Film Yap is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work please consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. You ever see a trailer so good that there’s no way the movie can live up to its promo? Actor Dev Patel’s directorial debut “Monkey Man” (in theaters beginning Friday, April 5) is one such picture. Patel stars as Kid, a young man who lost his mother Neela (Adithi Kalkunte) as a child when she stood her ground against politico Baba Shakti (Makarand Deshpande) and crooked cop Rana (Sikander Kher).

Two weeks ago, The Bear Cave published on problems at The Joint (NASDAQ: JYNT — $1.20 billion), a franchisor of chiropractic clinics, concerning its franchise health and aggressive customer billing. Some smart investors in The Joint pushed back and argued that the franchise base is actually healthy. For example, The Joint’s own Franchise Disclosure Document seems to show that the median clinic makes between $70k-$150k in net profit. The Joint bulls also argued that the aggressive franchisor-franchisee terms The Joint uses are commonplace and that The Joint improves the standard of chiropractic care for patients.

Though out the entire history of the modern Christian church. An issue comes up now and again. Rehashing the same old arguments when it comes to the Catholic Church. One of the biggest ones has to deal with the importance of the Eucharist: The Body and Blood of Christ. For a Catholic that should be one of the most important aspects of our faith. The argument of course is that Christ words in the Gospel of John were not meant to be taken literal.

Wine books are my bread and butter. I’m never without a book, and tend to fall into two categories—books about wine and books about the environment. They often overlap. This is a list of the books that I’ve found most valuable, most inspirational, and most eye-opening. I know you’ll love them too. What Makes A Wine Worth Drinking by Terry Theise Theise’s What Makes A Wine Worth Drinking is, to me, a romance book that happens to be about wine.

Hi everyone, I took a little break last week. I got really interested in learning to code since I now can ask GPT to help me out, and of course, I’m trying to code something that is chess related. But it takes time to learn new things, so the writing got a little delayed. But before we jump into this week’s newsletter I will just ask you a question about the Say Chess Training Group.