I haven’t seen There will be or Parasite. I’ve seen most of Bong Joon Ho’s films and don’t partículy like them. I think Mother was the one I liked most.
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Hmm. You just might like his best one.
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It’s most definitely a post-brexit film and nobody involved with it is trying to hide that. Fiennes was also superb in this, i was expecting a sort of Kurtz character when we first meet him so it was nice to have that somewhat subverted.
I get the Clockwork Orange reference but i find it extremely distasteful they’re using the likeness of someone who sexually abused hundreds of vulnerable people over several decades. The more i’ve thought about this the more it has pissed me off, this is entertainment at the end of the day, not a documentary.
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If you liked Fiennes in that can I recommend The Return with he and Juliette Binoche as a rather heroic Odysseus and Penelope?
Look it doesn’t, and can’t ever, atone for his jingoistic patriotic propaganda for the opening ceremony of the London edition of the Corruption Games. The overwhelming bang of smug that engendered definitely assisted Brexit. He can’t walk it back.
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Looks like there are several of these. The channel description even sounds fun:
Light a candle, settle into the shadows, and let’s begin…
Step into a world where forgotten folklore, eerie nursery rhymes, and dark fairy tales come to life. With haunting storytelling and gothic mystery, we unearth the real history, lost legends, and sinister truths buried in the stories you thought you knew.
From the twisted origins of childhood rhymes to ghostly legends and supernatural folklore, each tale whispers secrets from the past—not just myths, but echoes of real events and forgotten fears… if you dare to listen.
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As we’re waiting for the last episode of Apothecary Diaries to show up on Crunchy Roll, we’ve been watching this weirdness…
It’s… just… weird.
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I haven’t seen this but i know the character! This is a spin-off of Kaiji, which is a pre-Squid Game manga/anime but thematically similar, just way more outrageous and over the top while still having a lot of tension that comes with a grim setting about desperate people betting their lives in order to wipe their debts or make tons of money.
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How depressing.
I feel so sad that a comic that I loved when I was younger now has this whole… shadow… over it now.
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I have the Sandman comics collected through the Omnibus volumes. It took a fairly long time saving up, asking for some volumes as xmas gifts, etc. An ex also gifted me a statue of Dream. And now i don’t quite know what to do about it all, well… i guess the sensible thing would be to sell them and make space.
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I hear you. I loved Violent Cases and his Black Orchid run with Dave McKean and Alan Moore’s Swamp Thing which a friend brought home was so important (Gaiman did some side plots in that and Constantine from it) but I have had personal testimony that he’s a dodgy fuck for about twenty years. I’ve just seen that piling up over time.
I watched Chinatown for the first time recently and the paedophile rapist himself popped up in a cameo. Absolutely broke the spell of cinema. What is this sex offender doing here?
How we read what they wrote is inextricably entwined with who we know they are.
Not handing over my Sandman collection to my goth teen manga loving daughter. Plenty more art out in the world.
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Currently starting a donghua series called Lord of Mysteries. I’ve only just watched Ep 1 & 2, so its hard to say how it’ll hold up but it’s pretty damn good so far. There is a huge amount of hype around this show, the webnovels have done very well in China and based on the trailers for the show it looks out of this world (pun intended).
The setting is a man from our world wakes up in a Victorian-esque world, and is immediately embroiled in Lovecraftian conspiracies.
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Some criticism of the MCU…
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I’m over anything with a multiverse.
For me it’s a terrible writing trope that encourages laziness on a par with multiple personalities (one of whom is the baddy of course) or the perennial it was all a dream.
Feel free to warn me of the ending of any movie that uses these.
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Yeah, it’s gotten to be a pretty lazy trope by this point… I guess we can all blame Alan Moore?
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Talking Heads released a new video for Psycho Killer with Saoirse Ronan last month:
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Conceptually i’m not against it, but the problem is that none of these linked/related movies do so in a way that feels organic. It’s a shortcut of “If you liked this movie you would like X that we also will be making” except that it’s not just one more movie, it’s a slew of movies and TV shows. Honestly that’s fucking exhausting.
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While I really am, for the reasons above, and mine, I did enjoy the last Spider-Man animated movie. A lot.
The multiverse was bollocks of course, but the rest of it was good enough that the black hole in the middle of it wasn’t that noticeable. When stuff is already lazy shite you will do nothing but pick holes in it. Because all the flaws jump out at you. If it’s good enough I don’t even notice how ridiculous the plot is.
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