The Stochastic Game

Sick (2022) is a home invasion/slasher movie set during the Covid pandemic, and with a couple fun plot twists that showed up shortly after I started feeling like it was dragging on too long… so still worth it if you’re a horror fan like me!

Vengeance (2022) is a badly titled, but pretty good slow-burn thriller with a sizable dose of black humour and great secondary characters. The writer/director seems to have a lot to say about the state of the U.S., too.

I spent 20 minutes figuring out why this C++ method was returning null when all the stuff inside the class was correctly initialized, only to realize I forgot to add “return” in front of a getter function call… It was just falling down to “return nullptr” at the end… I think I’m tired.

Your best Evil Dead fix this century is definitely the amazing Ash vs Evil Dead TV series, but if you want the ridiculous signature gore and demonic possession of the franchise without the silly grooviness that came later, the Evil Dead remake from 2013 is decent. Evil Dead Rise (2023) tries a few new things with some hits and misses, but I like how scary Alyssa Sutherland can get!

The Deer Lake eagle was out again yesterday

MURDER

Good morning from yesterday!

The Boogeyman (2023) had some really fun scenes in the middle of an otherwise by-the-numbers haunting story. I want a spin-off movie about Rita Billings becoming a monster hunter!

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (2015) was very good and well made. Totally my jam with a blend of historical and urban fantasies and a sprinkle of Gaiman-esque realism. Plus, it’s one of those UK series that wraps a great story in less than ten episodes, so go and enjoy!

Good morning!