🖋️ LongForm
Want to reduce the noice and just focus on things with a little more meat - the this category is for you. Like so much on this site we have a ‘WIP’ as i take some out - and put some in - but safe for at least starting in 2026.
Great ‘Liitle’ Movies ‘From’ The ‘British Isles’
You know what I’m talking about.
🎥 Everything Everywhere All at Once, 2022 - ★★★★
One of those very different, really excellent movies. Don’t miss it.
I’m Going To Need Some Convincing Before I Watch These
Movies that seem to be popular … but something doesn’t sit right … for me at least.
🎥 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, 2004 - ★★★★
It’s a long way from Ace Ventura! Great movies.
🎥 The French Dispatch, 2021 - ★★★★
Wes Anderson Hasn’t Changed With ‘The French Dispatch.’ And That’s Perfectly Fine.It was on my ‘to watch’ list even before I read this;
> “But the most endearing thing about Wes Anderson is that he’s a hopelessly romantic filmmaker, and these worlds he creates clearly mean a lot to him. His latest film, The French Dispatch, is a love letter certainly—to journalism, to writers, to art in general and filmmaking specifically—and rather than change or adapt in the way some want to see, he gloriously doubles down on his style, making for his most maximalist, hyper-imaginative film yet.”
🎥 The Hitman's Bodyguard, 2017 - ★★★★
If you are thinking about watching the sequel - watch this one instead.
🎥 Mrs Lowry & Son, 2019 - ★★★½
Slow and gentle and worth curling up with if you in the right frame of mind.
🎥 The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse, 2022 - ★★★★
Lovely - just lovely - with occasional cringeworthy self help one liners.
🎥 The Da Vinci Code, 2006 - ★★★★
Yes it is a yarn and the book is badly written (though I still turned the pages VERY quickly), this is the movie - and was a good one.
Calling JP Morgan out - like I said I would 6 months ago ...
I posted this doozy on June 2nd - noting that I would come back to it at the year end because it smelt of horse shit. (If you don’t want to click through - in a nutshell JPMorgan predicting that 2022 was going to be just fine).
Here I am back ….
2022 was the worst year for the S&P 500 since the 2008 financial crisis. While the markets usually finish up, down years can happen. Last year was one of those rare times.
From Visual Capitalist:
Now THAT is a sea of red - and take out Healthcare and Energy and you got nothing.
A few specifics …
Drafts AND Pinboard
IF you use Drafts and Pinboard and you want to get your links out of Pinboard - well - the mighty @Agiletortoise has thought of that and just published a new action …. here.
Works beautifully.
Now I have 13,259 drafts in my archive folder (don’t judge). Next step is to work out how to bulk export those drafts to a folder on the hard drive, so that I can create a new Obsidian vault..
Any and all ideas welcome.
I have done a bit of searching on Greg’s site - but not found anything yet.
(Then again I am perfectly capable of opening a fridge and not see the milk on the shelf right in front of my eyes.)
🎥 Amsterdam, 2022 - ★★★★
Been on my list since it came out and was not what I expected. Took 15 to 20 minutes to recalibrate. But I did. Really good. If I closed my eyes, the audio and dialogue reminded me of a Wes Anderson project (close your eyes .. the visuals are nothing like Wes. Bale was great .. at time channeling Peter Falk’s ‘Columbo’ … or is that just me?
🎥 The Power of the Dog, 2021 - ★★★★
It just popped up as a ‘why not watch’ kind of alert … I had. Very good.
🎥 Don't Look Up, 2021 - ★★★
I resisted watching this for a while … asked on the trailers … It was all right … but the cheesy trailers are a clue.
🎥 Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, 2022 - ★★★
It was better than the first in the series! Maybe I’m just not the target audience.
