I was looking at when the furious premieres and letterboxd said it was playing at the common at 4pm thursday and I was like, hey, I can be in the common on thursday! turns out you need to check the date cuz there are several thursdays in a year. came home and decided to watch this instead, which has the same fight choreographer. and, damn, them's some fights! real good fighting, yep.

ok but two sound design things I noticed:…

finally got round to this'n. was held up by plans to see it with certain people, and held up again by sadness that I will not be seeing it with them after all. but, even as I would've preferred to watch a murder mystery with the person I used to watch murder mysteries with, there is, also, some sad relief in finally watching it without logistication.

each knives out is great for different reasons. the first for its inside-outness, seemingly…

america ferrera gives a speech midway thru about the impossibility of existing as a woman under capitalist patriarchy that is likely a verbatim transcript of greta gerwig's existential crisis about making a barbie movie. acknowledge you're making a movie out of a product; acknowledge that acknowledging it doesn't make it any less of an advertisement; acknowledge that it's gonna get made with or without you; acknowledge all film (and to an extent all art produced under capitalism) must also function…

I get a lot of comments on alt-right playbook videos saying we should adopt their tactics. and, you know, I agree with some of them. we should absolutely adopt the right's policy of governing on their values and not sweating "the rules," for example. but when I say, you know, we should probably not lie to and emotionally manipulate our own followers because that will, in the long run, make them more susceptible to conspiracists and authoritarians, people call me…