weeknotes #17
Weeknotes 20/04/2026 - 26/04/2026
Catching up on weeknotes I accidentally published #18 before this one - oops!
Things I've done ✎ᝰ.📓🗒 ˎˊ˗
Dinner with my boyfriend's parents, who took us to a very nice Korean restaurant.
jamwitch on itch.io released a new deduction (?) game, The Archives of Trevosa. I enjoy the gameplay of these a lot. Laura Michet wrote about My Friends the Monster Trainers by the same creator, which was my introduction to their games.
Films (and TV) 🍿🎥✮⋆˙
The Man Who Haunted Himself, The Good The Bad and The Ugly, Akira, The Clan of the Cave Bear and Excalibur.
The Man Who Haunted Himself is a 70s paranoid psychological thriller starring Roger Moore. It's about a rigid, successful businessman in an unhappy marriage who finds his doppelganger slowly taking over his life... or is it all in his head? I enjoyed this a lot, mainly for Roger Moore doing some pre-Bond acting and the British 70s period trappings.
I can't believe I'd never seen The Good, the Bad and the Ugly before. Incredible. A maximalist cinema thrill ride that feels like it's about 4 films in one. There's a whole civil war section in this that could have been it's own film. And I know I'm late to the party on Ennio Morricone, but the score! The chemistry between the three leads! 5 star cinema.
Akira was a rewatch for me, re-released in the cinema for it's anniversary. This time around I could see more of the flaws, the flimsy characterisation in particular, but it remains such a breath-taking spectacle it doesn't really matter. That's not to say it doesn't have any emotion - the plight of Tetsuo, the street gang kid who is discovered to have incredible psychic abilities everyone wants to exploit and who's rage threatens to destroy himself, I found really poignant. Also has a great score: "The soundtrack draws heavily from traditional Indonesian gamelan music, in addition to elements of Japanese noh music."
I watched the Clan of The Cave Bear and Excalibur as part of the genre film festival Forbidden Worlds. Excalibur was the stand-out, a crazy, over the top re-telling of the tale of Kind Arthur that fits the whole over-stuffer thing into 2 hours with incredible theatrical sets and a very camp Merlin. It's very silly but by the end it had won me over.
I've been feeling 🫀🩹🥀❤️🩹
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I'm looking forward to
A trip to Copenhagen next week.
I've been reading 🍵📖
I finished Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, for book club. I've started reading The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett, and Brian by Jeremy Cooper.
See you next week 👋