reviews

I recently watched Pizza Movie (2026) and it's ridiculous, fairly predictable, and fun. It's a drug-trip buddy comedy in the same vein as Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle and Dude, Where's My Car? and a dozen other college party movies. It stars Gaten Matarazzo of Stranger Things fame, and Sean Giambrone from The Goldbergs along with Lulu Wilson. We follow the leads as they experience a vivid and sometimes disturbing psychedelic experience and desperately attempt to acquire a pizza. There's a butterfly, a robot, many, many hijinks and some laughs. It's not high cinema, but I enjoyed it.

Good Luck Have Fun Don't Die is a weird but enjoyable movie. It has strong opinions about the rise of social media and other attention grabbing technology and doesn't seem to care if you agree or not. It opens a bit slowly with a long monologue, but picks up the pace pretty quickly. It's a wild adventure with odd things happening pretty consistently and frequently had me questioning where it was going next. It has the same frenetic energy as Everything Everywhere All At Once, and if you liked that one, you should enjoy this as well. It won't be to everyone's taste, but I certainly enjoyed it.

O Human Star is an engrossing, completed webcomic by Blue Delliquanti. It has robots, love, and heartbreak. It dives deeply into what it means to be human, what it means to grow up, and what it means to be your true self. It captured my full attention. It was a fixture on my phone browser and I went back to it every spare second I had until I finished. I would highly recommend reading it and also recommend that you act smarter than me and read it on a full sized screen.
Caution, there are a few minorly NSFW moments, but nothing too scandalous.

You Look Like a Thing and I Love You by Janelle Shane, written in 2019 is a non-fiction book about AI and its state at the time. I learned of this book through the Acknowledgements section of Service Model by Adrian Tchaikovsky and was glad I picked it up.

Service Model by Adrian Tchaikovsky is a dystopian science fiction novel written from the perspective of a robot valet. During the course of the story we follow the robot (Charles) as he's forced to experience the world at large after his employment at a manor house comes to an end after an unfortunate event.