James Bareham

Bullet Train is loud, funny, violent, beautifully crafted, and utterly bonkers. I adore it Sometimes you just want to watch a great dumb fun movie over and over, and that's totally OK.

I'm glad @happicamp.bsky.social makes time to write about his favorite books and movies. I always come away from them with a new wrinkle in my opinion of the work. It doesn't hurt that his art is always killer, too.

The whole movie is so beautifully crafted. Everything seems so deliberate and considered.

What Is Fictosexuality? (Tanja Välisalo)

If you've been meaning to catch up on the many Roblox controversies (child predators, AI-moderation, lawsuits), skip to the the 49-minute mark of the latest Post Games

The brilliant
@nicolecarpenter.bsky.social
crams years of info into 15 minutes.

open.spotify.com/episode/3zWm...

Thanks (as always) to @ohnorosco.bsky.social for the edits and for his editor's note: Bullet Train is the perfect 'Saturday afternoon basic cable movie.' Damn right

Bullet Train is loud, funny, violent, beautifully crafted, and utterly bonkers. I adore it Sometimes you just want to watch a great dumb fun movie over and over, and that's totally OK.

Sometimes you need a little escapism. And sometimes you just want to watch a great dumb fun movie over and over, and that's totally OK mbh4h.substack.com/p/bullet-tra...

A gritty, high-contrast red and black graphic for the "Post Games" podcast. The image features a woman dual-wielding handguns, surrounded by reaching zombie hands and distressed white typography.

I’ve been having a blast making art for Post Games, but this week’s episode was an unbridled opportunity to dial it up to 11: @plante.bsky.social’s interview with Resident Evil director, Paul W.S. Anderson. Listen to show on patreon.com/cw/PostGames

I mocked it up, and I was right: this gorgeous design looks so much more Porsche than Ferrari. A Jony Ive / LoveFrom ultra-limited edition Taycan would be sicker than a sick thing that’s really sick

Ferrari’s first EV will have an interior designed by Jony Ive Is this the real Apple car?

I’m a huge Jony Ive fan, but I’m sorry, this interior belongs in a Porsche or a Merc, not a Ferrari www.theverge.com/transportati...

Mistook this for an Onion headline

the wind chill is -28 F. That's it, that's the tweet

A History of Dragon Quest (and Why To Try It Now) How the creators of Dragon Quest spent decades building to this moment

I blogged about the decades-long push to make Dragon Quest a mega-hit in the US and Europe, from Nintendo giving away 500k copies of the original to the *multiple* remakes of Dragon Quest 7.

Plus: where to start.

David Bowie - I'm Afraid of Americans (Official Video) [4K] YouTube video by David Bowie

Posted without comment youtu.be/LT3cERVRoQo?...

The Brilliance and the Badness of “The Sun Also Rises” Although Ernest Hemingway’s novel makes positive claims about what one should be—brave, admiring of nature and grace—its architecture is held up primarily by hatred.

OMG this art! www.newyorker.com/books/second...

Tesla discontinuing Model S and Model X to make room for robots So long!

JFC. Pitching that ‘now's the time to buy these cars because we’re going to stop making them to make robots’ is the most blatantly desperate marketing initiative I have ever heard www.theverge.com/transportati...

Sony announces its first turntables in years Options for new and existing vinyl fans.

The great vinylfication continues... www.theverge.com/news/865333/...

Board the Mothership. You're just in time. A couple weeks from now, on January 26, 2026, we'll be launching the full version of our new gaming website, Mothership, which aims to analyze games specifically through the...

less than a week left to get a lifetime 15% off your subscription price for mothership.blog! what is mothership.blog, you may very well be asking? well go to the URL and find out. if you follow me here, you will like it

Reading, Writing And Arithmetic by The Sundays on Apple Music Album · 1990 · 10 Songs

Listening to more albums in their entirety rather than just playlists. This afternoon's album: 'Reading, Writing and Arithmetic' by The Sundays (fun fact: I was friends with Harriet Wheeler at school. Last time we met in Bristol, she told me she was starting a band) music.apple.com/us/album/rea...

Adapting Life into a Video Game (Meredith Gran) Perfect Tides: Station to Station recaptures life in New York in 2003

This week, you'll finally be able to play the magnificent Perfect Tides: Station to Station.

But first, you should listen to this interview with the game's creator @meredithgran.com about the rise of memoir games, recreating the lost NYC of 2003, and, of course, Ecks vs. Sever.

Spoiler-free!

So sorry Ash

A staged group photo of actors on a theater set for "Sunset Boulevard." Faith Brown and the cast are captured in a single frame, holding dramatic positions under theatrical lighting.

Inspired by "The Mincefluencer" essay in the NYTimes, I’ve been diving down the rabbit hole of my theater photography days in London. I think this is my favorite: Sunset Boulevard starring Faith Brown. This is a single frame—no compositing; just the actors holding their positions for the camera.

So glad to see more ex-Polygon peeps building their own media brands. Huge congrats to @midimyers.com and @zoehhannah.com on the launch of Mothership

Why on Earth Have I Seen the Same Broadway Show 13 Times? An Investigation.

Confessions of a Mincefluencer. Absolutely superb essay by Taffy Brodesser-Akner in today's @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/m...

hi! i'm co-founding a new gaming website with my former polygon colleague @zoehhannah.com. it's called mothership.blog. i made it for someone like me... the kind of website i always wished we had in our space. watch the video to learn more :D

Mothership and a History of Women in Games Media A new gaming website?! In this economy?!

if you want MORE details about @zoehhannah.com's & my vision for @mothership.blog, listen to our guest appearance on our former boss (former polygon EIC) @plante.bsky.social's podcast Post Games. we talk about our history in the space & our dreams for its future postgame.substack.com/p/mothership...

Reading Klara and the Sun in the year of ubiquitous AI Kazuo Ishiguro’s robot doesn’t crave humanity or want to take your job; it just wants to be a good friend.

Reading all the news about robots and AI coming out of CES 2026 has me thinking more and more about the "post-employed" in 'Klara and the Sun.'

Kazuo Ishiguro nailed it: mbh4h.substack.com/p/klara-and-...

Boston Dynamics’ Tesla Bot rival Atlas will start building Hyundai cars in 2028 Is Atlas coming for our jobs?

Boston Dynamics’ Atlas robot is soon destined to be working alongside humans on the Hyundai production line.https://www.theverge.com/news/853973/hyundai-boston-dynamics-atlas-robot-factory-2028

Happy 85th birthday to Hayao Miyazaki ♡

I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer