A quick bullet point list in order to officially keep track of how much my taste differs from the Academy’s.

After taking a break for a month to digest all of those ‘Best of 2024’ lists, the IndieWeb Movie Club is back, with a variant. [Mark] kindly hosts once again, and he proposes a multiversal version of the club in which each participant must choose their favourite version of a story that’s been adapted repeatedly. I suppose that Romeo and Juliet has been selected because February is Saint Valentine’s month; what better period to immerse ourselves in the most tragic of love stories?

To be honest I don’t know how these February days are going; it feels like a transitory period in which anything that happens is thrown in a blender and mixed into an indistinct mess, waiting for the Spring to come and bring clear events, milder temperatures, and possibly some holidays.

Up to last year, to preserve my finances, I gave myself strict rules regarding money spent on Blu-Rays, and prevented myself from buying anything that cost more than €5 per film.

I’ve finally decided to embrace the Oscar season and try to watch the available Best Picture nominees that I wasn’t planning on seeing by my own choice.

I’ve been planning on writing a post about a few Italian songs I love for weeks, and the week of the Italian Song Festival feels like the best moment to publish it.