"Young Director from YouTube" is a funny designation because it makes sense right now but in a few years it'll sound like "programmer who used computers as a kid." Like, yeah. Where else would you do it.

(Sung to "Eye of the Tiger") It's the... Plague of the Zombies, it's this week's Hammer Time! I've been looking forward to this one... youtu.be/nDsa6UKhKys?...

Loved "Backrooms", the economy of the story and restraint of the direction. Also very much NOT going to be a "second-screen" movie.

Me: Time to sit down and lock in on this video edit... Epilepsy: That's what YOU think! *kaboom* Drat.

I guess "Mandalorian and Grogu" isn't packing them in, my local cinema has almost as many showings of "Backrooms" this weekend.

"Hellraiser: Hellworld" has a funny piece of mis-casting. Henry Cavill's character is a shallow-minded jerk, but it doesn't work because he's too innately charming. #lastfourwatched #Letterboxdfriday #filmsky

Christmas is early. Or is that CHRIS-mas? (Sorry) #filmsky www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ma...

"Unfriended: Dark Web" is the logical endpoint of Polymarket.

I always hear that this is the origin of the "masked hero" trope (Zorro, The Shadow, Batman, etc). Thought it was about time to actually read it. Didn't realise it was only published in 1905! #booksky #nowreading

A rough week IRL, so there's mostly comfort blanket movies this week. "Jason Goes to Hell" remains terrible, though. That's for completion with the following two. It's a bonkers "trilogy". #Letterboxdfriday #lastfourwatched #filmsky

App idea: Cameo, but you pay Hideo Kojima to name your newborn child.

So jealous of people who can write in a linear way. It's taken me weeks to hammer 2 pages of scrambled observations and opinions into a coherent 3000-word essay. Now to the good bit, though. Sitting for hours editing video, locked-in like the neurotypical wouldn't believe...

My brain: You can't just watch the good part of a franchise, that would be *incomplete*. You need ALL OF IT, including the TTRPG... I call this compulsion "Lore Brain". I'm sure it's an #autism thing and there's a proper term, but that's what I'm going with.

There's a guy in town who always wears a stars-and-stripes headscarf with round shades. I'm not judging, but it *does* make him look like the robot head from "Hardware".

Things got a bit gory again this week. Dracula: PoD is so weird. Lee has no dialogue, and every time the lead actor opens his mouth Captain Scarlet's voice comes out! #Letterboxdfriday #lastfourwatched #filmsky

It's very weird to work a day job in IT and increasingly despise every new development. Company has just released their AI policy. Sadly, it's not a complete ban.

I think zines are starting to come back as an outlet for post-AI, punk-rock art (that can't be scooped into training AI models). Got another one on the way, planning my own later in the year. These are by the very rad @bunnydarke.bsky.social #nowreading #filmsky

Gathered a wedge of research for the next video essay, on the home stretch of the current one.

And just like that, life became worth living again.

First draft, done. Now to circle back and hate everything I wrote.

Off to the movies for the first time in (checks Letterboxd)... THREE MONTHS?! Hoping for promising trailers, then.

This week's Bond movie remains absolute bobbins (except the final scene). Watch "Blackhat" instead. That movie's great. #filmsky #Letterboxdfriday #lastfourwatched

Get fed up with Steam Link being unreliable to my Quest 3S (I play 3 feet from my router), so just bought the Quest version of Beat Saber. I now realize quite how much DLC I bought on Steam...

Between watching "Blackhat", listening to a podcast discussion of "Manhunter" and reading "Heat 2" I'm just steeped in Michael Mann vibes right now. Positively marinated, in fact.

"Learning something new instead of finishing what I've started, Part 173": I might make a zine. You know, instead of actually improving the website or finishing writing... (I'm actually writing this weekend. It's a Bank Holiday, I've no excuse not to)

Name a movie you've seen more than six times?! I'm a) Autistic and b) Grew up in the VHS / DVD era. I can recite "The Matrix" in it's entirety. This is not an exaggeration.

Got a new fitness band and installed the app. Now back to playing my worst game: "Try To Get A Good Night's Sleep Simulator".

After a series of movies best summed up as "women having a pretty rough time", frankly I just needed a laugh. #filmsky #lastfourwatched #Letterboxdfriday

Forget the infinity symbol, I'm getting a tattoo of those frogs like it's a secret handshake.

You've got to be kidding me...

Rolled credits on the entire Ezio trilogy, my fourth time over the last 15-ish years. Ezio remains the high bar for the series, the low-key ending especially so. Now to finish the essay! #assassinscreed

Wow, an actual blog post! rivernorthexile.com/transformers/

Even LBC is clowning on Trump's nonsense now.

Making candles first thing on a Saturday morning, as you do.

disney spent way too much on their new marvel movie so they need an excuse to sell tickets at a higher price but can’t do imax bc all the theaters are already booked for dune. so instead of just moving the release date they invented their own fake imax lmao

The more that we're told by the billionaire class that homogenized AI slop is the future, the more I'm convinced we're about to move into an era of angry, messy, punk-rock art in response. Genuinely excited for it.

A feeling of "You shouldn't mess around with that" hangs over this week. In one case, "that" is Chow Yun-Fat. #Letterboxdfriday #lastfourwatched #filmsky

Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto https://theonion.com/man-who-threw-molotov-cocktail-at-sam-altmans-home-claims-he-was-following-chatgpt-recipe-for-risotto/

Thanks a quiet afternoon yesterday I finished both my fiction and non-fiction book. Blood Meridian deserves it's reputation. Next up, more of a page-turner (hopefully). Plus getting even angrier about Facebook (almost certainly). #booksky #nowreading

The ducks have left. Left the garden gate open overnight with a trail of oats leading to it. Looks like they took the hint. Godspeed, little dudes.

The duck that nested in our garden last year is back, suddenly emerged with 13 ducklings. Only problem now is showing them all the way out...

There was much plotting and scheming this week, not all of it successful. #lastfourwatched #Letterboxdfriday #filmsky

When even Nigel Farage says you've "gone too far" in public, you've REALLY fucked up. So... well done, America?

Sunday afternoon baking.

every generation thinks they're the smartest group of people to ever live. Yet here we are, inventing apps to remind us to drink water and stand up sometimes

Sorry, did I wake you?

Lot of style, lot of "vibes" this week, in varying proportions. #lastfourwatched #Letterboxdfriday #filmsky

Why am I seeing so many movie posts that are just a synopsis of the story and a poster? No insight or critique, just "This thing exists". I already knew, thanks.