I did it. I've finished the movies I wanted to watch for the 1940's and here's the top 25 films from that decade. I struggle ranking things so it's kind of a loose ranking. All but the last film got 5/5 score from me and the last one got 4.5/5 so these are all great and I me know what you think and which you've seen! Letterboxd link to the list in the comments.

The world needs more Tropical Art Deco like Miami Beach

So, no. Season 4 does not walk back the woke. It might be even worse. Let me present the weirdest scene. These characters are meant to be best friends. The character hasn’t told the guy she’s dating that she’s pregnant yet and this is what she does. I’m not sure these people et real human beings before.

My newborn when he’s trying to poop/fart

My newborn when he’s trying to poop/fart

2026 has turned out to be one of the best years for movies, like 2023. And 2023 also had a Nolan film and a Yamazaki directed Godzilla movie. While Project Hail Mary has gotten the reception it deserves, Sheep Detectives is under appreciated in my opinion.

Insane to have Biff as number 1 if this list is indeed ranked. Like yeah he sucks but he’s also hilarious.

My husband just called our baby “Nurgle’s greater demon” after he took two giant poops in a row.

Me and my husband binged Below last night while taking care of baby. It was awful!!! The first few episodes were promising and a lot of the performances were actually very good. Especially Josh Hartnett and Charlie Heaton. But the whole thing starts unraveling and doesn’t make sense only for it to completely fall apart.

*spoiler warning*

They completely switch up the squid being the big bad monster for making some random rich people (who we are only really introduced to at the end) the big bads of the show. The main characters actually save the squid’s life. Absolutely abysmal writing and felt ideological and forced.

Played a little Ocarina of Time remake today. What an absolutely gorgeous game. The original is one of my all time favorite games so it’s not a shocker to me that I’m enjoying it but I’m impressed by how much stayed the same while also being updated to feel like a modern game. Maybe too early to say this but this is how you make a remake.

This week we get to hear all the British game reviewers say Ocariner of Time

Wednesday.

So I’ve watched the Creature from the Black Lagoon, Them! and Godzilla. I honestly enjoyed them all quite a bit.

Creature from the Black Lagoon held up pretty well! The suit for the creature was really impressive. That thing had to work underwater too.

Godzilla, the first one, ious. The Godzilla suit was kind of goofy at times but it worked overall. Lots of innovative special effects. The story was good too.

Them! might have been the biggest surprise. I expected pure camp but the giant bug puppets were quite eerie and the story was actually good!

I needed some chill, feel-good show that I didn’t care that much about for the late-night newborn shifts and so I’m watching Ted Lasso. Honestly kind of shocked by how aggressively mediocre it is compared to how much praise it gets.

I did genuinely enjoy the first season well enough. Not because it’s that funny though. I like feel-good underdog sports stories and I like the fish-out-of-water American in the UK stuff.

Season 2 was pretty much just trash and abandoned all that in favor of soap opera drama level stuff.

Season 3 so far is shockingly woke in a cringe way. Definitely feels like the Biden years.

Curious if season 4 ends up walking any of that back or not.

I’ve been watching some classic movies here and there still while I’m taking care of my newborn but it’s been spotty. Mostly stuff from my list that my husband wanted to watch. So a lot of the genre films. I hope to make a post about them soon. Lots of cool movies in 1954. I feel like it might be a banger of a year!

Part 8

Being a new parent is no joke. I understand why everyone is so intimidated by it. The first 3 weeks are essentially putting you and your spouse through sleep deprivation torture combined with trying to figure out how to take care of a small human being. Doing it without a small support network seems impossible and help faded after the second week and we needed it the most in the third week.

I can empathise with this take but it seems to me a very 1990s reading. Picard wouldn't really fit the progressive mould today.

Let's remember that he grew up on a family vineyard that had been in the Picard line for generations, run the old way by a family who saw replicators and other modern conveniences as a threat to something worth keeping. That same man later returned to the estate after leaving Starfleet. The tastes he carried with him - Shakespeare, archaeology, a clear preference for the deep past - don't sit easily with a politics that treats tradition as something to get past. His great leadership happened inside Starfleet's rank structure and chain of command.

More importantly, it took place in a post-socialist society that had already solved material scarcity; a post-scarcity future that owed its abundance to earlier capitalist innovation, scientific discovery, and risk-taking. What remained was the work of self-improvement. That combination looks less like progressive politics and more like an older idea of ordered life sustained by inheritance, hierarchy, and the cultivation of character.

Even the milder progressive of the 1990s would have trouble claiming Picard now. A contemporary progressive would read his authority as white male privilege exercised inside a hierarchical military that expands under the name of exploration. Today's self-righteous Jacobins would treat the Federation itself as a form of soft imperialism that absorbs other cultures while calling the process enlightenment.

The family vineyard would be inherited wealth and settler privilege; Shakespeare and archaeology would be the Western canon and colonial grave-robbing. The defence of Lt. Data as a new sentient life form would be dismissed as individualist rights talk that ignores structural power. Add the absence of identity-based solidarity, the human-centred Prime Directive that still ranks other species, and the quiet Eurocentrism of a French captain quoting dead white men on the bridge, and Picard would not be celebrated. He would be cancelled.

This is why both old-school liberals and conservatives could still enjoy 1990s Star Trek. They disagreed about secularism and rationalist visions of society, yet they shared enough ground on duty, hierarchy, inheritance, and the cultivation of character to recognise something of themselves in Picard. The newer Jacobin progressives share almost none of that ground. The distance between the liberalism of that era and the progressivism of this one is, in the end, as wide as a galaxy.

This would have been amazing

All zoomer slang is old timey

I don't remember this episode of Lost....oh wait....