Brendan Foley

illustration inspired by Mary Shelley's novel "Frankenstein" showing the creature standing beside a tree on a hilltop.

"It was the wretch, the filthy daemon, to whom I had given life."

Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" was published on this day in 1818 🫀

Run Lola Run is on Tubi. Cloud Atlas fans, watch this shiiiiiiiiiiit.

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Joe Wright is basically a perfect 'Blank Check' miniseries, between his major highs and WOW his lows.

"We realized we were making ourselves deeply vulnerable to a class action suit that absolutely would have wiped us out financially so we're going to find a way to do this without actual human names attached."

Oh sure, all that’s terrific. Just in terms of the special effects and visuals, it’s not quite at the sweet spot the show typically is.

I love that the giants are actors on sets with the tiny Straw Hats green screened in later, really gives those scenes a THIEF OF BAGDAD/Harryhausen charm. BUT, I would also argue some of those scenes are a first example of the show just not quite cracking how to make Oda drawings play in live action

“Am I still alive?” God (Usopp) delivery from Jacob Gibson.

This show is absolutely SURGICAL with deploying it's one per season allotment of f-bombs.

Jumping back into ONE PIECE to finish up the Little Garden two-parter. Inaki Godoy doing some amazing "I have no mouth and I must scream" eye acting.

"And wow! Hey! What’s this thing suddenly coming towards me very fast? Very very fast. So big and flat and round, it needs a big wide sounding name like … ow … ound … round … ground! That’s it! That’s a good name – ground!

I wonder if it will be friends with me?"

the Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy quote I think of most often these days is, “What do you mean, why’s it got to be built? It’s a bypass. You’ve got to build bypasses.”

Any connection to certain modern technologies is purely coincidental, and mostly harmless.

A grade schooler could take Trump in a game of checkers, and the kid wouldn't have to try very hard.

Oh BOY am I hopeful that that particular double-act gets moved up in schedule.

You really need to watch this whole clip. It's amazing.

Pretty crazy how important the blockade of a trade route is right now

Hells yeah.

The moment you realize HITCHHIKER’S GUIDE is going to be the stuff of legends.

“Yes,” said Arthur, “yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard.

"But the plans were on display…”
“On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them.”
“That’s the display department.”
“With a flashlight.”
“Ah, well, the lights had probably gone.”
“So had the stairs.”
“But look, you found the notice, didn’t you?”

It's the birthday of Douglas Adams! Time to share favorite quotes!

It’s about as good as a sequel to 2001 could possibly be, and really works as a blue collar, procedural take on the ecstatic transcendent events of the first film.

Anytime Usopp starts babbling now, I just start cackling knowing some version of it is getting dropped on his stupid head.

Not a bad movie.

worth remembering, David Lynch directed “fix your hearts or die” specifically at transphobes. it wasn’t a generic “no mean people allowed” statement, it was said by his Twin Peaks character in defense of a trans woman he cared for and deeply respected.

The actors playing recurring/episodic characters tend to lean hard into the anime-ness in a way that the core cast avoids, and that can be hit or miss. But David Dastmalchian is instantly locked into the exact right freak frequency for this sort of fare.

Usopp: "I once used a 5-ton hammer to defeat a mole monster!"

That observation haki getting an early workout, ain't it God Usopp?

Karoo shout out! A princess's loyal human-sized duck sidekick was probably a bridge too far (and the CG budget is probably maxed out as is). It's fine, it's OK, hey I get it.

but don't you dare deny us our god given right to giant duck antics in season 3.

The never-not-funny gag of sane people having no idea how to cope with Luffy's innate...Luffy-ness...is getting a WORK OUT this year.

a man with a beard is wearing a helmet and sunglasses ALT: a man with a beard is wearing a helmet and sunglasses

Moving on to episode 4. Let's get some big trouble in Little Garden.