one of the many reasons you know that Harry Potter hbo show is gonna suck is that they don’t have any Mike Leigh collaborators on the roster. not a one.

CAN WHOEVER SAID THEY WRITE HAIKUS FOR ALL THEIR REVIEWS PLZ DM ME PLZ PLZ PLZ

Hi! Plz take a few minutes out of your day to fill out this short form, if you can :) It's for an article I'm writing about digital cinephilia. Looking for responses from Letterboxd power users AND normies - would be a MAJOR help. Please share, the more the merrier! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Avalon Fast’s CAMP is pretty amazing. how well-constructed! how funny! atmospheric and upsetting, as expected. But it’s really smart. You’re never quite sure what it’ll end up being “about,” until you realize the answer is: everything you suspected and some things you didn’t.

Making TikToks is kinda fun sometimes www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8spCVx1/

THE AMAZING DIGITAL CIRCUS (the *third* Youtuber debut in the past month) is handily the most important box office success story of 2026 so far. But you probably don’t know a single thing about it. I went long on why you should: open.substack.com/pub/cchelmet...

bro retro gaming SUCKS

This is great. Here's @owenjones.bsky.social basically doing the WKUK bit on TV, but about how in the UK you can't legally say you support the group Palestine Action.

Saw someone on TikTok describe the price of garments using the term enshittification…brother we are losing recipes and that recipe is literally the seventh chapter of Capital

C.R.E.A.M. (Clowns Rule Everything Around Me)

have to find every hilma af klimt piece and eat it

playing the new Jonathan Blow game

guy tried hitting on me by asking what I was reading and I had to explain to him THE TUNNEL by William Gas’s

Congratulations Knicks congratulations New York City congratulations friends <333

I have to work from home on a Saturday night somebody PLEASE give me an excuse to do ANYTHING ELSE

On Twitter they’ve been blowing up @ me for 24 hours lmao

Disclosure Day’s final act is the kind of pityslop that “anti-Netanhayu” Liberal Zionists rely on as a crutch. The grotesque distortion of evoking real suffering with aliens is like…a textbook example of reifying of one’s *lack* of culpability when forced to acknowledge imperialism.

There is a moment halfway through Disclosure Day when you learn the narrative stakes have been confusing and non-functional, a dual story w one character, *because* it is, in part, a metaphor for the production of AI Artifical Intelligence…OH BROTHER!!!!

Hated Disclosure Day so much 👍👍 basically non-functional cinema and politically repugnant. Never let that man touch a camera again unless he’s ready to apologize for everything

Can I be honest. I don’t post over here because I feel like the thirst traps don’t really go off like that

How do you learn about F1…

ISO a level-based game with challenges, à la Neon White or Rollderdrome. Could be shooter/combat/platformer/racing whatever

the contents of my bag….parodic truly

RHYTHM HEAVEN!!! WE GOT SOME GOOD FUCKING FOOD!!

Rock climbing but none of the wfh people are here and my favorite podcast has a new episode

XBOX’s strategy of oh god we will do anything to make people forget about our AI and our weapons technology for Israel…the fact that it is working whatsoever…gamers do not deserve rights

Guy with fuckass mustache gave the stupidest MW interviews back in the day…I love SLOP tho so I’ll be there

Yokoyama go to hell

Summer Games Fest is showing….games??? Like real games??? I didn’t know they made those

this one’s about the time in middle school I saw my clone on Omegle open.substack.com/pub/cchelmet...

Kratos and Faye setting up the school bake sale but they pause and grunt after setting up each folding table

God of War doing white people mythology: We want to honor and thoughtfully subvert these icons who we all hold so dear GoW doing non-white mythology: idk we got Jack Quaid as a talking cube

God Of War most embarrassing game series of all time

Porn Carnival is kinda like Brockhampton summer for the literary world…everybody’s doing it still

Lessons: Elden Ring movie will make half a billion dollars, Blumhouse will develop a second Disney-like grip on multiplex screen space (even less room for everything else), and studios are prioritizing movies that require neither massive VFX budgets *or* extras/exteriors.

THE BACKROOMS poses an interesting question: Can something be a video game adaptation if there is no video game? If audiences treat it as one, make content as if it were, “play” it alll the same…does it even matter??

I wrote about perfume and rollercoasters and working myself to the bone open.substack.com/pub/cchelmet...

about halfway thru Mina the Hollower and it’s SO amazing. Could be cleanly pitched as top down Zelda x Bloodborne, tho nothing feels referential or generic. Every quirk of traversal, every hidden NPC, every interlocking system for item acquisition feels bespoke. A work of overpowering craftsmanship.

I collaborated with a bunch of extremely talented writers and artists on a zine. It's called EMERGENCY! My essay is about AI-generated video as imperialist violence. You can buy the whole thing here. www.amazon.com/dp/B0H2LDX97...

I did not like OBSESSION (2025). Some thoughts, in which I pointedly avoid the term “male gaze:” boxd.it/eu2t4R

Honored and delighted to take on the discourse du jour alongside Daniel - though we mostly wound up discussing boundaries and the paradoxical plights of the Straight Woman open.substack.com/pub/dmlavery...

please, if you're able, help my sister-in-law out n donate, things have been really tough lately and it would really help

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i know there's a lot going on today but it might be worth your time listening to me briefly summarize this short story in what i must emphasize are wholly accurate terms

DERELICT STAR has 100 reviews on Steam. It is an *elemental* game: charming on the edges, clever but skeletal pixel art, music that scans as ambient noise. It harbors a near-religious devotion to being the best-feeling 2D platformer it can be. Awe-inspiring store.steampowered.com/app/3641010/...

thread of what I’ve been up to since forgetting I have a Bluesky, lol:

amazing essay that articulates the (imo) hollow malice of MIXTAPE