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.
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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.
Movies reviewed this week: Becket, Lost Bullet 2, Up in the Air, Mr. Turner, Breaking News, and Dirty Ho.
Pitchfork dug deep for this review of Harry Smith’s Anthology of American Folk Music, Vol. 1-3. Cool for the music but also cool for the esoterica. Anyone who claimed to be Crowley’s kid and had a passion for folk music is worth investigating in my book.
Alejandro Galindo seems like a really interesting director. A fair amount of his movies are available on the commercial-based streaming services. I wonder if these weren’t an influence on Roma?
Speaking of directors, Soderbergh’s 2022 yearly media consumption list is up. Someone on Letterboxd made a more convenient list of just the movies, which is handy, but I also like reading through the full stream. (Hm, four views of The Killer? I bet that’s the upcoming Fincher movie rather than John Woo.)
The always insightful J. D. Corley made me want to buy Call of Cthulhu 7th edition with this blog post. It’s just some tips for running the game, but what is this Bout of Madness mechanic? Is that really how it’s written or is that Corley being smart and extending the rulebook in useful ways? Suppose I gotta find out.
Have a 60-odd page PDF about management techniques from Javier Grillo-Marxuach, show runner and writer. OK, it’s really about show running, but it’s interesting how much of this translates directly into smart management techniques. Particularly for director-level managers.
Movies reviewed this week: The Long Goodbye, The Grand Budapest Hotel, La Chinoise, Night Ride, An Irish Goodbye, The Red Suitcase, Le Pupille, Ivalu, Heroes of the East, and The Hitch-Hiker.
Movies reviewed this week: Cosmos, Sissi, My Man Godfrey, Deep End, Walking a Tightrope, Sawdust and Tinsel, Crippled Avengers, Raw Deal, and They Live by Night.
I launched a new online campaign this week and with the consent of the players, I recorded the session for later reference. (One of them wrote a great summary, but it’s still nice to have the recording.) My original plan was to use Whisper to get a transcription but it turns out the built in Google Meet captioning system is plenty good enough. I did give Whisper a shot anyhow, and Whisper’s quality was higher, but the thing about Google Meet is that it adds speaker information to the transcriptions which is a huge difference.
Google One will cost you ten bucks a month, which gets you Google Meet sessions longer than an hour and transcripts, among other benefits. Worth it to me since I can afford it and I don’t like using my work Zoom for personal stuff, but YMMV.
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