loaded question: what casual video games can you recommend at the moment?
I’ve just discovered mass-transit simulator Mini Metro, and I’m wasting so much wonderful time with it. It reminds me of SimCity, which I was hooked on many many years ago…
#DailyStream weekly roundup
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Full Time (À plein temps) movie review: mother of invention
This relentless, heart-in-your-throat, ticking-clock thriller about precarious single-motherhood could not be more timely or more intimate. As real, and as recognizably stressful, as the genre gets.
loaded question: if you could have a Lego set of anything, what would it be?
Of course there are many many Lego sets dedicated to pop culture. But don’t feel like you must limit yourself to pop culture. Go to town…
#DailyStream weekly roundup
The #DailyStream is a once-per-day, single-movie-only streaming recommendation that appears both at my Substack and Patreon, and in truncated forms across my social media. They are free for everyone.
Knock at the Cabin movie review: there appears to be an apocalypse happening
There is only one thing worse than an M. Night Shyamalan movie with a twist ending. And that is one without a twist ending. Feels like a faith-based movie trying to sneak in under a disingenuous wire.
loaded question: what are some positive, definitely not evil, hopefully useful and creative uses for AI?
From deepfake porn to “art” that infringes on the work of actual humans, artificial intelligence, as it exists at the moment is not making a very good argument for itself. Can we brainstorm a better future?
#DailyStream weekly roundup
The #DailyStream is a once-per-day, single-movie-only streaming recommendation that appears both at my Substack and Patreon, and in truncated forms across my social media. They are free for everyone.
Blue Jean movie review: cowardice and bravery as matters of survival
A powerful, necessary film, deeply humane and sympathetic, ugly-beautiful in its panic, full of dread and bad behavior. We feel every iota of Jean’s anxiety at closeted life in the homophobic 1980s.
loaded question: what are some great anti–Valentine’s Day movies?
I’ve chosen the terrific Frances Ha, which doesn’t deny that romance is very important to many people, but that plenty of others find similar fulfillment elsewhere.
