Commentary commentary Animation commentary tracks – like those of Invader Zim and Scott Pilgrim Takes Off – are also art.

No further comment. (I'm very funny.)

re:frame #75, out now:

Sydney Sweeney IS Char Aznable

‘People still remember it 40 years later’: the making of Chuckie Egg The iconic game that came to define 8-bit programming still conjures flutters of nostalgia 40 years on – all thanks to a 15-year-old tea boy who worked a Saturday shift in a computer shop in Greater M...

Hi I wrote about the making of classic platformerChuckie Egg and talked to its creator Nigel Alderton. Please give it a read as I want to show there’s an audience for this gaming history stuff 🙏

www.theguardian.com/games/2026/a...

outstanding

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yeah 😭

might give it some time before I replay but I think about the Charlie reveal on at least a weekly basis

The Machine from Person of Interest, calculating the odds of its friends dying

The Machine AI from Person of Interest, monitoring a “competing system” named “Samaritan”

still wanna leap out of my seat whenever you get even the smallest glimpse of what The Machine is thinking, still feels crazy to have the AI apocalypse slowly creep into this show

shame Jim Caviezel is insane because I really do enjoy his icy delivery of a lot of stuff, and the proto-John Wick thing he has going on in this episode where the very man he's hunting down has a morbid appreciation of how relentless Reese is

always appreciated how the biggest and scariest gang for more than half of the series was basically just the cops. the group in question going by "HR", even better!

(I'm watching "The Devil's Share," a series highlight)

one of those one of these featuring the excellent Kirk Acevedo as the case of the week, who was recently in the news for having to sell his house to stay afloat because of the dwindling availability of the exact kinda character actor roles this show excels at

not even midway through season three and they’ve pulled the “these two separate cases are one and the same!” trick off like two or three times and each one has worked spectacularly

rewatching PERSON OF INTEREST has me muttering “real television” every other episode

uh oh I found an excuse to write about pro-wrestling again

Oscar Isaac constantly talking about / referencing Hot Chip and LCD Soundsystem in BEEF… feeling some concern

If you host a website, never ever work with WPTango.
We were charged around $3000 with no explanation and when asked for refunds we were given the run around, and now they're canceling our services lol

Yay indie media - totally great and fun thing to do

uh oh I found an excuse to write about pro-wrestling again

Hell yeah, congrats!

the irony of having a one-on-one HR layoff meeting in the conference room with my Loki mural on it

Let's ALL go to the lobby For indie animation to really thrive, classic barriers must be scaled — and The Amazing Digital Circus is leading the charge.

Somehow, heartbreak feels good in a place like this.

re:frame #73, out now:

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#PortfolioDay Name is Emma. I like whales, robots, comics and games. Last book is Anzuelo, easy to find in TPB now. Currently working on the Pretty Deadly's 4th arc with KS and writing something else. I'll prob release a hell in veins fan book later this year too.

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Came home from vacation to a multi-thousand dollar plumbing problem.

So if you ever considered subscribing to thechinesecinema.com, now would be a good time. Every drop in the bucket helps, so to speak.

4K resto screenings will be sick too!! bsky.app/profile/allt...

me wearing a (very expensive) replica of Kaneda’s red jacket from AKIRA

picture of ICA cinema one - big placeholder card with my name, Takeshi Katsurada and Andy Frain (the panellists)

hosted @alltheanime.com’s 35mm screening of AKIRA at the ICA last night (the print from its initial UK run!) with a panel after - even got to wear The Jacket

Overheard before 35mm screening of AKIRA started: “This will help you understand me as a teenager”

@kambole.bsky.social on moderator duty

Something there is that doesn't love a fish princess A review of ChaO, a new anime feature film from Studio 4°C.

ChaO is good mess.

re:frame #72, out now:

it’s great and the differences make it better! many will (wrongly) try to convince you otherwise. might rewatch it myself tbh

the gigantic and very muscular pro-wrestler “Powerhouse Hobbs” looking up from his laptop, a bemused/disapproving stare over little reading glasses

is it time for the FMA 03 enjoyers to make our case again

What Israel is doing in Lebanon, as it did in Gaza and Iran, is not only target lives en masse, but entire infrastructure that sustains life to begin with.

Hospitals, Public Transportation, Educational Institutions, Pharmaceuticals, anything & everything to eradicate life even being possible there.

this series fucking rules lmao