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.
Watched 14 November 2021
For nearly two hours, the entire world disappeared and I wanted nothing more than to see a dog trust a robot.
Watched 24 October 2021
I couldn’t possibly predict twists this dumb, and that just made them all the more effective. Hats off to this movie!
Watched 19 September 2021
John Wick has been losing its way but this movie knows what it’s all about. A blur of a 90-minute punch in the face — just enough to put you in the hospital, not enough to kill you of overstimulation.
Watched 19 August 2021
I learned that Toni Collette is australian in real life. Next: do solar storms actually look like that? This movie is great at making me want to check Wikipedia.
Watched 12 August 2021
Release, at last.
Played 20 March 2020 – 27 April 2021 on Nintendo Switch
Just… so many good feelings from this game. I’ll cherish it forever.
Watched 22–24 April 2021
Once again this show attempts to strike a good balance between People Drama and Society Drama, but this season’s timeskip tilted the scales and made it clear that the long game is always going to be about the societal outcomes first. Character moments are less emotionally effective as a result, but boy is the spectacle of the alternate timeline geopolitics worth the tradeoff. Season 1 got me invested. But now I’m excited.
Watched 19–22 April 2021
I’m super into this space trauma and societal progress nerdfest.
It may sometimes feel predictable and clichéd but I just want to engross myself in this alternate history, and the level of realism is more than good enough to support that by my standards.
Watched 21 April 2021
Like leafing through a big coffee table book. Not particularly insightful, but very nice pictures.
Rewatched 8 April 2021
The uncanny valley between the ponderous Godzilla 2014 and the bombastically campy Godzilla vs. Kong. I’m sorry but if you want to make a serious movie you have to stick to the serious monsters, you can’t put on the three-headed electric dragon and big moth. Pokémon aren’t scary.
Watched 31 March 2021
Silly as heck. No hesitation. This movie delivers.
Watched 16 December 2020 – 3 February 2021
This series has built so much, and gone so far. The transition from “Game of Thrones in space” to one of the most poignant human dramas in science fiction has been a true joy to witness.