Money Heist (TV 2017)

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Money Heist (TV 2017): Spain. Parts 1&2. The "Professor" recruits a team to rob the Royal Mint of 1 Billion Euros. It's more a melodramatic telenovela than a proper heist movie, and the police miss every opportunity to foil the plot, but that just keeps this fun story going. B+

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Greenland 2: Migration (2026)

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Greenland 2: Migration (2026): Five years after the planet-killing comet, more disasters force our heroes out of their bunker and on a journey to a rumored paradise in France. Of course there are gun battles all along the way. No coherent plot, just a series of close escapes. C-

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POTD: Child Labor

From 2025 09 17 Khiva

Today's photo-of-the-day is of a child with a chisel cutting into a board in a courtyard in Khiva, Uzbekistan. So many questions. Shouldn't he be in school? How many hours a day does he do this work? How much does his finished work sell for in the market? I feel bad that I know so little about this. A short search with Google suggests that child labor during the cotton harvest used to be a significant problem, but by 2022, the international "Cotton Campaign" coalition announced it was ending its global boycott of Uzbek cotton after concluding that state-imposed forced labor in the cotton sector had largely been eliminated. Of course that is not what my photo is all about. It's about one child in a city making a wooden craft.

Bonus photo after the jump.

POTD: Cosplay in Khiva

From 2025 09 17 Khiva

Today's photo-of-the-day is of a passing parade of locals cosplaying Khiva nobility in Khiva, Uzbekistan.

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"Gold embroidery
Glitters beneath smartphone screens.
Centuries collide."
— h/t ChatGPT

Greenland (2020)

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Greenland (2020): Disaster movie. Planet-killing meteor is headed towards Earth. A family embarks on a journey to Greenland seeking shelter in a government bunker for nuclear war. Civilization falls apart quickly. Nothing new here, but it does old perfectly well. B-

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