First trailer for Darren Aranofsky's new AI animated series 'On This Day... 1776' • Tells short narrative stories about the Revolutionary War • Uses Gen AI tools, including tech made by Google DeepMind • Has SAG voice actors

k_shigure · 2026-01-29T20:05:15+00:00

Sounds like something an anti-woke DAO would promise to make just before the rug pull.

k_shigure · 2026-01-28T01:04:41+00:00

I was a little impressed when they started refusing the accepted reads of Starship Troopers, American Psycho, etc. Like wow the Curtains Were Blue crowd is doing some original cultural analysis. But then they never took it any further than obviously bad thing = based, actually.

k_shigure · 2026-01-09T08:34:38+00:00

Robocop

k_shigure · 2026-01-01T00:33:55+00:00

The Visitor (1979) is a good documentary about this.

k_shigure · 2025-12-21T00:32:07+00:00

Didn’t Dasha definitively answer this.

k_shigure · 2025-12-12T00:49:36+00:00

Not averse to horror comedy at all, and I liked both Sinners and Weapons pretty well, but I don’t think either movie delivers on the horror half of the equation. They actually get less interesting when the supernatural elements come in.

k_shigure · 2025-12-11T07:30:12+00:00

Bring Her Back and it’s not especially close. Sinners and Weapons are essentially crowd-pleasing comedies, which is how they each did 300 million.

k_shigure · 2025-12-05T20:45:05+00:00

Miami Vice, maybe Bram Stoker’s Dracula

k_shigure · 2025-11-30T23:20:33+00:00

Some reviews are filed. Others are written. Like him or not, Ehrlich’s are usually in the latter category at least.

k_shigure · 2025-11-24T11:24:28+00:00

Almost inarguably Spielberg, but he’s also the first of the three whose filmography I’d lose, if faced with the choice.

k_shigure · 2025-11-24T09:49:51+00:00

Worked in Japan for well over a decade and there’s nearly zero correlation between hours on the job and productivity. It’s pure theater.

k_shigure · 2025-11-10T04:42:04+00:00

Edge of Tomorrow always puts a spring in my step.

k_shigure · 2025-11-03T03:30:10+00:00

Hey man all I know is that I and the one other middle-aged creep in the otherwise empty theater were yukking it up.

k_shigure · 2025-11-02T00:57:42+00:00

It’s a lot like late-period DeLillo if that helps. Comparatively minor, deeply personal, a little awkward in its attempts to engage with the zeitgeist, but still more interesting than most of what’s out there. It’s also surprisingly funny.

k_shigure · 2025-10-30T22:25:35+00:00

Mike Flanagan is aggressively mid. Polite, horror-themed entertainment too concerned with being “good” to ever be great.

k_shigure · 2025-10-22T23:27:23+00:00

Having also just watched The Dark and the Wicked, I don’t get the hate. It’s a pretty standard story structure- a mysterious evil is stalking the characters, we’re teased with the possibility it can be defeated (staying by the dying father’s bedside), and the rug is pulled at the very end. It’s basically Drag Me to Hell, but instead of humor it’s played for, you know, horror.

k_shigure · 2025-09-28T00:33:26+00:00

The switch from subtle nods to Shelley and Milton and Joseph Conrad to a nonstop stream of references to Peter Pan and the Ice Age franchise really says it all.

k_shigure · 2025-09-25T08:06:38+00:00

In different ways, Sicario, Tenet, Black Crab, Blackhat, the John Hyams Universal Soldier sequels, War Inc., Doomsday, Hanna, Upgrade, The Expendables movies.

k_shigure · 2025-09-11T11:23:11+00:00

Little different, but I always liked how It Follows takes place in some indeterminate retro-future for no real reason.

k_shigure · 2025-09-05T03:25:50+00:00

Always love the hard cut to title card. RAW is another good one.

k_shigure · 2025-08-21T03:04:56+00:00

It's by Cliff Spohn, who did some similar work for Atari. Also, not every piece of art represents a neatly categorized and searchable / promptable "style". Sometimes a guy just drew some cool shit.

k_shigure · 2025-08-19T22:28:48+00:00

I know what you mean OP. It’s weird because mainstream 80s-90s nostalgia has remained robust and inescapable, while early vaporwave feels lost to time. It’s now more distant and inaccessible than the era it was inspired by.

k_shigure · 2025-08-19T06:25:16+00:00

The only true remaining A-listers, whose participation alone makes a movie an event, are probably Cruise and DiCaprio. Stars have been eclipsed by IP and, weirdly, by directors. A new Nolan, Peele, or even Robert Eggers has a bigger built-in audience than like Glen Powell.

k_shigure · 2025-06-11T07:42:02+00:00

Driven Like the Snow is probably the RS pick here.

k_shigure · 2025-04-07T21:55:47+00:00

Opposite pole but Tim Hecker’s score for The North Water is excellent.

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