Well, yes, and there are people who have carefully examined the reasons for this and…Read more

As churches close down, it’s also clear that they don’t fulfill the vital function they once had: Bringing the people of a community together to see each other once a week, to have a chat, to feel closer to the people living around you. This was a very important thing,…Read more

It’s almost as if we’ve built an unsustainable economic system that we’re now trapped in until it has killed us all.

I remember seeing Crash back then. I did like it, but I was disappointed at the same time (because I kind of expected more, after the more obviously surreal mindfucks of Videodrome and Naked Lunch).

God, I really want to see Backrooms, but I probably won’t be able to catch it in the theatre.

So, I don’t know, I couldn’t tell you a thing about the first movie anymore, but like I…Read more

(This topic was also in the…Read more

What Ben said.

Or, this:

We live in a world in which a tiny number of people own too, too much. And while there’s a recession going on…Read more

The way this went tells you everything you need to know about corporations.

Anyways, I definitely knew that smoking was unhealthy and so did people who were in their teens in the eighties and seventies. So the cutoff point would be somewhere between 70 and 80 I guess, but if you’re 80 and…Read more

Fuck yeah! Me for the win!

(This was part of a discussion about a BBC/Netflix thing in 2018, nothing to do with Nolan…Read more

I stopped caring about Hellboy many years ago, but I still want to know how it all ends, at least.

I didn’t think that was a big thing in the Netherlands.

Complaining about historical accuracy with The Odyssee is a bit like those complaints about Lord of the Rings. Jesus, people, it’s all made up! What, are the cyclopses also not historically accurate?

I get that it’s sometimes hard for people to understand that this doesn’t…Read more

It’s still incredibly to me that Seth Rogen and Eric Kripke successfully brought these two Garth Ennis books to the screen. Hats off to them, and to the audience for being ready for this crazy shit.

Let’s have the scene that made me fall in love…Read more

I think I wrote at least a dozen or though diatribes about Inception on this forum over the years, after all.

That said, I do think he’s a great director. It’s just that not each of his movies clicks with me (and even when they do, I love to nitpick because it’s the kind of movie you’ll…Read more

I thought Tenet was great. Very 2D characters, but that wasn’t the point after all. The point was trying to see if he could make the narrative structure of this time travel thing work, and he definitely did.

I like all his Big Idea…Read more

I’ll get that HBO subscription when it’s out. Wanted to watch the Hedge Knight thing anyway.

And Keir Starmer has gotten onto the “It’s all the refugee’s fault!” train, too.

I suspect the same will go for The Odyssee. Perfectly fine big epic movie about that story, without anything making it…Read more

Once that’s happened though, sure, you have to find a way to protect the rest of society from them.

Our government (speaking just for Germany now) doesn’t…Read more

You’re talking about criminal justice and punishment which, sure, go ahead and do that, if it makes…Read more

They’re pretty damn great.

Oh, and a few years back, on of the best German bands (/art projects), Deichkind, shot a series of music videos with the guy. This is him dancing in the song “Keine…Read more

Ah, to be twenty and unhappily in love again!

Orban’s gone, but who knows if that will hold. Kaczyński is gone in Poland, but they’ve now already elected an extremist President who is ensuring that Tusk can’t do any meaningful reforms. Similar things may happen in Hungary. I am not yet optimistic…Read more

Very much looking forward to The Bone Temple.