Things I loved in 2019 on Big screen/TV/Streaming, Podcasts and Music. The Guilty (Danish) is a beautifully acted, taut thriller. A demoted police officer assigned to call-dispatch gets an emergency call from a kidnapped woman. The call is suddenly disconnected, the search for the kidnapper begins.
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Some thoughts on why “low-brow” culture may save languages.
Leave a CommentHere are some films and podcast episodes that I liked in 2018. Sights (Film, TV, etc.) Bladerunner 2049 was a thought provoking movie and a well-deserved sequel to Bladerunner. Love per Square Foot was a cheerful and peppy urban love story set in Bombay. NetFlix has made a movie that Bollywood has forgotten how to make. Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell made by BBC boasts high production and some great acting by all the principal characters. The TV series is less-nuanced than Susannah Clarke’s book by the same name, i.e., the TV series is darker and misses the whimsical funny elements in the book, that are understandably harder to translate to screen. The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (season 1) is great…
Leave a Comment[A deviation from usual Operations Posts]. Star Wars is easily the second biggest cultural export of the United States. (Disney is No 1. So it seems natural that Disney eventually acquired the rights to Star Wars). Parents often want to share the excitement of the mythology of Star Wars with young kids. This is not easy for those who lived through the nostalgia of the 80s that was nearly corrupted by the tragedies of the 90s prequels. Such parents often ponder the following question: In what order do I introduce Star Wars to my kids? The following advice follows from my experience. (Caveat: I don’t claim to be the biggest fan of Star Wars, and the following idea is definitely…
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