What is time even, really?

I continue my schedule. Of all things my diss work prepared me for quarantine; aside from the inability to nip put for coffee or library books, it's pretty similar. For better or for worse I'm not feeling as dispirited as others are, as near as I can tell. I'm not writing as much as I would like, but that's about par for ( Read more... )

I finally sat down to watch it--the whole thing, not just the, uh, highlights.

So I actually enjoyed it way more than I was expecting, since it was billed as so gritty, much grimdark. I could have lived without the blood and viscera, though, it is true.

What surprised me was the romance plot, which was incredibly incredibly sweet. Following from ( Read more... )

I read The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society when it first came out ten years ago, and it quickly became one of my favorite comfort reads. It's a story about survival and recovery, and above all about the power of reading to bring people together. The film version, produced by Netflix, only got about half of that ( Read more... )

 I was underwhelmed because I had just finished reading the book. It's very pretty? And I like what they did with diversity in casting and stuff, but....they Hollywoodized the fuck out of it.

I also spent too much time making it a really weird Padme/Poe time travel AU in my mind. >_>

 We've gotten a month-long subscription to HBO so Scott can mainline Westworld, but the first thing we actually did was watch Fahrenheit 451 starring Michael B. Jordan.

This version of Bradbury's classic is very much updated for our present political moment; not only is media consumption and drug use state-sanctioned, but so is social media/live ( Read more... )

...which I just described to someone as "like Kurosawa's Ran but with white and brown people."

I'll be okay. ... later.

Tonight we tried to watch the Hamildoc but it seems that either the fandom swamped the stream and broke PBS or the DOS attacks were involved. (FWIW the issue I had was in buffering, so I only saw maybe two minutes of synced sound and video....whev, I'll watch it tomorrow. Sigh.)

Anyway, instead we watched Warcraft, or at least I did (Scott fell ( Read more... )

I went twice before I sat down to write, so: TL;DR I REALLY LIKED IT AND I HAVE A LOT OF FEELS.

( All of the spoilers, with analysis )

Went with a gang of folks to go see The Imitation Game yesterday. I'd put off going because I'd read a negative review from a source I typically trust (which, I don't even remember where now). Anyway, I was pleasantly surprised; though it's a bit clunky, there's some genuinely good writing in there too. The theme of comprehension and communication ( Read more... )

Spoiler alert, just so you're aware--Smaug is actually Khan.

( But seriously, folks )