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(If remembering right) Calypso. Circe didn’t trust Odysseus’s crew but was mostly fine in the end, Calypso had to be told by the gods to let him go after years of keeping him on her island
December 23, 2025 at 3:09 PM
The one by James Gunn that everyone agrees is better than the first one back in 2016 with Jared Leto’s Joker
October 14, 2025 at 3:16 AM
I’ve only read 1Q84 but drive my car was great. There’s a car ride scene with one really long take that I still think about.
August 17, 2025 at 3:15 PM
“If you do a commercial, you’re off the artistic roll call forever”
August 17, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Don’t remember much from Idoru except that part
July 22, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Almost ten years later and I’m still irate that the trailer marketed a premise so different from the actual movie that I ft like I was actually lied to
July 20, 2025 at 7:16 PM
In the Nic Cage Longlegs movie the one time a gun goes off it jump-scared the whole theater because of how loud it was
July 18, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Snow Crash and Diamond Age were great, but Anathem is why I have to second-guess myself every time I see his stuff in the sci-fi section
July 10, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Anthem, Neal Stephenson
July 10, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Vanishing Half
July 6, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Reminded me of that one tweet about Children of Men suggesting that everywhere else was fine and Britain just chose to be like that
June 21, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Louis CK described operating a car as “driving a weapon amongst weapons” and that’s a sentiment society at-large really should share at this point
May 28, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Either of Ted Chiang’s collections (I’ve only read the one that has the story Arrival is based on)
April 22, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Still remember when Fury Road swept all the production-related Oscars back then, same thing should happen here
January 3, 2025 at 5:11 PM