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There’s a lot happening here. It’s, like, fifteen or twenty years ago and I’m watching To Catch a Predator after school, or I’m watching clips of it online—I can’t remember which. I’m watching these men, these ridiculous men—in ball caps, in large round frame glasses, in shitty graphic tees,…
Shocktober 2026 It may have predated many of the social media ills that we deal with today but Sinister feels precision-targeted at the very modern urge to lock oneself indoors and repeatedly watch the worst stuff imaginable. Just as it’s easy to lose hours in an evening scrolling through…
I have no idea how Bungie could maintain what it suddenly thinks is a foundational game after all the layoffs but considering Destiny was never consistently great even with a full team… yeah I dunno man.
View on BlueskySo many mixed emotions around this stuff. When it was firing on all cylinders Destiny 2 was one of the greatest games out there. The problem was it always nosedived after a great expansion or update. Every time.
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This review may contain spoilers. Shocktober 2026 Genuinely sadistic and just mean as hell, Evil Dead Burn simmers with the impatience of a movie bursting at the seams to be unleashed on this series. “What a cowardly bunch,” it seems to suggest, “to treat violence with such restraint.” Good news…
Shocktober 2026 Having now caught up on the preceding entries in the Evil Dead series I can better appreciate the lineage this one lightly pulls from. It still feels very much like its own thing, set in a grimy condemned apartment building that already looks haunted from the get-go, and features…
Shocktober 2026 Hot damn, what a reboot. Fede Alvarez and co confidently put together an economical demonic possession horror story that ditches the humor of the original films for a maximally unsettling and bloody do-over, the sort of movie where it feels like something discomfiting is…
you ever just think about Mass Effect
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Shocktober 2026 The natural evolution of a trilogy whose second movie basically retold the first one is of course England circa the Middle Ages, and much like the second movie there’s just a lot more goofy fun to be had here. Bruce Campbell and Sam Raimi really were a match made in heaven. Loved…
Shocktober 2026 Ahahaha what the hell. An hour twenty of sick ideas that really outdo the first movie in every department. The first half especially is unforgettably crazy, the cabin hysterics sequence in particular a real standout. Knew this movie ruled when Ash started getting down with the…
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011)
Going down a star on this because while I do think the overall story arc is wrapped up rather spectacularly, it becomes more apparent on subsequent viewings just how many characters barely receive sendoffs. It’s been well over a decade since I read the books so I don’t remember all the details,…
Shocktober 2026 About as memorable as the last time I watched and promptly forgot about this in the basement of a college dorm during freshman move-in week over a decade ago. Can’t really explain why this obviously influential and wonderfully indie gore fest doesn’t really do anything for me,…
Criterion Challenge 2026 Week 47: Women Directors: The Official Top 250 Narrative Feature Films Just a wonderfully layered coming-of-age story that sorta hits a lot of predictable story beats, but Saoirse Ronan is so deeply immersed in this that it’s a pretty amazing watch. Lots of great…
Review of the new LL Bean flagship store remodel: the big boot is still there and everything is $300
View on BlueskyReady or Not is kind of incredible. Had to redo a level several times last night and it felt like a completely different challenge each time due to the changing NPC placement, not knowing who is going to be a suspect and who isn’t, people running around and behaving unexpectedly. Wild game.
View on BlueskyWas about to comment “best Halo.” Saw I already did it. But I’ll still say again: best Halo.
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010)
Still some of the best character work of the series. Some of the action scenes get a bit too indulgent in the rapid fire cutting (the Nagini and forest chase scenes in particular) but it’s a small price to pay for how compelling everything else is otherwise.
Jesus this thing just crackles with electricity. The costumes! The music! The long takes! Rollergirl! Burt Reynolds absolutely smoldering in every scene! A wickedly fun trip into excess and finding a community the American way that’s equal parts sexy and shocking.
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)
Obviously the Wizarding World is on the cusp of being torn asunder at this point but you really start to feel the desaturated color grading here. The whole movie has the visual palette of wet pavement, which might partially explain why I can never remember anything that happens in it. Draco…
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)
In which the old guard decides the only way it can hold on to power and any sense of legitimacy is by willfully ignoring a terrifying threat (whaaat no way) and gaslighting a teenager to his breaking point. Meanwhile: Imelda Staunton puts in an outrageously toxic performance, there’s a cool old…
paying my respects in Starfield
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Criterion Challenge 2026 Week 51: 1920s Jumping waaaay ahead for a quick pick to slot in to this evening. It’s cute! Not my favorite silent film, but wow does the restoration look nice and Jackie Coogan kills it with maybe the first great child acting performance? It’s gotta be.
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)
It’s pretty rad that, although Chris Columbus only helmed two of these movies, he was able to deliver a darker and more threatening follow-up to his first, more kid-friendly starter. Love that Potter and pals get to deal with blood on walls, fascists, friends not-quite-dying and wizard racism in…
Ended up with a Blu-ray copy of this Sean Connery film I had never heard of and decided to pop it in sight unseen. Was pleasantly surprised to find a grimy blue collar sci-fi story that immediately evokes Alien , but without the extraterrestrial doing all that murdering. While I wasn’t totally…
Nice, the only thing that could’ve made laggy compressed input-delayed video game streaming better was having to purchase the hours you want to play. Can’t think of a better way to interact with the hobby.
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Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (2001)
Goes without saying that you absolutely do not need to hand it to JK Rowling but you do gotta hand it to this cast and crew for kicking things off with a movie that at times practically glows with childlike wonder, its richly detailed sets begging to be revisited and John Williams delivering…
The type of shit I could absolutely go for right now
View on BlueskyOne of my favorite new discoveries is finding out you can use the game’s implementation of time dilation to generate thousands of resources in the blink of an eye on slow rotating bodies. Bessel III-b homies know what’s up.
View on BlueskyInexplicably got way back into Starfield on a new playthrough (several years of updates, some DLC, and a few hundred mods certainly helps). Divorced from the context and expectations of its launch it’s a fun enough time. Wish the writing wasn’t so elementary but what’re ya gonna do.
View on BlueskyBeen thinking about replaying The Outer Worlds 2 soon, if only because I miss hanging out with this guy
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I can’t log my favorite Tim Curry moment on here so I’ll rewatch my favorite Tim Curry movie instead. RIP.
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This is a looong movie for what is ultimately a fairly lightweight buddy sports story, but Heath Ledger and co appear to be having a lot of fun so it’s easy to get sucked in. Kinda dig how it’s only like 70% committed to its setting. Here’s a bunch of vaguely appropriate costuming and set…
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014)
Watched on Sunday August 23, 2026.
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