Letterboxd being down is incredibly stressful for people like me who's entire personality revolves around "open Letterboxd and look at all the colourful movies"

So the WestHills cineplex is currently the only theatre in Calgary showing either It Was Just an Accident or Nouvelle Vague - is it becoming the new Eau Claire, as a Cinplex-branded theatre that will play the indie/prestige hits?

Finally watching Inland Empire for Halloween. There’s nothing I love quite like being an hour into a Lynch movie and not understanding anything ✨

“Well let’s check out how the game went today” *looks around* “wtf do you mean it’s still going.“

the "video games are art!!" conversation is never going to go anywhere until video games stop remaking and remastering old games under the delusion that age makes them bad or innaccessible. Art stands the test of time. If your creation needs to keep being reheated, it's not art, it's a product.

"engagement bait" is such a crass term. When I was a kid, we called it "ring by spring"

when coldplay said "everything that kills me makes me wanna die" i felt that

does anyone have like thirty minutes to tell me if this abstract is good or not

"you don't let taylor write fun albums anymore!!!" actually, fun. albums are written by nate russ and - you guess it - jack antanoff, so write that down

It's fascinating that, despite defining so much of her career around "storytelling" and investing so much into the album as an art form, really encouraging her audience to prioritize physical album releases and embrace the "era" format, Taylor hasn't made a truly cohesive album since folklore.

in many ways, "life of a showgirl" is the "i could never be your woman" of music

Well, say what you want but Taylor swift certainly did put out a new album today. she sure did.

I applied for two Master's programs last year and got rejected from both. This year I spent the last while thinking, "I should widen my net! I should explore more options!" only to get hit with the reality of application fees again and think "oh god is any of this affordable" I hate this world.

My first really full-blooded critique of silksong is, why the hell is there a cap on how many shard bundles and rosary necklaces/strings you can hold? I’d be more okay with the former if the latter wasn’t also true; why make a cap for this and also why cap it at such an odd height?

flight has been delayed for two hours but I was like "it will probably be good to go through security early anyways, right?" wrong. victoria has the most boring terminal known to man. i need airports to figure their shit out

I’m at 100% completion in Silksong, just need to finish up some Hunter’s stuff, a few collectibles, and the true final boss, and I know I will be torn apart but genuinely my only wish is that this game was like 10% harder.

“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind

"Your cellar appears to have an ant problem" 10/10 game

I was away last weekend but I finally crossed the threshold into Act 2 of Silksong and, damn, what a game. Getting into the Citadel is immediately A) such a breath of fresh air, and B) a realization of, "oh, this is what the DLC would have been, and this is why they made it into its own game."

Seeing complaints about Silksong is crazy because literally everything people are complaining about are things that are also true in Hollow Knight. It just plays differently and is balanced around different mechanics. It is not radically harder!

Broke: Beating Absolute Radiance and Pantheon 5 on Switch so you can say you did it on TWO PLATFORMS before Silksong came out Woke: Choosing to walk around Hallownest one more time instead and then set the game down so don't burn out your love for it and have a reason to come back in the future ✨

@teamcherry.bsky.social can you delay Silksong actually I thought I'd have beaten Pantheon 5 on Switch by now but I just need a few more days I think

I relate to Nardwuar because I too remember obscure facts and trivia from my friends and start conversations by going, "hey, do you remember X?" only for them to go "what the fuck are you talking about."

can't believe taylor is getting engaged to her least interesting man it's over

That is SUCH a sooner release date than I was expecting!!!!

Genuinely why make movies like this. What does it gain to tell stories like this? Who cares?

Okay so no release date TODAY but VERY SOON!

over the past six+ years this is perhaps the most convinced I've been that we will get a Silksong release date tomorrow. Which of course means that it won't happen. But it COULD

genuinely feels crazy to have the exact unique credentials and experience a position is looking for and to not even get on the short list someone free meeeeeee.

taylor working with max martin again is a recession indicator, i fear

very bold of greta to make a narnia movie exclusively for messy exvangelicals who had a gungor phase and absolutely no one else. we'll see how that pays off

*phil collins drum solo* I can feel it Colin Toffelmire Tonight

What a crazy world, I can't believe Trudeau might be dating Matt Thiessen (of Relient K fame)'s ex-girlfriend.

I have a deep and personal beef with Augustine but unfortunately I, too, have never loved anything the appropriate amount so I have to admit that he was cooking with that one

People will gas up Revenge of the Sith but it is exactly as much an exploration of the fall of democracy as Phantom Menace is an exploration of podracing.

new job interview for the 23rd!! pls pls pls free me from this institution

Genuinely where the hell are the Andor Emmy acting nominations. How are they getting snubbed by White Lotus. How is White Lotus getting nominated as a Drama? What is happening?

I do think something has kind of fundamentally broke with the internet over the last five years. Over the previous Trump presidancy and into Covid we at least were able to have fun with it. There are no bits anymore, no whimsy, just people being agressively serious all the time.

Rian Johnson did a Rolling Stone article and talked about Star Wars and it continues to blow my mind that almost 10 years later there are still angry, angry people who seem to think he single-handedly tore down their beloved IP. Also RJ Star Wars trilogy is basically deconfirmed, no one talk to me

would 100% recommend seeing bleachers live holy shit does jack antanoff know how to put on a show

It also hasn't escaped my notice that, while the basic assistants were given female-coded names and personas (Siri, Alexa, Cortana), the advancement to 'intelligences'—meant to think and plan and write for you—instigated a shift to neutral techy labels and male names (Grok, Chat-GPT, Claude)

oh i'm loving the visual vibe of this one

ai tech bros are always like, "the technology is not there yet, but someday it will be!" wrong. someday i will go to every individual chatgpt server and pour pepsi into the machinery until i hear the electronics sizzle and pop and the smell wafts onto me like a warm cloak. someday i will win.

Most of my adult experience has been going back to all the books and films I had been told were "unwatchable" or "unspeakably bad" and realizing that they were all pretty good and I just grew up in a world that was lame and cowardly and hated good art

there are a thousand, thousand reasons why LLM are bad and stupid, but I genuinely can't understand current students who think they are "getting one over" on teachers by using ChatGPT. All you are doing is getting less out of the education you are spending thousands of dollars on. Who's losing here?

This is a story that has been going around for a long time, but it's finally getting broken in a way that feels concrete and inadmissable and I'm so curious how these communities are going to respond. julieroys.com/former-newsb...

It's very funny to see people post-Andor saying "I can't believe anyone would let the Empire come back after all of that" and like. Have. Have you looked around? At the world? That we live in? Do these metaphors mean nothing to you?

i want to be a killjoy: we need to make it socially unacceptable to ask chatgpt anything

the M:I movies primarily function by reverence to the laws of physics - if ethan falls, he dies, etc. That's where the tension is generated! Where the Reckoning movies fail is by creating an antagonist that entirely defies the laws of thermodynamics. "oh the entity escaped on a usb" no it didn't!!!

I liked Dead Reckoning and thought it was fun but it is becoming increasingly clear how essential Ilsa Faust was to the alchemic perfection of Rogue Nation and Fallout