Musings about media. Mostly movies.
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Played 6–29 June 2024 on Nintendo Switch
Direct and engaging, with a nice digestible length. But I can’t help but feel like the Metroid formula needs to shed some legacy baggage.
Watched 1 February 2024
[ominous music playing]
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Watched 21 November 2023
A beautiful puzzle box. Pieces fitting together so satisfyingly, I could practically hear the clicking sounds.
Watched 6 May 2023
I really wish this series could just be its own thing outside the “marvel” “universe”
Watched 22 April 2023
Creative team really should have given more control to whoever pitched “t-rex with big burly arms”
Watched 11–28 December 2022
Star Wars: we live in a society
Me: omg so true!!
Rewatched 3 December 2022
Ponyo fills my heart. It overflows.
Watched 1 November 2022
Top 50 Flashiest Visual Tricks to Delay Your Mystery Movie Plot Twist as Much as Possible
Watched 13 September 2022
Cringe.
Watched 28 May 2022
The original may be aesthetically superior, with those citric pink sunsets, extended plane porn montages, and glamorously lit sweaty bodies, but this one delivers on thrills and excitement on a much more real and visceral level — and they kept Danger Zone!
Top Gun is a postcard. Maverick is being there.
Watched 9 March 2022
I really want to follow Yang on Instagram and cry at his intensely beautiful and melancholy Live Photos.
Rewatched 19 February 2022
Gets better every time.
Watched 13 February 2022
The tone is pitch-perfect — the aesthetic, the performances, down to how karmically predictable some of the twists are. Love all the little props, such delicate artefacts, all feeling like they could tell a whole story. I couldn’t stop thinking of Ricky Jay, and now I find myself wishing for a Del Toro film about him. Or maybe just the objects he left behind.
Watched 22–26 January 2022
Brings me back to when TV shows didn’t take themselves super seriously and writers had to include mini cliffhangers before commercial breaks so you wouldn’t change the channel. I love the bits where you can see the seams, like when characters are driving and you can tell that the road projection framerate stutters because it doesn’t match the camera. If only people weren’t scared of pillarboxing this show could have been shot in 4:3 and look even cooler.
Watched 21 December 2021 – 14 January 2022
A miracle unfolding in slow motion. Pure, clear, and brimming with understanding. Every episode destroying me and building me back up, each time a different person. I wasn’t ready.
Watched 17 December 2021 – 3 January 2022
Cool animation, but the presence of lightsabers in every single episode reveals a frustrating lack of imagination.