Recent content by an0maly

Mountainhead - Wow, everyone needs to see this. Jesse Armstrong, the genius behind the best writing in television history (and perhaps film as well), Succession, now has made a film. It's about tech bro billionaires getting together to take charge of the world through their social media...

Let there be zero further questions why elected Democrats poll on the level of ticks and salmonella bacteria. Republicans hate them for what party they are, and moral humans hate them for their cowardice and failure to fight back against Republicans. Virtually no one who is polled feels anything...

So the situation of people following a religious leader is a different thing from people being in a hivemind, but this brilliant scene from Monty Python's Life of Brian struck me as hilariously akin to Carol's agonizing problem in Pluribus. There is zero possibility of convincing a hivemind that...

So Gilligan has circled back to X-Files stuff, but this thing is so far out on a narrative limb it's just incredible. This is science fiction hivemind stuff, which to me was never a really great genre of SF. There was Phase IV, a book and movie about ants forming a collective mind with ETI off...

Yeah, this thing... We shall start a thread. Who is we? We, the hivemind.

Yes, I agree with your observations on the first two films. On Sacred Deer, loved it until it stepped and stumbled right off the reality curb at the end. On Bugonia, the purest reason not to miss it is a tour de force performance by Jesse Plemons. He might not get the recognition he deserves...

Was somebody asking for brilliant modern music set to uncanny valley nightmares derived from fifties drive-in movies, but all extra disturbing? No? Anyway, you will survive to the end of 2025 only by turning this up loud and setting it full-screen. There is no other method.

Frankenstein - Wow, another gargantuan budget re-make, re-think or whatever you call it when a story has been made into 5 million films already. Like the recent Nosferatu, which I enjoyed but did not find memorable, this is exquisitely beautiful with surreal and dreamlike settings. There are new...

Loved Looney Tunes and alternately Johnny Quest. Saw an interesting documentary on the latter recently--it broke a lot of ground and had sensational music. But speaking of the music, what Carl Stalling did for the Looney Tunes cartoons has since been recognized as true musical genius. I listen...

One of the worst people who has ever lived, and I will never let any distractions from the current insanity obscure this fact. Cheney was the true founder (the driving force behind a shadow group of Neocons) of the outrageously bogus and horribly counterproductive Iraq War, which cost...

Made it through Task. It was tolerable to me, though a lot of people like this wobbly FBI drama way more than I did. The acting was far superior to all the clichés we have seen before on the subject matter. Murdaugh: Death in the Family is superb, and I don't think it's getting close to the...

Several old friends getting together, and we decided on this horror film, as perfect for this Halloween. Some had seen it, some not. Set unknown years in the near future, it is a select view of the chaos tree that grows right this moment from the seed of the 2024 election. The Jesse Plemmons...

A House of Dynamite This is a really important film, and one of the ten or so best this year. I am slightly enjoying how it is making some audience members angry, but I will come back to that. I watched it twice, with not much time in between viewings, to clarify my impressions. Kathyrn Bigelow...