Nolan McBride

@nolanmcbride.bsky.social

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living in a highly excited state of overstimulation | horror, sci-fi, martial arts, video games | Mortal Kombat obsessive | host, producer, occasional writer @ Dead Ringers podcast

Movie poster for Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey. An ancient warrior helmet with a feather mohawk and a metal piece that looks like a human spine.
A white chihuahua with brown accents sits atop the back of a cough, prissy lil’ paws folded in front, ears back, eyes wide
Movie poster for Hong Kong action movie, The Furious, featuring Xie Mao and Joe Taslim fighting off a lot of opponents
Custom, homemade Oreo cookies with Mortal Kombat’s Dragon logo imprinted on the cookies themselves. The filling is a variety of red, blue, green, and orange.
Movie poster for Mortal Kombat 2, the sequel to the 2021 reboot. The poster features best friends Kung Lao and Liu Kang facing off against each other in front of a Chinese-style gate in a blue, abstract liminal space (the portal stage from MK2, the game)
A leaderboard for Mortal Kombat 1’s Kombat League. This lists the top players of “Grand Master” rank plus my stats while maining Sektor + Kung Lao last season: 76 wins, 75 losses.
A video of clips from Mortal Kombat 1, featuring Smoke facing off against a variety of opponents
A leaderboard for Mortal Kombat 1 showing 90 wins and 83 losses for a player user Smoke with Cyrax as a Kameo
A cat sleeping with its head upside down, framing his sleepy teef face with a curly paw
Movie poster for Sam Raimi’s island survival horror thriller, Send Help, featuring a bloodied Rachel McAdams holding a knife and her work ID and the edges of palm trees in the background.
A screenshot of recently watched movies from Letterboxd featuring 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, Dangerous Animals, The Ugly Stepsister, and The Personal History of David Copperfield.
A movie poster for Nia DeCosta’s zombie movie, 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple. The silhouette of Ralph Fiennes face contains a buncha people standing and a collection of skulls.
Movie poster for Avatar: Fire And Ash, featuring a whole buncha blue-faced aliens in a burning ring and a flying, four-winged creature in the foreground
Movie poster for Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein (2025), featuring the titular creation shrouded in shadow.
Movie poster for samurai western (set in America), Tornado. A woman with her back turned holds a sort to her right, under the blade of which can be seen a bunch of western lookin’ folks.
A 4K blu-ray of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret Of The Ooze
4K box set of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles live-action trilogy, with the first movie pulled out and set in front
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa as Shang Tsung in Mortal Kombat (1995), holding his hand out to signal the start of a fight
A leaderboard for Mortal Kombat 1, showing 160 matches played, 82 won, and 78 lost
Blu-ray/4K cover for Hong Kong action flick, City On Fire; cover features 3 faces in grayscale, 1 being Chow Yun-fat.
Cover for the blu-ray of Chinese sci-fi/horror/bonkers flick, The Cat
A movie poster for the remake of Deathstalker, a fantasy/sword-and-sorcery flick from 1983; features a collage of fantastical and menacing characters
A movie poster for Predator: Badlands, featuring a titular Predator kneeling in the foreground of an alien landscape with its sword stuck in the ground
A region B blu-ray of Chinese horror-comedy, Mr. vampire, stood amongst some Halloween decorations
A leaderboard from Kombat League in Mortal Kombat 1
A 4K blu-ray of James Gunn’s Superman, the cover featuring the titular character standing against a crowd
Anamanaguchi performing their song “Air On Line” live at Emo’s in Austin, TX
Movie poster for oddball comedy, Friendship, featuring stars Tim Robinson and Paul Rudd standing together
A person (me) holding up a soft cast in a wave gesture
A TV screen featuring the blu-ray menu for Sonny Chiba action flick, The Street Fighter
Movie poster for Netflix animated movie, KPop Demon Hunters, featuring the titular KPop stars onstage holding weapons
South Korean actor, So Ji-sub, from Mercy For None, looking very bloodied and beat up
A poster for the South Korean revenge series, Mercy For None, featuring the protagonist in a traditional professional suit, standing between two groups of fallen bad guys with a metal baseball bat in his hand
Movie poster for South Korean action movie, BALLERINA, featuring the movie’s beat up heroine in an action pose
Movie poster for The Naked Gun 2025 reboot with Liam Neeson surfing on a police badge and Pam Anderson riding him piggy back
Steelbook case/cover for Punisher: War Zone
The cover for Joe Dante’s killer toy movie, Small Soldiers. It features Chip Hazard facing off against Archer, with the rest of the titular soldiers standing below.
A leaderboard for online competitive Mortal Kombat 1
Movie poster for sci-fi action movie UNIVERSAL SOLDIER: DAY OF RECKONING. Featuring Jean-Claude Van Damme, Dolph Lundgren facing forward and Scott Adkins with his back turned
A whole buncha penguins standing at the edge of their water at the zoo
Two people sitting at a table in Leven Deli in Denver, CO
Movie poster for The Fantastic Four: First Steps done in an old-fashioned style
Movie poster for Superman (2025). Superman stands among clouds with one knee posed atop a Superman symbol. Square portraits of supporting characters appear at the bottom, including Lois Lane and Lex Luthor.
A poster for 2022 action movie, The Princess, starring Joey King. She’s dirty, roughed up, and holding a sword upside down
The blu-ray for Corey Yuen Hong Kong action flick, Righting Wrongs, starring Yuen Biao and Cynthia Rothrock, both of whom are holding their fists in a defensive position
Movie poster for Lady Snowblood, featuring the lady herself holding a fan almost as a shield in one hand and a sword in the other, ready to fight
The blu-ray cover for zombie movie, 28 Days Later
TV displaying the blu-ray menu for the Shaw Brothers kung fu film, My Young Auntie. Shows a woman in fancy dress standing off against a gallery of goofy-looking rogues.
A TV screen showing the blu-ray menu for Shaw Brothers action movie, Mercenaries From Hong Kong. A man holds a rifle; sky-rises and helicopters in the background
A TV screen showing the blu-ray menu for Friday The 13th Part V: A New Beginning. Jason’s face looms over a house in the woods, red glow emanating from the woods
Movie poster for Predator: Killer Of Killers, an animated anthology film. It features a collage of Predators and warriors throughout time and across locales.