Work and technical obstacles combined.
Kia ora F&S subscriber
Apologies for no updates this week. For the next few weeks I’ll be working at the day job on Mondays and my plan was to write up the new releases on Tuesday but that was stymied by boring but unavoidable (and not yet entirely solved) technical reasons1.
I’m taking that as a sign that I should take the rest of the week off from the newsletter and come back refreshed next Tuesday to Friday.
If you want a quick consumer advisory on last weekend’s new cinema releases, here goes: I spoke to Mark Leishman on RNZ Nights about Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale last Friday, enjoyed a lunchtime Saturday screening of Sketch (“a kids horror fantasy that’s like if HAROLD AND THE PURPLE CRAYON was directed by John Carpenter”) and was quite shaken by The Long Walk, a film I’ll probably have some things to say about next week.
I wanted to watch Splitzville on Sunday but the only sessions close to me were at the inconvenient times of 10.25am and 8pm. Maybe I’ll get to it this weekend.
See you on Tuesday.
For 25 years I’ve been regularly updating my Mac OS over the top of my previous installation, meaning that there was a lot — a lot — of cruft, preferences and settings left over from old software and hardware. Apple’s advice is to — every so often — do a clean install to minimise the risks of conflicts and problems, but I’ve always ignored that to avoid losing a whole day to the process. Yesterday, my luck ran out and the only answer was to nuke the drive and hope the Time Machine backups were working. Good news is, yes, they do work but it was a very slow process of restoring everything.
