Category: Arts & Entertainment
One Thing I Like About No Time To Die
Daniel Craig’s last Bond movie makes self-reference into a celebration
Star Wars and Focusing on the Wrong Thing
Getting closer to a Grand Unified Theory of what makes something “feel like Star Wars”
Sunday Smackdown: Ghostbusters (2016) vs Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021)
Two movies enter the arena, each with a different idea of what made the original Ghostbusters work. (Some spoilers for Afterlife)
Bandersnatch and Possibility Spaces
More like an extended-length episode of Black Mirror than an interactive movie, Bandersnatch reveals (probably intentionally?) most of the problems with interactive fiction.
Tuesday Tune Two-Fer: It’s Tricky
Two tangentially-related tunes for Tuesday, to remind me how I was so much more blissfully ignorant before Wikipedia
One Thing I Love About Dune
Denis Villeneuve’s Dune is the best adaptation of a book I only know via adaptations
Movie List Monday: Double-Naught Seven
Do you expect me to make a list of my favorite James Bond movies?
Movie List Monday: Yes, the one in Los Angeles
Considering how much the film industry loves to make movies about itself, they haven’t done much to sell me on their home city
