Monday, 20 January 2025

Predictions for From Season 4: Change is coming!

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As Season 3 of the Paramount Plus TV show From ends, the town is engulfed by winter, after 50 years of stable, consistent warm weather. Thi...
Monday, 13 January 2025

From: Analyzing the symbols in the cave

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I tried lightening and increasing the contrast on some frames to see if that helped clarify things. It doesn't, at least not much. I lov...
Saturday, 4 January 2025

From: The New Lost

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Yet another Mystery Box in a Bottle show in the same vein as  Lost, Dark, 1899, Yellowjackets , and their great grandaddy, the kids show  La...
Thursday, 12 December 2024

Stunning trailer for 28 Years Later

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  Complete with a Yeats poetry reading voiceover from... 1905! Talk about daring! The artistry of this, and the willingness to do something ...
Monday, 9 December 2024

Luigi Mangione and the Narodnaya Volya: what's old is new again

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Luigi, the anti-corporate assassin captured rather ironically at a McDonalds , has cited the Unabomber as an inspiration . Thankfully, the U...
Friday, 29 November 2024

Triple review: The Founder, Worth, and Irena’s Vow

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All three are based on a true story, are well made, and worth a watch... if you’re in the right mood.   Let’s tackle The Founder first: it...
Monday, 18 November 2024

Everyone's a critic

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Normally, people just say to ignore the critics. That's what professionals do, after all. And many people out there are unbothered by cr...
Saturday, 16 November 2024

Tyson on being and nothingness

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  This interview was absolutely hilarious: Tyson's not really wrong, but wow, talk about different kinds of energy. I want to see more o...
Monday, 4 November 2024

Music!

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Illustration for a music poster I did, way back in The Before Time. When they had music festivals. Find more at jtillustration .
Monday, 21 October 2024

Collier's epic review of Star Trek: Picard

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Back in The Before Time, in The Long Long Ago, Red Letter Media made a set of feature length Mr. Plinkett Reviews of the Star Wars Prequel T...
Thursday, 17 October 2024

David Brin on AI (and, sshhh, COVID-19)

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Always interesting to listen to. Competition between AIs sounds like the way to go. That Wallstreet AI could become dominant is truly fright...
Friday, 6 September 2024

Demons of El Dorado - Part 7, er, 11?

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EDIT: Whoops, it's been so long I forgot I already published this on the blog several years ago. I have the remainder in screenplay for...