Bryan Andrews

Your posts on pubpeer about this were great!

"Are transgender people any different from those people who claim to be transracial? This is a question that can only be answered by me, here in my armchair."

Do it! It's also got Tom Waits and Lily Tomlin in great roles!

She's so good. I need to spend more time with this album. I've mostly listened to Idler Wheel and Bolt Cutters.

Nice! You going to go with the 'Vision in Darkness and Light' version of Nightmare Alley?

"If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear, Your Honor!"

God, I can picture it. Tracy Jordan in the world's worst frankenstein make-up, with the tagline 'Frankenstein, Attorney-at-law. Coming this fall to NBC.'

And I heard that all the king's horses and maybe even all of the king's men couldn't put her back together.

Ominous!

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I find it interesting that the American is the only one who cares about individuality, while all the asian characters are pretty chill about the idea of a hive mind. Not saying it's a mistep - American exceptionalism might well be a major theme - but it's certainly notable.

Serious, is anyone else seeing this? There are some *weird* cultural issues going on in this show.

Aw, I'm flattered! I really appreciated your posts.

Haha, I'm generally not one to get into arguments online, but if I see someone making an *aggregiously* bad point then I might reply without liking, but that's pretty rare.

For the follows without interaction, I assume it's bots or engagement farmers.

Have you seen Pluribus yet, and what do you think??

Was not expecting Pluribus to get so, uh, political? so fast. Pretty compelling show.

Or blown a snot bubble.

Race Across the World could be interesting, particularly if they managed to get people very famous in the UK and have them race through regions where they're not at all known.

Have you seen Missing (Costa-Gavras, 1982)? That's pretty great too - really digs into the American complicity in the 1973 Chilean coup.

I'm looking forward to checking it out. I went through a phase of watching those kind of movies almost a year ago, for obvious reasons. Argentina 1985 (which I don't think is related, despite similar names and topics) is a lot less interesting. Very much an 'Oscars' movie. Hence the nod, I guess.

If I comment on something *without* liking then it should absolutely be taken as a slight.

Oh, I enjoyed Chile 1976 - much better than Argentina 1985. Now I really need to check out The Official Story!

I watched the films in this double set earlier in the week. Both are great, but I was particularly impressed by Deadly Circuit. It's a kind of existential tragicomic noir and reminded me a lot of some recent Argentine films. If you liked La Flor or Trenque Lauquen you should seek it out!

It's #LetterboxdFriday - here's my #LastFourWatched:

Another classic by Malick. Two pretty great films by Claude Miller, and a subdued Chilean folk horror.

I was thinking the same thing. I guess in the circles they move in, being less attracted to pop stars as you get older isn't entirely normalised.

'Reflection In A Dead Diamond' NSFW Trailer: Cattet & Forzani's Latest Trip Into Genre Delirium Premieres On Shudder On December 5 A retired spy's memories of his former profession may be the perverted fantasies of a madman in 'Reflection In A Dead Diamond.'

Nice! Always up for new work by Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani.

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A lego set of Toothless the dragon from the How To Train Your Dragon franchises. It's much a more cutsie version of the character than shown in any of the films. It's 784 pieces and is for ages 18+.

There seems to be some bizarre decision-making going on. My kid recently got into How To Train Your Dragon, and they do have a lego set for that - but it's an extremely cutsie, cartoonish set that's nevertheless designed for people over 18.

Oh yeah, my son is six and he does this all the time. I've taken to either saying "no." or "you shall address me as either 'Father' or 'Boss Hog.'"

Yeah, it's weird. I live here and most of time I'm like, "everyone's dead. Let it go!"

Is this the poppy thing?

No, if it were a random choice among serious candidates Mamdani would have got 33% - he got 1.5 times that. Spanberger only got 1.15x a random vote. Mamdani overperformed.