Recent content by Einherjar86

Haven't seen that one yet, will check it out. Thanks! Managed to catch 28 Years Later on the last day it was in theaters. It felt zanier to me than 28DL, with some odd cuts and fragmentations in the narrative, but I was not prepared for all the complex layers of sociopolitical commentary on...

Been on a Soderbergh kick. We watched Presence and Black Bag this weekend, both tight, tense thrillers. Presence definitely upends all expectations of horror, including being scary (which it wasn't at all); but I thought it was still a clever gimmick. I'm not sure it has as much to say as...

lol did not realize he made that on a budget of $1M, that's pretty impressive. Maybe also speaks to why he had to go with no-name/B-level actors. I mean, I really enjoyed it, despite it being structurally messy. I can definitely see the video-game aesthetic, that makes sense. And given FL's...

Finally caught two movies I've been itching to see for a while: Azrael I'm a Samara Weaving fan, and she fucking brought it here. Short runtime of an hour twenty or so, no dialogue at all unless you count the dude speaking that made-up language (and even then, it's not strictly dialogue because...

Fury Road is fucking insane and glorious. Furiosa is good too but in a different way. I'll admit to feeling let down after the bombast that was Fury Road; the sequel definitely doesn't go for the same level of high-octane madness. But it has a different point to make, I think.

Dude, I know. I'm psyched. Also, this scratches the itch I have for Panos Cosmatos's Nekrokosm. Still unclear if that's actually happening or not.

It's not only the ending of the season, there are things peppered throughout all eight episodes. The ending hammers the final nail in the coffin though. I mean, it is the ending after all. Endings are kind of a big deal. But even then, it doesn't kill the season for me. I still really like it...

It's no one thing, just a bunch of little things. On the surface, S1 feels like a pretty progressive and iconoclastic season; but a few things never sat right with me, and paired with Pizzolatto's cringey slandering of the fourth season (which, say what you want about it, he didn't come off...

So does a colon.

I've wanted to rewatch S2 for a while now, and seeing this makes me want to do it even more. I'll always have a place in my heart for S1 and what it was doing, but I also have to admit that watching it now, it's kinda hard to ignore Nic Pizzolatto's weird crypto-conservatism. You're right that...

Nice. I forgot to add that there's a tech/VR/deep learning angle to Gathering Evidence that makes it feel super relevant today. I don't use Goodreads but I know lots of people prefer it for keeping track of their reading likes and habits. As far as keeping up with new books, I usually just...

I burned through Martin MacInnes's three novels this past summer. He's a Scottish writer; his most recent book, In Ascension, was longlisted for the Booker prize. It's heady science fiction--not in the hard sense, but more in the philosophical sense. I found it really addictive. It's about a...

Any preferences or genres/topics/etc. you'd rather avoid? Fiction vs. nonfiction? bougie vs. pulpy?

Yeah it was a letdown. I think I dislike it more because my hopes were so high. My mistake.

I agree with everything you said except that Rogue One is a great movie and WAY better than Romulus. 😁 (I don't actually think you were implying otherwise, and I get the comparison between the two; but Rogue One was definitely better in a lot of ways). I also lean toward liking Romulus, but I...