I suspect most people remember their first experience driving in San Francisco, probably for the same reason they remember scary scenes in The Shining. Some hills are so steep you wonder how your car is holding onto the road. Walking … Continue reading
As a title card at the start of the film says, “More of this is true than you would believe.” Indeed, back in the late 1970s and the early 1980s an eccentric Army lieutenant colonel convinced his superiors to let … Continue reading
Last week’s New York Times Magazine had an article (link) by Adrian Chen about a strange new Russian plot. It seems that Russia has, no kidding, deployed an army of Internet trolls tasked among other things with making Putin look … Continue reading
This stop-motion film based on a children’s book by Roald Dahl shows what happens with the title character (voiced by George Clooney), a bit bored by his new career as a newspaper columnist, decides for old time’s sake to return … Continue reading
I’m strongly tempted to offer this up as a legitimate science video, but there’s always the risk you’d watch it at work or show it to an elementary school class or something without checking it first, so I’ll chicken out … Continue reading
Last November 2001: A Space Odyssey was re-released theatrically in the United Kingdom, and in this clip stars Keir Dullea and Gary Lockwood (who played astronauts David Bowman and Frank Poole in the 1968 film) talk about the film’s importance: … Continue reading
As noted a couple of days ago (link), Bill Maher recently poked fun at the notion that members of the dominant religion in the U.S. are being persecuted. This provoked a response from Sean Hannity and his guests Monday night … Continue reading
This sequel is clearly aimed at kids and even sillier than the original (reviewed elsewhere on this blog) and without the previous film’s novelty and much of its charm, and it makes even less sense. There are two saving graces. … Continue reading
Bill Maher addresses silly claims by a variety of prominent conservatives that Christians are heavily persecuted and Christianity on the verge of being criminalized. Funny but also pretty accurate: Link: https://youtu.be/ybH66U72xd0 So why is it that some Christians really do … Continue reading
This sequel to The DaVinci Code (actually based on an earlier novel) has some nice twists and turns, holds the viewer’s interest, and even has scattered comic bits, but the plot makes very little sense. Once again Tom Hanks has … Continue reading