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Having a teary cup of tea about this today. It delights and stuns me to see this kind of thoughtful writing about something my dad had a hand in bringing to life. The art we make keeps moving through the world, even after we’re gone. It can be silly and meaningful all at once.

this may have also made me teary - it means so much to me that you read this! Highlander is what every genre movie should aspire to be: goofy and fun on the surface, but not without intelligence, substance, and soul. It's a very meaningful movie to me, and I'm far from alone in feeling that way.

nah, I was thinking about waiting for streaming or VOD - kinda on the fence because I haven't heard anything positive about it yet

photo of my face taken in a mirror, big digital camera under my chin, in front of windows/dark blinds

fucking around with my ancient digital camera again during last night's bout of insomnia

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girls only want one thing and it's Connor MacLeod's apartment in Highlander

yes! not sure which is my favorite - either the transition between Connor's aquarium to the Scottish loch, or the Connor-to-Mona-Lisa dissolve

I have read it, it's great!

yeah! I watched some of it as a kid in the '90s and had no idea who anyone was, so the guest stars shocked me this time around - Ron Perlman, Wes Studi, Vincent Schiavelli, some real heavy-hitters. Banks is among my favorites, too.

Connor MacLeod/"Russell Nash" and Brenda (his love interest/sword expert/forensic investigator) in a backlit bar

Connor running down a steamy, blue-tinted, backlit alleyway

misty, almost heavenly backlighting in Connor's antique shop, with Connor and Rachel (his assistant/adopted daughter) in the center of the shot, framed by 2 angel statues

the Kurgan at the end of another foggy alleyway, silhouetted, holding a big-ass sword

bringing my Highlander obsession over to bluesky with a cinematography appreciation post. the backlighting, the fog - just a gorgeous film. wish movies still looked like this.

rewatched the series a few years ago, and it isn't always great, but it's consistently fun and introduces cool shit into the Highlander universe, like the Dark Quickening, Methos, the Watchers (mortal secret archivists of the Immortals). might import the big twitter thread I wrote about it sometime.

Japanese program cover with black background, black & yellow city skyline at the bottom, a big white semicircular glow above it and a column of sky blue on top of that, which reaches vertically to the top of the program - w/Japanese text in orange and red (a rendering of the Quickening, maybe). at the top, it says HIGHLANDER in white font, and below that, in smaller font, it reads "There can be only one"

...I may have also picked up this Japanese Highlander program a few months back

I will neither confirm nor deny that this phrasing was intentional

I love that sense of fun, and to me all the imperfections of Highlander are a feature not a bug - e.g. that no one's bothering to hide their accents, that Lambert is too blind for swordfighting. it's just so idiosyncratic, textured, and human in ways that don't feel like they're allowed anymore

there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for

polygon article "celebrating" the 40th anniversary of Highlander by taking a dump on it: "For its 40th anniversary, a look back at the self-serious slog that is 1986's Highlander"

in the past few years I've lost loved ones: friends, an ex, my dog. Highlander helped me through it, and its goofiness is exactly what made it perfect for that purpose - watching movies that confront grief head on would've felt too raw. anyway whoever cooked this shit up can go fuck themselves lol

oh I have concerns. obviously I'm a fan of John Wick but I'm also very ambivalent and apprehensive - Highlander is lightning in a bottle.

love it when someone rushes to reply without bothering to read the essay - like, that's the essence of Highlander! that mortality is actually a gift

did you bother to read the essay or just rush here to tell me you hate the ending? because that's the whole message of the movie - that mortality is a gift

*throwing darts at a wall of random words* Today I will be mad at... Timothée Chalamet... about... opera.

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happy 40th birthday to Highlander, one of my favorite movies of all time

I loved it

I posted about how close it feels to the experience of reading the book as a 13-year-old girl (vs a lit major in college) and some dude said "so is the movie an R-rated sex fest for 13 year olds or a juvenile fantasy for immature adult women?" incredible to see someone tell on himself like that

Aaron, you are not alone - we might both be crazy but I'm so relieved and validated that you dug it too 'cause I think I loved it, and your review was spot on. it's just so calculatedly + primally dialed into the frequency of teen girl id from start to finish.

feels like a fool's errand to write up a list of favorite movies of 2025 in March but as long as I beat the Oscars I think/hope it might be okay

one of the outlets I used to write for had another contributor who regularly churned out like 10k-word essays, and they were always in the top 5 most read articles on the site. readers don't hate it!

still trying to catch up with 2025 releases so I can finish my little list of favorites, got my heights wuthered for $5, etc.

apologies for spreading (more) misinformation!

James Bond seeing all those baroque, pristine fruit arrangements while speeding through the streets of Istanbul in his Aston Martin or whatever