This is very much me on the film, games, and culture front.
Posts by Joonatan Itkonen
I'm sorry this is happening to you. It's been a shitty year for this stuff all around. Hope you're doing OK!
That explains the long faces.
I enjoyed it! It's very ambitious and there's some fantastic writing in it.
Looks great!
Werner Herzog in Tomodachi Life
Tomodachi Life understands me.
Based on the novel Push by Sapphire.
Congratulations!
One of these days Bluesky is going to vibe hire an actual coder.
And here I was thinking they couldn't possibly reach the levels of good cheese the first movie had. I'm so happy to be wrong.
The first act of Lee Cronin's The Mummy is a horrifying and superbly crafted mix of myth and family terror. Everything after that is a dull slog. It's one of the more frustrating films I've seen this year. #filmsky
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One of these days Bluesky is going to vibehire themselves an actual coder to make this app work for once.
Like in that famous Martin Scorsese film, Cape Fear.
You are in for something really special!
I spoke with Kenji Tanigaki, Joe Taslim, Yayan Ruhian, Xie Miao, and Brian Le about their incredible new action epic, The Furious, which comes out this June. #filmsky
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I can't stand being on camera nor the attention it brings. But the fact is every video I've made has had ten times the audience of a written piece. I recognize I must change, but there's a real sense that it would be healthier to give up altogether.
I grew up with Spaghetti Westerns, so I was predisposed to love Heads or Tails?, the delightfully odd film making its debut digitally. It isn't perfect, and it doesn't make a lot of sense, but it's full of the bittersweet melancholy that I love about this genre. regionfree.net/heads-or-tai...
MOUSE: P.I. for Hire looks gorgeous, and the soundtrack is a banger. But it's also tonally messy, with weird modern-day memes and pop culture references, and bloated levels that drag on for too long. I admire its passion, even if I don't love it. #indiegame regionfree.net/mouse-p-i-fo...
Today is a busy review day. First up is Replaced, which I reviewed in Finnish for KonsoliFIN. I really enjoyed this one, not least because of its astoundingly beautiful animations and impeccable art style. Fans of Another World will be in heaven. #indiegame www.konsolifin.net/arvostelu/yk...
I propose the term Dadsploitation.
I've got this really wild, borderline crazy idea: charging for individual and finished games that don't take ten years to develop and offering consumers their preferred method of ownership.
Pragmata is the encapsulation of everything Capcom has learned from four decades of generational bangers. It is part sci-fi thriller, part puzzle game, and even a surprisingly touching drama about found families that hooked me from the first minute to the last. #gaming regionfree.net/pragmata-pla...
Notebook for first drafts, then either Pages on my MacBook or Google Docs if I'm going between platforms. I need to find one solution that works for both PC and Mac, but so far none have managed to overtake my love for Pages.
I remember stopping and pausing for the longest time, looking up to see my college professor just making the "yeah, you read it right" face, and continuing with some complex feelings about the matter.
As with all of these things, these choices might and will change tomorrow.
Hungary shows the way. The next election cycle across Europe needs to rid our governments of authoritarian right wing lunacy for good.
Wait wait wait, you directed this? That's so cool! I really enjoyed it when I saw it on the festival circuit. I remember it hit that difficult middle ground between thrilling and terrifying, with a fantastic sense of pacing. Great use of Fiona Shaw and Jonathan Price, too.
After careful consideration of how I'm feeling right now, these are my best 10 video games of all time.
1️⃣ Final Fantasy VII
2️⃣ Disco Elysium
3️⃣ A Link to the Past
4️⃣ Final Fantasy IX
5️⃣ Tetris
6️⃣ Shadow of the Colossus
7️⃣ Super Mario RPG
8️⃣ Uncharted 2
9️⃣ Like a Dragon series
🔟 Ridge Racer Type 4
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