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Surprised that this movie isn’t more popular.

A certified A24 classic.

Russia’s first and greatest poet’s l... [ Continue reading... ]

Maman asked me to see it—feelings that are truly, one of a kind.

Beautiful Soviet film directed by Akira Kurosawa on the indomitability of human spirit.

What a debilitatingly saddening film.

This might be just the perfect classic... [ Continue reading... ]

I have some sort of a personal connection to Blue Velvet and really, a story of how I first learned about Criterion and the trained virtue of respecting films.

Good vibe and ambience of the rowdy 90s—unfortunately, didn’t strike a cord with me on the Criterion’s re... [ Continue reading... ]

I adore the fact that the biggest and baddest monster in this entire movie isn’t laser-beam-shooting-instantly-healing-born-from-radiation-made-out-of-pure-fear Godzilla, but the bureaucracy of the modern world; how would the government realistically resp…

I was talking to Quiller on Letterboxd and the closing thoughts of h... [ Continue reading... ]

Films are more real than life itself or as someone told me once, “those who wander, realize it is in itself a... [ Continue reading... ]

Quintessential erotic neo-noir of the 90s.

an exercise in film truth telling that I haven’t seen in a while, long while—viscerally real and bravely vulnerable on everything we won’t be shown in the landscape of the modern ... [ Continue reading... ]

Brings out the charm of more vintage RPGs and food wars style preparations of monster ingredients.

This was a great and what felt like, a deeply personal read, which it definitely is.

john wick + lmf... [ Continue reading... ]

I’m lost for words.

Brilliant.

I think I enjoyed this collection of stories a bit more than his selection from 17-21: Tatsuki Fujimoto, especially Nayuta of the Prophecy, where Nayuta is probably one my favorite characters that Fujimoto has come up with.

Wotakoi is near and dear to my heart.

Those earlier stories are a bit rough around the edges—a sign of a growing author, who already secured his very own style of what many would call bizarre and even insane.

A nice stroll around the world of Chainsaw Man before Chainsaw Man.

It was the July 30th, 2023.

Trying out to play with processing RAW under harsher... [ Continue reading... ]

Humanity as a whole has not been able to produce anything of higher quality than Komi Can’t Communicate.

Art is the way to remember one’s subjectiv... [ Continue reading... ]

Second hardest drug I’ve e... [ Continue reading... ]

Pulls you in with sharp and witty writing, which feels just like Chris Broad from Abroad in Japan (haha).

After seeing the Soviet adaptation of the play, directed by Mikhail Kozakov (playing Grig), and starring Anastasiya Vertinskaya (Mona) and Igor Kostolevsky (Marin Miroiu)—I decided to write a comparative analysis between the play and the picture for my gr…

It was a fun and an enjoyable read, for what it promised with its premise and what I got with my expectations of modern science fiction—it was good!

Because I have spoken to them so much about Brothers Karamazov and Dostoevsky, I have definitely given all my close friends some sort of a trauma and a trigger that comes for free with it.

I cried laughing from beginning till the bitter end.

Remember how I talked on and on about my absolute love for Helltaker?

Encyclopedi... [ Continue reading... ]

Any modern action movie, epic tales, anything really, can and will be tied back to Beowulf.

I mean...

I love science fiction.

I always like to say that Candide was centuries ahead of his time and this fact hasn’t changed even today.

This is a weaker installment compared to previous foundations, especially the original trilogy.

I must confess—I don’t remember specifically the middle point between this and Foundation and Earth, but Asimov’s writing is always what I like to call, "the perfect English."

Similar to the Fifth Science, picked this one up as I was going through Exurb1a’s repertoire.

One of my all-time favorites of science fiction and in all.

I have fond memories reading this collection of stories somewhere around the Summer of 2020.

It was my college sophomore year—I took a semester with really hard classes and found myself straight up in a not a good place.

Something glorious is going ... [ Continue reading... ]

One Hundred Years of Torture reading ... [ Continue reading... ]

Cartoonish levels of depicting oppressive governments with very little to no foresight and imagination to come up with something that has more meat to the matter, rooted deeper into a future that might be, all ending up reading as Orwell’s personal gripe…

Melancholic, Gloomy, Yet Incredibly C... [ Continue reading... ]

I am biased towards this series, as it gave me support and warmth in times when I needed one the most.