Usually around this time of the year I will remake the list of my favorites from the last year, as I have seen more of those films and have more perspective.
Going Back to Movies from 2023 – Underseen Gems
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Author Archives: Aki Vainio
I Don’t Know If My Heart Can Take a Bad The Crow Remake
That’s kind of hyperbolic, but it’s complicated. And I will use the word “formative” way more often than I probably should.
My Top 10 Favorite Folk Horror Movies
I can’t believe I haven’t done this list before. I guess you need to leave easy topics aside to do them later, so you can sometimes do the low effort stuff. So, here’s some low effort.
There’s Now an Oz Perkins Movie I Can Actually Recommend
Here’s the thing: I kind of love his work. I just feel his work goes so strongly against the recent development of horror that it won’t work for everyone.
Borderlands Movie Review
The Constrictions We Enforce on Media
Last year I went to see Extraña forma de vida or Strange Way of Life, a movie by Pedro Almodovar. The thing is that it’s actually a short and we don’t usually see shorts as single screenings in theaters.
How to Play Thoughtseize
Here’s the thing: You are paying a mana, a card and two life to get rid of one card in hand, for which the opponent has not paid anything (most of the time). There’s even a strong possibility that the card is dead later in the game or even harmful, if you only gain information by paying all those costs. How can this possibly be beneficial?
Distancing Myself from Recommending Rogues by Patrick Radden Keefe (and just saying Fuck Kissinger over and over again)
I Probably Shouldn’t, But I’m Going to Talk About “We Are Lady Parts”
Let’s start with this:
The Stupidity of Modern Conspiracy Theories
It’s been over two months since Steve Albini dies, but I’m still listening to all the records he engineered (as he would call his production work). One of the bands I got back to because of this is The Breeders.