Movie Reviews: 5/30/2022 to 6/5/2022

Categories: Reviews

Movies reviewed this week: This Sporting Life and Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer.

June 5, 2022 · 1 min · Bryant

Movie Reviews: 5/23/2022 to 5/29/2022

Categories: Reviews

Movies reviewed this week: The King of Marvin Gardens, Three Colors: Red, and Funny Games.

May 29, 2022 · 3 min · Bryant

Movie Reviews: 5/16/2022 to 5/22/2022

Categories: Reviews

Movies reviewed this week: A Room in Town, Love and Anarchy, and Chip ’n Dale: Rescue Rangers.

May 22, 2022 · 2 min · Bryant

AEW Hard Eight

Categories: Wrestling

I was chatting the other day about how I’d book an AEW round-robin tournament and I thought I’d expand on the subject somewhat here. Background: most US pro wrestling tournaments are single elimination. There’s a bracket, and if you lose you’re out. In contrast, the big Japanese promotions tend to run round robin tournaments, where you earn points for wins, and the wrestlers with the most points face off in the finals. ...

May 21, 2022 · 3 min · Bryant

Movie Reviews: 5/9/2022 to 5/15/2022

Categories: Reviews

Movies reviewed this week: The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, Purple Noon, Petite Maman, and La Haine.

May 15, 2022 · 4 min · Bryant

Movie Reviews: 5/2/2022 to 5/8/2022

Categories: Reviews

Movies reviewed this week: The Decameron, Hopscotch, It’s Always Fair Weather, The Sweet Hereafter, The American Soldier, and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.

May 8, 2022 · 6 min · Bryant

A Lot Went Wrong: 2016 Edition

Categories: Politics

It is not very useful to argue this shit on Twitter but that’s what blogs are for, right? Anyone who says that Clinton lost because of Russia is wrong. Anyone who says that Clinton lost because she ran a bad campaign is wrong. Anyone who says that Clinton lost because of Bernie is wrong. You’re all wrong. A lot of things happened and I don’t think any of them shift the tide on their own. Here’s stuff that happened in no particular order of importance!

May 4, 2022 · 3 min · Bryant

Letterboxd Movie Reviews, Part 2

Categories: Navel Gazing

My code is basically working, including spoiler protection and some other fun stuff. It’s more complex than it needs to be since I’m also saving entries to a database, plus it includes a lot of Letterboxd specific processing. Oh, and I’m using basic auth because I’m lazy. Possibly I’ll clean it up and release it soon; I’d just want to make it more of a generic RSS feed to WordPress engine.

May 3, 2022 · 1 min · Bryant

Movie Reviews: 4/25/2022 to 5/1/2022

Categories: Reviews

Movies reviewed this week: The Gleaners and I, The Gleaners and I: Two Years Later, Shadow in the Cloud, and We’re All Going to the World’s Fair.

May 1, 2022 · 3 min · Bryant

Letterboxd Movie Reviews

Categories: Navel Gazing

I’m experimenting with posting my Letterboxd reviews here, since eventually you have to learn your lesson about hosting your own content. We’ll see how it goes. I’d prefer to filter out the ratings without reviews.

April 30, 2022 · 1 min · Bryant