Played 28 September – 9 October 2019 on Apple Arcade
This game is awesome and what phone games should have evolved into all along. Loved it.
Now I’m only missing the hidden achievement and I’m sure it’s got something to do with that fart card probably
Watched 26 August 2019
It might be a case of too much of a good thing, but I was not as entranced by this one as I was with the others. It might have benefited from a bit more breathing room around the mayhem, more of an emotional connection to its origins, maybe even (dare I say it?) a little less violence. It is spectacular, but numbingly so.
Played 16–18 August 2019 on Mac
A masterpiece of game design. An impossible combination of brilliant ideas and flawless execution that is so unlike any other game I’ve ever played, it’s hard to understand how it could even be conceived.
Watched 15 August 2019
Wake me up if Hideaki Anno ever makes another one
Rewatched 2 August 2019
Our world doesn’t deserve the unbridled vibrancy and earnestness of Speed Racer. The climactic Grand Prix is so dazzling I had to watch it twice. This film gets better every time I watch it, and I suspect I’ll be doing it quite a few more times.
Watched 28 July 2019
Best car chase of all time?
Watched 24 July 2019
A solid follow-up to the other two good anime-with-real-people movies, Speed Racer and Pacific Rim. More, please.
Played 15 July 2019 on Mac
A charming little game that got me to smile a lot for the duration of a well-spent hour.
Played 21 June – 1 July 2019 on Nintendo Switch
I just knew that as soon as I booted this game for the first time, I would fall down the rabbit hole and be completely transfixed. And so it happened. One of the most rewarding exploration games I have ever played.
Watched 29 June 2019
I started off a bit disappointed, because this seemed like little more than a duller version of Patriot; the writing felt meandering, the humor more surface-level, never as witty or pithy. Turned out I was looking at it wrong: it’s more of a drama than I’d figured from the premise, with the comedy falling a bit further into the background than it does in Patriot. It’s its own thing, delicately balanced, and a few episodes in it really clicked.
Watched 21 May 2019
It is still mindblowing that this show could get made, but it’s a shame that it couldn’t quite fill its own shoes towards the end. Guess I’ll read the books, then.
Watched 11 May 2019
This movie doesn’t know when to calm down. Exhausting!
Watched 25 April 2019
I was pleasantly surprised by how genuinely funny and creatively consistent this movie is — and it’s clear that everyone was having fun while making it. Pretty great!
Watched 25 April 2019
You can tell that they tried (most of the time), but it’s not as sharp as it clearly thinks it is. Also, they shouldn’t have let Ryan Reynolds pick all the songs.
Watched 22 April 2019
Fun to watch and kinda cool in a sort of childish, cartoony way. I wish it had learned even further in that direction.
Watched 20 April 2019
So enamored with the poetry of its own subtext that it fails to make the actual text engaging. The slow, painful lingering is fitting, but at some point it’s too much and there’s not much else there to balance it out — even the action sequences seem drawn out. Starts out pensive, ends up boring. Still, there’s an interesting story there if you can catch it being mumbled at you.