James Wood

@omgmorejames.bsky.social

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Dark Souls II screenshot of the Throne of Want, a mound of ashy dirt draped in sunlight inside a large scale stone room
Asuka looking down at the camera with the caption “pathetic”
Sen’s Fortress from Dark Souls
Lois Griffin from Family Guy putting on BDSM gear
Key art for The Duskbloods with a logo for the Australian streaming service Stan edited in with basic time information
Screenshot from Twin Peaks Fire Walk With Me of Laura Palmer smiling and crying into the camera
Screenshot from The Good Wife of Alicia Florick on the phone with a shocked expression and Eli Gold out of focus in the background
An upside down calculator with the display reading “BOOBIES”
Letterboxd recent activity: Spider Man Brand New Day 4/5 Send Help 2.5/5 Spider Man No Way Home 1.5/5 He Man Masters of the Universe 1.5/5
Rogue and Gambit from Xmen 97
Content creator Hallie Walker tucking her hair behind her ear and looking directly into the camera with an expression that is somewhere between bashful and deranged.
Letterboxd recent activity The Invite 5/5 Heartstopper Forever 1.5/5 The Odyssey 4.5/5 Oppenheimer 5/5
YouTube thumbnail: Priyanka - Come Through (1 hour loop of lemon’s verse)
Clara Oswald from Doctor Who
"we are fucking under attack!" meme A generic looking fantasy videogame city with a photo of a real woman, scantily dressed, overlayed and a "play free" button below
Camille from the anime Zeta Gundam. Young man in space suit smiling and giving a thumbs up directly to the camera while framed in a starry void of space
Letterboxd recent activity: Tenet 2/5 The Drama 3/5 Lee Cronin’s The Mummy 1.5/5 Possibly in Michigan 4.5/5
Ben Starr, a young man in a suit, getting blast with white light in the face
The Backrooms (an empty liminal office-type space) with PlayStation’s Knack standing in them
Not too dissimilar to “I’ll Take It All”, “First Light” has a sonic profile that is immediately familiar. The orchestration and guitar riffs are referential, deliberately placing you in Bond mode before Del Rey sweeps in with her melodic benzo (complimentary). At first blush, it’s all pleasant enough, a track to entice your lizard brain into an emotional reaction by way of sonic recall; you’ve known these sounds to be meaningful before, surely, they’re meaningful now. This isn’t a trick unique to “First Light”, but for a title ostensibly aiming to retool the Bond mythos for a new generation, the evident lean into reverence feels out of place and cloying.
Brown paper bag being pulled out of fridge with a piece of paper taped to it that reads “dead dove do not eat!”
Screenshot from Persona 4 Golden. A young man stands in a bathhouse awash in a steamy atmosphere with an exaggerated graphic above him reading “MEN ONLY! Kanji Tatsumi in Rosy Steam Paradise”
Persona 4’s Chie in the Criterion Closet with a text box reading “this is hard boiled from visionary director John woo”
Two panel image. Top panel is a picture of Polaris from xmen 97 with her huge green hair, bottom panel is Damien from Mean Girls film saying “that’s why her hair is so big, it’s full of secrets”
Two Bluesky posts in a feed. The first reads: love following game jog news. My other interests include deep paper cuts and drinking thoughtful of dysentery water The second post is a news articles from game informer about Xbox ceo Asha Sharma joining the US federal reserve’s productivity and jobs task force
Photo of a tv playing Balan Wonderworld’s title screen
Photo of a television displaying the legend of Zelda ocarina of time played via the switch 2 so it has two thick, ugly dotted borders on either side of the image
Letterboxd recent activity: Wreck it Ralph 2/5 Iron Lung 1/5 Barbie 2/5 Monsters Inc 4/5
Screenshot of General Pepper from the Switch 2 game Starfox. A dog standing upright in a decorated army uniform looking stern
Simpsons character McBane doing stand up saying “that’s the joke”
App icon for the PlayStation phone app that has updated itself to reference the marketing for Grand Theft Auto 6
Letterboxd recent activity: Cars 2 2/5 Suspiria (1977) 4.5/5 Finding Dory 1/5 Toy Story 5 2/5
Photo of a movie screen in a classic style cinema displaying the Casino Royale 2006 logo. Film presented in 35mm for its 20th anniversary
James Wood post: dunno why we need Austin Powers 4 when First Light was already a pretty funny James Bond parody Will Borger post in response: gif of actor doing exaggerated disagreement
Michelle Visage saying “it’s…a box art”
Piplup, the penguin polemon, in front of an industrial factory with a sign reading Boo & Hiss Factory, saying “hope I don’t have a long day”
A fifa player, I don’t know his name sorry,but he’s holding an MVP trophy cup I think, edited to be holding the Marathon game cover art. He looks…scared? Shocked? It’s a hard emotion to quantify but it’s almost naively “deer in the headlights” in nature
Assassin’s Apprentice by Robin Hobb
Line up of Super Smash Bros character suggestions: Piplup Professor Layton and Luke Dark Magician Marissa Marcel Siegmeyer of Catarina
Letterboxd recent activity: All that Heaven Allows 4.5/5 Once Upon a Time in the West 5/5 On Her Majesty’s Secret Service 4/5 Disclosure Day 2.5/5
Screencap from the Survivor 50 live finale. Cirie Fields is holding a hideous statue depicting a fire cracking through a giant rock while Jeff Probst stands nearby looking extremely pleased with himself.
That dude in the mask from Elden Ring who calls you maidenless
Shot from the film Disclosure Day. A man and a woman in close up are intensely discussing something as light pours in from a window behind them casting them in a glow
Abe Simpson from The Simpsons looking into the camera with a sad expression
The freakish baby renesmee doll from that twilight movie
A hybrid ear and crow creature from Duskbloods
Lies of P logo but P says Piss
The cast photo of the doomed Dark Universe
Screenshot from the PC game MindMaze. A medieval room with a gaming UI along the bottom of the screen and a man in strange clothes toward the back of the room.
Letterboxd recent activity Backrooms 4/5 Super Mario Galaxy Movie .5/5 You Only Live Twice 2/5 Mother Mary 2.5/5
Link from Ocarina of Time holding up a bottle with liquid in it, text box reads “you got Faggot’s Sprite”
Jean Grey in the Wolverine game in a boring as shit black coat and cropped hair cut
Comic book panel of Mystique screaming “I want my wife back”
Screenshot of Hilary duff’s song Come Clean (Mine) playing with a drawing of a satisfied bald man touching his face layered over the top
Dying just to know whether you’ll play your life like a game Will you? Will you? Will you play?
Husky puppy making a laughing face with wide eyes.
Gay man on couch looking mildly disgusted with the caption reading “don’t say ‘mothers peekaboo’, that’s weird”
It’s thinly drawn, in the style of almost every major Resident Evil plot thread, but the emotional truth of it is undeniably tantalising. Spencer’s efforts to undo his evil are convoluted and self-aggrandising to the very end, though, no simple act of active good in the world but a series of puzzles to solve. A redeemed capitalist who still wants you to pull yourself up by your bootstraps. One final run through his haunted house of tricks.
Screenshot from the film Decision to Leave. A man in the forefront of the shot is out of focus while a woman can be seen in focus, half obscured by the man, standing next to him and watching him intently