Camp Miasma, Spider-Man: Brand New Day, Crank, etc.
Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, Comrades Almost a Love Story, Spider-Man: Brand New Day, The Odyssey (again), The Director, Crank, Edge of Tomorrow, Super Nintendo, Monochrome Days
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...
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The Odyssey, IMAX, and Me [Hot Take]
I guess this is going to be a series now. Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey has two different discourses surrounding it: the very-dumb one about Woke, and then...
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...
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...
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...
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...
007 First Light, The Invite, etc. (TWIRecap 6/29)
Thoughts on the things I experienced over the past week: 1 Movie, 1 Manga, 1 Video Essay, & 1 Video Game The Invite (Olivia Wilde, 2026)The Invite is...
The Furious, Widow's Bay, Etc. (TWIRecap 6/22)
Thoughts on the things I experienced over the past week: 4 Movies, 1 TV show, 1 TV special taping of a play, & 1 novel The Furious (Kenji Tanigaki,...
Rent-A-Cat, A Children's Bible, etc. (TWIRecap 6/15)
We’re back with thoughts on the things I experienced over the past week: 2(+) movies, a TV show available on YouTube, 2 novels, and one concert. Movies & TV...
Backrooms, My Heart Is A Chainsaw, Etc. (TWIRecap 6/8)
Trying something new! These are the things I experienced within the last calendar week. Movies The Backrooms (Kane Parsons, 2026)I’m not a big Liminal Spaces...
men can't handle a bpd baddie
(Thanks to Willow for letting me steal this title.) Inde Navarette is a star. Though I’ve had a million different (often conflicting) thoughts about the...
Top Gun: Maverick feels kinda bad now
It's crazy that four years have passed since Top Gun: Maverick hit theaters. It's a movie I've only ever seen on the big screen: the biggest screen in...
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...
Why reboot Faces of Death tho
Faces of Death (2026) has a 100 Gecs-inspired end credits song which intercuts its incomprehensibly machined vocals with monologue from Faces of Death...
"More Everything Forever" Review: Billionaire Delusions
“Every Billionaire is a Policy Failure.” It’s a beautifully succinct phrase, at one time the Twitter name of Dan Riffle, former policy advisor for...
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)...
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Project Hail Mary, IMAX, and Me [Hot Take #4]
I’ll never forget seeing The Dark Knight on opening day at the Feinstein IMAX Theater at the Providence Place Mall in Providence, Rhode Island. I was...
undertone is Paranormal Activity but with podcasts (complimentary)
My last Kagi search before it began was “undertone movie jump scares.” I had committed to seeing the film with virtually no information: “horror movie with...
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,...