Volume 1, Issue 2 February 2026 Filmphernalia Your New Entertainment Bud From the Editor’s Desk Lines Immortal “I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.” Blade Runner (1982) Welcome to the second issue of Filmphernaila. Hope you are all alive and kicking. I was hoping to get this issue out before Valentine’s Day, so I’m thrilled to have it out a tad early. Or maybe I could simply move the goalposts. :) Inside this issue: Screenopticals: Laura and the Return of Twin Peaks FilmBuzz — Usual, Unusual, and Unheard Scripter’s Haven — Kinolime Feature Script Competition Q&A: Mark L. Christensen — Indies in Brief 2 2 2 The Fabulous 3 Retro Fandom — The Retro Network 3 Film Quiz 3 Been There, Seen It! 4 Over the past two months, I’ve seen some really great movies from the yesteryears, making it a challenge to pick and choose for creating a short list of the best ones. It depends on one’s taste, mood, and other things. So here are my five picks for this month. 1. Born to Kill (1947) 2. When Willie Comes Marching Home (1950) 3. A Fistful of Dollars (1964) 4. Fearless Faith (2020) 5. Confessions: Two Faces of Evil (1994) Film Noir Comedy Western Faith/Spiritual True Crime January was busy and it was funny, but no fun, to see yet another guy posing as a filmmaker contacting me on Stage32 and ask for any ideas/ scripts I would like to share for possible production. I knew better since I had reported a few such “producers” to the site admin for trying to steal my work. They prey on starving screenwriters to steal their intellectual property so they pose as some filmmaker, using the filmmaker’s picture off some online site and list their IMDb page on the profile. But they would never list their own website and always use a suspicious Gmail address. Word of caution: on Stage32 or anywhere else, say Craigslist, don’t share your stuff with any random person pretending to be a filmmaker in need of scripts. For Filmospheric, the movie review count is almost there at the 100 posts mark. Expect me to brag about it next month. While I was able to review just 10 movies over the past month, some of them were really good. Find those in the Fabulous 5 list below. Enjoy the two new screenopticals and a short Q&A Ernest Dempsey February 11, 2026 with actual filmmaker Mark L. Christensen. Thank you for your time and feel free to reach out via the Contact Form on https:// www.filmospheric.com.
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