My Criterion Closet
I bought too many movies
Literacy 2025: Book 10: Enter a Murderer
My second attempt at making sense of a Ngaio Marsh murder mystery
Two Things I Love About Nosferatu
Robert Eggers’s Nosferatu strips away all the subtlety and subtext from vampire stories, and then adds a little back. Spoilers.
Survivor: Nope Island
The magic of choosing an appropriate title
Relatable One
Assorted observations while in my microblogging exile
One Thing I Like About Black Bag
Black Bag is a simultaneously 21st-century and old-fashioned spy movie that’s all about trust
Literacy 2025: Book 9: The Midwich Cuckoos
John Wyndham’s classic (and often adapted) story of first contact in a quiet English village
Opus: Coda
One extra observation about the movie Opus. Spoilers for the movie.
Kobo Libra Colour: Reader-Centric
An important addendum about e-readers and what we should expect technology to do
Literacy 2025: Book 8: Silver Nitrate
Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s novel about the dark magic of film
Weekly e-Reader
An update on the Kobo Libra Colour after a week and a half
One Thing I Like About Opus
Opus undercuts its own messages about fame by casting a bunch of really talented people