The scariest part of Halloween is realizing it's November 1st and another month has come and gone. Candy devoured and costumes discarded, we shake off the last gusts of fall and look forward to a new set of events:
🎮Game Club
Venturing into the rural mountain terrain, we'll deliver the mail with only a few bruises to spare in Thousand Threads (Seamount, 2020). Warning: do not feed mail to bears.
🍿Movie Club
Having been thoroughly frightened by a month of horror, we turn to a different sort of passion and the power of love letters. First, taunts turn to confessions in Courier (Karen Shakhnazarov, 1986). Next, grief leads to unexpected connections in Love Letter (Shunji Iwai, 1995). Finally, a delivery mixup sparks romance in The Lunchbox (Ritesh Batra, 2013).
Unrelated, but I am also making good on my threat of an Indie Game: The Movie rewatch. You have been warned.
📖Book Club
Taking a break from packages and putting on an apron, we continue our readthrough of Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou (Hitoshi Ashinano, 1994-2006), plunging into chapters 25-52. I may have taken the breezy pacing a bit too to heart and fallen behind schedule, but where is the rush at the end of the world?
📼Anime Crimes
I thouroughly failed (suceeded?) in watching any anime in October, but we now finally have a date for checking out the three part OVA, Gunsmith Cats (Takeshi Mori, 1995-1996). Anime WILL return and there's nothing you or anyone else can do about it.
And as a reminder, we our continuing our Final Fantasy XIII long play. This month we'll get through chapters 7, 8, and 9, which might seem like most of the game if I was a fool.