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Author of 'Forbidden Planet' MA Creative Writing, University of Birmingham Photographer Sometimes other forms of art Based in the UK Mostly Lukewarm takes and depression-posting here
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Getting a new screen guard feels like basically getting a new phone. Also, nice to be able to use the fingerprint scanner again after god knows how long.

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Rewatching Downton Abbey: A New Era (2022) and gosh, it's such a comfort with these characters. I want 8 more films and at least 700 more seasons of the show.

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Heard 'खुळ्या लवड्याच्या' from the kitchen of this restaurant, this is a sign of great authentic Kolhapuri food on the way.

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Finally watched Jaws (1975) and I get it now.

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Every new @sumsung.bsky.social UI update is somehow worse than the last, I swear these companies keep trying to emulate the Apple UI only to piss off and alienate Android users like me. Gods forbid a phone stay usable for more than 6 months.

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Hour 29 of my journey and I'm having whatever the opposite of jet lag is. Adrenalin suppressing all the exhaustion due to the prospect of being home after 8 long months on the other side of the world. Gods only know how my body's gonna react once this rush wears off though. 4 hours of journey left.

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Solzhenitsyn's August 1914 is unintentionally the funniest book I could've chosen for my 33 hour journey home. C'est la vie, c'est nul.

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Andor experience so stressful that I'm watching American news to calm down.

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Forgot to post this but went to the pride & prejudice re-release, had forgotten Judi Dench is in it; audibly gasped and got goosebumps when she appeared on screen. No one has ever had more aura than her.

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Cronenberg might be the greatest modern filmmaker.

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Rewatching Scarface (1984) and at least half of Tony Montana's charm is him being a skittish little guy that's always angry and a little out of his depth. The other half is Pacino and De Palma mining him for a good bit of comedy.

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Tony Leung entering Hard Boiled (1992) like he's the coolest motherfucker alive.

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Watching Andor is just a transcendent experience in butt-clenching.

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Rewatching The Spy Who Loved Me (1972) and not only is this movie insanely trippy, it also might be one of the most influential action movies of all time.

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Decided to go the gym for the first time this year (I paid for the yearly membership, like ya do) and my day has just been horrible after that for entirely different reasons. Nonetheless, I will fabricate causation and say, fuck gyms man.

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Man, @scalzi.com man, day twenty-three. I didn't know it but I really needed that. Thank you.

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Sometimes there will be days like today when I'll feel like doing nothing and I won't but then I'll also feel like absorbing the breadth and length of human knowledge (or at least the bits I'm interested in) before the night ends. I should just sleep.

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Rewatching master and commander on a whim and got blasted with the reminder that Peter Weir is a visual poet and also one of the best to ever do it. What a film, what a guy.

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I wrote something about Temple of Doom today, and it made me go reading about Indiana Jones again. I found some of the initial story ideas they had for Last Crusade, and my god did we dodge some fuckin bullets.

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Been trying to come up with a Chandigarh-inspired company town only to find out because of an IPL match that there's a New Chandigarh. Fell to my knees.

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I bet they all think they're Captain Nemo when really they're Karl Strombergs.

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Thinking again about Jeff Nichols' The Bikeriders (2023). One of the most important films of the decade about wayward masculinity and how some of our lizard brains perceive connection.

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Would be fun to have a West Wing revival of the current US administration where everyone is actively performing Sorkin-esque debates and monologues that lead to the country imploding bit by bit each episode. Zero hint of irony in any of it.

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Watching Only Yesterday (1991) and god, the level of awareness and insight this film has about itself allows for so much dramatic heft. Witnessing what is sure to be one of my favorite films.

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Bradley Whitford and Mary-Louise Parker showing up in the first 20 mins of The Client (1994), along with half a dozen 'that guy' actors. I fear we're in for an all timer.

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Spent the entirety of yesterday by the sea and I feel like something's permanently changed inside me. In a good way.

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There are shots in Dust in the Wind (1986) that are so achingly beautiful. Most of the time the camera is static and yet every shot is rich with movement, whether it be the people, machines, or the landscape itself.

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Discovering or rediscovering old or new music is definitely among the top 5 best feelings ever.

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Flash Gordon (1980) thinks it's so cool, which is the only reason why it works. It's kinda sad to see though that every blockbuster these days pretty much always doing what I now know is the third act of Flash Gordon.

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Well well well @scalzi.com, you prescient weaver of fantastic tales you.

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It's Friday and I'm trying to nap but I also feel like I'm having a heart attack. Sigh.

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This 'Ghibli' AI trend is really showcasing just how many people fundamentally misunderstand or neglect what makes Ghibli films meaningful beyond just the fact that they're cute or pretty to look at.

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Watching Licorice Pizza (2021) and PTA might legit be the most talented and thoughtful shitsengiggles filmmaker alive. Every scene is full of bits that in lesser hands might come off unfunny (or worse, Adam Sandler Netflixy) but Anderson finds the strange humanity in everything, no matter how silly.

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Rewatching Ruby Sparks (2012) after a long long time and it's a complete horror movie from Ruby's perspective.

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Reading Madame Sosostris & The Festival For the Broken Hearted. This part... Ben Okri you madlad, you old so and so.

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Watching Cleaner (2025) and Daisy Ridley proves again why she's one of the best and yet consistently underappreciated actors working today. Also, very happy to see Martin Campbell still absolutely bringing it.

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Halsey featuring in that chainsmokers song might be the only time a mainstream pop song has been palatable.

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#nw Repo Man (1984) and it's gotta be one of the most visually fun films of the 80s. I mean, just the colour of Harry Dean Stanton's Chevy...

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Vastav (2000) is full on godfather meets Macbeth. It goes so hardcore.

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Every time I think I'm wasting my days, not doing enough, my instinct is to reach for a book. As if a book will have the answers to the lack of ambition and drive that I'm looking for.

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