Matt Kimmich
@thirith.bsky.social
Films, games, books, disillusionment. Not always in that order.
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"And yet: in both Hollow Knight and Silksong, I feel like this is a real world, these are real, albeit insectile, characters. There is a sense of history and weight to Pharloom, the doomed realm in which Silksong is set, and those that inhabit it."
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They create worlds: the melodies of Silksong
One of the things that video games can do magnificently is create worlds. These posts are an occasional exploration of games that I love because of where they take me. In 2017, a small Australian s…
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January 10, 2026 at 6:56 PM
"And yet: in both Hollow Knight and Silksong, I feel like this is a real world, these are real, albeit insectile, characters. There is a sense of history and weight to Pharloom, the doomed realm in which Silksong is set, and those that inhabit it."
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@audacityofdespair.bsky.social I just listened to your conversation with Ira Glass, where you mentioned what you’d hoped to do with the ending of Treme. Is there a post, article or interview somewhere where you go into details on those Westworld-foiled plans?
January 10, 2026 at 10:46 AM
@audacityofdespair.bsky.social I just listened to your conversation with Ira Glass, where you mentioned what you’d hoped to do with the ending of Treme. Is there a post, article or interview somewhere where you go into details on those Westworld-foiled plans?
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"I feel comfortable in asserting that, when making the show, nobody thought that they’d get many viewers from the hardcore Harkness Comics Crowd."
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Six Damn Fine Degrees #268: Agatha All Along
Welcome to Six Damn Fine Degrees. These instalments will be inspired by the idea of six degrees of separation in the loosest sense. The only rule: it connects – in some way – to the previous instal…
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January 9, 2026 at 5:24 PM
"I feel comfortable in asserting that, when making the show, nobody thought that they’d get many viewers from the hardcore Harkness Comics Crowd."
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And suddenly, to our surprise, we find that we have reason to celebrate: not just the beginning of a new year, but our one-hundredth episode!
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A Damn Fine Cup of Culture Podcast #100: A Hundred Podcasts
And suddenly, to our surprise, we find that we have reason to celebrate: not just the beginning of a new year, but our one-hundredth episode! After our small-scale beginnings back in 2017, a little…
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January 3, 2026 at 4:38 PM
And suddenly, to our surprise, we find that we have reason to celebrate: not just the beginning of a new year, but our one-hundredth episode!
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“Yuletide has come and gone. You have survived holiday family dinners – well done, you – and if you have a certain kind of family, you might be feeling, how do I put it, a little frayed around the edges.”
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Six Damn Fine Degrees #267: Family and other horrors
Welcome to Six Damn Fine Degrees. These instalments will be inspired by the idea of six degrees of separation in the loosest sense. The only rule: it connects – in some way – to the previous instal…
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January 2, 2026 at 9:22 PM
“Yuletide has come and gone. You have survived holiday family dinners – well done, you – and if you have a certain kind of family, you might be feeling, how do I put it, a little frayed around the edges.”
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“Whenever I hear or read someone going on about how culture, originality, cinema and TV are dead, I can’t help but roll my eyes – because there is so much out there that is pretty damn good: fresh, engaging, challenging, riveting.”
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That was the year that was: 2025
Let’s be honest: it’s no big secret that 2025 was a shitty year in many ways, so much so that at times, as if we’d woken up in an episode of Black Mirror, it felt like reality its…
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January 1, 2026 at 8:18 AM
“Whenever I hear or read someone going on about how culture, originality, cinema and TV are dead, I can’t help but roll my eyes – because there is so much out there that is pretty damn good: fresh, engaging, challenging, riveting.”
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“But the modern Christmas ghost stories made in 1977 and 1978 are like little else you’ll see on television – treading a fine line between scary and silly. Between a beguiling piece of storytelling, and a frustrating one.”
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Six Damn Fine Degrees #266: The ITV Ghost Story For Christmas
Welcome to Six Damn Fine Degrees. These instalments will be inspired by the idea of six degrees of separation in the loosest sense. The only rule: it connects – in some way – to the previous instal…
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December 27, 2025 at 8:06 AM
“But the modern Christmas ghost stories made in 1977 and 1978 are like little else you’ll see on television – treading a fine line between scary and silly. Between a beguiling piece of storytelling, and a frustrating one.”
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“What would be a good, fair, healthy way of dealing with such creators? Should we banish them from our shelves, once they have revealed themselves to be monsters, less for ourselves than for the people they have hurt?”
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Six Damn Fine Degrees #265: Poisoned pages
Welcome to Six Damn Fine Degrees. These instalments will be inspired by the idea of six degrees of separation in the loosest sense. The only rule: it connects – in some way – to the previous instal…
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December 19, 2025 at 5:16 PM
“What would be a good, fair, healthy way of dealing with such creators? Should we banish them from our shelves, once they have revealed themselves to be monsters, less for ourselves than for the people they have hurt?”
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“But perhaps that is the problem: I find it easier to imagine the kind of film Jay Kelly could have been – something sharper, more perceptive, more satirical, something that isn’t designed to make us feel the sadness of a tremendously privileged person...”
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The Loneliness of the Hollywood Superstar: Jay Kelly (2025)
Stop me if you’ve heard this one: Hollywood, the Dream Factory – it is actually quite silly, and none are more silly than Hollywood superstars. Drop them in the real world on their own,…
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December 17, 2025 at 5:46 PM
“But perhaps that is the problem: I find it easier to imagine the kind of film Jay Kelly could have been – something sharper, more perceptive, more satirical, something that isn’t designed to make us feel the sadness of a tremendously privileged person...”
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“Follow us down the Yellow Brick Road for this concluding conversation in our final espresso of the year.”
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A Damn Fine Espresso: December 2025
We weren’t originally going to do an espresso podcast in December, but then the timing and theme of our main episode for the month almost made it obligatory for us to replan: since our recent…
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December 13, 2025 at 7:27 PM
“Follow us down the Yellow Brick Road for this concluding conversation in our final espresso of the year.”
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"It’s a far cry from Christie’s famous detective stories featuring Poirot or Miss Marple, but it’s still a story ripe with class envy, deceit — and murder."
Six Damn Fine Degrees #264: Agatha Christie’s Endless Night
Welcome to Six Damn Fine Degrees. These instalments will be inspired by the idea of six degrees of separation in the loosest sense. The only rule: it connects – in some way – to the previous instal…
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December 12, 2025 at 5:55 PM
"It’s a far cry from Christie’s famous detective stories featuring Poirot or Miss Marple, but it’s still a story ripe with class envy, deceit — and murder."
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"Margery Allingham’s novels are rather more intricate than Christie’s, she seems to have more of an interest in the minutiae of not just the narrative, but also the characters and writing style. "
Six Damn Fine Degrees #263: Campion
Welcome to Six Damn Fine Degrees. These instalments will be inspired by the idea of six degrees of separation in the loosest sense. The only rule: it connects – in some way – to the previous instal…
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December 5, 2025 at 4:17 PM
"Margery Allingham’s novels are rather more intricate than Christie’s, she seems to have more of an interest in the minutiae of not just the narrative, but also the characters and writing style. "
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"As in the best adaptations of Le Carré, The Spy Who Came In from the Cold depicts the corrosive nature of this world without giving in to a need to soften or romanticise it."
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Criterion Corner: The Spy Who Came In from the Cold (#452)
Most people, when asked to think about spy movies, will think of James Bond, of Sean Connery or Roger Moore or Daniel Craig. They’ll think of shootouts and stealth and suave secret agents bed…
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November 29, 2025 at 6:11 PM
"As in the best adaptations of Le Carré, The Spy Who Came In from the Cold depicts the corrosive nature of this world without giving in to a need to soften or romanticise it."
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"He is The Villain here, and he’s out to destroy the Doctor for reasons we need to keep watching to discover. The rest of the series features a number of nicely created villains and monsters but none of them carry the danger and menace of The Valeyard."
Six Damn Fine Degrees #262: The Valeyard
Welcome to Six Damn Fine Degrees. These instalments will be inspired by the idea of six degrees of separation in the loosest sense. The only rule: it connects – in some way – to the previous instal…
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November 28, 2025 at 4:43 PM
"He is The Villain here, and he’s out to destroy the Doctor for reasons we need to keep watching to discover. The rest of the series features a number of nicely created villains and monsters but none of them carry the danger and menace of The Valeyard."
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“The enjoyment of The Secret Agent lies in its sheer joy in telling stories – some gory, some goofy, some thrilling, some tragic. But there is a purpose to the way it is eager to begin stories but hesitant to stick with them.”
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Fabula rasa: The Secret Agent (2025)
Murder, memory, sharks. Two-faced cats. Corpses left to rot. Disembodied legs cleaning up the seedy underbelly of Recife, one well-placed kick at a time. The story may just be reactionary and homop…
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November 22, 2025 at 7:09 PM
“The enjoyment of The Secret Agent lies in its sheer joy in telling stories – some gory, some goofy, some thrilling, some tragic. But there is a purpose to the way it is eager to begin stories but hesitant to stick with them.”
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"Famously, Corman claimed that among his sixty films as director and his over four hundred (!) films as producer, none ever created a loss."
Six Damn Fine Degrees #261: Roger Corman’s Big Little Shop of Horrors
Melanie’s review of 1980s cult musical Little Shop of Horrors through teenagers’ eyes finally gives me a chance to loop back, not only to the 1960 original directed by Roger Corman, but…
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November 21, 2025 at 4:39 PM
"Famously, Corman claimed that among his sixty films as director and his over four hundred (!) films as producer, none ever created a loss."