Housekeeping

Goodbye Twitter, It’s Been Nice

I wiped my Twitter account. I haven’t checked Twitter since late 2024, but really the decision was made by early 2023 and has been inevitable since 2015. If you’re tuned in you can probably correlate those dates with specific events but going into detail about why I quit would be like airing grievances at a […]

Video Games

Six Miscellaneous Game Reviews

I’m a fan of the website Backloggd, a Letterboxd-like for tracking and reviewing video games. My Backloggd profile isn’t as complete as my Letterboxd as far as statistics goes; I find the logging system just a little too convoluted and the database just a little too messy. Still, when I update that I beat a […]

Awards Season

97th Oscars: Five Reactions

I closed my predictions post saying it felt odd to have positive expectations for the Oscars. It also feels odd to have those expectations met. That was the most enjoyable Oscars night since at least the Parasite year. Let’s process it, and then we can finally watch some 2025 movies. Here are five narratives still […]

Movies

My Top 10 Films of 2024 of 2024

This was a mediocre year for movies. You’re not supposed to start your list like that. You’re supposed to open with the comfortable cliche that it was a great year, like last year was and the year before, despite whatever industry trend or high-profile box office bomb would indicate otherwise. Focus on the positives. It […]

Awards Season

96th Oscars Will Win/Should Win

This year’s Oscar race hasn’t been quite as monotonous as last year’s. Even then, All Quiet on the Western Front managed some surprises on the night where we expected Everything Everywhere All at Once dominance. Which goes to show that this is all pointless and those of us that try to predict the results have […]