Not A Review For Heretic. When I click "Here (2024)", Heretic pulls up, so I guess this will be where I put my thoughts on the Zemeckis film from the same year. The use of a static frame for a...
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This would have done so well if it had come out a decade or two prior, but in the age of comic book movie burnout, it's just the wrong time for a blockbuster like this. 'Tis a shame, because this...
This is my placeholder until Digger (2026) gets added to the db. Career defining work from its director & lead actor that breaks the fourth wall so hard, I think even the seventh wall in another...
I find that the best aspects of Primetime are its aesthetics. Pattinson is incredible, and the visual language of color, light & editing are impressive. It captures the mid-2000s threshold between...
I forgot I watched this, which maybe says something. As someone with a podcast, I do like the podcast premise here. The sound design would probably have been great in a movie theater, jarring as it...
Should I have seen it without being caught up on the Marvel MCU? Maybe not. I haven't seen an outing with Spider-Man since Avengers: Endgame, and I haven't seen a Spider-Man film since Homecoming....
I'm not naturally inclined to liking horror movies, especially if they depend on hauntings and jumpscares, and I wouldn't have seen this if someone else hadn't picked it for spooky season. It's not...
Perfect movie to start off the October month!!
Not a perfect movie, and not even a subject matter I much care about. The casting is weird, sure, but if it means Travis Scott is a Greek bard, I'm in. Give me that sweet anachronism; it's icing on...
I was curious to see an older woman badass role, and I got what I came for. I dunno much about Allison Janney, but her grizzled, loner character worked for me. The other characters, though, were...
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This whole week has been weirdly cloudy and overcast. I’m saving money on my electric bill since ...
Watch The Age of Disclosure
Ever since I was a child I've loved stories about aliens, government cover-ups, and UFOs. The X-F...
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Every December, just about the time the plastic skeletons are consigned to the trash, and the Sty...
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I have been rereading the Ryan Holiday stoicism books and am currently going through an extremely...
The Horror of becoming Normal
When I was a kid, I could always spot the adult sellouts. The ones who stopped liking weird thing...
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Benjamin, Adorno, Horkheimer, And A Path Backward Through Hegel
I've been reading Benjamin, Adorno, and Horkheimer, and the more I do the more I realize how much of what they're saying comes from conversations with the thinkers before them. It feels like walking into a room where everyone’s already mid conversation. This deep dive is my way of tracing those voices backward. I want to understand where ideas come from, how they evolve across time, and what they say about art, memory, and what it means to create something that feels alive.
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Reign of Terror
Comprehensive Timeline of Ryan Walters Reign of Terror in Oklahoma and Beyond For the first time in modern Oklahoma History, nearly every parent in Oklahoma was in agreement that Ryan Walters was bad at his job. Across party lines, Oklahomans celebrated when he officially resigned. Within days, his mandates are began to get struck down one by one. But Ryan doesn't exist in a vacuum, he was strategically chosen and propped up to a position of power. If he was so hated, why didn't he end up getting removed from power sooner; and more importantly: Who helped him rise to power, and how do we stop something like this from happening again?