Mastodawn

introduced myself to a local filmmaker tonight with whom I had recent email correspondence. I was delighted that he had evidently googled me because he said "and you're the one who's into... [miming operating a gamepad], right?"

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sam crisp 4d ago

@clayote wish I could remember what they were, but early Kill Screen (on the web) had several reviews that experimented with the format. or at least used some css/js gimmicks. one of them had a word repeated in the margins of the page and it faded out at one point of the text, but I forget the context. maybe not the "best" videogame review but it does make me miss the Web 2.0 aspirations of the New Games Journalism era.

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sam crisp Mar 9

@coleoptera told my partner about this and they said they've been to Sexy Coffee once and the coffee was really bad: "don't bother rebuilding it"

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sam crisp Mar 9

thanks to this i found out about a "secret" screening of a surprise film that is clearly a jerry lewis one but they don't want to say that lol

sam crisp Mar 9

this is a neat curated page of upcoming movie screenings in naarm - includes both bigger and smaller venues like little film clubs https://ktcalendar.com/

Kino Calendar

cargo.site

sam crisp Feb 24

it's so funny when the tram driver is all of a sudden like "allllright, eeeeverybody out!" and leaves you and a dozen other people helplessly standing around on the street not at your destination

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sam crisp Feb 23

it's a shame we have no lens to talk about all the non-genre Australian movies today!!! Stratton tries his best to advocate for "Australian New Wave" as a way to engage with this stuff but it seems to have languished in the realm of what I call "Wikipedia knowledge." embalmed in an infobox.

Unfortunately we make do with "Ozploitation" which is such a stupid and embarrassing term to retrospectively frame much of this work, drawing out only its worst aspects.

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sam crisp Feb 23

incredible how Stratton writes about these movies contemporaneously, floating on top of the critical consensus like oil on water

like one critic he quotes complains of a movie "The narrative is simply a series of incidents" like yeah man that's exactly why 70s movies are so good

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sam crisp Feb 22

@candle 🚨 it happened!

sam crisp Feb 19

How I feel now that we are beyond any pretense that YouTube videos should have definitive titles or thumbnails