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Homeschoolers are stereotypically characterised as misfits secluded from the world – some as socially awkward, some as geniuses, but mostly as black sheep who don’t conform to more conventional ways of schooling. So what happens to them once they’re pushed off the deep end into the “real world” – the world…
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What It Felt Like to Watch “Interstellar” In the Cinema
I got in just as the trailers ended. I shuffled through my row in the dark, said goodbye to my friend who got the only seat left near the back – I myself didn’t manage to snag a middle seat, but thought it was okay to be near the side in…
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My notes on Tenet: a mind-boggling masterpiece (SPOILERS AHEAD)
I just finished this movie the over the weekend. Initially, it made me fall in love with the action and music, then it engaged my intellect in a way that made me feel really refreshed. It ended with an “emotional gut punch” like the best short sci-fi stories out there, the…
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This week on film: Five Movie Reviews (Oblivion, Lara Croft, some Clint Eastwood for good measure, and so on)
small update and context: I finally finished my first semester’s classes last Thursday 😱 And that gave me time to rest – although the first days after left me with such low energy since I was doing six presentations back-to-back over the past two weeks. Like, ultimate nerd move just reading…
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This week on film: Insomnia, pitching, and interview clippings about movies
I watched the 2002 clip of Chris Nolan interviewing Al Pacino and it was really fascinating getting a picture of (oof I am typing this accidentally in my Romanian keyboard and everything is red), okay, fixed it… anyway, a picture of a noob kid interviewing a master. (Oh and this time,…
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Rewatching ‘Prince Caspian’ as a lifelong Narnia fan and for the first time as an adult (Spoilers)
(from October 4, 2020) Today my brother and I just finished watching it (first time for him) and I was watching it fully with a more mature comprehension for the first time. We are watching the Narnia movies as we finish reading each book (I read aloud to him), and we…
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Autumn in Armenia, 2024
I have been wanting to go into nature for a long time. I longed to get lost in a forest or stare at a high mountain from afar… Blame it on the poets I’ve read or musicians I’ve listened to – those who went into the refuge of secluded mountainsides or…
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Christopher Nolan: Time, Obsession, Synesthesia (maybe), and other topics
I used to write about bands, TV shows, characters, and so on. And now I’m surprised, because here I am, writing about a film director. I wasn’t counting on it to be Christopher Nolan – I even avoided considering him as my fave director since he’s so mainstream lol…
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The magic of rereading Lord of the Rings
Here is a history of my reading Lord of the Rings and an inventory of the new things I’ve been gleaning out of it. I came to read it first as a teenager and am now reading it as a graduate student, and my understanding of it has grown deeper like…
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Reflections on Celebrimbor as a fallen artist
Celebrimbor stuck out to me as a character I heavily empathised with during the second season of Rings of Power, which surprised me because I was annoyed by him and his hubris during the first season.