What to watch, listen to, play, and read this weekend
The movie to see
Isle Of Dogs
“Isle Of Dogs may strand mangy, sickly pooches on a floating garbage dump, even putting their furry hides in danger for the sake of a dark joke or two, but the apparent cruelty masks a deeper affection—a belief in the pure, undying loyalty of the species, around which this deceptively dog-averse filmmaker builds a fable about the disenfranchised. (Read the title faster if you doubt his true feelings.) But no stance on man’s best friend is necessary to get wrapped up in the endless wizardry of Isle Of Dogs, a gag machine with a characteristic tinge of melancholy that may well usurp [Wes] Anderson’s last movie, The Grand Budapest Hotel, as his greatest visual and technical marvel—a movie whose every image is a miniature triumph of imagination and execution.”
Read the rest of our review here.
The podcast to listen to
The Boring Talks, “Book Pricing Algorithms”
“The new BBC podcast The Boring Talks gets over the gimmick of its title pretty quickly—just a light Jedi mind trick to make you look—and jumps immediately into the minutiae. The premise is simple: One person explains something that they find interesting, but which might seem boring on the surface. The format was honed at an annual Boring Conference, and though the podcast only dropped its first episode this January, it feels fully developed and energetically yet succinctly produced. In episode two, “Book Pricing Algorithms,” Tracy King… talks about working on that project and finding copies of their book in the mysterious ‘new and used’ section of Amazon for several times the selling price.”
Read about the rest of the week’s best podcasts here.
