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Just wanted a place to post my thoughts on what I've read and watched. You probably won't find anything very insightful here but welcome nonetheless. Click t...

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Wild Wild Country (2018)

This is a retroactive review of a great documentary that honestly still brings forth a lot of thought, emotion, and contemplation. While I normally avoid retroactive reviews of things not recently watched, I think this is one is pretty deserving to be talked about. Wild Wild Country truly is in my opinion one of the greatest documentaries I have ever seen. I honestly still get chills at times…

Hokum (2026)

I had one of those rare, quietly joyful moments recently, or actually more like two of them. First, I got invited to see a movie with some newly found friends. Yes, me. Invited out. Incredible I know. The second surprise was that they suggested a movie I was already interested in seeing. I don't know for you, but having to go by others movie suggestions is usually a pretty torturous experience.…

The Green Knight (2021)

Let me start off by saying I really, really wanted to like this movie. I’ve been searching for a dark fantasy film I could get fully enthralled in. Something that captures that bleak, mysterious tone I’ve been craving ever since replaying Dark Souls and reading A Clash of Kings. And for the most part, I did enjoy The Green Knight. It’s trippy, mysterious, and constantly keeps you slightly off…

Blood Meridian (1985)

So I’m finally back from a long break from reading fiction and I chose kind of a hard one to break back into. That book was Blood Meridian. To be honest, and maybe this shows how I can live under a rock sometimes, but I’ve never heard of this book until I later saw the edits on TikTok about who were some of the worst villains in fiction. That of course piqued my morbid curiosity. Only until later…