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Added to the film diary: The Fisher King Terry Gilliam, 1991, ★★½ The Ring Gore Verbinski, 2002, ★★½ Tagged: April 2026 Reply via email [...]
Rob Weychert
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The Ring Two 🔗
Hideo Nakata, 2005, ★ I was pretty unkind to The Ring when it came out in 2002, going as far as to make regrettable use of the R-word, and upon [...]
Entries logged without comment for the week ending 4/18 🔗
Added to the film diary: A Woman Under the Influence John Cassavetes, 1974, ★★★★ Danzig: Legacy Mark Brooks, 2015 Berlin Express Jacques Tourneur, 19 [...]
Entries logged without comment for the week ending 4/11 🔗
Added to the film diary: Remote Control Jeff Lieberman, 1988, ★★ Tagged: April 2026 Reply via email [...]
🔗 Why do people kick Uber Eats robots? 🔗
Philly being Philly: Within the first three weeks of the delivery robots’ arrival in Philly, videos emerged of people sitting on them, graffitiing the [...]
Tiptoes 🔗
Matthew Bright, 2002 “I’m not mad, just bewildered,” says Kate Beckinsale about halfway through Tiptoes, a deeply weird cinematic act of little [...]
Entries logged without comment for the week ending 4/4 🔗
Added to the film diary: The Band’s Visit Eran Kolirin, 2007, ★★★½ Primal Fear Gregory Hoblit, 1996, ★★★ Wall Street Oliver Stone, 1987, ★★½ Point of [...]
🔗 Endgame for the Open Web 🔗
Anil Dash makes the case that we’re running out of time to save the last vestiges of the open web from the big-tech robber barons’ multifaceted (but m [...]
Closed on Sundays 🔗
Yesterday, for the first time, I closed my site. Any page you visited turned you away with this message: This site is closed on Sundays. I’m trying to [...]
Weimar/Nazi/evangelical films 🔗
A watch list for progressive masochists from Becca Rothfeld’s “The MAGA Theory of Art” in Art in America. Just as Weimar and Nazi films pandered to wh [...]