Forgot I'd pre-ordered the 4K POINT BLANK Criterion, so that was a happy surprise when checking the mail!

A ★★★★½ review of The Christophers (2025) I don't know if this is the actual course of events, but can you imagine being Ed Solomon, writing this script, and then watching Steven Soderbergh, Ian McKellen, and Michaela Coel get attached? It mu...

I enjoyed the heck out of THE CHRISTOPHERS.

My ****1/2 review on @Letterboxd.social: boxd.it/e4ajVt

#filmsky #moviesky #TheChristophers #IanMcKellen #MichaelaCoel #StevenSoderbergh #EdSolomon

Yeah, he was once asked what it was like to be part of one of the great unintentional comedies re THE WICKER MAN and responded with "do you really think any of this happens by accident?"

Just found that last one on YouTube and look forward to watching the whole series to see how close they got. Also, Viola Davis!

Never actually sold anything, but...

RAY: Manga about a girl with x-ray vision who uses it to become a nurse/underground surgeon

CENTURY CITY: Legal drama set 25 years in the future

Daily Walkoff
Red Sox #599
"So Prime"

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Fine

Completed Movie Snake - Gwynneth Paltrow/Joaquin Phoenix and... 1990-2000: Flesh and Bone (1.1%) Oscar nom: Emma (2.6%) $100M+: Seven (3.1%) 2 words: The Immigrant (1.2%) 2010-2026: Mortdecai (2.1%) 1 word: Duets (2%) 2000-2010: Duets (1.7%) 4+ words: You Were Never Really Here (12.9%) 80%+ RT: Emma (3.4%)

Movie Snake - 04/21/2026:
9/9 Correct
Score: 1323 (top 9%)

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www.moviesnake.io

Pretty decent

Vulture Cinematrix No. 756: Apr 21, 2026
I got 8/9 Correct
Score: 2165

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Bummer

Completed Movie Grid Off Script Rows: Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Peter Farrelly, Danny Boyle; columns 2 words, 3+ words, 1990-2026 Row 1: 21 Grams (23.6%), Birdman or the Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance (79%), Digger (22.8%) Row 2: Outside Providence (5.3%), Stuck on You (13.4%), Dumb and Dumber To (10.1%) Row 3: Shallow Grave (22.8%), 28 Years Later (32.6%), Sunshine (14.5%)

Completed Movie Pyramid Row 1 (Demi Moore/3+ words): I Love Boosters (4.2%) Row 2 (Miles Teller/1 word): Eternity (10.9%), Whiplash (40.8%) Row 3 (Jamie Lee Curtis/A-H): The Fog (1.9%), Borderlands (1.8%), Halloween II (2.9%) Row 4 (Hugh Jackman/2000-2026): The Sheep Detectives (1.9%), X-Men First Class (2.4%), Real Steel (3.2%), Song Sung Blue (2.3%)

Movie Grid - Off Script 139:
9/9 Correct
Score: 2480 (top 17%)

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Eh, fair

Movie Pyramid - 04/21/2026:
10/10 Correct
Score: 1203 (top 17%)

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Also fair

#Worldle #1551 (21.04.2026) 1/6 (100%)
🔥 Current Win Streak: 4 days
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In the "better know" category

nerdlegame 1553 3/6

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Yup

Movie Grid - 04/21/2026:
7/9 Correct
Score: 2059

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www.moviegrid.io

Ouch

Minute Cryptic - 21 April, 2026
"Party leader backtracked, opening parts of the Strait of Hormuz?" (4)
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🏆 0 hints – 1 under the community par (100,575 solvers so far).
www.minutecryptic.com?utm_source=s...

Convoluted but quick

🍋 Squeezy #812 🍋
Wheezy Mode
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PZ: 😎 🍋
LS: 😎 🍋

imsqueezy.com

Yup

[Bracket City]
April 21, 2026 🟢 (Easy)
Rank: 🔮 (Puppet Master)
🎹 Total Keystrokes: 52
🎯 Minimum Required: 52

Total Score: 100.0
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www.theatlantic.com/games/bracke...

Sure

I completed Stacks in 4 drops!
Try it yourself!
Play on The Atlantic: www.theatlantic.com/games/stacks

Easy enough

Wordle 1,767 3/6*

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Kind of crazy

Pips #247 Hard 🔴
7:59

Misread something early

Strands #779
“Risky business”
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OK

Connections
Puzzle #1045
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Very much purple by elimination

🟠 Align 4/21/2026
⏰ 01:06 🔄 15 globe.com/align

OK

New Coke was never meant to last, but just a means to disguise the switch from cane sugar to corn syrup.

3D image shows a close-up of very blocky and fractured material at the bottom of an impact crater on Mars.

HiRISE 3D: Fractured Floor Materials within a Crater in Arabia Terra

This anaglyph shows an interesting pattern of fractures. It may be incipient chaos formation. A digital terrain model can help to figure out what's going on.

www.uahirise.org/anaglyph/ESP_035843_2165...

Huh, wonder what they're doing at the building next door that's been renovating for months that requires a cement mixer.

To be fair, my building doesn't have a poured concrete cellar floor, but I figure that would be the thing you do first rather than at this point.

Daily Walkoff
Red Sox #598

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Yeah, pretty quick

Completed Movie Snake - Morgan Freeman/Angelina Jolie and... 1 word: Invictus (2.7%) 1980-2000: Gia (4.8%) $100M+: Tomb Raider Cradle of Life (1.4%) Oscar nom: Changeling (4.6%) 2000-2010: March of the Penguins (2.6%) 4+ words: March of the Penguins (4.4%) 2010-2026: London Has Fallen (0.3%) Character name: My Dead Friend Zoe (0.6%) M: My Dead Friend Zoe (0.6%)

Completed Cinematrix - rows Woody Harrelson, Matthew McConaughey, Seth Rogen; columns comedy, Oscar nom, Number Row 1: The Cowboy Way (3%), No Country for Old Men (28%), Mockingjay Part 1 (28%) Row 2: Failure to Launch (17%), Amistad (4%), How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (72%) Row 3: The Green Hornet (3%), The Fabelmans (38%), 22 Jump Street (3%)

Movie Snake - 04/20/2026:
9/9 Correct
Score: 1333 (top 4%)

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www.moviesnake.io

Shockingly, I didn't just ride that last one

Vulture Cinematrix No. 755: Apr 20, 2026
I got 9/9 Correct
Score: 2513 (top 17%)

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Yeah, that one entry…

Completed Movie Pyramid Row 1 (Danny McBride/2 words): Your Highness (13.5%) Row 2 (Mahershala Ali/3+ words): Leave the World Behind (17.6%), Jurassic World Rebirth (21.2%) Row 3 (Winona Ryder/A-H): Frankenweenie (1.1%), Heathers (10.3%), Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (16%) Row 4 (Adam Driver/2010-2026): 65 (5.4%), Inside Llewyn Davis (7.3%), Ferrari (5.2%)

Movie Grid - 04/20/2026:
8/9 Correct
Score: 2259

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www.moviegrid.io

Aw man, mixed up Emmas on my first guess

Movie Pyramid - 04/20/2026:
10/10 Correct
Score: 1175 (top 28%)

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Eh

#Worldle #1550 (20.04.2026) 5/6 (100%)
🔥 Current Win Streak: 3 days
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Not bad today

nerdlegame 1552 4/6

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Oops, dropped a number at first

Minute Cryptic - 20 April, 2026
"Heavy sculpture of Jesus, facing out across Brazilian city?" (7)
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🏆 0 hints – 3 under the community par (78,095 solvers so far).
www.minutecryptic.com?utm_source=s...

Tricky

I completed Stacks in 4 drops!
Try it yourself!
Play on The Atlantic: www.theatlantic.com/games/stacks

OK

🍋 Squeezy #811 🍋
Wheezy Mode
EZ: 😎 🍋
PZ: 😎 🍋
LS: 🤔 🟩

imsqueezy.com

Yeah, that was dumb

🟠 Align 4/20/2026
⏰ 03:15 🔄 23 globe.com/align

Ouch

[Bracket City]
April 20, 2026 🟢 (Easy)
Rank: 🔮 (Puppet Master)
🎹 Total Keystrokes: 48
🎯 Minimum Required: 48

Total Score: 100.0
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www.theatlantic.com/games/bracke...

Yeah, quick

Wordle 1,766 5/6*

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Got there

Pips #246 Hard 🔴
11:29

Phew

Strands #778
“Gloriously glaring!”
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In a sense, the spanner doesn't fit

Connections
Puzzle #1044
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Weird one

Par 4 Letter Boxed in 3

A bunny adrift on a tiny ice floe asks a passing seal for help. the seal has a fish in its mouth, and it is a moonlit night on a calm sea.

Daily bunny no.3294 could use a ride home

NANCY BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER P1- NANCY HAS STACKS OF COMIC BOOKS SITTING IN HER ROOM FRITZI: YOUR ROOM IS A MESS... GET RID OF ALL THESE OLD COMIC BOOKS P2- NANCY IS CARRYING A HUGE STACK OF COMIC BOOKS DOWN THE STREET P3- FRITZI IS SURPRISED WHEN NANCY COMES BACK IN THE HOUSE, SHE CARRYING A HUGE STACK OF COMIC BOOKS NANCY: I SWAPPED THEM WITH IRMA FOR HER OLD COMIC BOOKS

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller
April 19,1964

A ★★★★ review of Mile End Kicks (2025) I've been hanging around Mile End a lot when I go up to Montreal for Fantasia, but I'm a tourist with a little time to kill around a film festival rather than a broke young writer/artist, so this is m...

As an outsider who enjoys spending time in Montreal (heck, Mile End specifically), I enjoyed MILE END KICKS quite a bit, even if it's not quite my scene.

My **** review on @Letterboxd.social: boxd.it/e2UfQX

#filmsky #moviesky #MileEndKicks

I'd at least pitch festival coverage for it, too, if nothing else.

Man, would I love to see the Fangoria folks revive it. I like horror well enough but sci-fi is my true love, and a glossy magazine where folks could be drawn in by Star Wars on the cover and learn about indie/international sf movies/TV inside would be so great right now.

I’m Masuke, aged 17. Realising that my legs were feeling better, I started running. How did he know?