Steven Sloss 🛸

Steven Sloss 🛸

@stevensloss.bsky.social

Kaiju guy, writer, presenter, curator, and Austin Powers appreciator. Author of BFI Film Classics: Godzilla, coming from Bloomsbury in 2027 📖

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Steven Sloss 🛸
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Didn’t manage to fit this into my intro at the Barbican (also, spoilers) but I still think about this

Steven Sloss 🛸@stevensloss.bsky.social

I first saw GMK over 20 years ago and it still surprises me. Yuri films a bogus news story as her colleague throws a stone into water to fake a monster appearance. Later, she reports to the entire nation on two very real monsters... and a stone falls into the Port of Yokohama, reviving one of them.

Steven Sloss 🛸
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Now that the curtains have closed on All Kaiju Attack: All Stars! at the Barbican, a moment to acknowledge our wonderful guests who joined us from afar with video greetings and heartfelt written messages 💕

Steven Sloss 🛸
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Watched Kaneko’s debut feature KOICHIRO UNO’S WET AND SWINGING. This film is what it is - a very 1980s softcore flick, for better and for worse - but there’s no denying Kaneko had it from the very beginning. Even starting out like this, he aimed for the ace 🎾

Steven Sloss 🛸
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Shocker

DiscussingFilm@discussingfilm.net

Taika Waititi says that his ‘STAR WARS’ film is not happening anytime in the near future. “It’s very iced. I've got about 4 other movies I'm trying to do.” (Source: www.inverse.com/entertainmen...)

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TODAY! 🦍🦍🦍

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Up next on All Kaiju Attack: All Stars! at the Barbican: a Toho Kong double feature of KING KONG VS. GODZILLA and KING KONG ESCAPES (US versions) on Sat 17 October! ✨ 🎟️: www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202...

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Replying to @patricknessbooks.bsky.social

The wild thing to me is no cis people are remotely bothered by sharing a ward with a trans person. It's completely an elite manufactured problem. novaramedia.com/2023/10/04/t...

novaramedia.comThere Were No Complaints About Trans Women on Hospital Wards, Investigation FindsAn investigation asked 102 NHS trusts how many complaints there had been about trans women on women’s wards. There were none.
Steven Sloss 🛸
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Saturday! 🦍

Steven Sloss 🛸@stevensloss.bsky.social

Up next on All Kaiju Attack: All Stars! at the Barbican: a Toho Kong double feature of KING KONG VS. GODZILLA and KING KONG ESCAPES (US versions) on Sat 17 October! ✨ 🎟️: www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202...

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Prince Charles Cinema
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The Prince Charles Cinema Secures its Future The Prince Charles Cinema is thrilled to announce that we have signed a new 25-year lease with no break clause, ensuring our projectors will keep rolling for years to come. #YouSavedthePCC

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Daniel Dockery
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One of my favorite things about Mothra is that it isn't a movie about a "nice" creature. The monster is nature's furious lesson - mankind can try to control nature and monetize it and ruin it, but nature will inevitably win. In its grander scheme, we are powerless.

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An honour to welcome the wonderful Allyson Adams back into the kaiju fold at tonight’s screening of FRANKENSTEIN VS. BARAGON at the Barbican. As a child, Allyson travelled to Japan with father, Nick Adams, while he starred in three films for Toho. Thank you for sharing your happy memories with us 💖

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Reel Action Film Club
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Hey guys, gals and non binary pals! We will be putting up the tickets for our Christmas screening in the next couple of days so if you want to be an early bird - go follow the link below, follow the Eventbrite page & get notified! www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/reel-actio... Please Share!!!

eventbrite.co.ukReel Action Film ClubReel Action Film Club is a film screening event company based in Glasgow bringing the best of action cinema to Scotland. From Martial Arts, to Buddy Cop movies to Yakuza and 80's classics.

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Defend Our Juries
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BREAKING: 94 year old Jewish human rights barrister, Margaret Owen arrested under the Terrorism Act outside Andy Burnham’s Labour Party conference. UK taxpayers are funding these arrests while masked men terrorise the streets in coastal towns. Lift The Ban on Palestine Action.

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Thinking about this again. Worth noting that the first thing Yuri does when she wakes up is ask where her father is, as if she was just with him

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Always loved this enigmatic interaction in GMK. Is Yuri appearing in the sub her father's unconscious hallucination, or - in keeping with the film's supernatural themes - are the unconscious Tachibanas communing in the spirit realm... or is this Yuri the last manifestation of the Guardian Monsters?

Steven Sloss 🛸
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There’s a special rung in Hell reserved for every single person involved in this atrocity

Mashable@mashable.com

Netflix's new reality show "Wonka's Golden Ticket" uses AI Gene Wilder as its host. The beloved comedian passed away in 2016, but his voice lives on in AI form. At least Netflix didn't use AI to create the new Oompa Loompas. What do you think of this AI resurrection? Let us know in the comments 👇

bit.ly'Wonka’s Golden Ticket' on Netflix: How it uses AI Gene WilderThe Oompa Loompas are back as well.
Steven Sloss 🛸
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Last chance to see GODZILLA 2000 at the Barbican tonight! www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202...

barbican.org.ukGodzilla 2000: Millennium + Introduction | BarbicanThe Millennium Era of Godzilla movies began with this sci-fi spectacular, with the iconic kaiju combatting a new foe – an ancient, extraterrestrial UFO.
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Another bit from my GODZILLA 2000 Barbican intro, talking about TWISTER, Jan De Bont, and his unrealised Godzilla film 🌪️

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Hot take? I believe Tarantino will never make another film. He’s put too much mustard on the whole “final film” thing and is too obsessed with his OUATIH characters. It’s been seven years and no concrete sign of anything moving forward (I know we’ve been here before but it feels different this time)

Steven Sloss 🛸
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A long shot, but does anyone have a Barbican Centre programme from last year that mentions the kaiju season they'd be willing to part with? It's for sending back to talent in Japan. Thanks so much!

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Neo Monster Island
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Fandom standing on business

Steven Sloss 🛸@stevensloss.bsky.social

I know it always sounds disingenuous when you claim people cheered at something you said in public, but it was heartwarming that my proto anti-AI reading of GODZILLA 2000 got such a resounding response at the Barbican a few weeks ago