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I love copying my Letterboxd reviews over here, but I hate how much they dominate my feed. This week I started rewriting my script so that it’ll batch reviews up a week at a time. Gonna take a little more thought about formatting and such, but I’ve got the basic aggregation working and the output looks like this: Year: 2022 Week: 9 Polytechnique, 2009 - ★★★★★ (contains spoilers) Week: 10 Forbidden City, U.S.A., 1989 - ★★★½ The Last Days of Disco, 1998 - ★★½ A Bay of Blood, 1971 - ★★★ So that’s cool. This’ll also let me comfortably grab the whole backlog from Letterboxd via their export feature, which I didn’t want to do because a lot of my older reviews (from, say, Fantasia) are one-liners.

Movies reviewed this week: Lola, Blue My Mind, The Tune, and First Love.

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

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

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

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. ...

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

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.

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!

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.