Jay RPG
@robotcereal.bsky.social
nice queer trashbag in Philly that draws, watches horror movies, and plays video games (he/him)
the way that camera moves hubba hubba
January 18, 2026 at 5:07 AM
the way that camera moves hubba hubba
now seated for Park Chan-wook’s latest
January 18, 2026 at 12:58 AM
now seated for Park Chan-wook’s latest
Marty Supreme: What if you took apart the inspirational sports movie and put the “believe in yourself” part in a particle accelerator until it collapsed into a black hole? Has all the immaculate hallmarks of the genre (great acting, exquisite production design) in service of self-made lunacy.
December 31, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Marty Supreme: What if you took apart the inspirational sports movie and put the “believe in yourself” part in a particle accelerator until it collapsed into a black hole? Has all the immaculate hallmarks of the genre (great acting, exquisite production design) in service of self-made lunacy.
Superman: Zips through plot and emotional arcs without feeling like it's constantly setting things aside for later. Maybe in a few years, it will sink under the lumbering weight of another dozen movies. For now? It's an infectiously sweet, gentle, wholesome confection that aches with kindness.
December 31, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Superman: Zips through plot and emotional arcs without feeling like it's constantly setting things aside for later. Maybe in a few years, it will sink under the lumbering weight of another dozen movies. For now? It's an infectiously sweet, gentle, wholesome confection that aches with kindness.
Bring Her Back: 2025's great for horror, and the Philippou bros are the most interesting directors working the genre. Smaller, more spare and unrelentingly grim than 2022's Talk to Me, but has the same spark of humanism and empathy shining in the pitch-black void. I’m Day One for what they do next.
December 28, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Bring Her Back: 2025's great for horror, and the Philippou bros are the most interesting directors working the genre. Smaller, more spare and unrelentingly grim than 2022's Talk to Me, but has the same spark of humanism and empathy shining in the pitch-black void. I’m Day One for what they do next.
Hard Truths: unblinking slice-of-life for a nasty old crank so wholly embodied by Marianne Jean-Baptiste's tremendous performance that it slammed the trigger on my childhood PTSD. Yet, by the end, you find this bitter piece of shit as luminous, yearning, and worthy of love as any of us.
December 26, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Hard Truths: unblinking slice-of-life for a nasty old crank so wholly embodied by Marianne Jean-Baptiste's tremendous performance that it slammed the trigger on my childhood PTSD. Yet, by the end, you find this bitter piece of shit as luminous, yearning, and worthy of love as any of us.
Final Destination Bloodlines: Rattles an established formula and serves up zippy popcorn fun about a bunch of human water balloons. Elevated by series-best comic timing, nearly parodic engagement with lore, and a terrific goodbye to Tony Todd.
December 25, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Final Destination Bloodlines: Rattles an established formula and serves up zippy popcorn fun about a bunch of human water balloons. Elevated by series-best comic timing, nearly parodic engagement with lore, and a terrific goodbye to Tony Todd.
28 Years Later is Danny Boyle’s Fury Road: elegiac, poetic, deeply felt, and sometimes really freakin' goofy. It’s a beautiful post-apocalyptic horror fantasia that aims for the mythic visual sweep of a David Lean movie and mostly nails it. I did not expect to be so deeply moved.
December 19, 2025 at 10:09 PM
28 Years Later is Danny Boyle’s Fury Road: elegiac, poetic, deeply felt, and sometimes really freakin' goofy. It’s a beautiful post-apocalyptic horror fantasia that aims for the mythic visual sweep of a David Lean movie and mostly nails it. I did not expect to be so deeply moved.
Persona: It felt like checking a big thing off the to-do list, where I finally saw the clear line between this and zillion movies that exist in its wake. Still, even better to have my brain switch off Homework Mode and just get pulled along by its intoxicating, mysterious undertow.
December 19, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Persona: It felt like checking a big thing off the to-do list, where I finally saw the clear line between this and zillion movies that exist in its wake. Still, even better to have my brain switch off Homework Mode and just get pulled along by its intoxicating, mysterious undertow.
Mickey 17: Gotta love its Gremlins 2 energy, where Bong Joon-Ho builds a giant middle finger out of studio money and gleefully sets it on fire. Doesn’t maintain the sleekness of the savage anti-capitalist first half, but there’s a lotta fun to pan for in the kitchen-sink wreckage of the back half.
December 19, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Mickey 17: Gotta love its Gremlins 2 energy, where Bong Joon-Ho builds a giant middle finger out of studio money and gleefully sets it on fire. Doesn’t maintain the sleekness of the savage anti-capitalist first half, but there’s a lotta fun to pan for in the kitchen-sink wreckage of the back half.
OBAA: Stands alongside Sinners and Weapons as indelibly crafted pop-art meeting the moment. Bleakly comic insight on our miserable age, expertly paced to seem shaggy and relentless at the same time. There’s a car chase in a straight line and it’s one of the most thrilling things I saw all year.
December 18, 2025 at 9:25 PM
OBAA: Stands alongside Sinners and Weapons as indelibly crafted pop-art meeting the moment. Bleakly comic insight on our miserable age, expertly paced to seem shaggy and relentless at the same time. There’s a car chase in a straight line and it’s one of the most thrilling things I saw all year.
Sinners: This audacious scene in the middle takes a music performance and supercharges it to cosmic scale. That's the movie: genre mash-up on a Dusk Til Dawn skeleton piling contrasting pieces to make itself bigger without falling apart. Brain-melting it manages that while moving like an angel.
December 18, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Sinners: This audacious scene in the middle takes a music performance and supercharges it to cosmic scale. That's the movie: genre mash-up on a Dusk Til Dawn skeleton piling contrasting pieces to make itself bigger without falling apart. Brain-melting it manages that while moving like an angel.
Weapons: A sad, onion-layered fairy tale about lots of things, but especially about that giant AR-15 floating in the sky (even if it doesn't seem like it). How surprising, then, that something so somber and grief-tinged becomes such a rollicking, exciting crowd pleaser in the back half.
December 18, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Weapons: A sad, onion-layered fairy tale about lots of things, but especially about that giant AR-15 floating in the sky (even if it doesn't seem like it). How surprising, then, that something so somber and grief-tinged becomes such a rollicking, exciting crowd pleaser in the back half.
On the other hand, they got me dead to rights
December 3, 2025 at 5:49 PM
On the other hand, they got me dead to rights
"... the magician. And the other so-called Gods of our Legends..."
November 23, 2025 at 12:43 AM
"... the magician. And the other so-called Gods of our Legends..."
anyway let’s do this
November 1, 2025 at 1:43 AM
anyway let’s do this
time for my annual watch
October 22, 2025 at 12:40 AM
time for my annual watch
hell yeah, baby, living up to my full potential
September 25, 2025 at 10:38 PM
hell yeah, baby, living up to my full potential
soothing myself by imagining a guy saying RPG jobs in a Philly accent, “dragoon” is the best one
July 31, 2025 at 6:05 PM
soothing myself by imagining a guy saying RPG jobs in a Philly accent, “dragoon” is the best one