Cyberpunk got a lot wrong. In fact, its central thesis, bleeding edge tech only in the hands of the elite while the lower class refashion the leftovers into anti-authority tools and weapons, basically went out the door with the smartphone. Gibson realized this quickly.
88's Her Vengeance shoots to the top of essential 2025 releases. This incredible film has been so difficult to see over the years. Fan edits have done their best to piece together the original director's cut, but even those have missing footage. Huge release.
DeepSeek just completely refuses to translate the subtitles for Wong Kar-Wai's Shanghai Blossoms (no English release on the horizon). I thought this would be one thing AI would be good at but apparently it's just completely useless for everything.
Found a new favorite goofball
Finally finished syncing Arrow's restored English audio track to the beautiful French UHD of Visconti's Ludwig. Doesn't seem like any USA/UK labels are interested in releasing this so I'd like to share it, but none of my current trackers will accept this type of upload. Anyone have a suggestion?
My ballot for the NYT top 10 films of the century. At least 5 films I wanted to list were not available which is pretty lame.
Featured on @rockpapershotgun.bsky.social today, with an absolutely wonderful writeup and analysis by Nic Reuben:
"I had a hard time finding a single sentence in this thing I didn't want to screenshot." ❤️
www.rockpapershotgun.com/dont-get-you...
Its major geopolitical prognosis, Japan's continued rise into a rival hegemonic power, was also completely wrong.
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Nuptial Rites
This piece was inspired by "The Color of Pomegranates" by Parajanov.
Excited to share this illustration I drew for @antodemico.bsky.social new book "Lich Codex". This is probably one of my favorite illustrations I've ever created. You can pre-order the book through this link: pointyhat.myshopify.com
