The Checkout Counter #15
January 2024
Boyz n the Hood, 1991
In the Soup, 1992
In Girum, BenyDanette
Film
- In the Soup, 1992
Comedy, drama. An aspiring filmmaker funds his first movie with the help of an eccentric criminal. - Blank City, 2010
Documentary. Independent filmmakers and the art they created in the dilapidated downtown of 1970s New York. - Boyz n the Hood, 1991
Drama, crime. A boy is sent to live with his father in the Crenshaw neighborhood of Los Angeles. Police surveillance and gun violence haunt his adolescence.
Music
- The Very Best Of, John Cooper Clarke
Alternative - The Boy and the Heron (Original Soundtrack), Joe Hisaishi
Original score
Books
- The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ, Philip Pullman
Historical fiction, fantasy. The Virgin Mary gives birth to twins.
Games
- hlina, sukinapan
Point & click. Find and feed three pets in a surreal house. - In Girum, BenyDanette
Binksi, interactive fiction, horror. Investigate the unfinished games of a fictional developer. - Messages From the Universe Graveyard, KADW
Interactive fiction, puzzle. Explore a dead MMO and leave messages for others to find. - THE PHOTOGRAPHER, isyourguy
Interactive fiction, horror. A photographer appears in the laneways of the suburbs.
Articles & essays
- Being-in-the-Room Privilege: Elite Capture and Epistemic Deference, Olúfémi O. Táíwò