A high concept that could've been taken any number of ways but leaned in directions I found less interesting than the other directions that they hinted at but later abandoned. i.e. I was more interested in companies using dream-tech for advertisement than I was about cancel culture.

Big movie for GTA suburbia, looked incredible, one of Nick Cage's best since TUWoMT youtu.be/yJjfiGmVgAU?si=NfkHR3UZ_5U46QQz

So in the pocket. Peak sleekness. Pitch perfect. 93 minutes. This is what we're talking bout people. Soderbergh's on a(nother) tear; already got 2 of my fave 2025 flicks in the (black) bag. I loved this.

Canadian content baby! CBC Gem! With twelve commercial breaks, all advertising the streaming service we were already using!

The most melodrama of melodramas, a hat-on-a-hat of traumatic experiences, excruciatingly literary, but undeniably riveting. Ian Holm in Bilbo-mode (highest possible praise). Some nitpicks re: what time the sun sets round December in the BC Rockies.

It took the threat of annexation for me to watch my second Atom Egoyan movie. We stand on guard for thee.