"Kannur Squad" (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt25274786) is a good movie — part police procedural and part road trip across India ...

Not a lot of one-man-against-20 "heroism" (except towards the end) but a more accurate and realistic depiction of police work than is usual.

So many small touches like the initial case to introduce the team, the individual personal stories, the bureaucratic hassles you would have to face in day-to-day police life (which is never shown in the more “hero”-oriented stories) etc …

Well worth watching.

#Movies #Malayalam #PoliceProcedural #AcrossIndia

"Tiger Nageswara Rao" (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9688874) is a horrible male-centric movie. The women are used, abused, held-hostage, and simper after the "hero" but don't seem to have any capacity to think or any agency of their own ...

Of course, this is all probably excused as this was how it was in the 70's?

I wanted to stop watching it multiple times but continued on just because I want to see how bad it gets. And it gets really bad …

No real redeeming qualities to this one.

#Movies #Telugu #TheOther70sShow #AMansWorld

Disney's "Culpirts" (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14531774) says that it's about what happens after a heist.

But I think what they're trying to hide is the fact that this bunch of clowns couldn't have pulled off a heist in the first place.

They aren't paranoid enough, really stupid, and not really criminals. The only way the story moves forward is by them being stupid. And I really hate that kind of lazy story telling ...

#TV #Culprits #English #Heist #BadWriting

I haven't liked the tone, plot, or the feel of a lot of Hindi movies of recent times.

But "The Great Indian Family" (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt18561736) is something I can get behind 💯 It's a feel good, thought provoking, and funny movie which satirizes a lot of racial tropes. Loved it!

What can I say? I do love a good Yash Raj Films movie 😛

#Movies #Hindi #Bollywood #FeelGood #Satire

I'm often amused by how some Indian filmmakers try to depict "manliness" — "They say several brothels are in business due to me," is the latest example.

Will they also include how many clinics and pharmacies are in business due to the diseases that guy must be spreading? 😛

Mind you, this is said by the “hero”, who is 55 years old in real life (but probably playing a 30 year old), to a 28 year old who is playing an 18-20 year old ...

Feels a little bit off to me even if this is how the dream machine works ...

#Movies #IndianMovies #Telugu #Manliness #Stupidity

@sideshow_boz Definitely looks useful to me 🙂 Just found the GitHub repo. Will build it later today and send you feedback if I have any …

@sideshow_boz I’m definitely interested in something like that 🙂 So will keep an eye out on your posts ...

I do (or try to do) a personal project every weekend to fulfil my own personal needs and I had an improved XcodeCleaner in the “someday” list … but didn’t have concrete things to accomplish.

But you have a clear roadmap, so will probably just wait for your app 🙂 Put me down for beta testing if you need testers …

@sideshow_boz Understood 🙂 I did some checking comparing both DevCleaner and XcodeCleaner (https://github.com/waylybaye/XcodeCleaner-SwiftUI) and XcodeCleaner does provide more detailed info … though it might not be apparent at first.

It gives a breakdown in the sidebar and if you click on each sidebar item, you get more detailed info. Perhaps that’s similar to what you were looking for?

@sideshow_boz Apologies, I checked the thread in my Mastodon client and it didn’t show any info and so I asked about the focus … Then went to the original thread and discovered that you’d already covered that question 😛

I’d certainly be interested in something which provides a bit more detail, especially if the stats provided by DevCleaner are wrong ...

Now I guess I’ll have to do some comparisons myself and see what happens 🙂

@sideshow_boz Doesn’t apps like “DevCleaner”, or the open source XcodeCleaner (on GitHub) and similar projects do this already?

Or are you thinking of something different to what I’m thinking about?

Just wondering because I’m always interested in new tools but just wondering if your approach does something differently than the existing solutions 🙂

Spent what free time I had yesterday on adding Trakt access to "ShowMan", and that allowed me to get access to my calendar of shows today.

I'm getting pretty excited about the app now since the integration of the multiple services allows me to do a bunch of different things — all in one app 🙂

Now I can see what I have not watched over the past few days and also get an idea as to what is coming up. When I watch something, I can tick it off the list by simply checking the box ...

Next, I need to add more Trakt integration to let Trakt know when an episode is watched and then add BetaSeries too for the same purpose. Lots of fun stuff to do!

#Coding #App #Swift #SwiftUI #macOS #ShowManagement #Entertainment

"Label" (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt25965602) looks interesting based on just the first episode ...

It has flashes of violence and brutality, but it also has moments which are thought provoking — not just the hyper-violence that seems to be prevalent in Tamil shows these days ...

The show hooked me within the first few minutes and didn't let go till the end of the episode. Quite keen to see where things lead.

I really like the fact that the show is about the marginalised, and the people who are automatically labeled as one thing or another and how, at least some, people try to change people’s perceptions.

#TV #Tamil #Perceptions #Label #Labels

I didn't get as much done today on my TV/Movie manager app as I'd hoped because I got stuck in several different SwiftUI issues ...

But at the end of the day I'm able to at least see all shows I'm watching, the seasons for the show and episodes.

So hopefully done by next weekend's end? 😛 (I kid ... I don't think I'll have everything done, but I'm hoping that I'll have TV show management complete at least.)

#Swift #SwiftUI #macOS #Apple #Entertainment #ShowManagement

@keyle Thanks 🙂

@Daojoan I posted a couple of days ago about an Obsidian-based solution which was really easy to set up (about 30 minutes tops) that works really well. But unless you have Obsidian syncing, it probably won’t work for the sharing part 😞

As far as this one goes (the macOS app) will ping you at the end of the week if you’re interested to test. I still need a few things working for me to be happy about the solution even without the external service integration and you probably don’t want to test a half-baked solution anyway 😛

A few days ago I discovered "TVMaster" (https://noben.org/tvmaster) by way of @keyle

It's a great looking app and it helps you manage the TV shows you watch via this very nice interface.

But I wanted more 😛 I wanted to monitor both TV shows and movies I wanted to watch. I also wanted to be able to interact with external sites (since I use several) to monitor the progress on shows and movies.

I’d already created the movie watchlist solution several times in different ways, but this would give me one app which would handle everything and that seemed a rather attractive proposition.

So got to work, and after about a day of work, I have a new app … and the project for this weekend 🙂

Basic functionality — done!

The next part is a bit more complicated since I need to allow the user to connect various sites with the app. But I’m hoping that if it’s not a single-week project, then it’ll only be a week more.

I guess we’ll see?

#macOS #Swift #SwiftUI #Apple #Entertainment #ShowManagement

@keyle Yes, I had forgotten that the TVMaze API allows user-level access only to premium accounts. So scratch that 😛

Though I have this crazy idea of pulling together TVMaze, Trakt, and BetaSeries (since I use all three) and mark stuff as watched on the sites which do support free access …

Of course, all of this started with me seeing TvMaster, so I don’t know if I should blame you or not 😛

Yes, I was talking about a progress bar and possibly a count (total number of episodes aired vs. number of episodes watched) when I said progress report. We (my wife and I) watch a lot of stuff and seeing incomplete shows is probably useful … or maybe not …

I did notice the colouring but didn’t make the association. So yeah, that works 🙂

Happy to provide suggestions and if you are looking for additional hands on the project, I would certainly be interested since I think I’m going to try my hand at something similar this weekend anyway 😛

But I’d probably start with SwiftData for what I wanted to do and that might not be the direction you want to go in. So just offering in case you want an extra pair of hands 🙂

@keyle I installed it and have been playing around with it. Love the interface!

I use TVMaze (amongst a few other sites 😛) to keep track of TV shows and so one feature I think I’d love would be to be able to import in all of my shows that I’ve already added on there …

Other than that, works beautifully and I can already see features that I’d like to see added 🙂

For example:
1. A progress report for incomplete shows
2. A way to see the next upcoming episode and/or a way to see the next episodes this week or today …

Now you’ve got me itching to do something similar with movie support added in 😛

@keyle Thanks 🙂

Will definitely be trying it out since I love trying out software. Will let you know if I run into issues or have suggestions … provided you want suggestions, of course 🙂

@keyle “TvMaster” looks nice — is that your own app? I mean personal vs. publicly available?

A long time ago I did a TV/movie tracking app with everything but the kitchen sink approach based on the Trakt API, but it became too unwieldy 😛 Still use a lite version of the app (just weekly show monitoring and making sure that I watch them) but didn’t have anything for movies that was easy to use …

Which is why I finally opted for the Obsidian approach 🙂