Alec Kubas-Meyer
@alecjkm.net
Aspiring multi-hyphenate doing little to get myself there. Writer of The Week I Review newsletter: https://newsletter.theweekireview.com/
Back when I had the YouTube channel, I liked blurb-reviewing/ranking the Best Picture nominees, and I missed doing that, so it's back with the newsletter!
A bunch of things shifted around as I thought more about them, but #1 was rock solid the whole time.
A bunch of things shifted around as I thought more about them, but #1 was rock solid the whole time.
Ranking the Academy Award Best Picture Noms (2026 Edition)
A few weeks ago now, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced the nominees for the 2026 Oscars ceremony. And ya know what: I think they did...
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February 7, 2026 at 2:41 PM
Back when I had the YouTube channel, I liked blurb-reviewing/ranking the Best Picture nominees, and I missed doing that, so it's back with the newsletter!
A bunch of things shifted around as I thought more about them, but #1 was rock solid the whole time.
A bunch of things shifted around as I thought more about them, but #1 was rock solid the whole time.
Alex Honnold just climbed Taipei 101 live on Netflix and I had some immediate thoughts about that and have a newsletter through which I can express those thoughts! Because it's cool as hell, and that viewing came at the end of a couple weeks of watching a bunch of climbing docs.
Humans are wild.
Humans are wild.
I just watched a man climb a skyscraper
It was cool as hell. And a fitting cap to a few weeks of watching that same man climb a whole bunch of mountains in a series of documentaries. Alex Honnold...
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January 25, 2026 at 4:11 AM
Alex Honnold just climbed Taipei 101 live on Netflix and I had some immediate thoughts about that and have a newsletter through which I can express those thoughts! Because it's cool as hell, and that viewing came at the end of a couple weeks of watching a bunch of climbing docs.
Humans are wild.
Humans are wild.
Over the last year, I've had a pretty significant shift in the way I want things to go. The sheer scale of violence has made wanting violence in return less appealing even in my darkest/twistedest fantasies.
I don't want people to die,
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January 13, 2026 at 5:37 PM
Over the last year, I've had a pretty significant shift in the way I want things to go. The sheer scale of violence has made wanting violence in return less appealing even in my darkest/twistedest fantasies.
Everything is so fucking bleak right now.
I don't want people to die,
Years ago, I worked with a man whose twitter handle was something like “The Conservative Kid” (he was in his 30s). He was also deeply stupid — and not just...
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January 11, 2026 at 4:07 PM
Everything is so fucking bleak right now.
I've been trying to find a good Spotify replacement and so spent the last month using @deezerdevs.bsky.social,and it's notably worse in some frustrating ways (esp. device switching) but I just went back to Spotify and of four different starting tracks, three rolled over to AI shit.
Fucking hell.
Fucking hell.
January 7, 2026 at 10:19 PM
I've been trying to find a good Spotify replacement and so spent the last month using @deezerdevs.bsky.social,and it's notably worse in some frustrating ways (esp. device switching) but I just went back to Spotify and of four different starting tracks, three rolled over to AI shit.
Fucking hell.
Fucking hell.
Last night we watched V for Vendetta, timing it so that Parliament would explode as the year changed over.
Had feelings about the movie and the experience and also just the place we're all in right now, which seems like exactly the thing a newsletter is for.
Had feelings about the movie and the experience and also just the place we're all in right now, which seems like exactly the thing a newsletter is for.
Ringing in the New Year with V for Vendetta
In high school, my new friends called me V. My old friends mostly still called me "Alec" and the teachers were kind of all over the place, but I didn't care...
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January 1, 2026 at 8:30 PM
Last night we watched V for Vendetta, timing it so that Parliament would explode as the year changed over.
Had feelings about the movie and the experience and also just the place we're all in right now, which seems like exactly the thing a newsletter is for.
Had feelings about the movie and the experience and also just the place we're all in right now, which seems like exactly the thing a newsletter is for.
For my last newsletter of the year, I reviewed @juliusgoat.bsky.social's The Revisionaries, which helped me understand why I have so much trouble reading Fantasy/hard sci-fi: newsletter.theweekireview.com/archive/issu...
Finally understanding my problems with Fantasy
A few years ago, I was sitting on a train talking to the second-most-interesting person I’ve ever met: a guy who had some genuinely compelling story about...
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December 27, 2025 at 4:15 PM
For my last newsletter of the year, I reviewed @juliusgoat.bsky.social's The Revisionaries, which helped me understand why I have so much trouble reading Fantasy/hard sci-fi: newsletter.theweekireview.com/archive/issu...
I'm bothered by the of the Oscars' shift from broadcast to streaming in large part because streaming is where I am and where I am isn't where awards should be... and that has a bunch of terrible implications about the future of the medium as algorithms collapse the divide between slop and cinema. :(
The Oscars and I Shouldn't Share a Platform
So the biggest story in Entertainment today is the announcement that starting in 2029, in its 101st year, the Oscars will not just be available on streaming...
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December 18, 2025 at 12:06 PM
I'm bothered by the of the Oscars' shift from broadcast to streaming in large part because streaming is where I am and where I am isn't where awards should be... and that has a bunch of terrible implications about the future of the medium as algorithms collapse the divide between slop and cinema. :(
Wake Up Dead Man real good newsletter.theweekireview.com/archive/issu...
When Your Fun Murder Mystery Gets God In It
Some of my reviews assume you’ve seen the movie and talk openly about the whole dang thing. This one does not. I don’t like how much time I spend thinking...
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December 13, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Wake Up Dead Man real good newsletter.theweekireview.com/archive/issu...
I listened to my top artist more than all but 81 people in the world this year. On the one hand: very cool! On the other hand... kinda weird, right?
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How should I feel being daine's #82 fan?
Getting the woke shit out of the way: Spotify bad, but I’ve been paying for other people's subscriptions for years through a family plan, and most will not...
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December 8, 2025 at 1:01 PM
I listened to my top artist more than all but 81 people in the world this year. On the one hand: very cool! On the other hand... kinda weird, right?
newsletter.theweekireview.com/archive/issu...
newsletter.theweekireview.com/archive/issu...
hi @deezerdevs.bsky.social why don't the mobile and desktop apps stay in sync and also why the accusatory "You can't use Deezer in two places at once" message when I switch between them? I don't want to use it in two places at once. I want to use it wherever I am on whichever device I'm using.
December 8, 2025 at 12:55 PM
hi @deezerdevs.bsky.social why don't the mobile and desktop apps stay in sync and also why the accusatory "You can't use Deezer in two places at once" message when I switch between them? I don't want to use it in two places at once. I want to use it wherever I am on whichever device I'm using.
I have officially relaunched my YouTube channel as an email newsletter. Hooray!
I started it off with (technically) a review of a movie that makes me feel a whole lot of things: newsletter.theweekireview.com/archive/issu...
I started it off with (technically) a review of a movie that makes me feel a whole lot of things: newsletter.theweekireview.com/archive/issu...
The Friends We Make Just for a Day
A month and a half ago, I spent a day with a woman I had never seen before and will almost certainly never see again. It was a great day – among the best of...
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November 29, 2025 at 3:32 PM
I have officially relaunched my YouTube channel as an email newsletter. Hooray!
I started it off with (technically) a review of a movie that makes me feel a whole lot of things: newsletter.theweekireview.com/archive/issu...
I started it off with (technically) a review of a movie that makes me feel a whole lot of things: newsletter.theweekireview.com/archive/issu...
My cat has stopped jumping down over me and started jumping down onto me. I'm very glad we put her on a diet.
November 23, 2025 at 5:11 PM
My cat has stopped jumping down over me and started jumping down onto me. I'm very glad we put her on a diet.
I think everyone who has to sit within six rows of a baby on a plane should get a 10-60% discount on their tickets, depending on proximity.
November 2, 2025 at 6:29 PM
I think everyone who has to sit within six rows of a baby on a plane should get a 10-60% discount on their tickets, depending on proximity.
I may post a handful elsewhere, but I'm using my own website to host the highlight photos from my monthlong trip throughout Asia:
www.alecjkm.net/photography
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Photography — Alec Kubas-Meyer Dot Net
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October 26, 2025 at 12:21 PM
I may post a handful elsewhere, but I'm using my own website to host the highlight photos from my monthlong trip throughout Asia:
www.alecjkm.net/photography
www.alecjkm.net/photography
My favorite thing about Taiwan is that it's a country. My least favorite is that Americans I met in HK told me there was Pooh/CCP merch everywhere and there's not.
(Sorrynotsorry to a future self that wanted to visit China, a completely separate place with no legitimate claim to authority here.)
(Sorrynotsorry to a future self that wanted to visit China, a completely separate place with no legitimate claim to authority here.)
October 18, 2025 at 1:54 AM
My favorite thing about Taiwan is that it's a country. My least favorite is that Americans I met in HK told me there was Pooh/CCP merch everywhere and there's not.
(Sorrynotsorry to a future self that wanted to visit China, a completely separate place with no legitimate claim to authority here.)
(Sorrynotsorry to a future self that wanted to visit China, a completely separate place with no legitimate claim to authority here.)
A man told me that I give off really positive energy so clearly I've been on vacation too long.
October 17, 2025 at 11:44 AM
A man told me that I give off really positive energy so clearly I've been on vacation too long.
I'm utterly baffled by how the traffic lights work in Bangkok. This light was red for literally-not-figuratively FIVE minutes and then was green for 30 seconds and has been red for at least five minutes since. Like what the actual fuck. How is anyone supposed to get to make a reservation here.
September 26, 2025 at 11:23 AM
I'm utterly baffled by how the traffic lights work in Bangkok. This light was red for literally-not-figuratively FIVE minutes and then was green for 30 seconds and has been red for at least five minutes since. Like what the actual fuck. How is anyone supposed to get to make a reservation here.
I have been working on this script for two and a half years. A lot has changed in that time... much of it quite bad. But the video is good, so I'll take that: youtu.be/JmsZhpDHWsE?...
Algorithms called me autistic.
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September 14, 2025 at 2:38 PM
I have been working on this script for two and a half years. A lot has changed in that time... much of it quite bad. But the video is good, so I'll take that: youtu.be/JmsZhpDHWsE?...
Christopher Nolan should really bring an IMAX camera to these SpaceX launches so he can use the inevitable explosion in a future movie.
June 19, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Christopher Nolan should really bring an IMAX camera to these SpaceX launches so he can use the inevitable explosion in a future movie.
Used Perplexity this morning to find out what generative systems say my politics are so I know what to expect next time I talk to CBP.
I look forward to requesting a lawyer.
I look forward to requesting a lawyer.
May 14, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Used Perplexity this morning to find out what generative systems say my politics are so I know what to expect next time I talk to CBP.
I look forward to requesting a lawyer.
I look forward to requesting a lawyer.
A German tourist popped into the @50501newyork.bsky.social march earlier and asked me some questions about the context in which we were. (First question: is the Democratic Party involved in the organization?)
And whatever, I did my best to form good answers, but his last question hit pretty hard:
And whatever, I did my best to form good answers, but his last question hit pretty hard:
April 19, 2025 at 9:44 PM
A German tourist popped into the @50501newyork.bsky.social march earlier and asked me some questions about the context in which we were. (First question: is the Democratic Party involved in the organization?)
And whatever, I did my best to form good answers, but his last question hit pretty hard:
And whatever, I did my best to form good answers, but his last question hit pretty hard:
I don't recall any film prior to Sinners having, like, visibly Color Graded IMAX film (Nolan, etc. films always go for a much more "normal" look), and I think that's very cool.
April 19, 2025 at 12:47 AM
I don't recall any film prior to Sinners having, like, visibly Color Graded IMAX film (Nolan, etc. films always go for a much more "normal" look), and I think that's very cool.
Nothing like fucking up your leg and needing a cane, even temporarily, to make you realize how fundamentally inaccessible places are.
Jeez.
Jeez.
April 8, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Nothing like fucking up your leg and needing a cane, even temporarily, to make you realize how fundamentally inaccessible places are.
Jeez.
Jeez.