As Ned said, constant acceleration from 0-60 with no B-plots. You can just put people in a room and make it spin. Ash...

This calm meditation and self-therapy-through-film carried me well on a lone night at home. The child's pers...

I think Will Forte really sold the story well. That and the puppy-dog eyes of Wile E. Coyote had the audience bought ...

This was the first time I got to watch a film in the new Theater 3 of The Music Box Theatre and *damn* do I love that...

Oral gore is hard for me and so this hard me tearing at my stomach at points, but I got most sick and teary-eyed at S...

I found this today and played it on a whim. What a jarring surprise! Originally from 2012, I can hear so much of what...

I was re-watching Bret Victor’s Dynamicland demo from last year and a thought struck me: I don’t think the physical r...

Say Zues’s Law one more time… I was gifted a perfect preview of this film before watching the latest James Cameron Av...

I’m listening to this again today while the extreme heat and humidity break into thunderous downpours in Chicago stre...

The bumbling cop kept taking me out of any slowly building suspense. If you want me to be afraid of a zombie, then th...

The Chicagoan just wants to do a good job. The Chicagoan knows how to do the job good, if you just leave it alone. Th...

I think BROADCASTED was a fantastic first album from Air Credits but then I was less wowed by their interim releases ...

We’re having another wildfire smoke day in Chicago (previously), with air so thick that your nose gets black and you ...

This was scarier than I expected from its 50-year age. And it wasn't from the gore! Sure, Leatherface is scary, b...

It was calming to play this while working today, but it’ll melt off my brain like rain on my window pane. ...

I’ve been listening to this album when lifting weights at the gym recently. The Justice bass pushes me so hard I find...

This new work from Gold Panda sounds like he spent the winter with Daphni and came out convinced of the power of the ...

I kept gasping at how much of this film is a callback to The Conversation - and then Gene Hackman showed up! I swear ...

You can make some amazing things with just some random bits of your past, a deft deployment of movie making/writing s...

I enjoyed this film so so so so so much. (Big crooked smile.) It's loud. It twisted the knife in every scene, ten...

Something that occurs to me while reading posts like these from Simon Willison is that: it’s worthwhile for corporati...

I started listening to this without any context and thought: this sounds like a little bit of The Knife and a little ...

This isn’t as exciting as the source album, but the melancholy is the point. {{ “https://music.apple....

Okay, I can get on board with ambient techno like I’m working inside the office Lumon of Severance. {...

Closer and The Warning are absolutely the best songs on the album but the whole thing wrenches itself out of your spe...

The seven-digit split-flap display in my studio used to count the hours since I was born. Now it shows the forecast: ...

This review may contain spoilers. This film does a good job of pulling your attention just around the corner....just ...

I enjoyed this film so so so so so much. (Big crooked smile.) It's loud. It twisted the knife in every scene, ten...

I think Mary Bronstein bet her husband that she could invert almost everything about Uncut Gems and still make the au...

We were lucky enough to have Schneider Deli open a new location just down the street from us and they have a custom r...

Yes I’m going to like a space travel story. Yes I’m going to like Ryan Gosling. Yes I’m going to love a faceless mons...

Masters make the amazing look simple, because they show you the small steps, and they are able to take the giant leap...

It’s May 4th and I’m working from home in the sunshine.

I had been looking forward to seeing Gelli since their album last summer and immediately bought tickets when they ann...

Jeff Goldblum is unbelievably perfect for this role. I was electrified. He glues together an already tight script wit...

I picked up Printer’s Row Coffee Co.’s Brazil Cerrado only a couple days after it was roasted. We walked over as a fa...

This could be described as an elongated and inverted Power Rangers special, where the kids are bad and the parents ar...

So much of the film is perfect alignment or beautiful discord. She descends the staircase on footsteps in perfect rhy...

I’m very lucky that the closest coffee roastery to me specializes in light roasts, my favorites. I know Printer’s Row...

...and one spoon of lemon, and one spoon of oregano, and one spoon of cayenne, and one spoon of... This film had so m...

I don’t usually buy from La Colombe, but we were killing time before our favorite fish taco place opened up and I tho...

I was mostly bored by this film. The antagonist is supposed to be a fearsome void, but I was mostly annoyed with his ...

I built three AI agents that tend my knowledge garden in different ways: one walks in front, one walks behind, and one walks beside me.

It's amazing to watch a silent-film star - who shaped her life and manner into eccentricities, conveying everythi...

Jesse Plemons is consistently terrifying because he has perfected the portrayal of our time's most fearsome perso...

I found this album through Fluxblog’s mention of it and the initial song is definitely the hook that pulls you throug...

I watched this while feeding my infant daughter and reflected on how many lies I’ve already told her.

Maybe this movie is intentionally unintelligible. Maybe the cliches are perfectly chosen and not ineptly plopped on a...

This is the place where I rant that theAGENTS.md pattern is a distraction and slows down your software development. ...