The Odyssey (again), Everything Is Tuberculosis, etc. (TWIRecap 7/27)
Thoughts on the week: 2 movies, 3 books, 1 game jam docuseries The Odyssey Round 2 (Christopher Nolan, 2026)Less than 48 hours after my first viewing (and...
Indelible City, Dante's Peak, etc. (TWIRecap 7/20)
Thoughts on things I’ve experienced over the past week: 2 Movies, 1 Book, & 1 Finale of a 5-Part Video Essay Series DodgeBall: a TRUE underdog story (Rawson...
Jackass 5, The AI Con, etc. (TWIRecap 7/6)
Thoughts on the things I experienced over the past week: 1 Novel, 1 Non-Fiction Book, and 1 Very American Triple Feature. Also: On the dedicated newsletters...
I loved Mother Mary but I can't review it :(
I loved Mother Mary. Having now seen it twice inside of a week (and listened to the accompanying EP many times), I think there's a very good chance that it...
Katsura Sunshine, Your Name., etc. (TWIRecap 7-17)
Light week! 1 performance, 1 movie, 1 novel. Rakugo by Katsura SunshineMy favorite manga currently in serialization is Akane-Banashi, a manga devoted to a...
Watching the birth of cinema is pretty hecking cool
I went years believing that Auguste and Louis Lumière created motion pictures, that L'Arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat (Train Pulling Into a Station)...
Evil Dead Burn, Twin Peaks S01, etc. (TWIRecap 7/13)
Thoughts on things I’ve experienced over the past week: 1 Movie, 1 Season of Television, 1 Gamemaking Docuseries (and the Game It’s About), & 1 Manga Evil...
An ultra-violent hit of gaming nostalgia
The experience I had playing Romeo Is a Dead Man was almost exactly the experience I had going to a childhood friend's wedding. As I walked up to the church,...
Doing the games justice
My strongest gaming memory turned 20 last year. I'm playing Resident Evil 4 on my GameCube: it’s my first M-rated game and I honestly don't know how I...
Who's on first?
Two things are true: 1) You Can See Everything is a consistently shocking piece of documentary filmmaking. 2) If you asked had me to really imagine what a...
What am I supposed to do with NAZA?
NAZA is maybe the most awful thing I've ever seen. And I want to add “(Complimentary)” after that, because I think it’s an exceptional piece of documentary...
Netflix made a horror game… and it’s good(?!)
I don’t understand why tech companies keep trying to make video games. Like, Occam’s razor says it’s because the kind of people who work at tech companies...
My favorite hobby is hating AI
For years, I was obsessed with cryptocurrency… though not in the way most people tend to be. I would spend hours every single week watching videos, listening...
What if Flock cameras were cute tho
The above image was captured earlier today by a traffic camera at the West 72nd Street entrance to Central Park. There are other cameras five blocks north,...
The Content Moderation TWIRecap
Behind the Screen, The Cleaners, American Sweatshop, Moderation, & We Had to Remove This Post