A Profound Journey
Est. 1995
Articles published in 2025.
A CIA desk analyst blackmails his way into the field to avenge his wife, and chases his targets with a laptop rather than a Glock. Familiar revenge bones, a genuinely fresh hero, and a real pleasure for anyone who likes their spies clever. 8/10.
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Soderbergh and David Koepp turn a mole hunt into a marriage under polygraph, ninety-four lean minutes of grown-up espionage built around Fassbender and Blanchett. Talky, elegant, and quietly vicious. 8/10.
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Bong Joon Ho follows Parasite with an expendable space worker who keeps dying and getting reprinted. It is messy and overstuffed, but the satire bites and Pattinson is a delight. 8/10.
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Anthony Mackie inherits the shield in a Marvel film that wants to be a political thriller and only sometimes manages it. The reviews are rough, but the conspiracy plotting and Mackie's sincerity carry it further than the scores suggest. 8/10.
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Scott Derrickson drops two snipers, a chasm and a love story into one of the year's better-kept secrets, and the parts that should not work are exactly the ones that do. 8/10.
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Drew Hancock's debut takes the killer-robot premise and points it at the controlling boyfriend instead, a lean and nasty little science fiction thriller with a real idea under the blood. 8/10.
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An AI layer built into SiteEngine, the content system this site runs on. It helps with the editorial work, drafting, tagging and summarising, inside the CMS rather than in a separate tab. A private project.
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A small Go framework that wraps a program in the look of an old computer: fixed low resolution, a chunky border, the right palette and font. The scaffolding under several of my other projects.
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Claude Code forgets everything the moment you type /clear. Hydrate is the small local daemon that stops it forgetting, distilling each session and quietly re-injecting what matters into the next one.
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