A ★★★★★ review of Project Hail Mary (2026) There’s a sincerity to this film that’s hard to put into words—that might be why it took me over a week to write this review—but you feel it in every frame. Everyone involved is clearly giving it thei...

My review of Project Hail Mary:

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#ProjectHailMary #MovieReview #Letterboxd #SciFiMovies #PracticalEffects

My new bracelet from @amberbugs on TikTok—featuring a 100-million-year-old spider trapped in Burmese amber. 🕷️
#Amber #Fossils #PrehistoricLife #WearableHistory #Jewelry

Holding a 99myo feather in my hand... and realizing it once belonged to a dinosaur
Not all dinosaurs went extinctsome of them are still flying today.
This one was likely shed by a small, tree-dwelling early bird from the age of amber forests...

#Fossil #Dinosaurs #birds #Amber #Paleontology

My new bracelet from @amberbugs on TikTok—featuring a 100-million-year-old spider trapped in Burmese amber. 🕷️
#Amber #Fossils #PrehistoricLife #WearableHistory #Jewelry

Films 73-76 for ‘26

• Little Women ‘19 dir. G. Gerwig

• The Lost Daughter ‘21 dir. M. Gyllenhaal

• The Virgin Suicides ‘99 dir. S. Coppola

• Persepolis ‘07 dir. M. Satrap

Memory, maternal expectation, & the weight of inherited narratives.
#lastfourwatched #letterboxd #movies #WomensHistoryMonth

First four films into Women’s History Month:

Decadence & Fatal Desire
Operatic femininity across eras

Salomé (1922)
The Velvet Vampire (1971)
The Lure (2015)
Trouble Every Day (2001)

Myth, hunger, spectacle, erotic danger.

#lastfourwatched #letterboxd #movies

Films 65–68 for 2026
Black athletic visibility and profit in 90s basketball cinema

Double Team ‘97
He Got Game ‘98
White Men Can’t Jump ‘92
Blue Chips ‘94

From neon spectacle to NCAA backrooms, this run traces how Black basketball talent becomes currency.

#lastfourwatched #letterboxd #BlackCinema

Films 61-64 for 2026

Black Imagination & Animated Worlds: Genre, authorship, and expanding who gets to be the hero

• GOAT (2026)
• Bebe's Kids (1992)
• Wendell & Wild (2022)
• Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)

#lastfourwatched #letterboxd #BlackCinema #Animation

Films 57-60 for 2026

Identity, Community, and Social Tension: Race, place, and collective experience

• Do the Right Thing (1989)
• Dear White People (2014)
• Brother to Brother (2004)
• Moonlight (2016)

#lastfourwatched #letterboxd #BlackCinema

One hundred million years of history, captured in amber. Holding the past in my hand—watch as time turns into art.
#Amber #Fossil #Scorpion #Prehistoric #collection #fossilcollection

Tonight’s entertainment: 1989’s Do the Right Thing, directed by Spike Lee. This’ll be a first-time watch for me, and I’m excited to finally check it off my watchlist.
#PhysicalMedia #PhysicalMediaForever #4K #4KCollection #SpikeLee

Films 53-56 for 2026

1990s Indie Breakthroughs:
Sundance era+DIY storytelling

To Sleep with Anger (1990)
Just Another Girl on the I.R.T. (1992)
Slam (1998)
Eve’s Bayou (1997)

Black filmmakers gaining national indie visibility with bold personal styles.

#lastfourwatched #letterboxd #BlackCinema

More than 100 million years ago, this place was covered by a warm ancient sea.

Today, we walk its shoreline in search of the creatures it left behind — giant ammonites, sea urchins, shark teeth, and quiet reminders of deep time.

#fossilhunting #paleontology #deeptime #cretaceous #naturelovers

Films 49-52 for 2026

Early Black Women Directors Rediscovered: Interior lives, feminism, authorship

Losing Ground (1982)
Will (1981)
Alma’s Rainbow (1994)
Compensation (1999)

A powerful arc of Black women shaping independent narrative cinema.

#lastfourwatched #letterboxd #filmsky #BlackCinema

New addition to my fossil collection—100 million years ago, a single gust of wind stirred an ancient forest... and for one fleeting moment, chaos was captured in flowing tree sap.

(Purchased from @amberbugs on TikTok)
#Amber #fossil #DeepTime #AncientForest
#Natura|History

Films 41–44 for 2026!

Foundations of Black Independent Cinema:

Within Our Gates
The Blood of Jesus
Nothing but a Man
Killer of Sheep

Tracing the historical roots of Black indie filmmaking—from Micheaux to neorealism and working-class portraiture.
#lastfourwatched #letterboxd #filmsky #BlackCinema

Beyond thrilled right now! I scored this incredible 100myo specimen of Burmese amber with a scorpion inclusion during amberbugs live stream on TikTok this evening! Really looking forward to getting it in and shooting a nice video for it. Stay tuned! 🦂
#fossil #amber #scorpion #arachnid #paleontology

Films 37–40 for 2026!
#lastfourwatched #letterboxd #filmsky #films #movies #fantasy #Scifi #BlackCinema

My Don Knotts quadruple feature has finally been fully assembled! Looking forward to revisiting these in the *Knotts* too distance future. 😉
#DonKnotts #PhysicalMedia #PhysicalMediaForever #Bluray #BlurayCollection

New arrival to the collection—early angiosperm flower in Cretaceous amber (~100 Ma). Morphology consistent with *Eophylica priscastellata* or a related basal flowering plant. Amber preserved this rare specimen of one of the first flowers on Earth. #paleobotany #amber #fossils #cretaceous

Films 33–36 for 2026!
#lastfourwatched #letterboxd #filmsky #films #movies #SoBadTheyreGood #Scifi #ScifiMovies

Films 33–36 for 2026!
#lastfourwatched #letterboxd #filmsky #films #movies #BlackHorror #BlackCinema

Tiny predator. Awkward angle. Perfect moment.

A Cretaceous pseudoscorpion, frozen by chance in amber.

(This specimen was acquired from @amberbugs on TikTok)

#Amber #Fossils
#PrehistoricLife #Cretaceous
#Pseudoscorpion

#PhysicalMediaForever

Films 29-32 for 2026!

#lastfourwatched #letterboxd #filmsky #films #movies #ElvisPresley

Films 25-28 for 2026!

#lastfourwatched #letterboxd #filmsky #films #movies #RickMoranis

A moment of life

A 99-million-year-old snapshot of a Cretaceous forest. Here we see a twig, conifer foliage, rain bubbles, a tiny gnat... and a lone pseudoscorpion pincer.

This is not just a single moment in time, but rather a glimpse at an ecosystem. #Fossil #Botanical #NaturalHistory #Amber

January has been a shit show, but this is the energy and vibe I plan on putting out there for the rest of 2026

Films 21-24 for 2026!

#lastfourwatched #letterboxd #filmsky #films #movies #ShirleyMacLaine

Shot a video of another recent arrival to my fossil collection—a Cretaceous spider in Burmese amber (~99 Ma).