2025's #movie mega-hit 'KPop Demon Hunters' won a Golden Globe for Best Animated Feature while its breakout anthem 'Golden' is named Best Original Song
you can still read my #review published in Frame Rated 🎞️ ICYMI:
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Remy Dean 🏴☠️
@remydean
Author + Artist
I mainly write about #art, #folklore, and #films. My #fantasy novels, written with Zel Cariad, are published by The Red Sparrow Press.
I am also a creative arts lecturer and mentor, editor of The Signifier, curator of the : six : shot : gallery. Commissions for books and feature-length content most welcome (competitive rates for attractive proposals).
Header picture is a detail from my photograph titled 'A Path to the Past' (2012) and my Avatar is a geometric emblem of me.
of recent viewing, Takashi Miike's 'The Great Yōkai War: Guardians' (2021) is a fave 🐉 an impressive #Yōkai count & spectacular visuals throughout 🦊 I loved the first film & you can read my #movie #review of 'The Great Yōkai War' (2005) in Frame Rated:
👹 https://medium.com/framerated/y%C5%8Dkai-monsters-collection-1968-2005-blu-ray-arrow-video-219c83408cff?sk=c06f8a26531062590f3ebfd8e74d1be0 #RemyReviews
#InternationalChoreographersDay
🕺 "So, how does one know if it’s #HomeDance? As styles are so varied & there are no rules... here are just a few pointers of what to look for in a performance..."
Signifier 💃 https://medium.com/signifier/home-dance-the-biting-cat-e5716ba895d3?sk=eb3308df29e974691a9e6ede826601bd
🧸 #咬人猫 😸 #Dance 🩰 #Music 🎶 #Yaorenmao 💝 #宅舞 🌏 #art 👗 #ArtHistory
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'It’s Still Moving' - before #film could become an #art medium, technology had to be invented & the conventions of #cinema set-out
looking back to the first 'motion pictures' for my article published in Signifier:
🎞️ https://medium.com/signifier/its-still-moving-f7caf17ed885?sk=d5cfd39f65d96b4a3e520e533cb6e4da
'The Vikings' (1958) is a classic & "still good fun for sharing a family-sized tub of popcorn. You’ll be yelling “Odin!” & humming Mario Nascimbene’s rousing main theme long after it’s over…"
read my retro #movie review published in Frame Rated:
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'David Hockney’s Photographic Art'
Rodrigo S-C explores how Britain's favourite #artist, often cited as “the greatest living painter,” changed photography & influenced his own work...
serious snow on the higher #Moelwyns slopes & sticking to the tree branches makes it all very 'Box of Delights' on this bright winter day with more on the way...
[pic noonish] ❄️ #snow ⚠️
weather warnings issued
take care out there 🏂
#landscape #photography from #Eryri
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'Beowulf versus Grendel, the Rematch!'
tracing the long legacy of our earliest novel & asking, “Was Grendel wrongly vilified?”
Signifier 🛡️ https://medium.com/signifier/beowulf-versus-grendel-the-rematch-2075e57711db?sk=5ba62b72074d3eb86b7df37f37c07475
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standing like a sentinel at the fringe of its thicket our 'Bardic Birch' keeps watch over the Vale (in the dawn or dusk half- light, those eyes seem to fix you with benign scrutiny)
Good #Moelwyns #Solstice morning! 🌑
the long light throwing cliffs & crags into relief with the winter-bright sky filling distant shadows with diffuse blue hues... longest night pending - days grow longer from tomorrow 🌞
[pic 11 a.m Solstice Eve] 🌦️
#landscape #photography from #Eryri
"Zuzu's petals! Zuzu's petals!" 🥀
'It's a Wonderful Life' released OTD, 1946 - the greatest #Christmas movie? "...after just 11-minutes, only the most heartless won’t be surreptitiously wiping a tear from their eye."
my #movie #review for Frame Rated
❄️ https://medium.com/framerated/its-a-wonderful-life-1946-72-years-later-1db4ce160f32?sk=cb61f89fe91ae61403ecaefd7d3b86d5
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'Seasonal Sentimentality' A quick look at the visual culture of commercial #Christmas in search of the most reproduced popular image… not an easy answer. What's your best guess?
Signifier 🎁 https://medium.com/signifier/what-does-christmas-look-like-3af8236e2b05?sk=b15b3475445083cd207244baf48aea46
'Mirth & Misfortune, the Art of Edward Gorey' — Of Ailurophilia, Absonant Alphabets & Noegenetic Numbers
Mitsuki Nonaka explores a world filled with cruel tales but finds many are filled with compassion & a sense of kindly concern
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"Suddenly #Christmas was a tradition & the 1st British Christmas card was sent in 1843 by Henry Cole..."
'Tis the Season to be Surreal - millions of Surrealists will celebrate all around the world & you could be one of them...
Signifier ⭐ https://medium.com/signifier/tis-the-season-to-be-surreal-c1061b7b804b?sk=f65914642a3e1f4ce08b4fafc4f27822
My #WebNovel of #ThisThatAndTheOther has debuted on Substack & is free to read for a limited period.
For those interested in friendship, #folklore & fairy tales who love magical adventures
Read the Prologue🌳 https://threerealms.substack.com/p/where-to-begin
What's it about?💭 https://threerealms.substack.com/about