Jim Willis

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Check out my album Set It All Down on your favorite streaming service.

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Letterboxd

• Code 3, 2025 – ★★★★
  October 19, 2025
  Total surprise. Amazing.
• Mickey 17, 2025
  May 5, 2025
  Couldn’t finish this one. Not bad, just not what we needed at the moment.
• The Penguin Lessons, 2024 – ★★★½
  May 5, 2025
  Looking for a comedy, this wasn’t but it did treat a tough topic in an accessible way. Still, not funny especially in light of our current political climate.
• Black Bag, 2025 – ★★★★
  April 12, 2025
  Great spy movie, loved the style and story.
• Like Stars on Earth, 2007 – ★★★★½
  March 9, 2025
  (date approximate)
• Eega, 2012 – ★★★★½
  March 9, 2025
  (date approx)
• Ghostlight, 2024 – ★★★★½
  January 22, 2025
  I love a frame tale and this one is spectacular
• 3 Idiots, 2009 – ★★★★½
  January 14, 2025
  Amazzzzzzing. Nothing like it.
• Kahaani, 2012 – ★★★½
  January 2, 2025
  On location India footage was transportive.
• Eega, 2012 – ★★★★½
  January 1, 2025
  so much unexpected happening here. Perfect New Year’s Eve movie.

Reading Notes

• Read: Manufactured Anxiety: How Self-Improvement Became a Self Destruct Sequence
  December 9, 2024
  Who profits from our constant state of dissatisfaction? The answer, of course, is painfully obvious. Every industry that sells a solution to a problem you […]
• Read: My Friends Aren’t Reading
  December 9, 2024
  the shifts have been in place for awhile. A certain kind of book—say those reviewed in the NYRB—will become like opera, or theater, or ballet, […]
• Read: Pema Chödrön’s Three Methods for Working with Chaos
  December 9, 2024
  • No more struggle: “Whatever arises, train again and again in seeing it for what it is. The innermost essence of mind is without bias. […]
• Read: Why Not Bluesky
  December 9, 2024
  The real problem, in my mind, isn’t in the nature of this particular Venture-Capital operation. Because the whole raison-d’etre of Venture Capital is to make […]
• Read: The Tech Coup
  December 9, 2024
  . The EU invokes a mechanism called the precautionary principle in cases where an innovation, such as GMOs, has not yet been sufficiently researched for […]

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