Ora et Labora
Movies
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Watched: The Running Man 🍿
Michael Cera’s revolutionary Kevin McCallister is the best part, after that it kind of goes downhill.
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Watched: Hamnet 🍿
The shooting, the sets, and the vibes are top level. The movie itself is the embodiment of slow cinema and not necessarily in the good way. It’ll get its nominations deservedly but it already feels like a movie that’ll be a watch and forget pretty quickly.
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Watched: Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery 🍿
Daniel Craig continued to be the best thing about the film but it drags, especially in the middle. Still a delight, but not as delightful of a doughnut hole within a doughnut hole.
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Watched: The Conjuring: Last Rites 🍿
Not the worst of the Conjuring series but that’s not a huge accomplishment given all the movies since the first have been generally terrible. Add in the misguided attempt to redeem the Warrens and it’s a generally miserable movie.
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Watched: The Social Network 🍿
The genesis story of why everything is so terrible today. Everyone in the film is just terrible, and the 15 years since have only proven that out even more.
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Frankenstein, 2025 - ★★½
It’s fine, not particularly memorable, just fine. Drags in the middle but kind of recovers at the end.
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12 Angry Men, 1957 - ★★★★★
It only takes one sweaty Henry Fonda
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Death by Lightning, 2025 - ★★★★
Nick Offerman had way too much fun here.
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Nuremberg, 2025 - ★★★★
I don’t hate Rami in it, which is a change of pace. And honestly it’s hard to make a film about Nazis have some legitimately funny parts but they did it.
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Clown in a Cornfield, 2025 - ★★
The movie lost a lot of the charm and context of the book turning it into a basic low-budget slasher. Albeit one that largely avoids the main point of its existence for the entire first half of the video. Given its box office success it’ll probably get some sequels but this was enough for me.