[thumbs through Leonard Maltin film guide]

I'm not quite that cynical yet - at least, in that when I look, I find new-ish contemporary music that I enjoy. But every time I listen to the radio, this sort of hateful apathy takes hold. It's not like I liked mainstream pop back when I was in its target demographic, but now when I hear Top 40-ish stuff (which has…

And isn't that how it is in Spartacus, Ben-Hur, and The Ten Commadments as well? It's been a film convention for a while.

Jesus Christ, Vampire Hunter has some good parts, reasonably attempts to wrestle with the Christian story, and was released before adding monsters to non-monster literature was a played-out trope - though long after dropping historic figures in the present became a cliche.

And when I was an insufferable teenager, I was surrounded by awful 90s music.

It's portrayed as a half-assed, functional plot point rather than something that's supposed to be over-the-top ridiculous. Therein lies a lot of the disconnect.

You want a finger? I can get you a finger.

Or more generally: adulthood - its just like college?

I agree, though I'm not actually convinced there's a lot of real-life people who watch the show AND fantasize about being in that world. I mostly get that line of thought secondhand, from a) articles that revel in the show's 60s aesthetic, b) thinkpieces about The Other who is corrupted by the show's dangerous…

The movie interweaves a lot of bad decisions by MI6 (and M in particular) with a plot involving arguments that the agency needs new leadership and more oversight, so I'm willing to count it as internally consistent (at least), even if arguably not intentionally so.

That last bit about M: my own theory is that M's motivations in not informing the room were political theatre, and the movie is a critique of the unchecked, PRISM-style monitoring that she's been at the committee advocating for. Or at least, allows for that reading.

Which I can appreciate. And I've been meaning to get around to playing Demon's Souls.

They are "classic" in the sense that they're foundational to a lot of games, but I always rooted their particular 3-D combination in Colossus in the particular late PS1 / early PS2 era - when games were moving beyond the well-honed mechanics of the 2D era into focusing on pushing at the edge of graphical capacity.…

I'm of two minds about the game: on the one hand, everything positive everyone said.

Must-See TV? More like musty TV!

Its depiction of privilege, entitlement and anxiety of success I find a lot more compelling, even if its tentative connection to a lot of the specifics of the particular Facebook story still makes me a bit wary. If it were a fictional story set in the West Coast elite schools and Silicon Valley I'd probably be joining…

I see it as an expression of anxieties about social media - that it is made for/by people who are inherently pathological and abnormal (much as video games were often portrayed in the 90s) - that doesn't have much grounding in reality - or at least, current social scientific understanding (I'm currently working on a…

He's had a unique career trajectory involving multiple identities and time travel.

Bond opens a dossier marked "EYES ONLY". Inside, are a series of brochures. Bond spends time carefully considering each one.

With a pivotal action sequence at Rancho Relaxo.