Stormy

I love that they didn't even try to change the layout of the Onett stage from SSB Brawl.

I left the theater desperate to buy a ream of quality paper

He had grown up in a country run by politicians who sent the pilots to man the bombers to kill the babies to make the world safe for children to grow up in.

As a physical media nerd and * ~ cinephile ~ *, the KPop Demon Hunters news means I will get to introduce my daughter to our most sacred biannual holiday--the Barnes & Noble Criterion sale.

I saw Bi Gan's RESURRECTION last night and I will be sitting with it for a long time. A beautiful and poetic film about the meaning we find at the movies.

Just saw SEND HELP. I loved it--elements of MISERY and OG Sam Raimi.

I really loved this book. I think she is a little dismissive of the continuing role of religion in modernity, but otherwise SO interesting!

Black and white photo of David Lynch saying "If you have a dream, never let go of it. Just hold onto it and keep working toward it."

I spy Berserk!

Confining your interest in cinema to the time you’ve been alive and in the language that you speak is spiritual deprivation

Poster for Cloud, directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa

First film of 2026.

Kiyoshi Kurosawa stop making bangers challenge: Impossible.

a man with a mustache sits on a yellow swing Alt: Pablo Escobar waiting for the 19th century to end

Wake me up when the nineteenth century ends

David Lay Williams The Greatest of All Plagues: How Economic Inequality Shaped Political Thought From Plato to Marx

First read of 2026

Some of y'all don't know the jesters are sobbing under their cheerful, laughing masks and it shows.

Physical media is the future ✌️

Loved seeing The Shining in IMAX. That score slaps in the theater.

Frames from Star Trek: DS9. The Klingon, Kor, meets Jadzia, who is the new host of the symbiont, Dax. Kor grabs Jadzia in a hug and says, "Curzon, my beloved old friend!" (Curzon being the previous Dax host.) Jadzia replies, "I'm Jadzia now." Kor simply says, "Jadzia, my beloved old friend." Then there's a Klingon flag in trans flag colours that says, If Klingons can get it, so can you.

It really is that fucking simple, friends.

Methodology

I can no longer get dressed in the morning without doing a fit check for my napalm era

Only two days????!!

(My 5YO is also obsessed with KPop Demon Hunters and plans to become Rumi when she grows up.)

Saja Boys. Five extremely pastel pop stars standing next to each other.

Sending help:

Tatsuya Nakadai as Ryunosuke in SWORD OF DOOM (Kihachi Okamoto, 1966). He is absolutely kicking ass with his swordsmanship in a clearing--showing us the meaning of "clearing," in fact.

So sad to hear about the passing of Tatsuya Nakadai, a man without equal.

a black and white photo of a woman covering her mouth with her hands . Alt: a black and white photo of Bette Davis as Baby Jane laughing hysterically

Passed my thesis defense today!

Fantomas

Caught the Louvre thief

Obligatory "Hey Travis Crabtreeeee"

Impossible to contradict this eye witness testimony

Oh, popping back in to say if you get your hands on CHIME, do it ASAP.

I wish I could watch CURE for the first time again. Peak cinema.

The Ballad of Black Tom--a reimagining of Lovecraft's racist short story "The Horror at Red Hook" from the perspective of a Black man.