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Saturday, May 30, 2026

Backrooms Theatrical Review.

Last night I saw Kane Parsons’ auspicious feature film directing debut, Backrooms based on the viral web series of the same name Parsons created. Backrooms stars Chiwetel Ejiofor as Clark, a depressed and bitter furniture store owner who discovers an anomalous entry into a void populated by a maze of ever expanding rooms with uncanny hallways and malformed furniture. Upon taking this to his therapist, Clark resolves to prove the existence of this place by hiring an employee and her boyfriend, who is a videographer, to accompany him to this place so that he would have proof that he could then show to anyone. Shortly thereafter, Clark disappears and his therapist investigates and comes upon the threshold to the Backrooms. Renate Reinsve and Chiwetel Ejiofor lead a great cast, but the real star of the film is the engrossing world beyond and it’s mysteries and dangers therein.

Kane Parsons has a great sense for creating dread using color and off-kilter music to manipulate his audience’s emotions at times creating moments of existential wonder and terror while still at times wisely, including moments of absurdity, not just in the void, but in the natural look of the films depiction of what the real world is with its bizarre colorations and production design that creates a constant sense of one place bleeding into another.

The film did have moments reminiscent of similar cosmic horror and science fiction features like Annihilation, The Signal and Banshee Chapter. With its mix of emotional honesty, visual creativity, and psychological depth, Backrooms is easy to recommend for anyone looking for something off the beaten path.

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Thursday, May 28, 2026

Ron Moore Interview.

This interview provides an interesting look into the behind-the-scenes mindset of a showrunner balancing long-term world-building with creative improvisation.

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#syfy

https://youtu.be/6N-sXMiFWAs?si=dvFbj9rubMQwfhh_

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Patrick Lussier Interview.

Patrick Lussier discusses his work on the Dracula sequels and the road that led him to directing.

#patricklussier

#wescraven

#draculatrilogy

#dracula2000trilogy

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Wednesday, May 27, 2026

A Dangerous Mind.

A Dangerous Mind

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In 2021 I lost my best friend from childhood. His name was Robert Cisek. He was a smart and talented man who helped me out and who I helped out and I miss him dearly.

The light leak effect was an in camera accident and not a digital effect. I used it to add a nightmarish quality to the piece. Shot originally in 16mm black and white film, a crude method involving mirrors was used back in 1990 to transfer the image to VHS hence the low quality of this presentation. In someways, though I do think it adds something to it but that is subjective of course.

The unedited raw light leak nightmare footage is presented at the end after the film. The soundtrack was created in 2020 using public domain and copyright free sources to add an industrial soundtrack to it. The film after all the credits and the light leak footage is dedicated to the memory of my friend Robert, whose photo appears at the end and is the only photo that I have of him. Thank you, Robert.

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Monday, May 25, 2026

Paperboy.

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Paperboy is a student film I made back in 1990 in between spring and fall semesters. I shot it on half inch, standard resolution VHS-C Color Videotape. I then edited it again using two VCRs and the final product was washed out from the man back and forth edits crudely done between two VCRs. Then in 2020, right before the start of the pandemic, I revisited all of my student films and re-edited them digitally from the original VHS dailies to come up with the best version of Paperboy I could create though there were some lost scenes involving a maniacal boss played by a childhood friend who passed away in 2021 due to a heart attack. I actually prefer the 2020 version over the 1990 one, but if I could have saved his scenes I would have. All of the actors are amateurs and friends of mine when I was in film school. I was the Secretary of the Brooklyn College Science Fiction Society, and the interiors were shot in and around the club office on campus while the exteriors were shot in Prospect Park in Brooklyn, New York. I have a cameo as a guy buying drugs who threatens the dealer. This is the only student film I wrote and directed, and it was a side project and not a class assignment. All of my other student films were shot on either color Super 8mm or black and white 16mm film as there was no digital technology back then. A few weeks later I got an internship at The Cosby Show though this film had nothing to do with it. It is what it is. I hope you enjoy it. Thank you.

Sincerely,

Mark A. Rivera

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#studentfilm

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The Theater Managers: Mr. Rickles and Mr. Dangerfield. A Comparison.

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Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing.

The intention of this video is simply show the approach two different comedians use to establish their characters and how they treat their employees. This intercutting for comparison is intended for individual education purposes and does not reflect the opinions of YouTube and GenreOnlinenet channel on YouTube nor is any opinion inferred and or implied. The integrity and performances of Mr. Rickles and Mr. Dangerfield as well as the filmmakers involved in the productions of

Dirty Work (1998) and The Projectionist (1970) is not questioned. Comments are turned off because it is the preference of the video maker to have viewers think what they will for themselves rather than influence their opinions. Thank you.

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Sunday, May 24, 2026

All The Don Rickles Scenes From Run Silent. Run Deep. (With Comments From Don too) Uncut.

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All The Don Rickles Scenes From Run Silent. Run Deep. (With Comments From Don too) Uncut is a compilation for Rickles fans and is intended to show his charisma as an Actor, which would follow him throughout his long career. As such this makes a comment on his legacy featuring comments from Don Rickles himself intercut before, during and after the scenes. This version. represents the original cut that I posted and then was forced to take down from YouTube and now is exclusive to Patreon.

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