Capital Reviews

 Midwinter Break [movie] I DON'T KNOW MAN. I GET WHAT KIND OF STORY THIS WAS TRYING TO TELL BUT IT REALLY JUST CAME OFF AS "WATCH YOUR PARENTS ON VACATION: THE MOVIE" AND LIKE, I GET BEING SUBTLE AND RESTRAINED ABOUT EVERYTHING GIVES IT THIS LEVEL OF AUTHENTIC REALISM, BUT LIKE, I DON'T KNOW. I DON'T LIKE WATCHING THE WORLD'S MOST MILD ALCHOLIC KINDA NOT GET ALONG WITH HIS ELDERLY CATHOLIC WIFE.  ACTUALLY IT FEELS LIKE THE OPENING SEQUENCE OF "UP" IF THE WIFE LIVED AND THEY HAD THE BABY THEN 55 YEARS LATER THEY WENT ON THEIR TRIP AND JUST KINDA MILDLY DISLIKED EACH OTHER OVERALL THEN KINDA MUDDLED AROUND AND WENT HOME.  PS. THIS IS AN EXTREMELY AMSTERDAM BASED MOVIE AND I WATCHED IT ON A PLANE FROM AMSTERDAM,  WATCH ME ON VACATION,  LOOK AT MY ALBUMS! 

 Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions [book, nonfiction] I DON'T KNOW, THIS WAS RELATIVELY INTERESTING. I WANTED A NEW BOOK AND WALKED BY A LITTLE LIBRARY AND GRABBED THE ONE THAT FELT DIFFERENT THAN WHAT I'D NORMALLY READ. THIS IS A LETTER ABOUT RAISING A DAUGHTER IN A FEMINIST WAY AND IT ISN'T ANYTHING TOO WILD, BUT THE AUTHOR IS NIGERIAN AND WRITING TO SOMEONE NIGERIAN AND I REALLY LIKED THE POINTS WHERE  A CONCEPT WAS BROADLY RECOGNIZABLE BUT THE SPECIFIC EXAMPLE WAS UNIQUE. LIKE "USING EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY TO JUSTIFY SOMETHING SEXIST" IS DEFINITELY A THING HERE, BUT I LIKE THE EXAMPLE WAS "THAT IS WHY MEN HAVE TO PICK DAUGHTER'S FIRST NAMES" WHICH IS ABSOLUTELY NOT A THING HERE. MOSTLY PRETTY STRAIGHTFOWARD OTHERWISE (MOSTLY STUFF LIKE "DON'T JUST BUY A GIRL DOLLS, GET HER A HELICOPTER TOY IF SHE WANTS") PS. I LIKE THAT THIS IS ACTUALLY JUST AN EMAIL THEY WROTE PUBLISHED INTO A BOOK. I GUESS THERE IS NOTHIN...

 The Sheep Detectives [movie] WHAT THE HECK? WHY IS THIS MOVIE SO GOOD? LIKE, I AM NOT GONNA SAY IT'S ANYTHING LIFE CHANGING AMAZING BUT IT'S LIKE THE MOST "BETTER THAN YOU WOULD EVER THINK IT WOULD BE" MOVIE EVER MADE. PS. RETURN TO OZ JOKE / PATRICK STEWART SAYING "MURDER" INCREASINGLY WEIRD / THE NEON SIGN STORE

 There Is No Antimemetics Division [book, audiobook] THIS IS THE SCP BOOK AND I GOT RECOMMENDED IT ONE TRILLION TIMES AND EHHHHH, I GET WHY, I CAN IMAGINE A BOOK THAT IS 90% LIKE THIS THAT I LOVE BUT THIS JUST RUBBED ME THE WRONG WAY. LIKE, THERE IS A STORY ABOUT LIKE, A CIVILIZATION THAT DEVELOPED AN IDEA SO RADIOACTIVE IT WAS GOING TO DESTROY THEIR WHOLE CULTURE AND THEY HAD TO BURY IT AND DESTROY THEMSELVES AND MADE THE LONGTERM NUCLEAR WASTE STORAGE THING THE INTERNET LOVES ("THIS IS NOT A PLACE OF HONOR") AND THAT IS LIKE, LEGITIMATE COOL IDEA. BUT THEN THE IDEA WAS..... A BIG SPIDER THAT EATS YOU. AND THAT SUCKS. IT SUCKS IT KEPT INVENTING LEGITIMATELY INTERESTING SITUATION THEN SOLVED LITERALLY EVERY SINGLE ONE WITH A NEW DRUG. THE DRUGS EVEN HAD SEQUENTIAL LETTERING SO WHEN THEY SOLVED ONE PROBLEM WITH 'DRUG W' YOU JUST KNEW THE NEXT PROBLEM WOULD BE DRUG Y, AND THE FINAL SECRET DEUS EX BEING THEM USING DRUG Z IS JUST STUPID. BACKROOMS HAS A THING WHERE THE PO...

 Supergirl [movie] OH GEEZ, WOMAN OF TOMORROW CAME OUT LIKE 5 YEARS AGO AND THIS CAME OUT TODAY. IT'S SO SUPER OBVIOUS "RAPE PLANET THAT KIDNAPS LITTLE GIRLS" WAS WRITTEN TO BE 'THAT NIGERIAN GIRLS SCHOOL BOKO HARAM THING" WITH WEIRD MILD RACISM BUT THEN BETWEEN THEN AND NOW "RAPE PLANET THAT KIDNAPS LITTLE GIRLS" BECAME "OH YEAH, AMERICA" AND MADE FOR A MOVIE WITH AN ODD TONE. (THE TONE WAS MOSTLY JUST "GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY" THOUGH) PS. I WAS GOING TO COMPLAIN ABOUT HOW WEIRD THE BIG BADASS FIGHT WHERE SUPERGIRL IS JUST CLEARLY MURDERING EVERYONE RIGHT BEFORE THE HEART TO HEART WITH LITTLE GIRL AND HOW THIS WAS BAD MOVIE WRITING BUT THAT WAS 100% INTENTIONAL AND THAT IS GOOD MOVIE WRITING. NOW I NEED TO THINK HARDER IF THE WEIRD BAD "MY INNOCENT DAD: THE WEAPONS MERCHANT" IS BAD WRITING OR GOOD WRITING I AM GLOSSING OVER. ON THE OTHER HAND "THERE IS LIKE 10 SCENES OF SUPERGIRL GETTING HER POWERS BACK" SEEMED L...

 The Amazing Digital Circus [television, amazing] I REALLY LIKE THIS A LOT. IT'S VERY GOOD. I DON'T FEEL LIKE I KNOW HOW TO TALK ABOUT IT. MOST ONLINE FANDOMS ARE KINDA BAD, BUT THE FANDOM OF THIS ONLINE FEEL REALLY UNIQUELY STUPID AND AWFUL. SO I KINDA HAVE THOUGHT ABOUT THIS IN TERMS OF BEING FRUSTRATED ABOUT HAVING NO ONE TO TALK TO ABOUT DUMB INTERNET MEDIA. ENDING IN A "WHY DO YOU GET TO TALK ABOUT THINGS YOU CARE ABOUT BUT IT'S ANNOYING WHEN I DO IT" FIGHT THAT HAD REAL CONSEQUENCES. I DON'T KNOW, IT'S NOT SO SIMPLE, BUT I DO KINDA THINK I BLEW UP A MAJOR SECTION OF MY INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS OVER BEING ANNOYING NO ONE WOULD TALK ABOUT THIS SHOW (AND A PICTURE OF A CAT LAYING WEIRD)  PS. WHO CARES ACTUALLY