Robot Dreams movie review: sighs of the machines
Immerse yourself in pure unalloyed joy with a sweet, deceptively simple carbon-silicon platonic romance. Even the poignant bittersweetness of this emotional roller coaster is affirming and uplifting.
Ikea
daily stream: Hong Chau, very small before she got very big
2017’s Downsizing is on Paramount+ in the US, Prime in the UK.
Midsommar movie review: välkommen to weird Ikea
It’s hard to escape the sense that Ari Aster is getting off on Florence Pugh sobbing and screaming as he fetishizes her terror and torment. And none of it is in the pursuit of any meaning or message.
Downsizing movie review: let’s get small (LFF 2017)
Absolutely stupendous: smart, funny, poignant, a true original. A thrilling odyssey of ideas that takes its sci-fi concept to the very edges of extrapolation.
The Intern movie review: so much nice, so little help
A nice movie about real problems people face in real life, and it deals with them in as sidelong a way as it possibly can, avoiding all strong emotion.
London photo: Ikea Tottenham
Just picking up a new Ark of the Covenant…
Doctor Who thing: if Ikea sold a flatpack TARDIS…
…it would come with instructions like these.
Doctor Who thing: Gallifreyan-style window shades
Best thing about them? If you’re not clued in to where the design comes from, they still looks beautiful and graceful.
fun stuff from FlickFilosopher stats week of Jun 15-21 2013
Actual unretouched phrases that people plugged into search engines this week that led them to this site (with some commentary from me)…
