Burning

This is the second part in a short series of reviews of Murakami adaptations, and contains spoilers for both the short story and film adaptation of “Burning”. I would recommend either reading or watching before reading this. Thank you. Lee Chang-dong, a South Korean auteur and one of the leading members of the Korean New Wave, …

Tony Takitani

This is the first part in a short series of reviews of Murakami adaptations, and contains slight spoilers for both the short story and film adaptation of "Tony Takitani". I would recommend either reading or watching before reading this. Thank you. Published in The New Yorker in April 2002, “Tony Takitani” isn’t one of Japanese …

toatali’s 2022

Most years I dedicate separate posts to my year end round up, but I’m going to ditch that for a slightly more holistic post this year – mainly because, and I’m being totally honest here - I didn’t watch nearly enough TV or play enough video games to separate them into their own lists this …

Elden Ring

This post contains full spoilers for Elden Ring, as well as minor spoilers for Dark Souls, Bloodborne and Sekiro. Thanks for reading! I think any proper review of Elden Ring has to take into account, at least in some way, the writer’s relationship to the previous games of FromSoftware. This is because, as I will hopefully convince you …