TIFF: Nadia Latif's adaptation of Walter Mosley's novel is heavy on atmosphere, light on answers, and too muddled to grapple with its big questions.| IndieWire
TIFF: Aaron Taylor-Johnson gives a movie-star performance as a bomb detonation specialist in the British Army, but this thriller doesn't stick the landing on a clever premise.| IndieWire
TIFF: If you already loved John Candy, this doc will make you love him even more. If you were born after his time, it will be a lovely introduction. But the film lacks the editorial discipline to truly shine.| IndieWire
TIFF: The Czech literary giant deserves more than this rote, ludicrous hagiography.| IndieWire
TIFF: Tim Mielants' film is trying quite hard to be a bracing and immersive depiction of rehabilitation’s hard toil. It doesn't add up.| IndieWire
TIFF: David Michôd's biopic about trailblazing boxer Christy Martin turns the traditional sports biopic on its head (and leaves a mark in the process).| IndieWire
TIFF: Annemarie Jacir’s rigorously researched telling of the three-year anti-British revolt in Palestine starting in 1936 shines in its period and cultural specificities even if its quilt-like structure can’t always hold the weight of the powerful archive and miniature histories it draws upon.| IndieWire
Venice: Ildikó Enyedi’s trio of tales about plant communication across the ages provides few thrills but some elegant insights.| IndieWire
The “Elvis” star goes on a journey of a different sort in Aronofsky’s wild pitch of a film, which attempts to capture the energy and unpredictability of the Charlie Huston book it's based on, with mixed results.| IndieWire
Jay Roach's spin on "The War of the Roses" is compelling enough as a retooled story (it's truly its own thing), but it's missing the bitter pop of Danny DeVito's 1989 spin on the Warren Adler book.| IndieWire
Nicholas Colia's feature directorial debut bolsters a funny story with an enviable cast, including Melanie Lynskey, Owen Teague, Kathryn Newton, Abbie Ryder Forston, and breakout Everett Blunck.| IndieWire
Basically, because I’m so interested in what’s popular, this essay has to be about what normal porn actually is, rather than about the goings-on of some esoteric and richly suggestive kink community about which we would love some novel and detailed news. The post The Front Page appeared first on The Point Magazine.| The Point Magazine
Alternate title for this blog post: Girl, why are you so wrong? I respond to Maya Phillips' criticism of three movies by black writers featuring black casts, that have recently arrived on streaming services: The American Society of Magical Negroes, American Fiction and The Blackening.| Unsolicited Advice from Tiffany B. Brown
How do you react when someone gives you some negative feedback? Do you swing into self justification? “Well thank you very much, but actually, this is what you don’t understand…” Or perhaps you go in the opposite direction, taking everything said on board, and then amplifying it, making it far more critical than was ever […]| Brian Harris
Self-esteem in children can be negatively affected by certain things their parents do, without even realizing that. Are you guilty of any of these parenting behaviours?| Learning Mind
Toxic people traits can be very hard to identify, particularly with the rise anonymity on the internet. Does anyone you know have these traits?| Learning Mind
No one likes to be the subject of criticism. But how do the mentally strong handle criticism and what makes them able to work it to their own advantage?| Learning Mind
14 key qualities that signal you are a highly sensitive person and how to craft your sensitivity into an advantage.| Melody Wilding
Is your career bringing you down more than it's lifting you up?| Melody Wilding
Thou hast conquered, O pale Galilean; the world has grown grey from thy breath; We have drunken of things Lethean, and fed on the fullness of death. Laurel is green for a season, and love is sweet for a day; But love grows bitter with treason, and laurel outlives not May. Sleep, shall we sleep after all? for the world is not sweet in the end; For the old faiths loosen and fall, the new years ruin and rend. Fate is a sea without shore, and the soul is a rock that abides; But her ears are vexed...| argmin gravitas
Discover mirror thinking and understand why we often judge others for qualities we dislike in ourselves. Discover how to break the cycle, accept...| Learning Mind
Hey, everybody else is doing it! (Or praising it. Mostly praising it, actually.) I know, Mom, “everybody else is doing it” isn't a good excu...| 1999ad.blogspot.com
When I was fourteen, my family went on a Caribbean cruise. I have always been allergic to the idea of going somewhere for the explicit […]| The Point Magazine
This is the second column in a four-part series by B.D. McClay on speculative fiction.| The Point Magazine
What if Airless Spaces, and the life of its author, cannot be read as a story at all?| The Point Magazine
2018, Germany. A bungalow, with anthracite walls and a flat roof. Jerome Daimler’s parents purchased it. They’re divorced now. He lives there alone.| The Point Magazine
Ivett Berenyi explores the controversy surrounding Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses, and the relationship between politics and art.| Cherwell
Satire loves drama. From farce in open-air theaters to modern-day hosts slipping jokes in their shows, satire has persistently reserved its spot as a channel for critique. It’s interesting—it’s been the same all these years. As it turns out, what’s changing isn’t the satire itself, but the subjects of commentary, which have evolved to be...| The Science Survey
Here are a few of those toxic behaviors that just may have stemmed from mental illnesses such as anxiety or depression. Take a look.| Learning Mind
When you offer criticism, be aware of whom you are criticizing and how they might receive it. Case in point: A number of years ago, my son David was entering his senior year at Stanford University. He thought it might be fun to spend his last college summer freewheeling in San Francisco, working five or […] The post Be careful when offering criticism appeared first on Harvey Mackay.| Harvey Mackay
First, a little fictitious artistic difference, to set the tone.| The Art Abyss: Art School Never Prepared You For This
So, like I said in the last post, I've been reading, and loving, Outcast Silver Raiders. One of the choices it makes that I'm enjoying is presenting the players with no racial (ancestry, species) options up front—everybody's a human by default. The game gives the GM a bunch of the trad demihuman options in the back of the book…but then actively discourages them from actually using those options. An all-human party makes a lot of sense for the Mythic North setting in particular (weird, gri...| 1999 A.D.
Talking about reactions to the new black country, new road album, online fandom and the misogyny in singular male genius narratives.| step one of a plan
This is the first column in a four-part series by B.D. McClay on speculative fiction.| The Point Magazine
The thing that actually matters about a scene is the work it produces. So I decided to read the work.| The Point Magazine
Two gamifications of contemporary political resistance| Līber Lūdōrum
A discussion on discussions. Vintage Miranda Reinert blogging.| step one of a plan
Illustration by Reiko Murakami for "The Worldless," from Lightspeed As I finish off my reviews of last year's reading, I'm breaking things...| 1999ad.blogspot.com
Renowned Islamic scholar in Gaza issues a powerful fatwa, condemning Hamas for their actions on October 7, sparking significant controversy and debate.| The European Times News
Richard Duke’s philosophy of gaming against disaster & dystopia| Līber Lūdōrum
Something else I’m way behind on: cataloging and reviewing my reading this year. Here’s a partial account. Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley ...| 1999ad.blogspot.com
From Lunaran's "Mothers Be Good to Your Spawns" While I’m on the subject of greatness , I guess it’s time for me to fulfill my promise a cou...| 1999ad.blogspot.com
“Arguments stand or fall to the degree to which the practice is done well.”| Public Books
"House of the Dragon" Season 2, Episode 8 feels nothing like a finale — and misses the mark in landing a season full of filler. REVIEW.| IndieWire
Apparently, us critics are *ALL POWERFUL*. Because I’ve been hearing this criticism of critics for a while that we have the ability to control what gets published / made into movies / can even brin…| the orang-utan librarian
Review: Josh Hartnett is dangerously charming in M. Night Shyamalan's far-fetched cat and mouse thriller 'Trap.'| IndieWire
'Test Pattern' filmmaker Shatara Michelle Ford's 'Dreams in Nightmares' is an intimate exploration of identity.| IndieWire
In Marilynne Robinson’s latest book, Reading Genesis, she carries the theology implicit in her fiction back to its scriptural source.| The Point Magazine
Strife (an underrated classic!) When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a...| 1999ad.blogspot.com
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Charles Vess's cover art for the Earthsea omnibus Here's what I've read so far in 2024: Beyond the Wall: A History of East Germany (Katja...| 1999ad.blogspot.com
The new home of Brian McGlinchey’s independent journalism is Stark Realities with Brian McGlinchey, a Substack newsletter. →→ Visit Stark Realities with Brian McGlinchey: Invigoratingly unorthodox perspectives for intellectually honest readers Paul Krugman has done it again: From his lofty perch at The New York Times, the chief jester of the Keynesian court has wrapped […]| LibertyMcG
Let us posit a simplification, which will hopefully seem less arbitrary and less reductive as we further describe it. The simplification is this: that the two poles of concern, when it comes to wha…| Suspended Reason
I'm still waiting for my copy of the critical edition to Montague Summers' The vampire: his kith and kin to arrive. In the meantime, I noticed Niels has already had a chance to review it.| Diary of an Amateur Vampirologist
I know that I’m supposed to hate Elon Musk.| The Point Magazine
On facilitating and incentivizing character depth in TTRPG systems| Līber Lūdōrum
I’ve been talking about writing a topology textbook introductory notes on topology for years. Basically since I wrote my Rethinking Topology (or a Personal Topologodicy) post 2 years ago R…| Christopher Olah's Blog
This is the first column in a four-part series by Nicholas Whittaker on black horror. New installments will be published monthly. Black art—or, art about […]| The Point Magazine
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