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Ana Yang’s bubbles

Posted on 2014-08-31 by GaryAugust 4, 2014
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Highlights of a performance featuring soap bubbles, the most elaborate I’ve seen. Worth at least a look: Link: http://youtu.be/KMrvR836TFI by … Continue reading →

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Smart phone camera tips

Posted on 2014-08-27 by GaryFebruary 3, 2019
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Some clever ideas: Link: http://youtu.be/fTz4Nhgm_SQ by … Continue reading →

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Review: Astérix et Obélix: Mission Cléopâtre (2002 movie)

Posted on 2014-08-20 by GaryNovember 14, 2015
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At the start of the second live-action Astérix and Obélix film (I reviewed the first one here), Caesar annoys Cleopatra (gorgeous Monica Bellucci) by telling her that Egyptian greatness is all in the past, so to prove him wrong she … Continue reading →

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Review: Astérix et Obélix contre César (1999 movie)

Posted on 2014-08-18 by GaryAugust 20, 2014
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One of my favorite things about high school French was reading a series of comics wittily written by René Goscinny (who tragically died in 1977 at the age of 51) and brilliantly illustrated by Albert Uderzo. The protagonists were Gauls … Continue reading →

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Review: Thor: The Dark World (2013 movie)

Posted on 2014-08-15 by GaryAugust 3, 2014
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Alas, another sequel that doesn’t live up to the original, which wasn’t all that great to start with. (And he never once gets to say “Hammer time!” unless I missed it.) Natalie Portman apparently saw The Avengers (a much better … Continue reading →

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Review: Despicable Me 2 (2013 movie)

Posted on 2014-08-13 by GaryAugust 3, 2014
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Reformed super-villain Gru is recruited to help a shadowy agency track down a super-villain of the unreformed sort, and in the course of this Gru acquires a girlfriend, an agent of the Anti-Villain League voiced by Kristen Wiig. I forget … Continue reading →

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Review: A Serious Man (2009 movie)

Posted on 2014-08-11 by GaryAugust 7, 2014
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Until earlier this year I’d somehow never heard of this Coen brothers movie about a physics professor in the upper Midwest of the 1960s who suddenly has to deal with a set of personal and professional crises. From my goyishe … Continue reading →

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John Oliver on stealth advertising

Posted on 2014-08-10 by GaryAugust 7, 2014
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In journalism there is supposed to be a “Chinese wall” separating “church and state” — the news and business sides of a news outlet (though which is church and which is state probably depends on your point of view), but … Continue reading →

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Another bogus horror story

Posted on 2014-08-09 by GaryMay 18, 2015
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No, I don’t mean The Conjuring (reviewed in the previous post); I mean yet another political ad featuring somebody complaining about the Affordable Care Act who actually turns out to have benefited from it. An article by Eli Stokols at … Continue reading →

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Review: The Conjuring (2013 movie)

Posted on 2014-08-09 by GaryAugust 7, 2014
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Once again a family takes up residence in an isolated country house, and the family dog in particular is against the idea from the start. There are minor oddities, then bigger weirdnesses, then graver and graver threats, as if the … Continue reading →

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