Andrei Filote
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Andrei Filote
@letominor.bsky.social
· Nov 15
Hi, I'm Andrei and my goal is to tell the truth with grace and beauty. And get paid in the process.
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It's an unfortunate constant that videogames so often attach to a genre which they represent badly. Recently Bloodlines 2 did to noir what sunlight does to vampires, and had me flying towards relief. Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett provided that and more. Great book.
November 14, 2025 at 7:01 PM
It's an unfortunate constant that videogames so often attach to a genre which they represent badly. Recently Bloodlines 2 did to noir what sunlight does to vampires, and had me flying towards relief. Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett provided that and more. Great book.
I watched The Naked Gun and while I laughed, I was surprised by how much I enjoyed the onscreen romance between Neeson and Anderson's characters.
November 10, 2025 at 4:27 PM
I watched The Naked Gun and while I laughed, I was surprised by how much I enjoyed the onscreen romance between Neeson and Anderson's characters.
Watched Del Toro's Frankenstein.
November 8, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Watched Del Toro's Frankenstein.
Munich, 2005. Spielberg knows how to spin a yarn, but this movie needed something more. It doesn't feel like it comes out of the reality which it depicts, with great embellishment and gorgeous cinematography, but out of the Hollywood dream factory. It's simply built with the wrong grammar.
November 5, 2025 at 6:21 AM
Munich, 2005. Spielberg knows how to spin a yarn, but this movie needed something more. It doesn't feel like it comes out of the reality which it depicts, with great embellishment and gorgeous cinematography, but out of the Hollywood dream factory. It's simply built with the wrong grammar.
Trouble Every Day, Claire Denis' 2002 erotic horror gig with Vincent Gallo, Beatrice Dalle, and regular Alex Descas. Its genre identifier is a bit bold, as, regardless of its themes, and even imagery, it felt like watching any of Denis' previous works. I think showing gore requires some bad taste.
November 3, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Trouble Every Day, Claire Denis' 2002 erotic horror gig with Vincent Gallo, Beatrice Dalle, and regular Alex Descas. Its genre identifier is a bit bold, as, regardless of its themes, and even imagery, it felt like watching any of Denis' previous works. I think showing gore requires some bad taste.
Demons, 1971, Toshio Matsumoto, is so classically structured it wouldn't surprise me if it was adapting something. The web makes this sound like a gory revenge flick. It is a tragedy and it does not hold back.
November 1, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Demons, 1971, Toshio Matsumoto, is so classically structured it wouldn't surprise me if it was adapting something. The web makes this sound like a gory revenge flick. It is a tragedy and it does not hold back.
Continuing Claire Denis' filmography with Nenette and Boni. Denis' depiction of sexual fantasy is so disarmingly straightforward sometimes -- because it's so real. And it's usually a key force that's rarely acknowledged in the coming of age milieu.
October 31, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Continuing Claire Denis' filmography with Nenette and Boni. Denis' depiction of sexual fantasy is so disarmingly straightforward sometimes -- because it's so real. And it's usually a key force that's rarely acknowledged in the coming of age milieu.
Finally watched Close Encounters of the Third Kind, which I now realize was the last of the classic Spielbergs I was missing. What can I say: class.
October 30, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Finally watched Close Encounters of the Third Kind, which I now realize was the last of the classic Spielbergs I was missing. What can I say: class.
I watched Lo Mao aka The Cat, a 1991 movie about a cat burglar from outer space who is also a literal cat. The creature from the Thing is also involved for some reason. Even more mysterious is the inclusion of a romance subplot involving (yawn) human characters. Good bad.
October 29, 2025 at 12:14 AM
I watched Lo Mao aka The Cat, a 1991 movie about a cat burglar from outer space who is also a literal cat. The creature from the Thing is also involved for some reason. Even more mysterious is the inclusion of a romance subplot involving (yawn) human characters. Good bad.
I've experienced all manner of imperfection in games, some of it even beneficial. But Bloodlines 2 is the first game I've played that, relative to its neighbors, appears to suffer from lobotomy. Wish I was a fly on the wall during some of those meetings.
October 25, 2025 at 7:10 PM
I've experienced all manner of imperfection in games, some of it even beneficial. But Bloodlines 2 is the first game I've played that, relative to its neighbors, appears to suffer from lobotomy. Wish I was a fly on the wall during some of those meetings.
I Can't Sleep is Claire Denis' third feature. Visually closer to the previous No Kill, No Die, splashes of blue are our constant companions. While I respect Denis' commitment to outsiders, the movie is both too unfocused and its characters so hermetic that it failed to build into anything for me.
October 17, 2025 at 3:12 PM
I Can't Sleep is Claire Denis' third feature. Visually closer to the previous No Kill, No Die, splashes of blue are our constant companions. While I respect Denis' commitment to outsiders, the movie is both too unfocused and its characters so hermetic that it failed to build into anything for me.
Cronos: The New Dawn won't be many people's darling. It has that eternal game problem: its digital actors stink and their lines are shaky and overwritten. But I still enjoyed it. Its narrow interest of being a horror game shines through in its positional play, sound and art design.
October 15, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Cronos: The New Dawn won't be many people's darling. It has that eternal game problem: its digital actors stink and their lines are shaky and overwritten. But I still enjoyed it. Its narrow interest of being a horror game shines through in its positional play, sound and art design.
I've learned over the years that bugs and jank don't make a game boring. Some of the most boring games I've ever played are superbly polished AAA joints. The production quality isn't a boon, but an imposition. These games aren't allowed to appear less than respectable. Jank can be liberating.
October 9, 2025 at 10:34 AM
I've learned over the years that bugs and jank don't make a game boring. Some of the most boring games I've ever played are superbly polished AAA joints. The production quality isn't a boon, but an imposition. These games aren't allowed to appear less than respectable. Jank can be liberating.
Some endings are complete surprises, some known well in advance. There are those that fall neatly into place. Others humbly shuffle on and off the stage. Still others must be orchestrated, frogmarched, or finessed. And some leave you utterly befuddled. And that is Hades II.
October 8, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Some endings are complete surprises, some known well in advance. There are those that fall neatly into place. Others humbly shuffle on and off the stage. Still others must be orchestrated, frogmarched, or finessed. And some leave you utterly befuddled. And that is Hades II.
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LIFEBAR 005 begins now!!!
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October 6, 2025 at 9:10 PM
LIFEBAR 005 begins now!!!
Starting with a hot take: What if @easbygames.bsky.social told you that MyGM Mode in WWE 2K25 was one of the best post COVID-era strategy games available???
Starting with a hot take: What if @easbygames.bsky.social told you that MyGM Mode in WWE 2K25 was one of the best post COVID-era strategy games available???
Steam sale time!
Pillars of Eternity I & II are the finest CRPGs of this generation. Together, they are 20 bucks and they will allow you to a. learn how to live with an insufferable piece of shit, b. vibe with the piece of shit-ness of history writ large.
Pillars of Eternity I & II are the finest CRPGs of this generation. Together, they are 20 bucks and they will allow you to a. learn how to live with an insufferable piece of shit, b. vibe with the piece of shit-ness of history writ large.
September 30, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Steam sale time!
Pillars of Eternity I & II are the finest CRPGs of this generation. Together, they are 20 bucks and they will allow you to a. learn how to live with an insufferable piece of shit, b. vibe with the piece of shit-ness of history writ large.
Pillars of Eternity I & II are the finest CRPGs of this generation. Together, they are 20 bucks and they will allow you to a. learn how to live with an insufferable piece of shit, b. vibe with the piece of shit-ness of history writ large.
I spent half an hour with the Industria 2 playtest tonight and I felt more tension in that time than during the entirety of Silent Hill F. That game is doing something very right.
September 28, 2025 at 6:03 AM
I spent half an hour with the Industria 2 playtest tonight and I felt more tension in that time than during the entirety of Silent Hill F. That game is doing something very right.
I swore I was done with superheroes but I watched Mask of the Phantasm, one of too many Batmans in a world that never gets tired of Batman origin stories. Not only does Phantasm share the same fate, it also buys into a secondary trend of Bat-fiction: explanations for why Batman is still single.
September 27, 2025 at 1:55 AM
I swore I was done with superheroes but I watched Mask of the Phantasm, one of too many Batmans in a world that never gets tired of Batman origin stories. Not only does Phantasm share the same fate, it also buys into a secondary trend of Bat-fiction: explanations for why Batman is still single.
Alien: Earth was supposed to be so much smarter. In the end, it's the same old TV, the glimmer in its eye fading away as its early touches of brilliance and character take it nowhere. Even its visual language gets stale. Prometheus with a delayed fuse.
September 25, 2025 at 5:26 AM
Alien: Earth was supposed to be so much smarter. In the end, it's the same old TV, the glimmer in its eye fading away as its early touches of brilliance and character take it nowhere. Even its visual language gets stale. Prometheus with a delayed fuse.
I played Metal Eden, (came for the similarities to Metroid, stayed for the music), and found a game that plays much like Doom 2016, replete with tactically switching between your many guns, plus wallrunning. Fights take place in small arenas, the story gets told to you by guys on the radio.
September 23, 2025 at 8:09 PM
I played Metal Eden, (came for the similarities to Metroid, stayed for the music), and found a game that plays much like Doom 2016, replete with tactically switching between your many guns, plus wallrunning. Fights take place in small arenas, the story gets told to you by guys on the radio.
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans sounds like a game published by Don't Nod, but it's actually a masterpiece of the 20s, and, I learned this from Wikipedia, one of the earliest silent pictures to feature sound effects. It's a gorgeous melodrama that is already speaking our cinematic language.
September 14, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans sounds like a game published by Don't Nod, but it's actually a masterpiece of the 20s, and, I learned this from Wikipedia, one of the earliest silent pictures to feature sound effects. It's a gorgeous melodrama that is already speaking our cinematic language.
Whatever fealty Silksong earns from me, it swiftly claws back with some truly dishonorable design. There was joy in the struggle, but now I'm starting to regret my time.
September 10, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Whatever fealty Silksong earns from me, it swiftly claws back with some truly dishonorable design. There was joy in the struggle, but now I'm starting to regret my time.
I watched S'en Fout La Mort, Claire Denis' second feature. It's a cramped, Mean Streets-y picture with a gritty look and unromantic colors. We always look over someone else's shoulder as black migrants Dah and Jocelyn set up a cock fighting ring for a shady -- you know how it goes. Not Denis' best.
September 1, 2025 at 12:31 AM
I watched S'en Fout La Mort, Claire Denis' second feature. It's a cramped, Mean Streets-y picture with a gritty look and unromantic colors. We always look over someone else's shoulder as black migrants Dah and Jocelyn set up a cock fighting ring for a shady -- you know how it goes. Not Denis' best.