Aniara: sci-fi at its most fascinating and bleakest
“Myself I questioned, but gave no reply. I dreamt myself a life, then lived a lie. I ranged the universe but passed it by — for captive on Aniara here…
The enthralling, cyclical world of Cloud Atlas
Ah, Cloud Atlas, my beloved. I read/listened to this book at the end of 2025, and I haven’t shut up about it since. The premise itself is unique enough: six…
The Cabin in the Woods: a brilliant subversion of tropes
“I thought there’d be stars. We are abandoned.” Another year, another 31 Days of Frights! This time around, I started off the gauntlet with a modern horror classic: The Cabin…
The Time Traveler’s Wife: a fate-driven romance in reverse
The Time Traveler’s Wife - BOOK (2003) Dead people need us to remember them. Even if it eats us. Even if all we can do is say ‘I’m sorry’ until…
Ballerina: a cliched return to the world of John Wick
While the miniseries The Continental showed us the backstory of Winston Scott, Ballerina is the more novel spin-off of the John Wick franchise, focusing on an entirely new character in…
Andor season 2 episodes 7-9: blood on the streets (but not the Empire’s hands)
It took me a while to finally watch the next three episodes of Andor. Despite liking this show, I was still sulking about Cinta. (And, as I said last time,…
Andor season 2 episodes 4-6: raise my hopes just to shatter them
Ah, Andor: politically relevant, emotionally weighty, cinematically gorgeous. Also: crusher of dreams, breaker of hearts, murderer of my soul. Well, let’s not get hyperbolic. Let’s just try to focus on…
Andor season 2 episodes 1-3: a slow burn with rising stakes
I remember finishing the first season of Andor in 2022 thinking “Wait what? What kind of an ending is that?” before realizing it wasn’t a miniseries: we had a second…
Call Me By Your Name: the cloudy realm of first love
Time makes us sentimental. Perhaps, in the end, it is because of time that we suffer. My first interaction with Call Me By Your Name was when I saw the…
The Beguiled: seduction and betrayal in the gothic South
1966 introduced the world to Thomas P. Cullinan’s The Beguiled. The gothic thriller was made into a movie starring Clint Eastwood just five years later, followed by a second adaptation…
