Activity from whir | MetaFilter

I think it's more that the Innocents was cold in its heart. That's an interesting comparison. I was also a lot more disturbed by the violence in The Innocents than I was in this movie, despite it being in many ways less gruesome… [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by miss-lapin
FanFare comment - 7 months ago

what should a new entity be called? 20 dollars, same as in town [more]
favorited 3 times, recently by some loser, riverlife, corb
MetaTalk comment - 7 months ago

I thought this was great, and probably one of the most original horror films I've seen this year. I thought the world-building and lore was pretty skillfully done, when the movie starts you have no idea what's going on, but the characters… [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by miss-lapin
FanFare comment - 7 months ago

I actually just read this for the first time just a few weeks ago, it's amazing. I'm a big fan of the 1963 movie adaptation too. It's very faithful, right down to the queer subtext. I have read that Shirley Jackson seems to have continually denied… [more]
favorited 2 times, recently by Gelatin, maryellenreads
FanFare comment - 7 months ago

This is kind of tangential to Loki the show, but Variety has published an interesting piece on Marvel's current troubles which touches on Loki and Jonathan Major's role in the future of the MCU. [more]
favorited 3 times, recently by orrnyereg, Servo5678, Kattullus
FanFare comment - 7 months ago

I really liked this! One nice thing about Ti West is that he's obviously a devotee of the genre, so when stuff like this happens you know it's on purpose: - A woman breaks out of a door with an axe, neatly reversing the iconic scene from The… [more]
favorited 3 times, recently by queensissy
FanFare comment - 7 months ago

I overall liked this show for its tone, though I found it was much easier for me to enjoy when I saved up a bunch of episodes and binge-watched them. This ending just didn't add up for me, though. Did I miss something? Stewart claims they have fixed… [more]
favorited 2 times, recently by mabelstreet
FanFare comment - 7 months ago

Who was OB before the TVA? I wonder if he's a variant of Kang, though I don't really want him to be. But showing alternate Kangs played by different actors would be a convenient way for Marvel to dissociate itself from Jonathan Majors. [more]
favorited 4 times, recently by cuscutis, teleri025, synecdoche, Cannon Fodder
FanFare comment - 7 months ago

I'm fairly sure Ahsoka was able to send an SOS message to Hagrid via that owl in the last scene, looking forwards to the crossover [more]
favorited 3 times, recently by rp, Atreides, Kyol
FanFare comment - 8 months ago

I thought this was a fine return to form; the first season kind of lagged at the end with its stunt casting, and honestly if your villain needs to deliver a twenty-minute monologue in the finale just to explain everything, something has gone badly… [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by grandiloquiet
FanFare comment - 8 months ago

Yeah, I also got a little less invested as time went on and they didn't seem super interested in progressing on the various mysteries in favor of piling up new ones. I don't need to see a flashback for every last detail, but at least give us some… [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by mediareport
FanFare comment - 9 months ago

This one has been provisionally on my to-read list but I never did read American Psycho and I wonder whether that will be a detriment to enjoying this? (I did see the movie, though. Actually, American Psycho isn't exactly Tolstoy,… [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by miss-lapin
FanFare comment - 10 months ago

Ok, well I read this, without the benefit of American Psycho (the novel), and I liked it! Maeve was an interesting narrator, and I liked the Sunset Boulevard-during-Halloween ambiance. I also appreciated the full-throated defense of… [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by miss-lapin
FanFare comment - 10 months ago

I'm pretty bummed out to have Battlestar graduate from "voice of moderation and counterpoint to John Walker" to "person of color who has died so a white dude can have character development." Beyond that, I keep having to check my… [more]
favorited 6 times, recently by Space Kitty
FanFare comment - 10 months ago

I'll also note in passing that the whole thing with the Skrulls somehow gaining powers that they really shouldn't be able to gain through DNA and super-science (like the Captain Marvel powers) is also there in the original Secret Invasion comic event… [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by eustatic
FanFare comment - 10 months ago

Olivia Coleman remains an absolute delight throughout. I totally agree, but she's doing all the super-spy stuff that Maria Hill should have been doing throughout the series instead of being fridged in episode 2. About the DNA stuff,… [more]
favorited 7 times, recently by mstokes650, MattD, ricochet biscuit, mikelieman, Fiberoptic Zebroid and The Hypnagogic Jerks, sixswitch, TheophileEscargot
FanFare comment - 10 months ago

we don't actually get a reveal on Fury's feelings on the Skrulls Yeah, this sucked. The thing is that Fury's speech, as given, is totally in character for him as someone who is often a sort of "ends justify the means" anti-hero,… [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by bq
FanFare comment - 10 months ago

if I’m wrong the few survivors will be too busy hiding from the hunter-killer drones to come back here and call me out, so there’s not a lot of downside to making an upbeat prediction I guess we can call this "Ryvar's wager." [more]
favorited 3 times, recently by adekllny, Heywood Mogroot III
MeFi comment - 11 months ago

One thing that stuck me about the garrote trio: back in S2, Adam shows Young Jonas the scar on his neck to prove they are the same person. If Adam isn't Jonas, though, we now have another possible in-universe explanation for how he could have got… [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by philip-random
FanFare comment - 11 months ago

Dark: Season 2 (complete)
favorited 6 times, recently by philip-random, koselig
FanFare post - 11 months ago

This is definitely one of the most smartly-written comedies on the air right now, and I'm glad they changed the status quo so much in this season. I like how the beginning of the final episode switches things up so that Chase and Pat are the… [more]
favorited 2 times, recently by grandiloquiet
FanFare comment - 11 months ago

I've got mixed feelings about this. The cringey "let's not offend our hosts" stuff is incredibly well-done and the acting is really good, but the last act's sudden turn didn't really do it for me, and I found the "ambiguously… [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by kittens for breakfast
FanFare comment - 11 months ago

I like that you can use numbers as variable names: const const 5 = 4! print(2 + 2 === 5)! //true In older versions of Python, True and False were just variables, and you could reassign their values (by accident, though in fairness the language… [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by Tehhund
MeFi comment - Last year

The impossible geography of The Shining, previously. The analysis is covered in Room 237, but without much detail and sort of smooshed into the other theories (I found Room 237 to be a little disappointing in terms of… [more]
favorited 2 times, recently by davidmsc, Lentrohamsanin
MeFi comment - Last year

I basically agree with that review, yeah. I did think Lauren Ambrose's acting was a continuing highlight, she's really good at that "trying to hold it together" look, and Toby Kebbell as the husband did a good job of grounding the story as… [more]
favorited 2 times, recently by Ellen Alleyne
FanFare comment - Last year

I caught up on this late, but about Gaad's Reagan portrait, it was a definite echo of a later shot where Nina is seen right next to a portrait of Lenin as she leaves the embassy. [more]
favorited 3 times, recently by johnasdf
FanFare comment - Last year

They're suing one former chapter and subjecting them to heavy legal bills. [...] Satan would be disappointed in them. It seems unlikely that Satan would ever be disappointed in somebody hiring lawyers. [more]
favorited 2 times, recently by plep, doctornemo
MeFi comment - Last year

Book: Our Share of Night
favorited 3 times, recently by GenjiandProust
FanFare post - Last year

One thing my partner noted in this episode is that the beginning of the baby-cannabilism dream sequence is a pretty direct homage to the analogous scene in Rosemary's Baby when Mia Farrow wakes up and can't find her newborn. [more]
favorited 2 times, recently by emkelley, EXISTENZ IS PAUSED
FanFare comment - Last year

Ha, I like that Slate article. - The most accurate part of the movie is that audiences always want to hear “Jaja Ding Dong.” - Wait, is that a real song?! - No. [more]
favorited 13 times
FanFare comment - Last year

I'm fond of this terrifying beer commercial as well. [more]
favorited 4 times
MeFi comment - Last year

Tim Blake Nelson is in the new one, and though he doesn't have a character name attached he seems like a good bet for Fenring. [more]
favorited 3 times
MeFi comment - Last year

I enjoyed the "I went to school in New Haven" / "oh, I went to school in Boston" exchange in this, but ultimately I find Novak to be a bit too smarmy for me even when he's amping up the smarminess on purpose to parody it. He… [more]
favorited 2 times
FanFare comment - Last year

Just watched this, it's pretty good for a tiny no-budget movie. I thought the director's 2009 adaptation of the Clive Barker short story Dread was pretty good, too, and it similarly relies on decent acting to carry the day. I did get slightly weary… [more]
favorited 2 times
FanFare comment - Last year

The roles defined (secretarial, comms, bizdev, etc.) Sorry, are these roles actually defined anywhere? I didn't see them here or in the last thread. I've got some coding expertise and some free time and I think I could probably do… [more]
favorited 4 times
MetaTalk comment - Last year

It could be very efficient at fact-checking stuff in real time I mean, some kind of AI could be good at that, yes, but I don't think an LLM, which as we have all witnessed is hilariously bad at giving correct answers, and in… [more]
favorited 1 time
MeFi comment - Last year

Servant: Final Season
favorited 1 time
FanFare post - Last year

I have to say that I was impressed by the enterprise-level reportage about this exotic animal story, given the clickbait that I tend to see on local news sites. [more]
favorited 2 times
MeFi comment - Last year

I was just there last summer. Besides puffins, the town is known for having been partly destroyed in a volcanic eruption in the 1970s, and for a big youth music festival that they were just setting up for during my visit, which many Icelanders I met… [more]
favorited 1 time
MeFi comment - Last year

I enjoyed the book, though I find Tremblay is often a writer whose ideas I like more than their execution. Looking forward to watching this one. [more]
favorited 1 time
FanFare comment - Last year

Damn. RIP, T.V., and thanks for the music. Along with being an amazing song, "Marquee Moon" has the virtue of being 10 minutes long, which was great back when I was young malcontent in a suburban pool hall and wanted to manage to get a… [more]
favorited 1 time
MeFi comment - Last year

Wow, Spotify must have paid some of these artists hundreds of dollars! [more]
favorited 6 times
MeFi comment - Last year

no one develops games for Macs. No one ports games over I feel your pain, having been on a Mac for most of the last 10-odd years and being a person who enjoys games. The thing is, it's only going to get worse in the future. Apple made a… [more]
favorited 1 time
MeFi comment - Last year

I wish there were links to ANYTHING in this article. What the hell, Polygon, this is a website, on the actual whole-ass internet, come the fuck on. Seriously. They don't even link to their own pretty extensive pre-release coverage of a… [more]
favorited 2 times
MeFi comment - Last year

I know people in San Francisco who have been on the periphery of OneTaste in various ways, and I think I've actually been at a workshop with someone mentioned in this article. The thing is that it's best understood in the context of what insiders… [more]
favorited 4 times
MeFi comment - Last year

Selling checkmarks in every color could conceivably drum up some press for the site, too; maybe we could make them a temporary feature that would disappear after the fundraiser even. [more]
favorited 17 times
MetaTalk comment - Last year

(Still, I thought this was super interesting, thanks for sharing it Kattullus! This is exactly the kind of thing I hope to find on Metafilter.) [more]
favorited 1 time
MeFi comment - Last year

burst my balloon by letting me know they were generated imagery I had kind of the same reaction by the end, despite thinking this was a fascinating essay. The first few sets of images (the ones with attribution) do seem to be genuine, but… [more]
favorited 1 time
MeFi comment - Last year

Rest in Peace Kevin O'Neill
favorited 10 times
MeFi post - Last year

I liked the book a great deal, and I liked the adaptation. I'm not really sure what those who feel like this is a failed adaptation feel is missing from the movie. The tunnel/tower thing is basically unfilmable by its very nature. I suppose some of… [more]
favorited 3 times
FanFare comment - Last year

Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 ... 17