Christianne Benedict

@krelllabs.bsky.social

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Cartoonist, Film Writer, Enthusiastic Comma-Splicer, Malcontent. She/her if you please. http://krelllabs.blogspot.com

Mozart conducts The Abduction from the Seraglio in Amadeus (1984)
Captain Renault (Claude Rains) and Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart) watching the plane depart at the end of Casablanca.
Animated gif of Shelly Winters in Night of the Hunter, tied to the seat of an open-topped car underwater, her hair flowing in the current with the waterweeds. A ghastly last drive.
Four Criterion blu rays and a book. The blu rays are Saving Face, The Blade, Diamonds of the Night, and Moonstruck. The book is Bone of My Bone by Johanna Vav Veen.
Ink drawing by Gilbert Hernandez of a woman getting out of a Robot Monster Ro-man suit. Strongly black and white with big areas of pure black. Undated.
Pencil drawing of Hopey Glass by Jaime Hernandez. undated.
Coffee table book:The Love and Rockets Sketchbook vol. 1 by The Hernandez bros. The cover features a drawing Maggie and Hopey in their punk rock days, circa 1988 (which is when the drawing is dated.
Two pages from Kirby featuring a self portrait by Jack Kirby and a portait of his wife, Roz, drawn during WWII, in traditional shaded pencils.
Coffee table book: Innocence and Seduction The Art of Dan DeCarlo by Bill Morrison. The main graphic is a drawing of a burlesque dancer.
Colorful movie poster for Cotton Comes to Harlem.
A panel from Bone, where Bone has perched on a twiglike bush next to a waterfall to protect him from rat creatures. Two rat creatures have jumped on the end of the bush and it is bending under their weight. Bone is shouting "STUPID, STUPID RAT CREATURES!!" because they have doomed them all.
Modok being attacked by Tippy Toe, Squirrel Girl's sidekick squirrel. He's planted right on Modok's nose, where he can't reach with any of his limbs or weapons. He's saying: "Curses! Arms too tiny! Head too big! Get it off! Extend all weapons!" it is snowing.
The Worlds of Lucile Hadžihalilović box set from Severin films. Includes Innocence, Evolution, Earwig, and The Ice Tower. Also two shorts, Nectar and De Natura.
Original film poster for Frailty, with Matthew McConaughey's shadowed face hovering over a dark farmstead, dissolving into a flight of white birds.
Jude Law leaning against a wall in a brutalist corporate space while holding a cell phone in an ad for some vile AI legal company. He's in shadow (appropriate because he's turned to the dark side) with some light spilling across his eyes and forehead.
The Treachery of Images by Rene Magritte. A painting depicting a pipe captioned "Cesi n'est pas une pipe." "This is not a pipe."
The movie poster for Singin in the Rain (1952), with the tag line "What a Glorious Feeling" above the stars, Gene Kelly, Debbie Reynolds and Donald O'Connor wearing raincoats and holding umbrellas.
Errol Flynn fencing with Basil Rathbone on the beach in Captain Blood. Rathbone is mid-lunge (with perfect form!) while Flynn dodges the blade but it too close to capitalize. A posed studio still from the film in black and white.
Driftwood bearing the word "Dane", sitting on a rack of tapes in The Fog (1980)
Robert Ryan limps out into the city at night in Act of Violence
The townies of Black Rock standing at the railroad crossing, mountains in the background, in wide, wide Cinemascope.
Ghostly lepers in The Fog (1980)
A greeting card depicting a couple sitting under a tree. The male half of the couple is holding a copy of Kim by Rudyard Kipling. The caption reads: "Do you like Kipling?" "I don't know, you naughty boy, I've never kippled."
The cover of Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling featuring "How the Elephant Got His Trunk," in which an elephant is pulling his trunk away from a crocodile that has the other end of it.
Black and white portrait of sociologist/sexologist Havelock Ellis and his magnificent beard.
Crash Davis tells Nuke LaLoosh "Don't try to strike everybody out." in Bull Durham
Chow-yun Fat against a background of blood in The Killer (1989)
A three panel comic. First panel: the Earth says to the moon, "Hey, baby, let's ORBIT." The moon replies, "What about your..." Second panel: Earth says, "Don't worry. It's not contagious." Third panel: a closer view of the moon with the outline of two tiny astronauts raising a flag..
The sign for the Transgender Memorial Garden in St. Louis, Missouri (est. 2015). The motto reads "They tried to bury us. They didn't know we were seeds."
Two blu ray cases: the 4k Swordsman Trilogy and an ordinary edition of The Orphanage.
Chow Yun-fat in A Better Tomorrow. His eyes are closed, there is a bandage on the left side of his face, and the subtitle reads "I believe I'm a god."
Chow Yun-fat lights a smoke with a burning $100 bill in A Better Tomorrow.
A bluesky comment on TCM scheduling Gaslight opposite the State of the Union address reading " Masterful troll, TCM."
Soulless White House apparatchik Stephen Miller chilling the room with his unholy presence.
Chris Hemsworth in Crime 101, at a parking lot at an airport, a plane on a glide path to landing behind him.
Rick and Renault watch the plane leave at the end of Casablanca.
A letterboxd array of four films tagged as recent activity. The four films are: Hi, Nellie, Send Help, Hard Boiled, and The Ice Tower.
Rachel McAdams in Send Help (2026) shading her side-eye with a hat brim she's woven from palm leaves.
Poster for the 2026 re-release of Hard Boiled.
letterboxd last four films array featuring The Secret Agent, Primate, We Bury the Dead, and The Plague.
The cover of the hardcover first edition of A Drop of Corruption by Robert Jackson Bennett: An Ana and Din Mystery. Nationally Bestselling Author. Central illustration is a stylized silver drawing of a severed hand sprouting leaves. There are silhouettes of the suspects in cameo ovals at the corners. Green and blue foliage creeps in from the sides.
Memed still from Hellraiser 2 in which the crazed doctor, now a Cenobite, says "And to think...I hesitated."
Blu ray slipcover for a Chinese edition of The Ugly Stepsister.
Four favorites in the Letterboxd format with their posters presented from left to right: Senso (1954), The Spiral Staircase (1946), Holiday (1938), and The Spirit of the Beehive (1973).
AI overview heading from Google that answers the question "Cary Grant Movies Directed by George Cukor" that says: George Cukor directed Cary Grant in two films: the delightful romantic comedy Holiday (1938), co-starring Katherine Hepburn, and the screwball comedy Sylvia Scarlett (1935), also with Hepburn..." This is incorrect. Cukor directed three films with Grant and Hepburn; this summary omits The Philadelphia Story.
The faces of two deinonychus, silhouetted in flames. One of them has a knife in its eye. A still from Primitive War (2025)
Four soldiers flee a group of quetzalcoatlus through a grassy plain in a still from Primitive War (2025)
Album cover for Bettie Serveert's Palomine, featuring a toy dalmatian puppy on a red background.
Edith Scob in Eyes Without A Face, wearing a mask and looking to the side.
Mark Ruffalo and Kiera Knightley sharing headphones on the subway in Begin Again (2013)
Two screen caps from This is Spinal Tap, In the top frame, Nigel says "It really puts a perspective on things, doesn't it?" In the bottom frame, David says "Yeah, too much. There's too much fucking perspective now."
Scout Tafoya's top ten movies of 2025: 1: Two Pianos & Spectateurs! 2: The Ice Tower 3: 28 Years Later 4: Kontinental '25 5. The Shrouds 6. Black Rabbit White Rabbit 7. The Woman in the Yard 8. Rabbit Trap 9. Red Sonja 10. Death Will Come
Two starveling children dressed in rags, a boy and a girl, huddled beneath the robes of the Ghost of Christmas Present in the 1951 version of A Christmas Carol. They are Ignorance and Want.
Five blu rays and a book. The book is A House With Good Bones by T. Kingfisher. The blu rays: El, Eyes Without a Face 4k, The Shrouds, Deep Crimson, Le Corbeau.
Young Julianne Moore wearing a trench coat in Tales from the Darkside: The Movie. She's in a darkened room, natch.
Video of snow coming down pretty hard over the fiel behind my office. Dark snowy woods lay beyond.
Eleven unlettered watercolor art boards for a medieval trans erotic fantasy story.