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BUGONIA

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Bugonia – What a Ride I can’t believe that after such a deep dive into trauma and drama — and honestly, after a whole day that felt like a complete mess, with the future seeming uncertain in that “I’m about to lose it” kind of way — I came out on the other side healed, smiling, and feeling motivated to write about this movie. I loved it! Bugonia is such a ride. This piece of art dives into so many subjects, jumping between them with almost perfect precision, and somehow leaves you feeling deeply inspired. Even with the two moments at the beginning that felt a bit slow and dragged out, I still came out transformed. Maybe those moments were even planted there intentionally — to make us experience the full emotional arc, so we can emerge from it the way we do. It reminded me of how I felt after watching Poor Things again the other day. That same sense of longing for more of the story, even though the story itself is perfectly complete in what we’ve just witnessed. Some might say that ...
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IT Welcome to Darry

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 I am so burned by Alien Earth and some of the choices there that my expectations here were rock bottom. I knew to keep them there, even though all the critics said how incredible this show is. I’m not falling for that again. But lucky me — the first episode delivered. I can’t believe they killed those kids. I really liked them, and I even connected with the one with the lamp. I don’t remember their names, but Pennywise just tore them to pieces. He also got his best friend — annoying but relatable — and his cute sister who never knew what was going on. And now she’ll never figure it out. Pennywise left only one of her hands ✋️. After the start of the show, I wasn’t sure if I would like it. I mean, controlling a whole family? But after I saw the mother giving birth, I felt 🙃 like I might actually enjoy this. And then you see the birth of the creature Pennywise used (he’s like an incredible Pokémon trainer: ugly mutant baby, I choose you! ). It’s like you’re right in front of he...
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'The Hike' - Chapter Twenty-Two - Cringe

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Chapter 22: Night 11: The two beers and the whole lazy vibe after Kozia Stena pushed me back into the attic once more. The trauma from almost falling to my death after Echo Hut was almost gone. I started feeling sleepy. I went and took a quick shower—you can’t waste any water up here—and then up the ladder, back into my kingdom, where my body collapsed into oblivion in a second. Day 12: I woke up to someone hammering on the bathroom door, repeatedly. The sound went through my head like a hammer pounding a pumpkin. I felt the anger bubbling up inside me. The poor woman who passed by when I stuck my head out of the attic to see who dared disturb my dream took the full blast. I channeled it into a vomit of complaint. She nearly jumped out of her skin. The angry, high-pitched voice came from above, and when she looked up, all she saw was a floating head screaming at her. She quickly realized what I was yapping about—and disappeared. Later, the hut owner told me it was the wind slamming the...
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Project Hail Mary Book Review - This Book Could Have Been a Movie

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Project Hail Mary Book Review - This Book Could Have Been a Movie You know that famous saying, “this meeting could have been an email” ? Well, there’s a new version of that. It’s unfortunate that it comes up, but if it exists, it has its meaning. The new saying is: “this book could have been a movie.” Lucky for you, who don’t want to sit through a 16-hour audiobook or read even longer, the movie is coming, and I bet it will do a better job with this overly blown-out short story about the end of the universe. It starts really funny—I laughed out loud many times in the first 4 or 5 chapters. (Spoilers ahead, of course.) But once we dipped our heads into the pool of science, for a guy who doesn’t have the knowledge to understand all the chemistry and physics—which I’m sure are carefully curated and researched—it just sounds like gibberish. “I’m smart enough to know that I’m stupid” is one of the best lines in the book, and it basically becomes the whole point of it. It felt like someone ...
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Alien Earth: Episode 5 is complete TRASH.

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  Alien Earth: Episode 5 is complete TRASH. We are actually the test subjects of Disney, because I felt tested to my very core whether I would continue watching this show after this episode. This episode was painful to watch. How can you manage to turn such an interesting premise into this kindergarten bullshit? I’ll tell you how — whoever wrote this episode should be immediately fired. Immediately. Let me check who it was. Director: Noah Hawley. Screenplay: Noah Hawley, Dan O'Bannon, Ronald Shusett. FIRED, right on the spot. I feel like the director should go before season 2. People who do not know the difference between biology and geology are allowed on a spaceship? This smoking on the ship is really getting out of hand. I mean, Morrow literally dropped his cigar in a hole on a spaceship. Who wrote this shit? This should alarm whoever is on top of the show to start firing people. Operating on people without masks or any protection? Really? Who let the creep on that spaceship? H...
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I Am Becoming a Huge Fan of DC!

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Spoilers. After seeing Superman and, during the last 7 days, season 1 of Peacemaker , and of course every Guardians of the Galaxy project , I’m starting to love comic book properties again. This feeling is so refreshing and hopeful for the future of comic book media. While watching the first season, I laughed so hard. It’s been a long time since I laughed like that at a show. Any project that’s capable of provoking these strong emotions is likely to become a piece of endearment. Overall, the first season just blew me away—I was sitting on something so funny for so much time. My theory about the deeper meaning of Peacemaker is simple and short, but I’ll put it here because I really think I’m onto something. Peacemaker is actually James Gunn, and the people he interacts with are parts of his real life. His wife literally, his colleagues, his father—who I believe represents Kevin Feige, David Zaslav, or Bob Iger. And the KKK are Marvel/Disney fans, or the ones that came after him about ...
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On Wednesdays We Wear Faceghuggers

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  The lore expands. Knowing that in Alien nobody knew about the xenomorph, I think Ripley is already in space — or everything will end with the death of the Prodigy company. Another guess I have is that, for the first time, we’ll get clear communication with the perfect organism. Wendy is hearing the aliens, and in one of the trailers she mentions that they’re talking to her. I can’t wait to see how this plays out and actually hear that communication. Wendy already displayed her power of controlling machines and altering their code when she answered her brother, who was denied early retirement for another seven months. The show has such a rich lore — completely new for the franchise — and an incredible production that, even with those minor head-scratchers, I’m glued to the story and the new information. I think the show would work better as a binge, but maybe this “week-to-week” format will create an even stronger fan base that promotes the show themselves. I’m already talking abo...
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