A Game of You and Me.
This is a dazzling and inventive film. In fact, I haven’t felt this visually stimulated from a movie since “Blade Runner 2049.” This was adapted from the scaffolding of an epic poem—one of the numerous stories, added, cut, melded, and reforged into the Arthurian Cycle over a period of centuries. A brilliant thing (perhaps the most brilliant) that this movie did, was how it didn’t try to completely transform this into something more narratively…
The first adult literature I encountered as a child were books my two older siblings were assigned to read as classroom assignments. I would wander into their rooms and spy titles familiar to many American high school curriculums such as: "The Lord of the Flies," "To Kill a Mockingbird," "The Catcher in the Rye," "The Great Gatsby," and "The Autobiography of Malcolm X." All of these books were influential to me, but it was Malcolm’s in particular that impacted me…
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
*Spoilers for the game and show below!*
Don't have the time or inclination to write regular reviews (at least in the foreseeable future), but I think I'll do a review of season one after its finished. This will be it's placeholder. Thoughts so far:
There's interesting things happening: tendrils of themes coming together into something that hasn't fully coalesced yet. I wrote earlier that Season One of "The Witcher" made a fascinating change from the books by clearly bifucating the…
Note: I'll just use this entry to post my thoughts on each short from season three, so I don't clutter up my feed
If you’ve grown up on 80’s or 90’s animated kids shows, you may have taken a brief gander at some of today’s animated offerings and lamented how there’s a distinct lack of robots compared to the ones you grew up on. This series has been a brief salve for those that yearn for a more innocent time…
After repeated failed attempts, I finally committed to sitting down and watching this in its entirety. Composed of 12 episodes, this series has long been hailed as a seminal moment in the advancement of high-quality television drama. I do have to concur. It should rank as one of the best shows of all time, although there’s some significant barriers for modern audiences to get into this. To be honest, the biggest obstacle is just getting started. This was made years…
Signals in Noise. It’s a strange sensation when you encounter an acclaimed film and you can see exactly why it’s so good, but you’re simply not drawn into it. For me, the most conspicuous example is “Blade Runner.” I intellectually appreciated it, but was also emotionally disconnected, as if there was an invisible barrier that was somehow preventing me from fully embracing it. At around my fourth or fifth viewing, something magically clicked, and I was wholly absorbed into its…
