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Local TV news 2015

Posted on 2015-12-17 by GaryDecember 17, 2015
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Some reasonably amusing stuff here, with the usual caution that there’s some (mainly) accidental indelicate language here and there. It runs 15 minutes and would have benefited from additional culling. Not every last clip is a winner. But I think … Continue reading →

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Review: Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015 movie)

Posted on 2015-12-16 by GaryDecember 16, 2015
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There’s so much stuffed into this movie that Peter Jackson would probably have turned the same material into six or seven of them, but to the credit of Joss Whedon and company it’s reasonably coherent. I confess I kept figuring … Continue reading →

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Good guy with a gun

Posted on 2015-12-16 by GaryDecember 21, 2015
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The following segment from Comedy Central’s The Daily Show tries (sometimes successfully) to be funny but also makes some serious points about the notion that the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy … Continue reading →

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Review: The Uninvited (1944 movie)

Posted on 2015-12-15 by GaryDecember 16, 2015
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There are a number of movies (mainly in the horror genre) with the same name (such as the 2008 film reviewed here), but as far as I can tell they’re unrelated except for the title. In this one, an English … Continue reading →

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Darth Trump

Posted on 2015-12-14 by GaryDecember 13, 2015
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On the off-chance you haven’t already seen this, it’s worth a look. Basically, it’s scenes from Star Wars (the original trilogy) featuring actual Donald Trump audio clips used for the voice of Darth Vader, plus a few related visual effects. … Continue reading →

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Downton Abbey with American accents

Posted on 2015-12-13 by GaryDecember 12, 2015
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Stephen Colbert conducts an experiment with three actors from the popular British series Downton Abbey (Michelle Dockery, Hugh Bonneville and Allen Leech), to see whether it sounds as good with the actors speaking American. Worth 2 1/2 minutes of your … Continue reading →

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Review: The Great West Detective Agency by Jackson Lowry (2014 novel)

Posted on 2015-12-12 by GaryDecember 12, 2015
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This is the first of a series of wild-west mysteries featuring Lucas Stanton, a guy who gambles for a living and pursues women as a hobby. He’s brave when necessary but otherwise has the good sense to avoid trouble, by … Continue reading →

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English spelling claims another victim

Posted on 2015-12-12 by GaryDecember 10, 2015
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This ends up being funnier than you’d expect because of the dad’s reaction at the end: Link: https://youtu.be/ZDTMQvi3hnc The question is a recent viral puzzle related to another one I first heard decades ago: If H-O-U-S-E spells “house” and H-O-R-S-E … Continue reading →

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Review: Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief (2015 documentary)

Posted on 2015-12-11 by GaryDecember 16, 2015
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Oscar and Emmy winner Alex Gibney, whose previous documentaries have examined the coverup of child abuse in the Catholic Church and corruption in business and government, takes up Scientology, including its history and its best-known adherents such as Tom Cruise. … Continue reading →

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Review: Shadow of a Doubt (1943 movie)

Posted on 2015-12-09 by GaryMarch 3, 2016
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Teresa Wright plays a young woman of about 18 who lives with her parents and much younger brother and sister in Santa Rosa, a small all-American city in northern California. She’s rather bored until her mother’s beloved younger brother, Joseph … Continue reading →

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