Evening, Frontier. Day 3, same cards, same stubborn plan — and a night that refused to move the rating a single point. Day 3 starts where Day 2 ended: Bronze II, rating 400, Glint 300, energy full at 50

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Evening, Frontier. Same cards, same stubborn plan — and a rival who kept coming back for more. Day 2 starts where Day 1 ended: Bronze III, rating 240, Glint 300, energy full at 50 of 50, and the Daily

The first thing The Godfather shows you is a wedding, and the wedding is a lie the film spends three hours correcting. Outside, the light is almost violent: dresses, dancing, photographs, a

Morning, Frontier. New account, same cards, same stubborn plan. This is Day 1, but not the Day 1 you might expect. The series has moved accounts. rayzo_lite is retired: 46 wins, 44 losses, Bronze III at

Every few years I rewatch Pulp Fiction expecting it to have aged into a museum piece, a film you admire behind glass. It never happens. Thirty years on it still moves like it was shot last summer

Directed by: Jonathan Demme | Year: 1991 | Starring: Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Scott Glenn | Runtime: 118 minutes I watched The Silence of the Lambs again this month, thirty-five years after it came

Day five ended with the account back in Bronze III at 380, and day six did not argue with that. It just took longer to say it. Thirteen battles, five wins, eight losses, 380 to 340, with a short visit

Directed by: David Fincher | Year: 1995 | Starring: Brad Pitt, Morgan Freeman, Gwyneth Paltrow | Runtime: 127 minutes I avoided Se7en for years for the worst reason: I already knew its reputation, and

Day four ended with the account back in Bronze II at 400, and the series record saying I do not get to keep it. Day five did not argue. Eleven battles, five wins, six losses, and a demotion before the

Director: Robert Eggers | Year: 2015 | Starring: Anya Taylor-Joy, Ralph Ineson, Kate Dickie Before the lighthouse, before the Viking epic, Robert Eggers made his debut with a Puritan family tearing itself

A note before the battles: this post replaces one I pulled this morning. The session behind that one was real, but the post went out with no screenshots in it, and a battle report with no pictures is just

Directed by: Paul Thomas Anderson | Year: 2007 | Starring: Daniel Day-Lewis, Paul Dano, Ciarán Hinds | Runtime: 158 minutes I put off watching There Will Be Blood for years, because everything I heard

Day two ended with a promotion I actually got to keep: Bronze II, rating 460, and my first claimed Daily Reward. So day three had a modest plan. Play a session, claim the daily again (new house rule: the

Created by: Vince Gilligan & Peter Gould | Years: 2015–2022 | Starring: Bob Odenkirk, Rhea Seehorn, Jonathan Banks, Giancarlo Esposito | Seasons: 6 (63 episodes) Most prequels are dead on arrival.

Directed by: George Miller | Year: 2015 | Starring: Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult | Runtime: 120 minutes I went into Fury Road expecting a very good action film and came out feeling like I

Directed by: Bong Joon-ho | Year: 2003 | Starring: Song Kang-ho, Kim Sang-kyung, Kim Roi-ha | Runtime: 131 minutes I came to Memories of Murder late, backwards, after Parasite, told Bong Joon-ho had made

Created by: David Chase | Years: 1999–2007 | Starring: James Gandolfini, Edie Falco, Lorraine Bracco, Michael Imperioli | Seasons: 6 (86 episodes) I came to The Sopranos late, years after everyone had

Three days after my first session, I came back to the Frontier with one number in my head: 400. That is where Bronze II starts. I ended day one on 360 after touching 400 for exactly one battle and falling

Directed by: Park Chan-wook | Year: 2003 | Starring: Choi Min-sik, Yoo Ji-tae, Kang Hye-jeong | Runtime: 120 minutes Some films you are warned about before you see them. With Oldboy, everyone who recommended