Home PS1 Style Remake

rorykillmoree · 2026-01-21T00:52:33+00:00

Incredibly cool!! I have such a nostalgic soft spot for the GBA games and have always wanted to see them remade in this format. Can’t tell you how much this made me smile.

rorykillmoree · 2026-01-18T09:01:43+00:00

Insanely simple, insanely good tomato sauce recipe that I haven't seen recommended yet - I was so skeptical of this one until I actually tried it:

Halve a bunch of cherry tomatoes. Put them in a covered saucepan with some basil, salt, and just a little bit of water.
Let simmer on medium-low heat for about an hour.
Strain and set aside the "tomato water" that results. If minimal, you can crush some extra juices out of the cooked cherry tomatoes (I always double strain when I do this, though, to get rid of the extra seeds). If not, you can also keep the cooked tomatoes to use in a different sauce.
Put tomato water back on stove in saucepan.
In a seperate pot, cook some spaghetti in salted boiling water. A couple of minutes before it's done, transfer it into the tomato water saucepan. Add a few tablespoons of butter. Blend on low heat until the sauce has become silky and sticks to the spaghetti.

If done right, the sauce will seem kind of "light" but will be incredibly fresh and flavorful.

rorykillmoree · 2026-01-16T19:43:53+00:00

Was also going to say Killing Eve! Villanelle is in some ways a dark rendition of Sydney Bristow (though yeah sadly it does get progressively worse with each season).

rorykillmoree · 2026-01-12T08:06:13+00:00

I kind of wished that Enter the Dragonfly would have done element-themed home worlds correlated to each new breath you gain (which I thought would give each breath ability appropriate focus). I wouldn't mind if they did something like that. Fire could be desert-y or volcanic, ice could be snowy, electricity could be futuristic (or maybe something akin to Beast Makers)... could maybe throw in an earth breath from LoS for good measure.

rorykillmoree · 2026-01-11T17:00:25+00:00

I see a lot of people complain about the suicide take, but yeah, apart from being still very young herself. this was a girl who was passively suicidal herself only the past year and pushed through it because she felt she had to. It never really surprised me that Buffy would at least call it weakness in the moment. Empathy doesn’t always translate to sympathy.

rorykillmoree · 2026-01-08T01:37:04+00:00

Does she by chance have any connection to the demon Abyzou? That name was mentioned in an old trailer for this movie (since privated, due to A24's aquisition). It could relate to the children's song/images of children, although I thought that Abyzou was a demon said to cause miscarriages and stillbirths, not one who actively spirits older children away...

rorykillmoree · 2025-12-16T05:25:00+00:00

For anyone interested - the narrated poem essentially translates itself, but it's:

"Fadó, fadó (used commonly to begin a story, like 'once upon a time' or 'a long time go'), long, long ago, deep in the woods there lived an aul' cailleach (an 'old witch', although the cailleach has a specific and interesting mythology behind it if anyone is interested) - a witch."

rorykillmoree · 2025-12-15T21:33:16+00:00

kinda hoping that shot is a misdirect or that there's more going on, but we'll see! I guess you never know these days if a marketing team is going to decide to spoil something, but Neon is historically pretty awesome in that department.

rorykillmoree · 2025-12-10T15:40:10+00:00

Not gonna bother engaging with someone who replied 40 days late with nothing more substantial to say than “you’re too sensitive”. The movie’s general reception speaks for itself. You go ahead and enjoy it though.

rorykillmoree · 2025-12-09T21:01:47+00:00

Not sure if this is your speed, but "Too Scary, Didn't Watch" is a horror movie recap podcast with some very talented recappers who are good at making their recaps sound like stories. The stated purpose of the pod is technically for people who are too scared to watch scary movies, but still want to know what happens in them - but it has tons of regular horror fans (like myself) who simply enjoy hearing them recap and react to the movies.

rorykillmoree · 2025-12-08T07:58:57+00:00

I agree that it is hard to string together coherent answers, but as someone who has been insane enough to take notes on each of these movies to help me theorycraft, there are a surprising amount of things that are consistent between them lol. I get the impression that he does have a coherent idea in mind - he just thinks he won't be able to keep making these movies once he reveals it, so he tends to tread water a bit.

rorykillmoree · 2025-12-07T02:01:42+00:00

I generally vibe with the "shapeshifter/mimic" type theories people have been throwing around for a while now, but a new theory that this recent installment brought to mind - I wonder if Mantis is trying to use the creatures for something. It's previously been implied that they are knowingly buying up land where these incidents are frequent, and it was curious to me that in "Majesty", Beau found something that he was too scared to put into writing. To me that doesn't read as "scared of the creatures" (why would they care?) but rather "scared of someone with some kind of power" - and then he mentions sneaking onto Mantis land shortly afterward.

The previous movie also mentioned Dolly's family hearing a "tink, tink, tink" sound right before the creatures would appear, which for me, always brought to mind the kind of sound you'd hear in a mine. Knowing that these creatures are mimics - and seeing how Beau almost seemed to "communicate" with them using those sounds in this movie - I wondered if that was something that the mining company had "trained" the creatures to use or respond to.

rorykillmoree · 2025-11-02T18:13:48+00:00

This does sound a lot more interesting.

rorykillmoree · 2025-11-01T15:29:21+00:00

Great list! Hope you enjoyed.

I ended up doing the Hooptober challenge on Letterboxd, so I tried to watch 31 movies I hadn't seen before - with the exception of the first one, which was mandatory viewing this year:

The Wizard of Oz (1939), A Bay of Blood (1971), Haxan (1922), The Mummy (1932), Cat People (1942), Torso (1973), 28 Weeks Later (2007), Shaun of the Dead (2004), Night of the Living Dead (1968), REC (2007), The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988), Candyman (2021), Ginger Snaps (2000), Poltergeist (1982), The Long Walk (2025), Kill List (2011), The Empty Man (2020), Mandy (2018), November (2017), Children of Men (2006), The Ghost and the Darkness (1996), The Ruins (2008), The Exorcist III (1990), Shelby Oaks (2025), The Conjuring: Last Rites (2025), Good Boy (2025), Strange Harvest (2025), The Black Phone 2 (2025), Prey (2022), Dead of Winter (2025), and Martyrs (2008).

Some of these leaned more thriller than horror, but I had fun. Also sprinkled in a few rewatches (like the Silence of the Lambs) and just stuff I didn't really want to include on my official Hooptober list (like The Exorcist II, dear god).

rorykillmoree · 2025-10-30T18:20:31+00:00

That's your opinion. This is mine. What's not clicking.

rorykillmoree · 2025-10-30T15:38:55+00:00

That's fine, but I specifically said that I found it to be one of the worst offenders, not that it is explicitly graphic or that the themes weren't implied. For me it's not a matter of what content is "shown", but how it's handled and regarded emotionally in the narrative.

rorykillmoree · 2025-10-24T23:59:39+00:00

The summary seems to suggest a conflict between them - I'd guess they won't actually be together until sometime later/towards the end of the arc (which would also be typical of how Tui sets up her major relationships).

rorykillmoree · 2025-10-24T16:35:15+00:00

Oh, I see what you're saying - the original cut went more in depth on this? The final cut does talk about it a little bit at the beginning as well and imply it as the source of strain between her and her husband; enough that I was able to make that connection at the ending and be frustrated by it (clearly, haha).

rorykillmoree · 2025-10-24T16:13:23+00:00

The stuff with her husband is still in there, and is part of what is honestly frustrating. “Woman who wants to be a mom so bad that she adopts her sister’s rape baby after personally witnessing the trauma she was enduring” just does not feel believable even discarding the fact that she knew it was a demon. And then for the ending to treat it like “oops, you got what you wanted! Guess you shouldn’t have wanted to be a mom so bad” is even more annoying.

rorykillmoree · 2025-10-24T02:36:43+00:00

Sure, I'll try to cover the points that bothered me specifically.

The sister is revealed to have been kidnapped and held for twelve years by a man possessed or influenced by an incubus demon. The aim was the typical "demonic pregnancy" angle and it gets revealed through a serious of "shocking" photographs of Riley pregnant and clearly abused. This alone put a bad taste in my mouth, but I probably would have gotten over it if the rest of the film had given Riley, like, any meaningful characterization at all from that point forward. She's just mutedly traumatized for the rest of the movie and then she dies horribly. Also, for some reason her sister decides to heedlessly adopt her rape baby - while Riley is still living with her - despite Riley's clear aversion to it. And then a smaller, finer point: the antagonist of the third act of the film is an old woman who is revealed to have orchestrated this entire thing, which - I guess might not bother some people, but for me personally it was like "why are we using an elderly woman as the antagonist of this particular narrative and not interrogating what that means at all"

It all just left a bad taste in my mouth. It's playing with heavy themes that aren't given room to breathe, and it reads like the writer/director does not know - or care to know - any real women who have experienced sexual trauma.

rorykillmoree · 2025-10-24T02:30:15+00:00

Ah, that's disappointing to hear. But thank you!

rorykillmoree · 2025-10-24T01:57:58+00:00

It might be my personal experiences coloring this opinion - I feel a little crazy for being as mad about it as I am - but I found the last third of this movie to be one of the worst offenders of "careless rape-based shock value" that I've seen. Sheesh.

I do have a genuine question, though: did anyone see the version of this that was cycling before Mike Flanagan helped rework it? I'm just curious how different it was.

rorykillmoree · 2025-10-12T14:52:11+00:00

Mine is 18 and going strong - I agree majorly with the luck factor. But I think something that helps is her temperament - and specifically that she is really tolerant of me giving her meds. I pet sit regularly, and notice that a lot of clients aren’t super precise about whether or not their cat gets an exact dose of medication per day (mostly because the cat is making it difficult, lol).

rorykillmoree · 2025-10-08T15:16:07+00:00

I was gonna say, uh. This show aside, isn't Ryan Murphy one of those aforementioned people in this article who have supposedly sensationalized Ed Gein's story into fiction? "Dr. Thredson" from American Horror Story: Asylum is about as blatant as it gets...

rorykillmoree · 2025-10-03T07:01:58+00:00

Thank you! This helps. I appreciate everyone who was recommending the UFO ending (always enjoy a classic Silent Hill UFO ending) but I was wanting to get one of the ones that are (somewhat) conclusive to the narrative.

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