Mark Llobrera

Started Reading: Aug 24, 2026 Finished Reading: Aug 27, 2026 Each of these is a little magic trick, with the repeated time loop pierced by surprises.

Started Reading: Aug 16, 2026 Finished Reading: Aug 23, 2026 My friend Sam recommended this as a beach read, so I read it while away for a week at Manahawkin/LBI.

Watched: Aug 29, 2026 Small-scale Soderbergh is still enjoyable.

Watched: Aug 20, 2026 First time watching this — I came to Park Chan-wook late, via The Handmaiden and his more recent work.

Watched: Aug 25, 2026 I like an amateur gumshoe movie, but one starring Jodie Foster, seamlessly switching between French and English?

Watched: Aug 21, 2026 I think this is the first time I’ve seen the director’s cut — no voiceover, and I imagine there are some different scenes?

Started Reading: Aug 10, 2026 Finished Reading: Aug 15, 2026 What an interesting blend of genres — a literary psychosexual thriller, ghost story, and sci-fi time-travel adventure all rolled into one.

Watched: Aug 08, 2026 Working through some of my gaps in the Petzold filmography, after watching Miroirs no. 3.

Watched: Aug 08, 2026 Watched this as part one of a double-header with Dark City.

Watched: Aug 07, 2026 Feels like it will take a turn into horror but instead ends up somewhere funnier and sadder.

Watched: Aug 05, 2026 The first half is slower but I liked it more, and I preferred the slow dread to the second half’s madcap, over-the-top violence that felt like a throwback to the 90s when everyone was doing a Tarantino bit.

The past two years I’ve gotten deeper into the accessibility practice at Upstatement.

Watched: Aug 04, 2026 S and I went to this, first time seeing it on the big screen for both of us.

Started Reading: Aug 01, 2026 Finished Reading: Aug 03, 2026 Oh no is this a DSA meeting

Started Reading: Jul 12, 2026 Finished Reading: Aug 01, 2026 Inception-era Christopher Nolan would have loved the nesting layers of epistolary missives in this novel.

Watched: Jul 31, 2026 Project Hail Mary but make it horror.

Watched: Jul 30, 2026 The story beats to set up the quartet’s turn to bank heists are fairly predictable, but the leads have such charisma that you go along for the ride.

Watched: Jul 28, 2026 Another packed screening at Bryn Mawr Film Institute.

Watched: Jul 25, 2026 Watched this with S, who loves musicals.

Watched: Jul 24, 2026 So stylistically heightened in the first hour or so — the score, the performances, the camerawork — that I found myself sweating (it did not help that it was a warm theater).