Film

2022 - My Year in Review

Wed, Dec 21, 2022 - 1700 Words

A post about my own personal 2022 - financial situation, GTD, and downtime. Personal Finances The Tools In March of this year, I started using ledger to track my finances. It works perfectly.
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Cruella

Sun, Jun 13, 2021 - 800 Words

Thoughts on Cruella (2021, Craig Gillespie) I watched this last weekend and thoroughly enjoyed it. It has plenty of obvious flaws, the biggest being that it doesn’t make any sense as a prequel.
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Gone Baby Gone

Sat, May 1, 2021 - 1000 Words

Dir: Ben Affleck, 2007 Gone Baby Gone, released in 2007, was Ben Affleck’s directorial debut. It’s a crime/noir film about a missing child. I enjoyed the film a lot. It gets to the heart of one of the central tropes in a lot of classic noir films - the moral ‘purity’ of the P.
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Nomadland

Sun, Apr 25, 2021 - 1700 Words

Dir: Chloe Zhao - 2020 A beautiful and sad film about grief. It’s kind of a ‘revisionist revisionist’ western. The main character, Fern (Francic MacDormand), leaves her home following her husbands death and the literal ‘closing down’ of her mining town after the mine shuts its doors.
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