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Meditations on what I'm reading and watching. New entries are published approximately whenever I feel like it.
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Fate and Rebirth (opens the original)
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I keep swearing off watching new movies. Why do I do this to myself?Nobody 2, directed by Timo Tjahjanto in 2025, is an appallingly bad sequel to an unimpressive movie of which I wrote a negative review in 2021. It continues the story of Bob Odenkirk’s character, a former military assassin who reintroduces purpose and danger into a life of suburban malaise by getting in lethal fights with gangs of opponents in enclosed spaces. In the sequel the character takes his family on vacation to a backwat
Cartoons and Visual Art 26 (opens the original)
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For “Tiger Kab” I drew a wolf.<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="1456" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z_Sy!,w_1456,c_limit,f
Fantasies, Ignorance and Malevolence (opens the original)
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Backrooms, directed by Kane Parsons, 2026.Narrative premise: in a time before smartphones or social media, a struggling alcoholic finds that the basement of the store he operates contains a portal to a mysterious and supernatural complex of horrifying “backrooms” in which he becomes trapped and loses what is left of his mind. His therapist attempts to rescue him but is then forced to rescue herself.Moral premise: I haven’t read any commentary about this picture, so I don’t know what has been sta
Peace and Everybody (opens the original)
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Film Selections: Noir and Neo-NoirHigh Sierra, directed by Raoul Walsh, 1941. Solid noir caper with touches borrowed from the western genre. Humphrey Bogart plays a criminal just out of prison who promptly takes a job working a heist with some unreliable strangers, including a luscious moll played conservatively by Ida Lupino. Bogart’s protagonist also falls in with a sympathetic poor family who doesn’t know his background or profession; he becomes enamored with the idea that he might marry into
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