Paulo Seabra

I don't watch many movies nowadays. Long gone are those lazy college days when I'd watch five or six movies in a row, and would easily reach a hundred or more over a summer. Now I'll just watch whatever comes up and catches my eye. A fairly recent example of that was Speak No Evil, a movie so gripping and methodical that it gradually changed me from a decided skeptic watching it just because it looked alright, all the way to an instant fan, apologist and preacher. It starts slow and it moves slow, which is something quite daring for a modern horror movie to do, but even more so when it spans a relatively brief ninety-seven minutes. I for one am always impressed by movies like that, movies that know what they want to accomplish and do so comfortably in a short runtime, and still manage to find plenty of time to breathe in between. In some sense it could alienate viewers, and I believe it has, at least judging by some of the ha...

There's this awesome 1995 sci-fi film called Ghost in the Shell. It is set in a nowadays not so distant future where the vast majority of people, even the not so affluent ones, can afford all manner of cybernetic implants. This means that people are mostly normal, at least outwardly, but they are also living computers of sorts. This has a lot of advantages but also leaves them vulnerable in other ways... Of note there's a reallttty striking scene in which a garbage collector is manipulated by a powerful hacker into performing a series of tasks along his work route, all in a ploy to gain some leverage in the divorce and child custody proceedings he's currently undergoing with his now ex-wife. Long story short, the police are onto this in a sting operation, in a stellar scene that is much more complicated than what I'm now describing, and at the end of it the garbage collector is caught and found to have his brain hacked. There is no ex-wife, ther...

So, it has now been a year... Well, not really but close enough. In some ways I suppose I have been carefully biding my time, but in other ways I feel as though I've wasted enough time already... My idea was to spend this last year working on some other stuff, still writing blog articles in the meantime, of course, but without having to worry about publishing them so that I could instead take it easy. And also, perhaps more importantly, so that I could give it some time to hopefully get me some new readers. I can't say I've gotten many, though it's still nice to go on my stats page and see an uptick or two, and to also see the world map light up with the country of whoever it was who wandered into my house. I just wish whoever it was had left a comment or two, and even better, I wish they had stuck around and read some of my other stuff... But no matter. I shall go hence. As far as the blog goes I guess I've c...