About 2 years ago, I was reading Cormac McCarthy's The Crossing when I came across a passage that stopped me dead in my tracks. It told of a heretic, a priest, and the meaning of life. And today, more than anything, I just need to pass on this tale: https://t.co/P9NPIpy8Sr
My extended thoughts on Backrooms: a fantastic concept rendered into a near masterpiece - brought down only by a stifling script that breaks atmospheric immersion and layers what should have been a direct, sensory experience with needless metaphors: https://t.co/cPpGGDqbQQ
New video! The live of a mediocre movie is often short-lived: watched, enjoyed, and then promptly forgotten. But on rare occasions, such a movie will persist in the mind and, as if almost by accident, plant a seed that grows into something life-changing: https://t.co/KqkxJUJgHV
New video out now on Nebula! In which I talk about 6 mediocre movies that should have been long forgotten but somehow stayed with me: https://t.co/xTSeN2nmLM
Frustrating thing about #Backrooms is that it's a 5 star concept with a 2 star execution - which simultaneously leaves you with the excitement of experiencing something genuinely refreshing, and with the pain of missed potential
New 2nd channel video! If you liked Project Hail Mary, here's 5 more movies to watch (that aren't Interstellar, Arrival, Sunshine, The Martian or Ad Astra) https://t.co/OLarPDJ9f6
Lots of people offering explanations, like I understand the "why" (horror has always been low-risk/high-reward) I just kind of miss the time when movie culture would also go wild over a "Clerks", "Slacker", "Pi", "Following", "Monsters", "Primer" or "Chronicle" or something
The only exception I can think of is the 'thoughtful drama', which we're still getting a good amount of -"Aftersun", "Past Lives", "Sorry, Baby", "The Quiet Girl", "Shiva Baby" - but other than that genre diversity in feature debuts does seem to have declined significantly imo
Lots of people offering explanations, like I understand the "why" (horror has always been low-risk/high-reward) I just kind of miss the time when movie culture would also go wild over a "Clerks", "Slacker", "Pi", "Following", "Monsters", "Primer" or "Chronicle" or something
New video out now on Nebula! a 40-minute video essay on 20 pages of a Cormac McCarthy novel, the 2025 movie Train Dreams, and... well, the meaning of life
https://t.co/IvNWBtNWrP
Seeing this casually pass the feed in between the horrifying images of Israel's genocidal rage just adds another layer of grief to an already deeply tragic state of affairs. We could have filled our hearts with awe and wonder. Created miracles. What have we become?
Hello, Moon. It’s great to be back.
Here’s a taste of what the Artemis II astronauts photographed during their flight around the Moon. Check out more photos from the mission: https://t.co/rzM1P0QbOl
2nd channel alert! Another video on Project Hail Mary, the irony/sincerity discourse, and on how - no, it's actually not all just "hopecore" space movies: https://t.co/vOyefrneen
For decades, Hollywood has tried to adapt Cormac McCarthy. And now that his magnum opus, the notoriously violent Blood Meridian, is once again in production, what can we learn from the previously adapted works of his? How to film this "unfilmable" author? https://t.co/QkuTSDuUv9
Secondly, and exclusively for Nebula folks: my hour+ long conversation with Jake - in which we discuss McCarthy at length, share our own dream adaptations of his books, and make a list of the most McCarthy-like movies that weren't actually written by him https://t.co/Z6vuOpCaX1
Up now on Nebula - 2 new videos! ft. none other than @ManCarrying
First, a deep dive into the challenges of adapting Cormac McCarthy books. What hope is there for the coming adaptation of his magnum opus, the notoriously violent Blood Meridian?
https://t.co/0Ir162lyhL
2025: One Battle After Another
2024: The Brutalist
2023: Oppenheimer
2022: Aftersun
2021: The Worst Person in the World
2020: Tenet (I guess)
2019: A Hidden Life
2018: First Man
2017: Call Me By Your Name
2016: Paterson
2025: Caught by the Tides
2024: Love Lies Bleeding
2023: Asteroid City
2022: Ambulance
2021: Memoria
2020: Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets
2019: Uncut Gems
2018: An Elephant Sitting Still
2017: Call Me by Your Name
2016: Personal Shopper