Oh, and while I'm at it, I really liked I Am The Pretty Thing That Etcetera Etcetera, but Dowd's right about it spending a whole lot of its not-even-90-minute running time basically just walking in circles. I imagine there's only so much you can do to build tension and propel a plot when your entire film is set in a…

I think I was in the same screening of The Handmaiden as our boi Alex here. That movie was incredible—I hope someone here writes it up in more detail eventually—but the emotional centrepiece it was built around was a sex scene of absolutely absurd length and variation that, for me, threatened to take some of the shine…

My favourite character name is never actually uttered: Marwood, the name of the paradoxically unnamed protagonist of Withnail & I. He's named as such in Bruce Robinson's script, and his name is visible on screen written on to the back of a telegram, but nobody ever calls him that, and Paul McGann is credited as "…& I"…

Hey bud, quick question. I just started a new game of The Witcher 3 with the expansions installed for the first time. What's the best way to play them? You can access them as quests by playing normally, and I know they're intended to be high level content, but what's the optimal time to start them up? Before…

Final Fantasy XV isn't out for another two months, I need a break after mainlining so much No Man's Sky to get my review out, and the weather turned breezy, cloudy, and chilly exactly on the first of September. Conditions are perfect for replaying The Witcher 3 which I started tonight. Fresh start rather than New…

Because the critical path in Castlevania: SOTN is so lean, finding any of the tons and tons of optional areas was always a treat. I'm not even talking about the entire second upside-down castle, I just mean stuff like Olrox's Quarters or the Colosseum. I think my favourites, though, are the Abandoned Mine and the…

It turns out the real sky was the friends we made along the way.

Awwwww, shucks.

This is one of the most intricate, merciless burns I have ever seen on the internet. This lore takedown has lore of its own.

I rented that film after watching But I'm A Cheerleader solely on the grounds that it was another Babbit film and I'd heard Clea had a microscopic cameo in it. It turned out alright! I ain't mad at anything with Melonie Diaz in it.

Haven't seen Carnivale, but it's at or near the top of my list after seeing so much praise for it here. Somebody elsewhere in the comments mentioned some kind of Christina Ricci starring Lizzie Borden project as well, which caught my attention. More to throw on the pile!

I've already done The Grudge and Ghosts Of Mars on my journey, and they were just okay and surprisingly boring for a movie about Ice Cube fighting Martian zombies, respectively. 13 Conversations I found to be kinda like Diet Magnolia—good, but suffering from the comparison. Great cast, though, and I love her character…

I'd seen DuVall in loads of stuff I'd really enjoyed, but seeing her in Veep was what made me finally say "alright, I need to know who this really is" and make the concerted effort to start going through her filmography. Smart decision, as after catching up on a lot of her work she shot to the top of my list of…

True.

I've encountered plenty of planets without indigenous life, but every planet I've visited so far has featured the infrastructure of one of the three intelligent races. Some planets are classified as "low atmosphere", which puts an additional strain on your life support but also tends to signify the presence of rare…

I think I'm going to go with The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen for this one. I picture a Dragon Age style narrative-driven WRPG. Maybe even go whole hog and do it Dragon Age II style with the time skips, so the story could follow Quatermain and Mina's later adventures in the 40s, 60s, and 00s. Or maybe it wouldn't…

I saw Fight Club long before I started listening to the Pixies, but I like the Pixies way more than I like Fight Club, so it'll always annoy me that I'll never hear "Where Is My Mind" without thinking at least a little bit about that movie.

I AM HERE FOR YOU MY FRIEND.

If you crack the secret of breaking into Youtubing be sure to report back. I've always wanted to launch a video essay channel but never had the know-how or motivation to really get the enterprise fired up. Seems like the effort-to-reward ratio is fatally skewed towards effort for everybody but the Youtube superstars…

The greatest writing oversight in Season Two is that there was no "kill Kenny and leave the baby with Jane" ending.