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Review: Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008 movie)

Posted on 2013-07-29 by GaryJuly 23, 2013
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Brandon Fraser plays a geologist whose long-vanished brother was convinced that Verne’s novel about a descent down an Icelandic volcano had a factual basis. When the brother’s son comes to spend a few days with him, they discover a reason … Continue reading →

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Crash History #27: Captain Cook

Posted on 2013-07-28 by GaryJuly 19, 2013
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Link to series here. by … Continue reading →

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Review: Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011 movie)

Posted on 2013-07-26 by GaryApril 4, 2017
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The previous film with Robert Downey Jr as Holmes and Jude Law as Watson was better than I’d expected. Turning Holmes into an action hero was obviously a bit of a stretch, but almost everything in the film had some … Continue reading →

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A nuanced take on the DoJ and the AP’s phone records

Posted on 2013-07-24 by GaryJuly 24, 2013
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A few months ago the Department of Justice came under fire for snooping on two months’ worth of phone records concerning 20 phone lines, both office and personal, of five reporters and an editor. The action drew complaints for from … Continue reading →

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Review: The Secret Garden (1993 movie)

Posted on 2013-07-24 by GaryJuly 23, 2013
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This is one in a long series of adaptations of the popular children’s novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett (but the only one I’ve actually seen). The heroine (Kate Maberly) is an orphaned girl whose rich parents died in a fire … Continue reading →

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Review: The Pirates! Band of Misfits (2012 movie)

Posted on 2013-07-23 by GaryJuly 23, 2013
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Aardman, the folks behind Wallace and Gromit, combine old-school stop-motion animation with computer imagery to produce a reasonably entertaining comedy. I found it interesting that the entire lower faces of characters were made in dozens of different expressions and mouth … Continue reading →

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Crash History #26: The Seven Years War

Posted on 2013-07-21 by GaryJuly 19, 2013
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Surprisingly positive trends

Posted on 2013-07-20 by GaryFebruary 15, 2015
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I’m (as usual) late getting around to this, but back in May Rob Wile at Business Insider produced a set of 31 charts detailing positive long-run trends. (Some of these overlap with Steven Pinker’s observations in The Better Angels of … Continue reading →

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Action scene

Posted on 2013-07-20 by GaryJuly 19, 2013
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In a movie this would be a fairly pedestrian fight scene, but it’s nice to see the same level of professional standards in something done more or less for the fun of it and to show off the talents of … Continue reading →

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Kids react to a Cheerios commercial

Posted on 2013-07-19 by GaryJuly 21, 2013
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You’ve probably heard about this charming and funny Cheerios commercial even if you haven’t yet seen it: And if you have heard about it, you’ve probably heard that it’s “controversial,” meaning that there are still enough benighted ninnies running loose … Continue reading →

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