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Really looking forward to the eight episode limited series where Bond puts on his bow tie and orders a martini in the final thirty seconds.

Why does the cover photo for Mad Men Season 4 look like Don is taking a whiz in the office?

happy birthday gromit 🐾

Tonight I started Final Fantasy 7 Remake. No clue if it’s going to bear out as a good game, but so far the music fucking rips

I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1423

A thread of my write-ups on Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan Quartet: 1. My Brilliant Friend www.ajtye.com/post/writing...

My take on #ElenaFerrante's stunning book, The Story of the Lost Child: www.ajtye.com/post/the-sto...

Been on a banger of a streak recently ngl

Does Hideo Kojima know about David Ehrlich's best movie montages

Just discovered that my creaking website which I haven't tended to in over a year is going to go up in cost by *checks notes* 150%. Is this Wix issuing me some sort of failure tax??

This is a hilarious way to say “we haven’t figured out how to make AI do anything useful”

David Lynch gave us the language we needed to better articulate the indescribable strangeness of our shared reality. “Lynchian” is so overused because it’s a viscerally understandable word without any known synonyms. I can’t imagine a more beautiful artistic legacy than that.

I've sorta gotten into Traitors, and ya can't hardly argue with its success, but what on earth is this format? it's terrible? Everybody sitting round going 'well we've not got anything to go on' and then picking a name arbitrarily with dramatic music under it.

Finished The Story of the Lost Child after putting it off for years and it feels exactly like how I thought it would. Like some people I knew so well have vanished, and they didn't even say goodbye. They felt so real, I almost expect to run into them on the street. What a series. #ElenaFerrante

Damn, I actually ticked off all of these. Go me

tell ‘em @kibblesmith.com

remember that time i drew all of clara oswald's outfits bc i am an insane person. good times #DoctorWho #ClaraOswald #Art 🎨

What a perfect game to go on Playstation Plus, and what perfect timing for me! Was always afraid of dropping money on Dead Space because of the fear-factor, but this has eliminated that barrier to entry altogether.

Big fan of Uncharted 4, but going for the platinum at long last has made me realise that the cruelest trophy in the game is the speedrun one, which asks the player to complete the game in a way it is just not built to accomodate.

Couldn't bring my scaredy-ass to play through Dead Space when I was younger, and I've stayed the hell away from it ever since. But damn, I just caught up on this Jacob Geller video and am considering taking the plunge at long last: youtu.be/V8Hs8_DzU3M?...

Next week is the 20th Anniversary of LOST premiere (!!!). To commemorate, I went back and watched the entire show for the first time since it ended. The result is 38,000 word mini-book! It covers the context, the seasons, and the overall thematic statements. Enjoy! www.patreon.com/posts/112296...

My Green Day hot take is that the production on 'Saviors' sounds as bad if not worse than the production of 'Father of All...'

Happy New Doctor Who Day to all who celebrate!

thinking about this again, as I often do

Web security people know that password managers are a thing, right? They know this is incredibly annoying, right?

Weird Dead Guys Who Dig Near Walls in Limgrave Unionize

“Killers of the Flower Moon” is a heady and compelling work that covers an incredible swathe of history. Scorsese interrogates masculinity, capitalism, white supremacy, cinema and the intersection of these forces in a powerhouse film about America’s original great crime.

Mulling over doing a cheeky ranking of Tennant’s Doctor Who episodes before his return next month…

Absolutely baffling to me that Doctor Who has *ONE* episode that aired on Halloween, and instead of being a spooktacular special, it’s a 50 minute trailer assembled by a madman

Pretty shitty of Rishi to scrap HS2 when it contains one of the most banging musical numbers of the century

It's been noted before by people who are more in the know than me, but I love how Cameron's direction isn't just used to emphasise the expense on screen, but is always guiding your eye perfectly towards a focal point, even when the frame is full of moving pieces. boxd.it/4WKjNH

I know I shouldn't be surprised that wandering into One Piece listicles/forum posts/internet chatter will flood me with 20 year-old spoilers, but somehow I am 😭

Okay, so Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World is the *most* Murakami book ever written? Cool cool cool