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queen's gambit (2020)

on the plus side this was well acted, exciting, endearing, fun, enjoyable, so that overall really well worth the seven ish hours - but on the minus side the story was predictable and there wasn't enough actual chess in it. 

we live in a society by Gabriel Winint

this essay, which can be found at https://nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/we-live-in-a-society, is a very long, detailed, and well thought out look at the state of political organizing in relation to contemporary social groups and networks, though it has a very difficult and off-putting digression into theory in the middle sections. 

a serious man (2009)

although I'd rank it as a minor entry in the Coen bros pantheon, it's still a knee slappin head scratchin romp through the dark subconscious of the American psyche, with a very realistic window into american judiasm as a bonus.