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  'Strangers on a Train' had three brilliant and difficult talents shaping its story so of course it's great. And if Highsmith had been obliged to attend a script meeting blood likely would have been drawn. Full ★★★★ #Review on #Letterboxd: https://boxd.it/dI3FnB #Movies #Thriller

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  ‘Island in the Sea of Time’ by S. M. Stirling is the first book in a trilogy and an entirely new sub-genre in the Alternate History sphere about an entire community, and all their stuff, (in this case Nantucket) being physically transported to a different point in time (the bronze age). I’m really glad that this idea inspired an entire sub-genre because it’s a good idea and this book sucks. It might sound that many of the following criticisms boil down to the book being 600 pages but no, Altern...

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  I was underwhelmed by 'Treasure Planet'. Full ★½ #Review on #Letterboxd: https://boxd.it/dI3ILL #Movies #ScienceFiction #Animation

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  The ‘Dr. Greta Helsing’ books by Vivian Shaw is an Urban Fantasy about Dr. Greta Helsing, a specialist in the treatment of those that go bump in the night, her friends, and patients. And a spectacle of escalation going from treating a vampire after an encounter with a hunter to angels, demons, and an accidental apocalypse in just a handful of installments which is a hard act to follow so it makes sense that the fourth book is the official end. Actually having just read that book I think it’s po...

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  'Anna' has like one and a half good action sequences and that's it. Full ★ #Review on #Letterboxd: https://boxd.it/dLOFfD #Movies #Action

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  'The Wrong Man' is like a high quality "ripped from the headlines' TV movie (forty years before that was thing) given a theatrical release. Full ★★ #Review on #Letterboxd: https://boxd.it/dL6fEJ #Movies #Drama

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  It may sound weird but I think Tom King’s ‘Rorschach’ run might work because it has so little to do with ‘Watchmen’. At its heart it’s a 70s style political thriller; the nameless protagonist investigates an attempted political candidate on behalf of the campaign that doesn’t trusts the FBI learning about the would be assassins lives and fringe beliefs. It’s just that those beliefs center around space squids and they chose to wear a Rorschach mask when doing the deed that narratively links it t...

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  'Coraline' is a top five Laika movie (they've only made six but still). Full ★★★★ #Review on #Letterboxd: https://boxd.it/dKkgvH #Movies #Animation #Fantasy

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  The only positive thing about 'Carbon Copy' is that it's Denzel Washington's screen debut. Full ★ #Review on #Letterboxd: https://boxd.it/dFmoGx #Movies #Comedy #Drama

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  I'm not sure 'The In-Laws' is one of the 50 greatest comedies but I like the leads and there are some good supporting bits. Full ★★½ #Review on #Letterboxd: https://boxd.it/dAqqHF #Movies #Comedy

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  'The Boxtrolls' is something of a disappointment compared to the rest of Laika's output but that still makes it better than a lot of family films. Full ★★½ #Review on #Letterboxd: https://boxd.it/dBcqy5 #Movies #Animation

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  How many tech companies are going to try to hide the AI collapse in the war downturn?

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  “People don’t know” is “I just learned” in arrogant idiot.

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  'Greaser's Palace' was such a disappointment. Full ★ #Review on #Letterboxd: https://boxd.it/dBcsVb #Movies #Western #Comedy

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  I like a good heist and making it a period film is clever but Demi Moore feels miscast in 'Flawless'. Full ★½ #Review on #Letterboxd: https://boxd.it/dFdVFJ #Movies #Thriller #Drama

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  I wondered if I posted about about this before let me check… [Searches most likely keyword] Huh, the mastodon search function only seems to goes back three months I’m going to have to manually scroll through four years of my home page.

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  "Birds of Prey" needed more Harley or less Harley, either way the Harley Quinn imbalance is the gist of ★★½ #review. Link: https://boxd.it/2EgOjP #movies #comics

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  I once had the idea to combine a really crunchy equipment/crafting with a skill-based loot system, one where you would have to spend time and rolls on the battlefield pulling parts from enemy mechs. Though it could easily take a turn towards body horror if it's a #ttrpg wherein the PCs are cyborgs. Or flesh golems.

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  'The Adventures of Baron Munchausen' is visually impressive but less than it could be as a narrative. I bumped it up nearly a full ★ for Oliver Reed's one scene performance though. Full ★★★★ #review on #letterboxd: https://boxd.it/4mLYIB #movies #fantasy

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  'M' is so influential that it can read as cliched. Full ★★★★ #review on #letterboxd: https://boxd.it/4rs4L7 #movies #drama

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  From time to time you'll run into a movie with that one scene that no one ever needs to describe or specify, they can just call it "that one scene". "What scene?" "If you've seen the movie you'll know which scene." I'm thinking of creating a list of such #movies; 'Re-Animator' is an obvious inclusion but I'm not sure about anything else. Does 'Blue Velvet' have as clear of an entry? I could use some help with this. Suggestions...

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  ‘The Two-Bear Mambo’ by Joe Lansdale is the third Hap & Leonard book and the last to be adapted in the (very good) television series making it our last chance to compare the two. The TV show is better. To be fair that has very little to do with THIS book; changes to characterization during the adaptation of earlier books had left the show with a more likable supporting cast. Also a full, even very short, season of TV gives more room for the story to rundown leads that barely get a mention i...

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  ‘Superman: Lost’ is about Superman being lost, in space. For something like twenty years. But thanks to some time travel nonsense he returns to the same day he left so he’s the only one who knows that he was even gone, let alone for how long. The story is then told as two parallel threads; you have what Clark got up to on summer exile but each issue is framed by Lois watch the man she loves struggle with something that superpowers can’t help with. Struggle to remember how live on Earth, how to...

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  ‘Snake-Eater’ by T. Kingfisher is a book of indeterminate genre; my local library calls it a #Fantasy, the author calls it #Horror but that was while highlighting plot parallels with earlier books (protagonist goes to home of older relative where they uncover secrets and encounter the supernatural). There’s even a sci-fi since the story apparently takes place at some point after 2050, not that it affects the plot. The story is mostly about the protagonist settling into her new home, finding a p...

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  ‘The Blood Books’ by Tanya Huff (loosely adapted for television as ‘Blood Ties’) is a pretty solid Urban Fantasy series with an ending. Do you know how rare that is? Series that actually ends rather than just petering out? It even has a coda to make it clear that no the series can’t continue. Even before it gets to that resolution I like what the series does; the vampire, that makes up the half of the detective team, is not guilt ridden, he’s not atoning for wicked past, he’s completely comfort...

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  ‘Nine Goblins’ by T. Kingfisher is about nine goblins (and a teddy bear) and is a very character forward story. It’s clear the author wanted to play around with these goblins (and teddy bear) and the plot was a secondary concern. Which I kind of wish they hadn’t bothered; the plot doesn’t give the book structure, there is no beginning middle end, there’s just goofing around then it ends. I would have been happy with just more goofing around, say in a series of episodic shorts, nine shorts, one p...

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  I keep thinking that I should sell my #TTRPG collection since it's been so long since I've used any of it but I don't want to. I far too clearly remember selling and re-buying the same book repeatedly as teenager to get rid of anything when I don't have to.

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  There is something very uncomfortable about lower-mid-budget shows lacking score (sometimes even foley). They can afford the talent and equipment to make it look good and record clean dialogue but there’s nothing left for sound design. If it’s not an essential sound effect or one of three music cues things can get strangely silent.

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  'Mac and Me', a movie only worth remembering for the memes. Full ½ #Review on #Letterboxd: https://boxd.it/dpnqrR #Movies #Family #Adventure

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  'Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths' is an Epic story told over three movies the best being the most standalone. Full #Review for on #Letterboxd 'Part One' ★★ : https://boxd.it/drgb4H 'Part Two' ★ : https://boxd.it/drgcHl 'Part Three' ★½ : https://boxd.it/drgeGJ