🎥 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 Banshees of Inisherin, 2022 - ★★★★
If you saw Colin and Brendan in their last outing .. which btw was very good … then this might catch you by surprise. Personally I love ‘little movies “ like this - the Brits and the Irish do so very well … this is no exception. Great dialogue. Beautiful scenery. Stonking cast and acting. If you … like me … saw a couple of trailers, you will likely be inspired to watch. I was. I wasn’t disappointed .. but make no mistake this is not a light movie. It is dark. It is humorous. It is great.
🎥 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.
Why is there no RSS emoji?
Not to do a @pratik on you @danielpunkass … I know somewhere in your pocket you haven’t forgotten improved filtering in Mars Edit 😀
AND .. have you ever thought of adding in some kind of ‘bulk’ edit of posts.
E.g. Highlight 25 posts - allocate all to ‘category x’.
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 …
New Year sort out and just rediscovered this ….
Rishi Sunak considered union ban for thousands of key staff – leaked emails.
He really has no clue does he?
January 8th.
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From an ‘old’ ( in both senses of the word ) friend.
‘Bakersfield is ‘embarrassed’ by McCarthy’. But they voted for him!
The family of the original ‘Joe’ must be truly embarrassed for their family name. None of this would have happened under Joe’s watch. He’d have files on the eejits and wouldn’t be afraid to use them.
I won’t be reading it … but I have a feeling that Harry’s new book has the most appropriate title in the history of biographies.
So now 6 year olds are carrying.
Dear Apple … you clearly understand I blocked the channel, so why are you still showing it to me?
