Category: pesos

PESOS is an acronym for Publish Elsewhere, Syndicate (to your) Own Site. It’s a syndication model where publishing starts by posting to a 3rd party service, then using infrastructure (e.g. feeds, Micropub, webhooks) to create an archive copy on your site.

Watched The Missing (2003) by an author from letterboxd.com
When rancher and single mother of two Maggie Gilkeson sees her teenage daughter, Lily, kidnapped by Apache rebels, she reluctantly accepts the help of her estranged father, Samuel, in tracking down the kidnappers. Along the way, the two must learn to reconcile the past and work together if they are going to have any hope of getting Lily back before she is taken over the border and forced to become a prostitute.

Never really threatens to get good but you just keep hoping and then it works out exactly like you’d expected and the credits roll. What annoys me the most is that I’m never getting that time back.

★★

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Watched It Came from Outer Space (1953) by an author from letterboxd.com
Author and amateur astronomer John Putnam and schoolteacher Ellen Fields witness an enormous meteorite come down near a small town in Arizona. Putnam becomes a local object of scorn when, after examining the object up close, he announces that it is a spacecraft, and that it is inhabited...

Watched on Thursday June 26, 2025.

★★★

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Watched Constantine (2005) by an author from letterboxd.com
John Constantine has literally been to Hell and back. When he teams up with a policewoman to solve the mysterious suicide of her twin sister, their investigation takes them through the world of demons and angels that exists beneath the landscape of contemporary Los Angeles.

First saw this at a cinema in the Philippines with very little foreknowledge (and therefore no expectations) and thought it was great. And I still think it’s great.

You have three characters (played by Stormare, the bloke from Bush and Swinton) that have only minutes of screen time but are so well realised that they’re some of the most memorable.

And, I’m no film student, but I really like how it’s shot. I know “music video background” blahblahblah. I like the framing and like the close-ups, which I guess is very comic book but, like, that’s exactly right, right?

Excellent comic book movie – even if they did almost entirely change the lead character.

★★★★

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Watched Super 8 (2011) by an author from letterboxd.com
In 1979 Ohio, several youngsters are making a zombie movie with a Super-8 camera. In the midst of filming, the friends witness a horrifying train derailment and are lucky to escape with their lives. They soon discover that the catastrophe was no accident, as a series of unexplained events and disappearances soon follows. Deputy Jackson Lamb, the father of one of the kids, searches for the terrifying truth behind the crash.

First saw this with my wife in the cinema when it came out and we loved it. I think this might be partly because we were 3 months pregnant at the time and everything was tinged with equal parts optimism and terror…

Watched it today with our (now) 13 and 10 y/os. Our oldest enjoyed the swearing, which was “just like at school” and our youngest loved it even if they were scared multiple times. I think that’s pretty high praise!

★★★★

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Watched The Quatermass Xperiment (1955) by an author from letterboxd.com
The first manned spacecraft, fired from an English launchpad, is first lost from radar, then roars back to Earth and crashes in a farmer's field, and is found to contain only one of the three men who took off in it; and he is unable to talk but appears to be undergoing a torturous physical and mental metamorphosis.

The girl having the tea party is terrifying. The Grady twins have got nothing on her.

★★★★

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Watched Love Lies Bleeding (2024) by an author from letterboxd.com
Reclusive gym manager Lou falls hard for Jackie, an ambitious bodybuilder headed through town to Las Vegas in pursuit of her dream. But their love ignites violence, pulling them deep into the web of Lou’s criminal family.

If the intended tone was “queers do crazy shit for love” and “drugs are bad”, it was OK, maybe pretty good. Otherwise, I dunno what to make of this.

It careens wildly around: is it a domestic abuse drama, is it a serious thriller, is it an unrequited love story, is it a daddy-issues exploration, is it a black comedy, is it an organised crime “caper”, is it some some crazy Lynchian wank fantasy? Sadly it isn’t really any of those things.

Finally, the whole “let’s make it a period piece because you’d never get away with anything like that with modern forensics,” is just lazy writing.

★★★

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Watched Wind River (2017) by an author from letterboxd.com
An FBI agent teams with the town's veteran game tracker to investigate a murder that occurred on a Native American reservation.

There’s a pretty decent consensus that this is an extremely solid 4-star movie, and I agree. But, I can’t really say why it’s not a 5-star movie. Can you?

★★★★

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Watched The Night Shift from imdb.com
Wounded and on the run, Charlie is forced to make a pit stop in desolate New Mexico where she tries to clear the name of a trucker framed for the murder of a local.
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Overall, this show ain’t blowing my hair back, but the part when that trucker started singing… that really got me.

Watched Thunderbolts* (2025) by an author from letterboxd.com
After finding themselves ensnared in a death trap, seven disillusioned castoffs must embark on a dangerous mission that will force them to confront the darkest corners of their pasts.

Overall, I liked it but I did feel pretty robbed by the marketing, if you know what I mean…

★★★½

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Watched Wonder (2017) by an author from letterboxd.com
The story of August Pullman – a boy with facial differences – who enters fifth grade, attending a mainstream elementary school for the first time.

I’ve avoided this film like the plague because it felt a lot like disability-tourism: “Wouldn’t it be AWFUL if you had these challenges in YOUR life!?”

But it doesn’t play like that at all. I think it might (not so) secretly be a Christian metaphor about love. The love that exists when you set aside differences and accept other’s short-comings alongside your own. You know?

I’m an atheist but even I know we need more of that in our world.

★★★★

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