Finished reading: Monstrilio by Gerardo Sámano Córdova 📚
What a big nasty mess of grief.
Movie Log 🍿: Sinners, 2025 - ★★★★½
What wasn’t this film?
Movie Log 🍿: Rebecca, 1940 - ★★★
Mrs Danvers is gonna haunt me
If you squint really, really hard.. Stockport can look marvellous.
I’ve been squirrelling away on a new theme for my blog that I’m really happy with. Way more minimal than my previous one, feels more appropriate for the sort of casual stuff I like to post.
Movie Log 🍿: Christine, 1983 - ★★★★
Can’t believe I’d not watched this until now. Everything comes together here to make a story about an evil car make sense. Some unbelievable practical effects work throughout, had me gobsmacked. Loved it!
A lovely photo of Hebden Bridge train station in the sun a few weeks ago. Was on a nice boozing session and have just rediscovered the photo whilst flicking through my camera roll.
Movie Log 🍿: Minority Report, 2002 - ★★★★
This is some good sci-fi. Full of all the touches of “the future” that seemed wild at release (watches with screens in them?!) as well as showing me the cars in I, Robot were ripped from this film. I want to call out the sound design too, because it …
Movie Log 🍿: Almost Famous, 2000 - ★★★★★
I was picked up and taken for a ride watching this movie. Immaculate. I am yet to see Frances McDormand in a role I am not blown away by, so so good.
Movie Log 🍿: Novocaine, 2025 - ★★★
Laughed a lot. This is a proper popcorn movie
There is something so deeply satisfying about this song. The sort of indie pop being released around 2008 seems to have this kind of twee lightness to it that I can’t get enough of. I found I Was A Cub Scout through iTunes free single of the …
Just merged an update to my micro.blog theme microwave that adds crosspost sources and some new social icons. Enjoy 😎
Moody bagel shop in Paris at night
How cool is this bag I got with a CD in a record store in Paris at the weekend? Not very often you see this kind of thing.
Movie Log 🍿: Restless, 2024 - ★★★★
Hilarious whilst balancing tension. Unique in its storytelling and I enjoyed the lot. Some comically bad punching but also a banging old Citroen ZX
If croissant hunting in Paris were a sport, I’d be a champion.
Finished reading: Orbital by Samantha Harvey 📚
What a wonderful read. Beautifully ebbs and flows, and feels like a true reflection of the experience.
Drinking by the river in Paris with a €2 tall boy from carrefour. Am I breaking the law? Who cares. Vibes are immaculate
I’m obsessed with this Cate Le Bon album. It’s got a real swirling, dark energy to it. Excellent listening.
Movie Log 🍿: Take Out, 2004 - ★★★★
A really bleak tale. A lot of story told through silence. Can see how this led into future Sean Baker movies
Movie Log 🍿: Last Breath, 2025 - ★★★½
My heart rate went over 100bpm watching this. You’ll know the ending that’s coming the whole time but it takes you on a rollercoaster to get there.
Last weekend it was freakishly nearly 20° and here’s proof I did something fun with it! The false spring we seem to get every single year.
Movie Log 🍿: Mickey 17, 2025 - ★★★★
So much funnier than I was anticipating. RPat screaming at himself was hilarious. Ruffalo and Collette were great every time they were on screen. Shoutout to the set design too, really well done.
Movie Log 🍿: The Last Showgirl, 2024 - ★★★★
PamAn and Dave Bautista are immense in this. A tale of people forced to change by the relentlessness of Las Vegas. Has similar themes to The Substance. A great watch
Movie Log 🍿: The Monkey, 2025 - ★★★
Steers awfully close to Scary Movie levels of absurdity at points. Good fun to watch something so unserious!