I Took It Very Seriously From The Start.

There's a twenty-minute gameplay preview of Life Is Strange 2! It takes a while to get going and then gets extremely going very quickly. I'm already invested. (And it's already upsetting, which is very Life Is Strange.)

I was a little sorry at first to learn that Life Is Strange 2 was going to focus on male protagonists, when the original Life Is Strange was about young women, but then I watched the trailer and went '...siblings? on the run? I'm in so much trouble.' Someone's baiting a Riona trap and I am going to walk straight into it.

(Rei commented on similarities to Supernatural and then made the mind-shattering observation that the sibling protagonists of Life Is Strange 2 are named Dan and Sean.)


I watched American Animals last night! It's an excellent film. I don't often get very into films, but I hugely enjoyed this one all the way through.

The story American Animals tells is true; it's about the Transylvania University rare book theft of 2004. A group of students decided that their lives needed more excitement and romance, and that the best way to achieve this was by carrying out a heist. The film is cut with interview segments with the actual people who were originally involved, which I think work very well. (If we hadn't seen the real Warren in the film, I'd have gone 'pfft, obviously Warren's character is hugely exaggerated, some "true" story.' But no; the real Warren seems just as larger-than-life as the character.)

It was a preview screening (the official UK release date is the 7th of September), and the writer/director, Bart Layton, did a Q&A afterwards. I was impressed by how much thought had gone into the film. A few interesting details from the Q&A:


( Spoilers for American Animals. )

American Animals is fun and interesting and stressful and I recommend it!