05 May 2025

Weekly visions - week 17, 2025

A week of comedy and horror

The poster for Ryan Coogler's *Sinners*
Back from travelling, to a more normal rhythm and bandwidth, and with a couple of days off that allowed for two escapades to the cinema.
I will also admit that, while away, I temporarily re-subscribed to Paramount+ just to be able to listen to this week’s episode of The Detective and the Log Lady. This explains a couple of entries below…

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01 May 2025

Waves

In celebration of fellow travellers

People come into your life. Some walk with you for a while, long enough that you change each other - a little or a lot, but forever -, and then go on their separate way. Some people drift out of sight but their path may cross yours again; some walk on a parallel road; you’re not holding hands anymore, but you can still see each other despite the distance, and if you wave to them they will wave back.

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26 April 2025

The Castle

My entry for this month’s IndieWeb Movie Carnival

The poster for Rob Sitch's film *The Castle*
The second comedy in a row for the IndieWeb Movie Club, The Castle, is an Australian film from 1997; it tells the story of the Kerrigan family, happily living in a house located at the end of the Melbourne Airport runway, until a ‘compulsory acquisition’ notice from the local authorities prompts the father, Darryl, to look for a way to oppose the injunction and avoid losing ‘his castle’.

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25 April 2025

Weekly visions - week 16, 2025

Two uncomfortable movies and a comfort film

The poster for Todd Solondz' film *Happiness*
This week I travelled and, as a consequence, I had less time and also a reduced internet bandwidth to watch films.

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22 April 2025

Weekly visions - week 15, 2025

Featuring my second 4-star Taiwanese film

The poster for John Hsu's *Dead Talents Society*
This week, again, my creative spirit has dried up. So, let’s go straight to the films.

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20 April 2025

Notes on Lorelei and the Laser Eyes

My impressions about Simogo’s latest game

A still from *Lorelei and the Laser Eyes* (© Simogo/Annapurna Interactive)
Lorelei and the Laser Eyes is the latest work from Simogo, a small videogame studio from Sweden. I bought it without hesitation, and soon I was immersed in a mysterious story about a young woman exploring a deserted hotel, in Germany in 1962.
It’s about modern art, and cinema, and time jumping, and magic, and coffee, and a creepy girl with an owl mask, and possibly cosmic horror. And puzzles. Lots of puzzles.
In short, it’s like it was written just for me.


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