Jason Soto: The Blog

Welcome to a new written series, Horror from A to 24, where I take a look at a horror movie released and/or produced by A24. Going in no particular order, watching whatever is available to me, and how I'm feeling. Also, I've seen a few of these before and a couple I'm in no hurry to revisit.  Anyway, Men ! Amirite?! I didn't know anything about this going in, besides it was a little weird (now an understatement), it was made by Alex Garland, and it appeared to "have something to say".  The movie follows Harper, a woman whose husband killed himself following a violent argument because she wanted a divorce. Harper rents a small two story cottage out in the countryside in England somewhere. She meets Geoffrey, the guy who is renting out the cottage to her. He seems nice enough if not a bit awkward.  Harper then walks around the countryside, finding a echo-y tunnel, until she is inexplicably terrified by what appears to be a child coming toward her. Sure he's ...

(For those of you new here, I use to do a feature here called Trailer Tuesday where I post a movie trailer that strikes my interest on Tuesday's.) I've had this novel for a few years and kept meaning to get around to reading it. I even tried to submit it for my podcast network's book club show, but since there's no horny dragons in it, it never wins. I guess I'm gonna have to read it sooner than later.  -Jason

  Man, I don't even know if people still do BLOGS anymore. Do people even still write down thoughts and share them to strangers on the Internet? That's what TikTok is, right? (I also have a TikTok, I literally joined TikTok the day it was supposedly going away and was lucky enough not to uninstall it from my phone. Anyway, follow me there !) But I never hear about BLOGS anymore. It's so old fashioned. People don't READ anymore.  Well, maybe it's time to restart a blog because I've always been late to popular trends. YOLO! I honestly haven't thought about this blog in years but lately I been thinking about writing. More specifically, MY writing. You see, I'm working on a book. I've been writing this since 2018, maybe 2019. Not continually, just off and on during those years. Middle of 2024 I decided it was high time I get the fucking thing published so I willed myself to sit down and write the rest of it. And on Christmas Day 2024, I wrote the final p...