The Checkout Counter #24
October 2024
Home by the Rotting Sea
Tótem
3 Faces
Film
  • Tótem, 2023really lovely cinematography and warm color palette to accompany a simple, bittersweet story. the end credits are super stylish, too.
    Drama. A seven-year-old prepares for her father's birthday party in the family's bustling and often chaotic household.
  • 3 Faces (سه رخ), 2018
    Drama. After receiving a suicide note from a girl whose family has forbidden her from pursuing acting, an actor and her filmmaker friend roadtrip to the girl's remote village to investigate.
Music
Books
  • A Taste for Poison, Neil Bradbury
    Nonfiction. Details eleven different poisons, how they kill, and who used them.
  • Ripley's Game, Patricia Highsmithi nearly cheered out loud when ripley showed up in the middle of the book lol…he was pretty absent until then. he's my favorite weird guy!

    there seems to be a general consensus that the latter ripley novels are significantly less homoerotic/queer/etc. than the first, but i think there's a lot of room to explore re: his relationship with jonathan, the picture framer. there are also a lot of offhand descriptions, like tom admitting he "had a love of house and home usually found only in women".

    if the ripley miniseries ever continues, i'd love to see this book adapted—considering netflix's track record, though, it seems unlikely. still, i can dream...!

    Crime, thriller. In the third installment of the Tom Ripley novels, the titular character becomes involved with a British picture framer and the Italian Mafia.
Comics
  • In Fair Verona, Val Wise
    Horror, fantasy. A pair of girls enter the service of the Princess of All Blood. One is there to be loved, the other tormented.
  • Home by the Rotting Sea, Otava Heikkiläotava heikkilä does it again…! his works have such an incredible sense of visual pace and character design. what a striking and lived-in world this story creates.
    Fantasy. Two human brides are gifted to a village of scarred giants.
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