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Celebrating President's Day weekend by taking a big sip of coffee and preparing to watch "Abraham" from _Holiday Inn_, a...
https://zirk.us/@snarkout/111953...Celebrating President's Day weekend by taking a big sip of coffee and preparing to watch "Abraham" from _Holiday Inn_, a tribute to America's greatest president from one of its greatest songwriters that will not be at all problematic to modern sensibilities.
18.2.2024 18:01Celebrating President's Day weekend by taking a big sip of coffee and preparing to watch "Abraham" from _Holiday Inn_, a...https://zirk.us/@snarkout/111953...
Very little comedy as good as Glynis Johns as a horny mermaid fumbling with a stolen cigarette. #film
https://zirk.us/@snarkout/111895...Very little comedy as good as Glynis Johns as a horny mermaid fumbling with a stolen cigarette. #film
8.2.2024 12:59Very little comedy as good as Glynis Johns as a horny mermaid fumbling with a stolen cigarette. #filmhttps://zirk.us/@snarkout/111895...
October: A crapload of horror, including "Ravenous", which despite the studio interference remains a gem. November: "They...
https://zirk.us/@snarkout/111731...October: A crapload of horror, including "Ravenous", which despite the studio interference remains a gem. November: "They Cloned Tyrone", which suffers in comparison to "Sorry to Bother You" but was an enjoyable movie in its own right. December: "The Boy and the Heron", since second-tier Miyazaki is still awfully good. "The Desperate", gorgeous b&w corrupt cop movie from Takaharu Saeki, a director I'm unfamiliar with, great performance from Kunie Tanaka and Ko Nishimura.. #movies2023
10.1.2024 13:41October: A crapload of horror, including "Ravenous", which despite the studio interference remains a gem. November: "They...https://zirk.us/@snarkout/111731...
July to September: "Freaky", more dumb fun, great physical comedy by Vince Vaughn and Kathryn Newton. A whole slew of Roger...
https://zirk.us/@snarkout/111731...July to September: "Freaky", more dumb fun, great physical comedy by Vince Vaughn and Kathryn Newton. A whole slew of Roger Corman's Edgar Allen Poe movies, which I'm always happy to watch. Susan Seidelman's "Smithereens", which was revelatory, maybe the best discovery for me of the year—"Desperately Seeking Susan" as desperate bummer, portrait of a self-destructive young woman who can't and won't get out of her own way. #movies2023
10.1.2024 13:35July to September: "Freaky", more dumb fun, great physical comedy by Vince Vaughn and Kathryn Newton. A whole slew of Roger...https://zirk.us/@snarkout/111731...
May/June: "The Nice Guys", which I've slept on, Altman's "The Long Goodbye" as dumb buddy comedy. A whole chunk...
https://zirk.us/@snarkout/111731...May/June: "The Nice Guys", which I've slept on, Altman's "The Long Goodbye" as dumb buddy comedy. A whole chunk of Seijun Suzuki including "Tokyo Drifter", "Branded to Kill", "Detective Bureau 2-3", and "Take Aim at the Police Van", a fascinating journey through the evolution of one of Japan's great B-movie stylists. Johnny To's "Election", great yakuza movie. #movies2023
10.1.2024 13:32May/June: "The Nice Guys", which I've slept on, Altman's "The Long Goodbye" as dumb buddy comedy. A whole chunk...https://zirk.us/@snarkout/111731...
February: "Cam", a well-made recent horror movie about camgirls that turned out to be more about parasocial relationships than the...
https://zirk.us/@snarkout/111731...February: "Cam", a well-made recent horror movie about camgirls that turned out to be more about parasocial relationships than the male gaze. March: "Criss Cross", a gorgeously-shot Siodmak noir. "A Woman Walks Home Alone at Night", the vampire as tone poem. April: "Enter the Spider-Verse", a hell of a second chapter for a superhero trilogy. "Come Drink with Me", 1966 wuxia perfection. #movies2023
10.1.2024 13:29February: "Cam", a well-made recent horror movie about camgirls that turned out to be more about parasocial relationships than the...https://zirk.us/@snarkout/111731...
January: "36 Pasos" (nasty, ultra-low-budget Argentinian "Texas Chainsaw" tribute from Adrian Garcia Bogliano; weirdly...
https://zirk.us/@snarkout/111731...January: "36 Pasos" (nasty, ultra-low-budget Argentinian "Texas Chainsaw" tribute from Adrian Garcia Bogliano; weirdly energetic and watchable despite everything); "I Care a Lot" (top-notch work by Rosamund Pike; lovely to see a meanspirited con game movie that *isn't* derived from David Maurer). "Fall Guy", an excellent Kinju Fukasaku comedy about a jidaigeki hanger-on's romantic involvement with the star's discarded, pregnant girlfriend. #movies2023
10.1.2024 13:20January: "36 Pasos" (nasty, ultra-low-budget Argentinian "Texas Chainsaw" tribute from Adrian Garcia Bogliano; weirdly...https://zirk.us/@snarkout/111731...
In 2023, I watched 104 movies, exactly averaging two a week. The plurality of my watching was on the Criterion Channel while exercising....
https://zirk.us/@snarkout/111731...In 2023, I watched 104 movies, exactly averaging two a week. The plurality of my watching was on the Criterion Channel while exercising. Some highlights! #movies #movies2023
10.1.2024 13:17In 2023, I watched 104 movies, exactly averaging two a week. The plurality of my watching was on the Criterion Channel while exercising....https://zirk.us/@snarkout/111731...
We'll see what 2024 brings! (Hopefully at least *slightly* more nonfiction.)
https://zirk.us/@snarkout/111681...We'll see what 2024 brings! (Hopefully at least *slightly* more nonfiction.)
1.1.2024 14:56We'll see what 2024 brings! (Hopefully at least *slightly* more nonfiction.)https://zirk.us/@snarkout/111681...
And finally, "The Thursday Murder Club" was my Christmas Eve gift book, and I finished it last night. A perfect exemplar of what...
https://zirk.us/@snarkout/111681...And finally, "The Thursday Murder Club" was my Christmas Eve gift book, and I finished it last night. A perfect exemplar of what it is. (And now I have sequels to read.) Like Becky Chambers, as soothing as a warm bath.
1.1.2024 14:56And finally, "The Thursday Murder Club" was my Christmas Eve gift book, and I finished it last night. A perfect exemplar of what...https://zirk.us/@snarkout/111681...
I wasn't quite expecting the right things with Hanif Abdurraqib's "A Little Devil in America"--something more like, I...
https://zirk.us/@snarkout/111681...I wasn't quite expecting the right things with Hanif Abdurraqib's "A Little Devil in America"--something more like, I don't know, Eula Biss?—but it was dazzling. The Merry Clayton piece was a particular highlight, but I loved the Showtime at the Apollo/Mike Tyson one too.
1.1.2024 14:55I wasn't quite expecting the right things with Hanif Abdurraqib's "A Little Devil in America"--something more like, I...https://zirk.us/@snarkout/111681...
Emily Tesh's "Some Desperate Glory" only worked so well as a space opera, but I appreciated the compression (a trilogy's...
https://zirk.us/@snarkout/111681...Emily Tesh's "Some Desperate Glory" only worked so well as a space opera, but I appreciated the compression (a trilogy's worth in a single book), the (very plausibly drawn) revenchist human state (modeled off Sparta + North Korea + Scientology), and the degree to which it served as an answer song to "Ender's Game", a book which I loved in high school and which I've come to find morally abhorrent.
1.1.2024 14:51Emily Tesh's "Some Desperate Glory" only worked so well as a space opera, but I appreciated the compression (a trilogy's...https://zirk.us/@snarkout/111681...
Richard Parker's "Butcher's Moon", which I'd never read before, explains why he then took a 20-year hiatus before...
https://zirk.us/@snarkout/111681...Richard Parker's "Butcher's Moon", which I'd never read before, explains why he then took a 20-year hiatus before writing more Parker crime novels: untoppable, and the culmination of the whole series.
1.1.2024 14:49Richard Parker's "Butcher's Moon", which I'd never read before, explains why he then took a 20-year hiatus before...https://zirk.us/@snarkout/111681...
Aliya Whiteley's "Greensmith" is a vicious novella-length parody of Doctor Who and what being a Companion says about being...
https://zirk.us/@snarkout/111681...Aliya Whiteley's "Greensmith" is a vicious novella-length parody of Doctor Who and what being a Companion says about being human (and being a woman). T Kingfisher (Ursula Vernon)'s "The Twisted Ones" was a *delight* once I figured out what was going on metatextually, but I think it works well as a not-particularly-scary horror novel even if you've never read Arthur Machen.
1.1.2024 14:48Aliya Whiteley's "Greensmith" is a vicious novella-length parody of Doctor Who and what being a Companion says about being...https://zirk.us/@snarkout/111681...
Given my previous experience with Nick Harkaway (I'm a huge fan of "Tigerman" and "Gnomon"), I kept expecting...
https://zirk.us/@snarkout/111681...Given my previous experience with Nick Harkaway (I'm a huge fan of "Tigerman" and "Gnomon"), I kept expecting "Titanium Noir" to *veer* some place, but it remained resolutely what it started as, a straightforward science fiction detective novel about a world where the rich are literally a different sort of being than the rest of us. Solid but disconcertingly straightforward.
1.1.2024 14:45Given my previous experience with Nick Harkaway (I'm a huge fan of "Tigerman" and "Gnomon"), I kept expecting...https://zirk.us/@snarkout/111681...
Helen Weinzweig's "Basic Black with Pearls" (a spy novel with no spy, instead serving as a study of middle-aged female...
https://zirk.us/@snarkout/111681...Helen Weinzweig's "Basic Black with Pearls" (a spy novel with no spy, instead serving as a study of middle-aged female loneliness) was fantastic, possibly the highlight of 2023. https://themillions.com/2018/06/book-moment-helen-weinzweigs-basic-black-pearls.html
1.1.2024 14:43Helen Weinzweig's "Basic Black with Pearls" (a spy novel with no spy, instead serving as a study of middle-aged female...https://zirk.us/@snarkout/111681...
"Harlem Shuffle" is as good as everyone said, a study in character and mood that's also a crackling crime novel.
https://zirk.us/@snarkout/111681..."Harlem Shuffle" is as good as everyone said, a study in character and mood that's also a crackling crime novel.
1.1.2024 14:41"Harlem Shuffle" is as good as everyone said, a study in character and mood that's also a crackling crime novel.https://zirk.us/@snarkout/111681...
I read 46 #books that were new to me, or at least plausibly new to me (nobody cares about the fifth time I reread "The Innocence of...
https://zirk.us/@snarkout/111681...I read 46 #books that were new to me, or at least plausibly new to me (nobody cares about the fifth time I reread "The Innocence of Father Brown" or "The Homeward Bounders") in 2023, mostly novels. The highlights were not as high as 2022's crop ("An Immense World", "Accidental Gods", "Venomous Lumpsucker", "The Blacktongue Thief"), but some notable ones. #books2023
1.1.2024 14:40I read 46 #books that were new to me, or at least plausibly new to me (nobody cares about the fifth time I reread "The Innocence of...https://zirk.us/@snarkout/111681...
Watched Věra Chytilová's bizarre SF horror/comedy "Wolf's Hole", (maybe an allegory for Western treatment of post-Soviet...
https://zirk.us/@snarkout/111182...Watched Věra Chytilová's bizarre SF horror/comedy "Wolf's Hole", (maybe an allegory for Western treatment of post-Soviet Czechoslovokia? but marred by the teenage actors' performance and general incoherence). Gonna do a slicker more-directly-horror film next, maybe a classic, maybe "Pearl". (#film #movies not really #horror)
5.10.2023 12:07Watched Věra Chytilová's bizarre SF horror/comedy "Wolf's Hole", (maybe an allegory for Western treatment of post-Soviet...https://zirk.us/@snarkout/111182...
For thirty years there was a movie theater underneath Carnegie Hall??
https://zirk.us/@snarkout/110970...For thirty years there was a movie theater underneath Carnegie Hall??
29.8.2023 01:18For thirty years there was a movie theater underneath Carnegie Hall??https://zirk.us/@snarkout/110970...