Angelle Tusa

@phoenixanew.bsky.social

Financial analyst and all around nerd.

There are a couple choices made in the Carrie show I don’t care for, but overall I thought it was a solid modernization of the story with some really good moments. It starts out stronger than it ends.

I was expecting to hate Return to Silent Hill given what I knew of the story changes, and in reality I didn’t. It may be that being spoiled helped me to not be angered by the changes and gave me a chance to judge it on its own merits.

Good Fortune is the kind of movie that has you thinking for a while that no good ending could be coming, but then it finally takes a turn and leaves you smiling. No big surprise but Keanu is absolutely the highlight of the film.

Went and saw The Long Walk. I was hoping Mark Hamill would have a bigger part, but the main cast was great and really shine in their roles. I’m too far away from my last read of the novel to nitpick anything, it overall felt very true to the spirit of the book even with the changes they made.

So I really thought this week’s Handmaid’s Tale was the finale so when it got to the end I was a little disappointed. Glad I went looking for behind the scenes stuff so I could see it’s not done yet.

I’ve been watching Spring Baking Championship and I’m convinced the closed captioning is AI generated. Sometimes the bakers run their words together and it’s picking something that it does sound like they are saying but a human editor would easily be able to tell that wasn’t what they said.

Watched A Complete Unknown with Jak. It was hard for him to not notice the inaccuracies but we both enjoyed Chalamet’s performance. It also made me want to go listen to Highway 61 Revisited again so if it does that for enough people it’s an absolute win.

Watched all of the Beatles Anthology and the films with my niece. It was great hearing her laugh at the parts that charmed me from the beginning. The end of the Anthology still brings tears to my eyes. I think part of it is how genuinely sad you can tell Ringo is about their end.

Made the decision to take down my old writings from Smashwords, and also couldn’t resist reading the first volume again. It wasn’t as cringe inducing as I expected. The main thought I have is that I really needed to let things breathe more and develop more naturally.