Movies reviewed this week: No Bears, Rye Lane, Sharper, Images from the Playground, Body Double, Tai-Chi Master, The Intruder, and Three Colours: Red.
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Movies reviewed this week: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Cam, Rebel Without a Cause, To Joy, The Autopsy of Jane Doe, Kidnap Syndicate, John Wick: Chapter 2, La Cérémonie, and Summer Interlude.
Movies reviewed this week: Dressed to Kill, Enys Men, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, The Match Factory Girl, How to Blow Up a Pipeline, The Tarnished Angels, Pillow Talk, White Material, and The Stone Tape.
Movies reviewed this week: A Ship Bound For India, Soul, Sicario, Inland Empire, John Wick, and The Bird with the Crystal Plumage.
Movies reviewed this week: The Fall, The Italian Connection, Smiles of a Summer Night, Tron, There’s Always Tomorrow, Crisis, John Wick: Chapter 4, Kadaicha, All I Desire, and The Boss.
Movies reviewed this week: Bridge of Spies, Burn Out, Triangle of Sadness, Brotherhood of the Wolf, One Hundred and One Nights, Estonia Dreams of Eurovision!, Witchhammer, and The Last of Sheila.
Movies reviewed this week: The Slumber Party Massacre, Thing, Robin Redbreast, Pickpocket, Nosferatu the Vampyre, Return to Seoul, Four Days in July, The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, The Proposition, and Police Story 3: Super Cop.
I’ve lived in big modern apartment complexes with decent courtyards, but this post is on target despite the existence of exceptions. And even my apartment courtyard was a restricted access area, only open to apartment residents.
I spend a lot of time thinking about back to office, hybrid work, remote work, and so on. As is usually the case, Charity Majors has good thoughts on this. Her company is fully remote and distributed, and I believe that was true even before the pandemic; like many of us, she’s found that you still need that physical presence from time to time. Here’s how she does it.
I bought and read this dude’s book on Bahamian wrestling. It is incredibly niche and if you don’t like wrestling history as much as I do, you don’t need it — just read the article. It’s easy to write this kind of thing off as an artifact of the days before the Internet, and in some ways, yes. On the other hand, I know about a ton of little wrestling promotions in surprising places that are active right now; the world is not so small that you can’t still be surprised and delighted if you look.
Tubi is a home for low budget black film! Cool!
Movies reviewed this week: Women Talking, Caliber 9, The Maiden’s Tune, The Living Dead Girl, and Onibaba.
Movies reviewed this week: Undisputed III: Redemption, It Happened One Night, Before Sunrise, Full Time, The Bell Boy, Ward, Leptirica, and The Velvet Vampire.