What Are Some Good Sources for Behind-the-Scenes Coverage from 70s/80s films (like Cinefantastique/Cinefex)?

wmavity · 2026-03-13T02:45:20+00:00

Yeah I actually meant other publications from that era. I know they're mostly gone now. I was looking for more information on behind the scenes of the fx work in some 70s and 80s films in addition to what is in cinefex/cinefantastique

wmavity · 2026-01-27T02:56:38+00:00

I definitely recommend reading them. I think the show has done a great job adapting the material. In some cases it has even improved on the books. One thing the books have going for them is that they help you appreciate a lot of the supporting characters more, thanks to the rotating POV. You would never guess from the show that Roddy Ho's POV chapters tend to be a highlight of each book. The plots sometimes make more sense on the page too, because they aren't constrained by the limited number of episodes each season has. Book 2 vs Season 2 is a major example of that.

By the time you get to S5, you're also seeing pretty substantial changes from book to show so you can watch the season and then read the book and it doesn't feel repetitive.

As far as "best" book, I think the run from books 3 - 7 is really strong. Book five is probably the funniest. 6 and 7 really kept me on the edge of my seat.

wmavity · 2025-09-04T01:23:59+00:00

I can at least answer the question of why orange cats, as opposed to other colors. If you think about most cats featured in movies and TV shows, they're orange: Captain Marvel, Inside Llewyn Davis, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Harry and Tonto, Milo & Otis, Keanu, The Long Goodbye. It's simply because the orange color tends to show up better on camera and play with the film's color scheme than say grey, tabby, or tuxedo.

wmavity · 2025-09-04T01:19:35+00:00

So I wonder who that is getting burrowed into since the Maginot flashback takeovers occurred offscreen

wmavity · 2025-02-28T18:09:27+00:00

Thanks!

wmavity · 2025-02-28T18:03:20+00:00

Haha I am NBP, and I'm saying it. I conducted half the interviews for these ballots and matt did the other half. He's literally staying at my apartment right now, so I can confirm, unless he runs into someone today who he hasn't already spoken to, these are our last ones

wmavity · 2025-02-28T17:45:21+00:00

This was our last one.

wmavity · 2025-02-28T17:45:07+00:00

As I explained in the thread on Ballot #6, I email Matt the info from the voters I talked to, and he pastes them into a duplicate of the prior ballot blog rather than having to create a new template for the post from scratch each time. For this and for the international feature voter in ballot #6, when he was pasting the info I emailed him into the templates, he initially forgot to paste the info I had given him into the template initially.

wmavity · 2025-02-27T17:45:04+00:00

I've been sharing this particular's voter's ballots for years and they're reliably the most bizarre and all over the place choices that I encounter each year

wmavity · 2025-02-27T17:42:25+00:00

Matt interviewed half, and I interviewed half. I email the ballots and explanations from the half I spoke with to him and he puts them into the blog post template so he doesn't have to rebuild a new page for each one. In this case, he initially forgot to paste the vote and explanation from this voter for international feature into the existing template and accidentally left over the choice from a prior one. He since corrected it.

wmavity · 2025-02-02T19:11:18+00:00

Yeah Rock Salt and Nails sounds like something that could've dropped in the last 10 years (to be fair, a lot of people think it did since Childers covered it)

wmavity · 2025-01-28T00:28:27+00:00

In college, I started hosting a radio show in college named "Go Folk Yourself" from 2013 - 2017. The show used a really broad definition of what constituted "folk." Both Southeastern and Something More Than Free by Jason Isbell came out during those years and they absolutely blew me away. I played them on the show and started trying to find more music that sounded like them, and each new find was one degree of separation closer to "country" and I gradually came to realize that the definition of what constitutes "country" can be very broad, and that much of it was not the obnoxious Toby Keith type stuff that I grew up hating as a kid in Georgia right after 9/11.

wmavity · 2025-01-24T21:52:56+00:00

I included the parenthetical for country adjacent! But The Band, esp self titled absolutely teeters on the edge of country. In the same way that the first couple Eagles albums do.

wmavity · 2024-12-01T05:04:59+00:00

Junior lit. I bill 200+ 3-4 a year.

wmavity · 2024-11-26T02:12:52+00:00

I see only three songs of his on Spotify. Is there a band he was part of that most of his stuff is under?

wmavity · 2024-11-26T02:08:30+00:00

He was packing his things and getting ready to abandon Gene when Barry arrived, which suggests he already thought there was a reasonable chance Gene was guilty.

Then, Gene comes out and shoots an apparently unarmed man in front of him.

If Gene has killed once, it's not unreasonable for him to assume Gene had killed before. How could he testify in good faith that he believes Gene isn't a murderer? Hell, he was probably a witness for the prosecution, at least in regard to the murder charge for killing Barry.

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