jsa has always been that missing blindspot of mine from the beginning of park chan-wook’s pivot towards getting his octopus tentacles on and hammering the shit out of south korean cinema with this and sympathy for mr. vengeance. 

age has been interesting to many south koran films from this time period where some wild splashes of visual grandeur and technical wizardry might seem a bit over the top and extremely melodramatic in that early 2000s kind of way and joint…

i’m a pretty big fan of jason mantzoukas‘ off the insanely fucking vulgar cuff style of pop culture referencing humor and especially enjoy listening to his co-hosting gig on how did this get made so i kinda just randomly turned this one on as a small curiosity knowing full well no one of note seemed to really be that taken by the film. i’m pretty much having that vibe after the film just ended.

this is coming from someone who can be…

i gave a star rating to nomadland back when it came out on hulu but never wrote a review.

what’s there to say at this point that hasn’t already been said about this gorgeous piece of americana art? not since all gas no brakes has someone captured what it’s like to be on the lonely highway with nowhere to go while finding the strength and resilience to move forward. just like all gas no brakes.

how about this: since winning…

clearly this film is a warning from the future:

we’ve gotten so lost in our phones and our own social media obsessions that 4 hyper-detailed sentient animated avatars time travel back to 2021 to try to warn us of our impending doom in the form of content we can only comprehend now:

a netflix movie.

that wasn’t actual documentation of a furby in a mall. it’s the furby non-fungible token we create a few years from now that infests our…