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Watched 1 August 2026, rated 2 out of 5 stars maybe Mick West ruined my suspension of disbelief for ufo stuff forever. or maybe Spielberg really just went full History Channel Aliens Meme Guy and thought that’d feel new and fresh in 2026 Also posted on Letterboxd
Rewatched 24 April 2026, rated 5 out of 5 stars the idea of killing people with sex completely blew my 12 year old mind. now, as an adult, i find it completely normal and unsurprising of course Also posted on Letterboxd
Watched 5 April 2026, rated 3 out of 5 stars i’m so happy that they found a way to bring back fan favorite Resident Evil characters. including my favorite character, Laser Grid Also posted on Letterboxd
Watched 27 March 2026, rated 3 out of 5 stars I always wondered how this movie managed to fit the whole book into little more than two hours. Turns out it never could. Scenes go by so quickly and disjointedly that it feels more like watching a weird music video that’s left up to interpretation. If you take away all the dialogue and leave only the sound effects and Toto score, it probably works…
Watched 16 August – 24 September 2025, rated 4 out of 5 stars With shows of this caliber taking several years of production time between seasons, who thought it was a good idea to provide absolutely zero plot resolution with the finale? Some great episodes, but I’m already annoyed that I’ll probably have to rewatch this season in 2027.
Watched 28 August 2025, rated 5 out of 5 stars couldn’t wait for the movie to end so i could open my internet browser and type in “sorcerer 1977 how did they do that” Also posted on Letterboxd
Watched 29 August 2025, rated 4 out of 5 stars i always wanted a full episode-length ITYSL sketch, but never thought feature-length could actually work. it did work, but felt a bit too constrained by the realities of Big Movie. giving myself galaxy brain by imagining this as a 20 minute ITYSL skit that never lets you catch your breath Also posted on Letterboxd
Watched 31 August 2025, rated 3 out of 5 stars not very relatable when the protagonist blows on a bottle to summon the empty man. highly relatable when the protagonist checks what the empty man is about on wikipedia Also posted on Letterboxd
Watched 30 August 2025, rated 4 out of 5 stars i don’t like playing armchair casting director but i feel pretty strongly that Tim Robinson would have been a good choice here Also posted on Letterboxd
Watched 12 August 2025, rated 2 out of 5 stars has nothing new to add in terms of sci-fi, lazily adding an iphone app on top of all the basic robot tropes. barely qualifies for the horror or comedy tags. could have been a fun Love, Death and Robots short Also posted on Letterboxd
Rewatched 8 August 2025, rated 5 out of 5 stars ELBOW ROCKET Also posted on Letterboxd
Maxwell Neely-Cohen: We are on the brink of a dark age , or have already entered one. The scale of art, music, and literature being lost each day as the World Wide Web shifts and degenerates represents the biggest loss of human cultural production since World War II. My generation was continuously warned by teachers, parents, and authority figures that we should be careful online because the…
Watched 12 April 2025, rated 4 out of 5 stars This review contains spoilers. Sure, it has some issues, but what can I say, I’m a sucker for spaceships with CRT monitors and a good acid vagina humomorph baby coming of age story Also posted on Letterboxd
Watched 21 January 2025, rated 3 out of 5 stars I would have been way more excited about this movie from the get go if only the marketing mentioned why Mrs. Harris goes to Paris (obviously because of her ADHD) Also posted on Letterboxd
Wonderful talk about pixel fonts by Marcin Wichary. Link: youtube.com Via @jenn
Played 6–29 June 2024 on Nintendo Switch, rated 4 out of 5 stars 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, rated 3 out of 5 stars [ominous music playing] 🍿 Also posted on Letterboxd
Watched 21 November 2023, rated 4 out of 5 stars A beautiful puzzle box. Pieces fitting together so satisfyingly, I could practically hear the clicking sounds. Also posted on Letterboxd
Watched 6 May 2023, rated 4 out of 5 stars I really wish this series could just be its own thing outside the “marvel” “universe” Also posted on Letterboxd
Watched 22 April 2023, rated 2 out of 5 stars Creative team really should have given more control to whoever pitched “t-rex with big burly arms” Also posted on Letterboxd
Taylor Lorenz: When the pandemic broke out, people on TikTok and other apps began referring to it as the “Backstreet Boys reunion tour” or calling it the “panini” or “panda express” as platforms down-ranked videos mentioning the pandemic by name in an effort to combat misinformation. When young people began to discuss struggling with mental health, they talked about “becoming unalive” in order to…
Andy Greenberg: Hutchins hadn’t found the malware’s command-and-control address. He’d found its kill switch. The domain he’d registered was a way to simply, instantly turn off WannaCry’s mayhem around the world. It was as if he had fired two proton torpedoes through the Death Star’s exhaust port and into its reactor core, blown it up, and saved the galaxy, all without understanding what he was…
Watched 11–28 December 2022, rated 5 out of 5 stars Star Wars: we live in a society Me: omg so true!!
Rewatched 3 December 2022, rated 5 out of 5 stars Ponyo fills my heart. It overflows. Also posted on Letterboxd
Watched 1 November 2022, rated 2 out of 5 stars Top 50 Flashiest Visual Tricks to Delay Your Mystery Movie Plot Twist as Much as Possible Also posted on Letterboxd
Watched 13 September 2022, rated 2 out of 5 stars Cringe. Also posted on Letterboxd
Watched 28 May 2022, rated 5 out of 5 stars 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. Also posted on Letterboxd
Watched 9 March 2022, rated 5 out of 5 stars I really want to follow Yang on Instagram and cry at his intensely beautiful and melancholy Live Photos. Also posted on Letterboxd
Rewatched 19 February 2022, rated 5 out of 5 stars Gets better every time. Also posted on Letterboxd
Watched 13 February 2022, rated 4 out of 5 stars 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…
Watched 22–26 January 2022, rated 4 out of 5 stars 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…
Watched 21 December 2021 – 14 January 2022, rated 5 out of 5 stars 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. Also posted on Letterboxd
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, rated 4 out of 5 stars For nearly two hours, the entire world disappeared and I wanted nothing more than to see a dog trust a robot. Also posted on Letterboxd
Watched 24 October 2021, rated 3 out of 5 stars I couldn’t possibly predict twists this dumb, and that just made them all the more effective. Hats off to this movie! Also posted on Letterboxd
Watched 19 September 2021, rated 4 out of 5 stars 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. Also posted on Letterboxd
Vulture: Suddenly, anybody could shoot and edit a video, building the vocabulary of what that could look like: transition videos, lip syncs, and green-screen-driven storytelling began to cohere as distinct subgenres. That’s only accelerated in the age of TikTok, an app that offers more and easier editing tools for users than any that came before it. Online video is an inherently communal form;…
Josh Comeau: In this tutorial, we’ll learn how to transform typical box-shadows into beautiful, life-like ones. Link: joshwcomeau.com Via adactio.com
Elise Blanchard: To truly understand the origin and evolution of hyperlinks though, I took a journey through technology history and interfaces to explore how links were handled before color monitors, and how interfaces and hyperlinks rapidly evolved once color became an option. Link: blog.mozilla.org Via adactio.com
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. Also posted on Letterboxd
Watched 12 August 2021 Release, at last. Also posted on Letterboxd
Played 20 March 2020 – 27 April 2021 on Nintendo Switch, rated 5 out of 5 stars Just… so many good feelings from this game. I’ll cherish it forever.
Watched 22–24 April 2021, rated 4 out of 5 stars 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…
Watched 19–22 April 2021, rated 4 out of 5 stars 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. Also posted on Letterboxd
This terrific short story by qntm contemplates the hellish potential consequences of brain uploading, in the form of a typically impassive Wikipedia entry: MMAcevedo ( Mnemonic Map/Acevedo ), also known as Miguel , is the earliest executable image of a human brain. It is a snapshot of the living brain of neurology graduate Miguel Álvarez Acevedo (2010–2073), taken by researchers at the Uplift…
Rewatched 8 April 2021, rated 2 out of 5 stars 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. Also posted on Letterboxd
Found this wonderful YouTube channel on Kottke.org. I have to admit I wasn’t expecting it to be so thought-provoking: Our brains play tricks on us to make us believe the world looks one way, but the world looks different at night than in the day, and both of those things have more to do with the physiology of our eyes and brains than with objective reality. Asking what a microbe actually looks…
Watched 31 March 2021, rated 4 out of 5 stars Silly as heck. No hesitation. This movie delivers. Also posted on Letterboxd
CGP Grey’s take on Powers of Ten is very beautiful and evocative and terrifying. Link: youtube.com