I've started reading The Great Gatsby for what may be the first time? I'm unsure. I read an article recently about certain books that everyone claims to have read, but not many really have, and Gatsby was one of them. I always thought I read it in high-school, and always marked it off as 'read' …
Despair, by Vladimir Nabokov
Schadenfreude--pleasure derived by someone from another person's misfortune. Nabokov, I am coming to find, is the master of this. The key to it, is to not identify too much with the person experiencing the misfortune, otherwise it becomes uncomfortable, cringy, awkward... but this, is not. You find yourself laughing with the most perfect satisfaction. And …
The Orville, episode 7, Nosedive
Oh, sorry, Nosedive is actually the title of the black mirror episode the writers were copying inspired by. On this week's episode of The Orville, the crew goes to a planet which, through paralell evolution, is somehow exactly like 21st century Earth, except a bit different. Okay... that is a bit silly... well, a LOT …
Star Trek: Discovery, episode 5
War war war war, Michael Burnham war. War, war war war, war spore drive war war. War Klingons war tardigrade war war. Captain Lorca punches Klingons, someone dies, I don't care. Cue opening credits. Another 'exciting' episode of Star Trek: Discovery, where nothing is discovered, they don't go anywhere no one has gone before, and …
Happy Death Day
In the style of Groundhog Day, or more recently Edge of Tomorrow, Tree Gelbman (Jessica Rothe) is a college student living the same day over and over. Except she keeps getting murdered. I never know what to expect from movies anymore, but I usually default toward expecting them to be dumb. This one was less …
Jonas David 