A procedural that turns into a sermon and somehow gets better for it. That box.
Mostly about the story, comfort.

Films, series, books, albums, games. Skip anything you haven't met.

A taste fingerprint: fourteen dimensions, read against every other Bud. Yours appears after a handful of ratings.
Forrest Gump1994Epic, effortless, nostalgic and meticulous.
Not a genre label: how it moves, how it feels, what it asks of you. Every film, series, book, album and game is read on the same fourteen scales, each in its own terms (a record's tempo and sound, a game's challenge and world), and your profile is matched against them.
A procedural that turns into a sermon and somehow gets better for it. That box.
Mostly about the story, comfort.





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One of the best things I have watched this year. The kind of work that makes the rest of the year look lazy.
Blue Heron is the real thing. Serious in intent and in execution. Slow in the way that lets things sink in. It earned every star.
Plankton: The Movie got under my skin. Proudly pulpy and a total blast.
One of the best things I have watched this year. Genuinely funny, laugh-out-loud more than once. I keep telling people about it.
Everything I hoped Hurry Up Tomorrow would be, and more. It goes to bleak places and does not flinch. It leaves the big questions open, and trusts you with them. I keep telling people about it.
Mostly about the story.
Everything I hoped Jia Zhangke's Dance would be, and more. Serious in intent and in execution. A small canvas, painted with enormous care. I will be thinking about it for weeks.
Mostly about the craft.
Indescribable without the term kitchen sink. What a self-indulgent mess.