Notices by Alex Daily! (alexis@beepboop.one), page 4

I don't know what this is about, but they've covered it on this week's Cinematic Universe, and it looks loud, so maybe it'll be enough to drone out the anxiety gremlins in my brain, it's --

#1709, or #217, 2004 Japanese picture "Kamikaze Girls."

The first movie Nora Ephron /directed/, and it only has like 600 reviews on Letterboxd? It's --

#1710, or #218, 1992's "This Is My Life."

"Screen Test of Time," the podcast I listen to alongside the Best Picture nominees, describes this as featuring "the rare x2 double amnesiac combo multiplier," and I can't wait to find out what that means -- two amnesiacs? double amnesia? -- so, it's --

#1711, or #219, 1942 Best Picture nominee "Random Harvest."

They made eight movies about a man who does whatever a spider can? And they're rereleasing all eight this summer? It'll never work.

Leaving now to go see --

#1712, or #220, 2002's "Spider-Man."

Let's just get it over with -- after this one, the podcast I listen to alongside these takes a substantial hiatus, anyway -- and watch another patriotic war drama nominated for Best Picture, it's --

#1713, or #221, 1942's "In Which We Serve."

The power of the sun... on the screen of my cinema? Leaving now to go see —

#1714, or #222, 2004's "Spider-Man 2."

"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?"

thou art hot and maketh everyone uncomfortable

Really thought when I looked into this one there'd turn out to be three mediocre sequels, a straight-to-DVD spinoff, and six episodes of a poorly received TV version, but no, besides the sequel that's about to drop there's just --

#1715, or #223, 1996's "Twister."

oh that's what this is about

I've been pretty productive this morning, and have remembered I watch movies, so let's watch one.

I understand this is the first specific and sympathetic portrayal of gay characters in English cinema, it's --

#1716, or #224, 1961's "Victim."

Hard to tell if "they didn't do a shot-for-shot remake of [🔴REC]² but came up with their own sequel" is a good sign or a bad sign, it's --

#1717, or #225, 2011's "Quarantine 2: Terminal."

Who watches the Watchers? Me, at 10:15am! Leaving now to go see --

#1718, or #226, 2024's "The Watchers."

I suppose if you live in a boarding school in 1900 Australia whether or not you get to go on the picnic at Hanging Rock probably is quite a big deal.

They really just could not stop making these for a while, huh. How are there six of these? Let's watch the fourth, it's --

#1719, or #227, 2010's "Resident Evil: Afterlife."

The most relatable of the Raimi Spider-Man movies, because if in this, the Year of Luigi 2024, you can say you're not surrounded by way too many villains trying to kill you, what even is your life, leaving now to go see --

#1720, or #228, 2007's "Spider-Man 3."

"Waiting a million years... just for us."

there's that settler mindset

a natural formation so old it might've been there when the first fly took off and you make it about you

I know there's two popular horror franchises created by James Wan and starring Patrick Wilson that sort of pop up at the same time, that in one of them he plays a fictionalised version of a real guy, and this is: The other one. It's --

#1721, or #229, 2010's "Insidious."

I go back and forth on whether stand-up specials count, but I don't watch enough of them that it matters that much.

But I did watch this one while doing my morning puzzles, it's --

#1722, or #230, 2024's "Hank Green: Pissing Out Cancer."

Here's my :letterboxd: review on Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/alexdaily/film/hank-green-pissing-out-cancer/

If I were gonna disappear I would simply do so with a trace. Without a trace? Couldn't be me.

did they disappear without a trace or did they just figure out how to squeeze themselves into the corset of infinity