All my snark is sincere.
In Europe, Germany, Düsseldorf for the time being.
Writer, Ph.D., Professor of Game Design. Not necessarily in that order. Indie Dev Studio in HK 2006–2010. Twitter veteran JAN 2007—DEC 2022 as gyokusai, movethirtyseven, and newsoftheend.
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Dark Entries and Powers of Darkness by Robert Aickman
Deadlock by Roland Klick, 1970
✅ Can’s score.
✅ Surprisingly good cinematography, set design, blocking, lighting, and cut.
✅ While the screenplay isn’t exactly psychologically coherent and falls apart at various turning points, it’s fine for what the movie wants to be.
Under its Italian Western guise with thick pseudo-American makeup it’s unmistakably German, but hey!
King Kong by John Guillermin, 1976
✅ Entertaining, with a lot of intentional goofiness, more comedy than drama.
❌ There’s no King, merely an oversized ape—everything that establishes Kong’s power’s been cut from the island sequence.
❌ After the midpoint, screenplay and editing string plot points together as if on a speeding assembly line, and not everything develops organically, to put it mildly.
This de Laurentiis production’s release poster promises a lot more than it delivers.
Waymo, the autonomous driving tech firm whose so-called ‘robo-taxis’ are now roaming the streets of London, has told cycling campaigners that expecting their driverless cars to respect cycle lanes is “too high a bar” – because their customers want to be dropped off in them.According to the Highway Code, motorists “must not drive or park ... Read more
Maybe I watched too many cartoons as a kid, and maybe my memory is distorted by nostalgia’s rose-tinted glasses, but this trailer looks like the exact dumb shit a dumbed down movie industry would churn out that I wouldn’t even want to watch if being paid.
Marina Weisband 
Dionysus 🍇
Jules she/her
Ronan
Mandelbroccoli
Jake Lawrence