Steam in your living room and Steam all over your face
Valve’s announcement of new Steam hardware makes all the right choices, and actually makes me feel a little less irrelevant
Tuesday Tune Two-Fer: Monáe Manor
Two tunes from when I first heard about Janelle Monáe and had my mind blown right out of my skull
Aliens vs Banjo-Kazooie, or, One Thing I Like About Predator: Badlands
I’m still not sure exactly who Predator: Badlands is for, but I imagine whoever it is will probably enjoy the heck out of it
Chick Flicks, Broad Comedy, and The Favourite
More thoughts about what The Favourite says and doesn’t say, and how people are unprepared for a movie with three Strong Female Characters (More spoilers)
The Favourite, or, Sneaking in Tongues
The Favourite is outstanding, taking everything that could make a movie arch or distancing and instead using it to draw us in. (Some spoilers for the end).
Tuesday Tune Two-Fer: What Planet Is This?!
A train of thought through lands of experimental multilingual chill
My Voyager Disc
My ongoing quest to let extra-terrestrial intelligence know that I have basic tastes
One Thing I Like About Bugonia
Bugonia is a surreal black comedy that seems arch and dark but can’t completely disguise its underlying humanity. (No significant spoilers)
Spooktober Recap and No-Theme November and Onwards
Saying goodbye to Spooktober until next year, and admitting what I really got out of it.
Ouija: Origin of Evil, or, Kate’s Husband’s Planchette
A last-minute addition to Spooktober 2025 that shouldn’t work yet somehow does (probably because of Mike Flanagan)
The Witch, or, If Thou Goest Down In The Woods Today
Finishing up Spooktober by finally watching Robert Eggers’s debut movie about a teenager who just can’t seem to get a break
Frankenstein, or, Merciless Life
Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein feels like the gothic horror movie he’s always wanted to make, and it wants to make it absolutely clear which one is the monster