A couple days back, Lisa and I went to see “Yesterday.” When it was finished, Lisa said “I loved that!” and I replied “That might be the most perfect movie ever made.” I admit that last was a little overblown. “Yesterday the movie is not quite in the strata as “Yesterday” the song. It’s a […]
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15 Things I loved about #IntoTheSpiderVerse:
1) Re-purposing “You’re like me.” 2) Inclusiveness of all things Spider. Being that I’m (a) old, and (b) out of touch with progress in these comics, this is fun. Time to dig in. 3) Thought boxes. Blurred printings. It looks like a moving comic book. Awesome. 4) Public transportation to save swinging. 5) Multiple upside-down […]
Read More ...Mr. Rogers, Fight Club, and Snowflakes
Lisa and I went to see Won’t You Be My Neighbor today—the recently released documentary of Fred Rogers’ work. I’m not going to spoil anything about the specifics of the film here, so you can read on without great fear there. But I am going to talk about how this has made me feel and […]
Read More ...Solo, The Movie: My Take
Lisa and I went to see Solo this week. Yeah, it’s good. Okay good rather than great good, but still good enough. It’s a little swashbuckling, and at least Donald Glover does a great Lando. The story clicks off all the things it needs to click off, and finishes with a little intrigue. Certainly worth […]
Read More ...A few thoughts on The Shape of Water and spoilers, too
Lisa and I went to see The Shape of Water earlier this week. It’s a nice film, intriguingly presented as an early 60s, comic booky, SF, Spy, fairy tale that hits all my buttons just right. It also has a mechanical element that I always find interesting as a person who creates stories—an element that […]
Read More ...My breakfast with Phasma
I woke up this morning with a billion things going through my head, mostly things I’m wanting to get done, and also this weird question that I’ll probably blog about sometime (Top 5 List: people you would like to meet with over coffee). Once I’m up, I drop a few kibbles down for the cat, […]
Read More ...Star Wars: The Times They Are A Changin’
Warning, there be spoilers beyond…enter at your own risk, though I figure you’ve probably seen everything by now. Anyway, in the name of catching up a bit: let’s talk about Star Wars. Bottom line, I’m in the “loved it” camp. It’s not perfect. Structurally, I have things I would like to have seen happen (or […]
Read More ...Five Reasons to See Logan Lucky
Lisa and I took a break yesterday and saw Logan Lucky. Afterward, we read reviews and talked about the film. On the whole, I’ll say it was worth seeing, though I didn’t like it as much as I wanted to like it. I think it has some specific flaws, and I don’t think it really […]
Read More ...Big Little Lies
So, Lisa and I binge watched HBO’s Big Little Lies the past couple days. It’s a good story. You should watch it too, if you haven’t already. But beyond that, it’s an interesting piece to me specifically for the fact that it addresses plot out of order (well, that and the fact that it utilizes […]
Read More ...Sunspring … extreme SF, all the way down
A little bit ago, I wrote an entry that I titled “The Rules They Are A Changin’, in which I discussed some “sky is falling’ kind of thoughts about what happens to the economy when AI do almost all the work. The piece got a comment or two, both on the site and on the […]
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