Brief reviews #8

Here are a few brief reviews of some of the things I have been watching and reading lately.

Movies/TV series

• 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026): I am not sure whether this one is better than 28 Years Later as they are fundamentally different movies. Some parts of the movie reminds me of mediocre episodes of The Walking Dead, whereas other parts, especially the scenes with Ralph Fiennes, are truly original. If you are a fan of the previous three movies, you will most likely also enjoy this one (if for no other reason that if you like the previous three movies, you will most likely enjoy anything you see).
• A Very English Scandal (2018): A great mini-series in three episodes about the British political/sex scandal with the politician Jeremy Thorpe. While it is a true crime, it is (hopefully) clear that it is a dramatisation throughout, especially for the dark comedic elements. I would have liked for the series to get rid of all the comedy and take itself a bit more serious, especially in the second episode. Strong performances by Hugh Grant and Ben Whishaw. Not the best work from Russell T Davies, so I would recommend Years and Years and It's a Sin before this one.
• All the Empty Rooms (2025): A documentary documenting how a journalist is documenting the victims of school shootings. It is a very emotional short documentary, but I would have preferred a long-form article with all the pictures. Also, the way the documentary is talking about the media sharing some of the blame for school shootings have strong 'No Way to Prevent This' vibes.
• Anaconda (2025): A stupid American comedy, and if you are looking for a stupid American comedy, you could do a lot worse. There are actually some funny scenes, and compared to most other comedies from the United States these years, there is put a bit of thought into having an actual manuscript. This is not to say that it is a good movie (it is not), but if you like stupid movies with Jack Black or Paul Rudd, there is a chance you will enjoy this one.
• Antonia (1995): I am on a journey to find good Dutch movies, and Antonia is definitely one of them. I have a theory that the way you can identify good Dutch movies is that they are not popular in the Netherlands. If a Dutch movie is a success in the Netherlands, especially a drama, you might as well skip it (and don't even think about watching romantic comedies). You can easily see that the movie is more than 30 years old, especially in the scenes dealing with physical violence, but aside from that, it has definitely stood the test of time.
• Beach Rats (2017): Where Call Me by Your Name makes you want to live your best life in Italy and Heated Rivalry makes you want to be an ice hockey player in Canada, Beach Rats does not make you want to be a Brooklyn teenager, and that is what I enjoy a lot about this movie. We follow an emotionally disturbed and repressed character dealing with his life, family, friends, sexuality, and drugs. My primary issue with the movie is that, like its main character, it does not really know where it is going, resulting in an unfocused and irrelevant ending.
• Breaking Away (1979): There are great 70s vibes to be found here. Watch it for the chill atmosphere and the wonderful cycling scenes. Beyond that, not much to be found in this movie. It is the first movie I watched that is directed by Peter Yates, and it does make you curious about his other movies (such as The Dresser from 1983).
• Burakku bokkusu daiarîzu (2024): A documentary following Shiori Itō's personal, public, and judicial investigation of her own case of sexual violence. It gives a good overview of the MeToo culture in Japan (or lack thereof), and it convincingly demonstrates how the police failed. There are certain parts of the movie that are lost in translation, and especially when it goes further into Shiori Itō's own reflections about her future and her parents view (maybe due to Japanese culture?), it becomes less interesting as we get closer to the end. This is not to devaluate these thoughts, but it takes away the focus from more relevant and systemic matters in the movie. Accordingly, while the subject matter is important, the documentary - alas - falls short by not focusing on the subject matter throughout.
• Cover-Up (2025): A documentary about the American journalist, Seymour Hersh. We follow his career from the coverage of the My Lai massacre and his work at The New York Times to the coverage of Abu Ghraib and his work at his Substack. There are some interesting reflections on how it is to be a journalist and work with sources, but I was missing more depth. Specifically, the documentary should either have zoomed in on a single case and go into much more detail, or be turned into a five-episode miniseries to be able to provide the depth the stories (and the stories behind the stories) require and deserve.
• Ghost World (2001): An odd comedy that is significantly better than most other comedies from the early 2000s (even better than most high school buddy comedies). If you are a fan of Steve Buscemi, this movie is a must watch.
• Good Fortune (2025): The movie is too superficial and it is not funny enough to simply work as a comedy (it is annoyingly American). It wants to be more than a typical American comedy, but at the end of the day it fails. It tries to be critical towards the gig economy with a strong late-stage capitalism awareness, but Aziz Ansari is, alas, no Ken Loach. This is sad as the people involved have been involved in great movies and shows in recent years, such as Aziz Ansari in Master of None, Keanu Reeves in John Wick, and Seth Rogen in The Studio.
• Good Luck to You, Leo Grande (2022): This one could potentially have worked better as a play than as a movie. We follow the conversations and encounters between two people over four meetings. The movie is too clean and the writing is one-dimensional, and only the final shot is showing some vulnerability. Some interesting dialogues here and there, and a great performance by Emma Thompson, but with a strong direct-to-streaming vibe (something that is the case for a lot of British post-COVID productions).
• Hababam Sinifi (1975): A Turkish comedy. I did not find the movie funny and I guess that a lot of the humour was lost in translation, but also to time. The data point to best illustrate this is that the average IMDb rating in Turkey for this movie is 9.4 whereas it is 7.9 in the US. You can safely ignore this one.
• Hamnet (2025): To see or not to see. I know my Hamlet well enough to find the premise and the core idea of this movie and the play within it far-fetched at best. The manuscript is not good, but the acting and the cinematography are great. However, yet another movie where we have to see Paul Mescal play a gloomy lad (Normal People, All of Us Strangers, Aftersun, etc.). It is also annoying that Max Richter has composed an original score, yet it ends with On The Nature Of Daylight. An OK movie, so no clear answer to whether you should see it or not.
• Heated Rivalry (2025): A drama about gay ice hockey players falling in love. This mini series got great ratings with all episodes having 9+ ratings on IMDb (and an episode with a 9.9 rating). It is a fine show but I do not get the hype, and I doubt I will pick up the second season when it is coming out.
• Heldin (2025): A Swiss movie following a nurse working in an understaffed hospital ward. The movie is predictable and there is nothing intense about any of the scenes. There is nothing new about the life with stress and empathy in a hospital setting, and the characters are all one-dimensional. Watch The Pitt instead.
• I Swear (2025): An emotional biopic about John Davidson, a guy with Tourette's syndrome. It is a fine and important movie but it is too self-aware about its own educational value and relevance. It feels more like a movie that will survive the test of time in classrooms to inform students about Tourette's syndrome rather than due to its artistic merits. As most biopics nowadays, it also suffers from not being able to cut out parts of the story that is not adding any value but making sure to hit all beats of the person's life.
• If I Had Legs I'd Kick You (2025): A stressful movie to watch (in a good way). The performance by Rose Byrne is great, and A$AP Rocky is also doing a good job. The plot is weak and is basically only about showing Rose Byrne's character in more and more chaotic situations. If you are looking for a comedy, do not watch this movie.
• Is This Thing On? (2025): Scenes from a comedy club. A romantic drama about a couple going through a divorce. Will Arnett is great in the movie, although it is difficult not to hear and think about BoJack Horseman when he is performing stand-up (which is not made any better by the fact that I have been rewatching a lot of episodes of BoJack Horseman lately). The movie is on the wrong side of two hours, and at the end of the day I am not convinced that the stand-up storyline added much to the main dynamic between the characters (which is the best thing the movie has going for itself).
• Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair (2025): Kill Bill works much better as a single movie than split into volume 1 and volume 2. It is by no means Quentin Tarantino's best movie, and it is most likely not in my top five Tarantino movies, but it is a classic. I do not care much for martial arts and the over-the-top kung fu, but some of the set pieces are iconic and visually stunning.
• Kärlek & anarki (2020): As most Nordic drama shows nowadays, this one is also about a career-driven woman trying to balance work life and family life and, ultimately, getting a divorce. There are some funny scenes here and there throughout the two seasons, but the laughs per minute is not high enough for this to be a good comedy. The drama is mostly captured in indifferent workplace dynamics and a stupid storyline with the protagonist's father. Only recommended to people who work in the publishing industry in Stockholm (which I, funnily enough, know a few people that do).
• La muerte de un burócrata (1966): A Kafkaesque story about a worker that dies and is buried with his union card, which is problematic for his family as they need the union card in order to deal with the bureaucracy. The movie is dedicated to, among others, Luis Buñuel and Akira Kurosawa. Alas, the movie starts out with the vibes of the latter director but increasingly adopts the style of the former. However, still a good movie.
• Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie (1972): A dream within a dream and a bit too much surrealism for my taste. It tries unapologetically to take the medium to its limits in terms of storytelling. I am glad that movies like this one exist, and as much as I wish I enjoyed this one, it is simply not for me. It is clearly a satire but it does not work well as a comedy today, making its playtime of 100 minutes feel extra long.
• Les glaneurs et la glaneuse (2000): There is so much to say about this documentary. It is brilliant art. It deals with everything from individual solitude and collective solidarity (and how they are often one and the same). There are so many metaphors in the movie, including the director as a gleaner, but without reducing the people being interviewed to caricatures (if anything, quite the opposite). Sure, the movie deals with recycling, property rights, ownership, nature, capitalism, etc., but it is at the end of the day art about people who are off the grid but on the grind in an, by all measures, 'inefficient' way. It is poetry and reflections on what it means to be a human (or, more aptly, an animal). A sensible reminder that the people dealing with stuff discarded by society should not themselves be discarded by society. A masterpiece.
• Listers: A Glimpse Into Extreme Birdwatching (2025): Two brothers spend a year getting into extreme birdwatching in the so-called Big Year contest (i.e., watching as many different birds as possible in the US within a calendar year). It is a funny movie (freely available on YouTube), and you actually learn a lot about birds and birdwatching. The best scenes are, interestingly, not about birdwatching but more about the people into birdwatching (similar to how, say, John Wilson is making documentaries).
• Living in the Shadow of World War II (2018): How was civilian life during World War II? This miniseries offers a good overview of the various aspects of how it was to live through World War II in the UK. The first episode is about food (rations), the second episode about safety (from bombings), and the third episode about culture. Each episode provides several interesting details that are usually missed in documentaries about the war.
• Louis Theroux: Inside the Manosphere (2026): I like Louis Theroux and I believe he is approaching this particular topic in a sensible manner. That being said, I am not sure I learned anything relevant about the manosphere from this documentary. Sure, I am not familiar with all of these people, but do I really learn anything from listening to what they have to say, or how they reflect (or are unable to reflect) about the questions being asked by Louis Theroux? From what I know there is no evidence showing that young men are becoming more misogynistic, and if anything, I am optimistic with regard to gender equality. This is not to say that the topic is not important or relevant for a documentary, but that it seems like to deal with a minority that will - luckily - stay a minority (and the better the world will get, on average, for men and women, the louder this minority will be).
• Marty Supreme (2025): Josh Safdie has made another great movie, almost as good as Uncut Gems and Good Time. The casting is near perfect. Timothée Chalamet, Gwyneth Paltrow, Tyler the Creator, and even Penn Jillette in a small role. The cinematography is near perfect. The plot is fast-paced and unpredictable, and funny (without being a comedy). You don't need to be into table tennis in order to enjoy the movie. If anything, the movie is about how it is not about the table tennis.
• Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005): Such a strange and lovely indie movie. Miranda July is a great writer and director, and especially the writing is eminent in this one. From the ASCII art to the soundtrack, everything is a bit off in the best possible way. Not a movie for everybody, but if you are looking for an eccentric indie movie from the mid-2000s, this one is a good pick.
• Metropolitan (1990): A brilliant dark comedy. This was my first exposure to Whit Stillman and I am a great fan. I do not get all the references, but there is a small personal victory in even getting a few of them for me. The dry, intellectual humour is present in each and every scene, and even the meta dialogue is funny (e.g., the discussion of UHB). I decided to watch Barcelona after having watched Metropolitan, and while Barcelona is a good movie, I will stick to Metropolitan as my main recommendation.
• Nous ne vieillirons pas ensemble (1972): A movie that in tone and style is closer to Bergman's Scener ur ett äktenskap than other French movies from the 70s, and that works well for this movie. We follow the destruction of a toxic relationship, mainly due to the insecurity of the protagonist. While certain scenes have not aged well, it is still worth checking out.
• Ocean with David Attenborough (2025): A good nature documentary as always when David Attenborough is involved. It does a good job in demonstrating the importance of the oceans for life on the planet, and it is always relevant to see the detrimental consequences of bottom trawling at industrial scale. However, the movie did not do a good job in finding a proper balance between nature and technology, and some of the scenes were reminiscent of Koyaanisqatsi rather than a traditional nature documentary. I am not necessarily against that, but it does not work well in a David Attenborough documentary.
• Project Hail Mary (2026): I was not expecting a comedy, I guess I should have known upfront that this was going to be the case, if for no other reason than it being directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller. I found the slapstick humour a bit too much, which is a shame because it is otherwise a good movie. It is a beautiful movie and I am happy that I caught it in IMAX. Ryan Gosling is good as always but not the right person for this type of character (unless you find it easy to believe that Ryan Gosling is a no-life loser with no friends or family).
• Reign Over Me (2007): This movie is one other reason to hate the September 11 attacks. There is a lot of stuff going on to hide the fact that it is superficial and toxic in its depiction of the characters. Needless to say, this movie has not aged well (from its depiction of mental health issues to false accusations). I think it also says a lot when the part that sucks the least is Adam Sandler.
• Rental Family (2025): A feel-good movie about the beauty of human connection. My main problem with this movie is that it believes that there is much more emotional depth to the characters than what is actually the case. It relies too heavily on somber music and unrealistic plot twists and turns. It is ironic that a movie that is all about the authenticity in human connections is devoid of any sincere emotion.
• Reprise (2006): The first feature film by Joachim Trier, and it shows. It is a good movie but not at the same level as his subsequent films (compare, for example, with Oslo, 31. august that came out five years after this one). There are a lot of energy and fun ideas at play in this movie, but it is also very much locked in its time in ways that his subsequent movies are not. Still worth watching though, especially if you are into his other movies.
• Skyscraper Live (2026): Alex Honnold is such a character and Free Solo is an amazing documentary. I am not sure what to think about Skyscraper Live. I enjoy the fact that this was actually broadcast live, but the execution was bad. The constant commentary was unnecessary, and I believe the main problem with this special is that Netflix was involved. It felt like an event that was made for second screening (a typical sign of everything coming out of Netflix these years with few exceptions). This would have been much better if it was without any commentary or all the spectacle.
• Taskmaster (2015): One of the best British game shows, if not the best. It is chill and over-the-top at one and the same time. A lot of the comedy comes from the editing, and while it looks like it is just a series of comedians being funny in the most effortless manner, it is obvious that a lot of work goes into making the show work. I can happily watch this show for the next many years to come. There are also other various national editions, including a Danish version, which I can only recommend not to watch (with more than 20 seasons of the UK version you will not run out of episodes anytime soon). Noteworthy, all episodes are available for free on YouTube.
• The Death of Yugoslavia (1995): A BBC documentary series about the Balkan wars. From 1995! This is as close in time to events as you can expect any documentary to come, and this one is full of interviews with the most relevant stakeholders in the war. It is truly an impressive documentary. Be prepared for the horrors of war and a lot of blood. The documentary is presenting things as they were, and it goes without saying that events such as the massacre in Srebrenica are disturbing, yet necessary, to know about.
• The King of Comedy (1982): A great collaboration between Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro. It is no Taxi Driver, but less can also do it. It is ridiculous that the IMDb rating for Todd Phillips' Joker is better than the IMDb rating of this movie. Not a must watch, but definitely recommended if you like Martin Scorsese.
• The Traitors UK (2022): Despite the seasons being very similar in terms of the structure and what to expect, there is a difference in the quality that all boils down to the contestants and problems with the format (in particular the ability to fail all the way to the top as a faithful). My preference is season 4 > season 2 > season 1 >> season 3. I enjoyed season 4 a lot more as I know one of the contestants that made it deep into the season. There should, all else equal, be around four to five traitors for the game to be equal (the square root of the total number of players), and in season 4 we saw four initial traitors (including the secret traitor), but the issue is that of course, not all things are equal.
• The War Zone (1999): A bleak movie dealing with abuse within a family. One of the movies from the 'best movie year', 1999, and it is easy to see how this one could go under the radar. It is not only the first movie directed by Tim Roth, but also the only movie directed by Tim Roth. This surprises me as the best thing about the movie is the direction, followed by the acting. It is a good movie, but not a great movie.
• Tickling Giants (2016): A cautionary tale of how democratic rights and freedoms can be subverted. Alas, just as relevant now as ten years ago, and even more so in Western countries. The documentary follows Egypt's Jon Stewart, Bassem Youssef, and the birth, life, and death of his show. I would have appreciated a bit more context and fewer one-liners.
• Titicut Follies (1967): Frederick Wiseman passed away the other day. I watched some of his movies a few years ago (e.g., National Gallery and At Berkeley), and while I was not necessarily impressed by any of the movies, I appreciated them for their stylistic minimalism and the focus on institutions and the people within them. I decided to watch his first movie, Titicut Follies, and I am not sure what to think of it. There are some truly disgusting scenes in this documentary, including a forced feeding, and the most disgusting part is how matter-of-factly it all is for everybody involved. It is a strong documentary but I am not sure I would recommend it to anyone.
• Vera Drake (2004): The more movies I watch from Mike Leigh, the more likely it is that I consider him my favourite director. Part of that is that his movies resonate more with me as I get older. A case in point is that when I watched Another Year around the time when it came out, I gave it a 3 out of 10. When I watched it the other day, it was a 9 out of 10. I watched Vera Drake for the first time now, and it is a great movie. There is so much empathy towards and between the characters, and the performance by Imelda Staunton is Oscar-worthy.
• Wild London (2026): There is nothing unique about London when it comes to animal life. The interesting part of this documentary is that London is a least likely case to find any animal life, and this creates a unique setting to explore the relationship between wildlife and city life. It is a good documentary but I did not like the sound editing and certain scenes smell a bit like NIMBY. I would also have enjoyed for the documentary not to be 100% animal-friendly and explore the life of pests in the city.
• Zodiac Killer Project (2025): A movie about a movie that never happened. The movie is much better than the true crime documentaries coming out these years, and I will much rather watch this movie than yet another documentary about the Zodiac Killer. It is more like a long essay than a documentary, and visually it is not particularly engaging (although I did enjoy the editing). The best thing about this movie is that it is 'boring' by design. That is, the movie is exploring how true crime documentaries pull you into a particular narrative with an internal logic in order to make them 'non-boring'. The approach pursued here is to reflect on how a book about the Zodiac Killer could be turned into a movie and outline several of the choices to make (including what to deliberately leave out). The thoughts on true crimes such as The Jinx, Paradise Lost, and Making a Murderer are interesting but not groundbreaking.
• Zootopia 2 (2025): I did not have strong expectations for the sequel (because it is a sequel), but it was actually good. A lot of jokes and twists and turns in the plot, and while at least 15 minutes too long, it is worth watching if you enjoyed the first one.

Books

• 140 Tips For Clean Code by Petri K. Silén: A lot of good advice on how to write clean code (both for beginners and experienced developers). There is a lot of basic advice on how to make sure you write good code when working with functions, classes, methods, etc., but also (timely) advice on AI-assisted development. That being said, not necessarily a recommendation. If you ask your LLM of choice to provide a list of tips for clean code I am quite sure it will cover a lot of this content (and giving the possibility for you to ask follow-up questions). In other words, I am not sure we will see a lot of books like this in, say, five years time.
• Barndommens gade by Tove Ditlevsen: A classic in Danish literature, and for good reasons. The book is full of descriptions of the life in poverty in Copenhagen in the 30s as well as the protagonist's inner life. Tove Ditlevsen was a great author and this book seems like a good place to start. Highly recommended.
• Basic Dutch: A Grammar and Workbook by Jenneke A. Oosterhoff: A great book on Dutch grammar. Despite the title I did not find it basic, and it is a book I will be able to go through again and again to pick up more Dutch grammar. There are many short chapters (including a whole chapter on the adverb 'er'), making sure that each chapter focuses on the essentials and targeted exercises. Recommended for people interested in Dutch grammar.
• Claude Code for Product Managers: Harnessing Agentic AI for Strategic Outcomes by Robin Jones: Will you become a better product manager from reading this book? I doubt it. The focus here is how to use agentic AI and integrate with the most popular tools of relevance for product managers (such as Jira, Slack, and Figma). There is much content in the book but a lot of it is space taken up by specs for AI agents in the form of Markdown text. My main concern with the book is that it will soon be outdated, if not already. There is so much happening with agentic frameworks these months (if not weeks and days), and I would be surprised if most of the examples in this book are relevant in, say, a year. More importantly, I doubt that the role of product managers will be similar to the role of product managers in the future, and accordingly, it is also potentially outdated in how it deals with the role, tools and responsibilities of product managers.
• Data Science For All by Hunter Glanz and Brennan Davis: This book is way too long in the worst possible way. It has all the trademarks of textbooks taking up space for the sake of increasing the number of pages. The more stock photos you see throughout the book, the more annoyed you become at the content. It is interesting to use both R, Python, and Excel throughout, but I would have preferred for this book to stick to either one tool or none at all.
• En fandens mand by Anders Haahr Rasmussen: This book is doing a good job at asking the right questions. A lot of interesting reflections on sex, gender roles, dating, etc. Anders Haahr Rasmussen is not shy to ask questions with sincere curiosity without adopting an 'I am just asking questions' attitude. The book not only could be shorter but also should have been shorter, especially by cutting out the interviews and getting straight to the points.
• En fortælling om at være træt by Anders Haahr Rasmussen: A personal essay about the author's experiences with being chronically tired and his attempts to fix it. We follow him from his interactions with the Danish healthcare system to his travels to India to explore alternative treatments. There are some good reflections on stress and the value of meditation, but I would have liked for him to go into much more detail with his experiences with (almost) not drinking alcohol anymore. Alas, not a recommendation.
• Fifty Places to Travel Solo: Travel Experts Share the World's Greatest Solo Destinations by Chris Santella, DC Helmuth, and Kate McCulley: There is nothing unique about any of the destinations shared here. I have been to several of these places and there is nothing about them that makes them more suited for solo travelling than non-solo travelling. I found the writing generic and the recommendations mediocre at best. It annoyed me that they recommend Nyhavn in Copenhagen as 'a preferred spot for indulging in people-watching.' This is pretty much the only place in Copenhagen I will not recommend for people-watching.
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling: One of the best books in the series. A remarkable story and it is easy to understand its appeal. It is a book published in the 21st century but it feels like it is from the 20th century. There is a certain level of conservatism throughout the Harry Potter universe, from the beginning all the way to the epilogue (where it is clear that the world is pretty much the same with just a new generation ready to go to Hogwarts). If you haven't already read the books, I guess there is no particular reason to pick them up now.
• Learning GitHub Copilot: Multiplying Your Coding Productivity Using AI by Brent Laster: Yet another book on how to use GitHub Copilot. I have read a few of these now and they cover a lot of the same topics, and while this one is (also) fine, there is not much new under the sun. It covers how to use Copilot in VS Code throughout the various chapters (when not showing how to work with GitHub Copilot on GitHub). Good content on MCP servers, test-driven development, and working with SQL queries. Too many screenshots and too much code. Better to find some good YouTube tutorials rather than pick up this or similar books.
• Python Illustrated: Not another boring Python book, learn programming the fun way by Maaike van Putten and Imke van Putten: An introductory book on Python for people getting into programming. I was expecting a lot of illustrations on the logic of loops, global and local scope, etc., but the illustrations are for the most part completely unrelated to Python and most of the content. The only purpose I can see of the illustrations is to make the text less intimidating, which I guess is working, but it is just taking up a lot of space. I really enjoyed the chapters on OOP (classes and inheritance), and the book is really good at introducing things in the most simple way possible. From that perspective, I can recommend the book. While it is refreshing to read a Python book in 2026 with almost no mention of generative AI, I would like to know if and why this is a deliberate choice. Also, I am not saying that any book on Python today should use uv, but I would prefer for introductory books to rely on pyproject.toml rather than requirements.txt.
• Store Kongensgade 23 by Søren Ulrik Thomsen: A book in two parts to the point where it feels like two different books. The first part, which is amazing, is full of interesting reflections on getting older and the memories you are left with and without. The second part is primarily focused upon psychiatric treatment, and while it of course is relevant for his life and memories, it is not at the same level as the first part of the book.
• The Future of Truth by Werner Herzog: I am a big fan of Herzog's documentaries (Grizzly Man from 2005 is a good place to start), and I was curious about what Werner Herzog has to say about the future of truth. This book did not really do anything for me, and it was surprisingly on brand. That is, if you were to ask a large language model to write a book about the future of truth with the mindset of Werner Herzog, this could pretty much be it. This is a bit ironic considering the actual content of the book, which might be the only thing you need to understand from this book in terms of the future of truth.
• The Many Deaths of Laila Starr by Ram V and Filipe Andrade: A graphic novel about Death having to live a mortal life on Earth. I did not care particularly much for the narrative (towards the end I ended up not caring at all), but it is visually stunning.