James Ashcroft’s film adaptation of The Whisper Man delivers a chilling exploration of inherited trauma, grief, and generational fracture. When young Jake Kennedy vanishes in the sleepy town of Garretton, an old nightmare resurfaces with terrifying intimacy. The final act twists a standard whodunnit into a brutal reckoning between fathers and sons that lingers well...
Why I've started streaming and how it fits into my process.
David Lynch’s 1977 debut feature Eraserhead remains one of the most unsettling cinematic nightmares ever captured on film. Shot in stark black-and-white over five grueling years, the movie transforms ordinary domestic life into a landscape of industrial decay and biological rot. At its core, the haunting finale is an uncompromising look at fatherhood anxiety, guilt,...
James Watkins’ 2024 remake of Speak No Evil takes the agonizing social dread of the 2022 Danish original and steers it down a wildly different path. Instead of watching a family passively walk to their slaughter, viewers get a blood-soaked fight for survival. The result is a radically altered ending that swaps pure Scandinavian nihilism...
Insidious: Out of the Further Ending Explained: What Happened to Gemma, Cyrus and the Further? You just sat through 106 minutes of dental horror, tattooed grapefruits, and a haunted couch fort, and now you're standing in the lobby going wait, what just happened? Fair. Insidious: Out of the Further packs a lot into its final...
The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (Puiu, 2005) is streaming on Kanopy.
Uglies (2024) Movie Review & Ending Explained: Netflix’s Dystopian Adaptation Analyzed Netflix's sci-fi film Uglies brings Scott Westerfeld’s 2005 dystopian novel to the screen after nearly two decades stuck in development limbo. Directed by McG and starring Joey King, the story follows a futuristic city that enforces extreme cosmetic surgery on sixteen-year-olds under the guise...
Cosmic horror doesn't care about ghosts rattling chains in an attic or masked killers chasing teenagers down a dark alley. Instead, it drags you to the edge of an infinite, uncaring universe and forces you to realize that humanity is nothing more than bacteria on a floating rock. When your mind tries to process entities...
The Weyland-Yutani Corporation has spent centuries chasing a lethal nightmare across deep space. Behind the corporate slogan "Building Better Worlds" lies a relentless drive to harness the deadliest organism in the galaxy. Dissecting their secret experiments and synthetic agendas reveals exactly how the classic films, prequels, and modern sequels fit together. Bio-weapons obsession: what is...
The Battle of Tumbleton marks the exact moment the Dance of the Dragons stops being a civil war over a throne and turns into an outright extinction event for House Targaryen. What began as a desperate clash for the southern gateway to King's Landing erupted into an inferno when Rhaenyra's greatest aerial advantage turned against...
District 9 (Blomkamp, 2009) is a digital rental in Aotearoa NZ.
Ted Lasso is streaming on Apple TV.
Universal Language (Rankin, 2024) is a digital rental from AroVision.
This is getting predictable, but we do need to do a lot of nationalising.
Durante años, el video volumétrico ha parecido una tecnología salida de una película de ciencia ficción. Permite grabar una escena en tres dimensiones y verla desde prácticamente cualquier ángulo imaginable. Ahora, investigadores de la Brown University han dado un paso decisivo para convertir esa idea en algo mucho más accesible.
TheEbonyGrove, an African-American VTuber, is one of the interviewees for this public blog post series.
Akil Kuro, an African-American VTuber, is one of the interviewees for this public blog post series.
How I taught a 20-year-old embedded audio player to stream music from the network — without touching its codec layer.
How I taught a 20-year-old embedded audio player to stream music from the network — without touching its codec layer.
Continuing streaming HTTP excitements in Unison
El Phenomeno, a Nigerian VTuber, is one of the interviewees for this public blog post series.
Eine kritische Betrachtung der Entwicklung von Streaming-Diensten, steigender Kosten, Werbung, Lizenzproblemen und der Qualität von Inhalten.