The Rich are Different: a review of Ready or Not! Directed by: Matt Bettinelli-Olpin & Tyler Gillett Produced by: Tripp Vinson; James Vanderbilt; Willem Sherak & Bradley J. Fischer Written by: Guy Busick; R. Christopher Murphy Starring: Samara Weaving; Adam Brody; Mark O’Brien; Henry Czerny; Andie MacDowell This is a smart, dark, funny movie that …
The Irishman Directed by Martin Scorsese Produced by Martin Scorsese Robert De Niro Jane Rosenthal Emma Tillinger Koskoff Irwin Winkler Gerald Chamales Gastón Pavlovich Randall Emmett Gabriele Israilovici Screenplay by Steven Zaillian Based on I Heard You Paint Houses by Charles Brandt Cast Robert De Niro as Frank Sheeran Al Pacino as Jimmy Hoffa Joe …
Polemical Judo David Brin November 20th 2019 This is the same David Brin who is widely known as a futurist and award-winning science fiction author. He’s always been an outspoken voice for accountability from authority, strong reliance by society on the knowledge to be gained from science, openness of knowledge and data, and deprecation of …
Klaus Starring: Jason Schwartzman, Rashida Jones, J.K. Simmons, Joan Cusack, Will Sasso, and Norm MacDonald Director: Sergio Pablos Screenwriters: Sergio Pablos, Jim Mahoney Companies: Netflix Dinner was on, wood was chucked, wife was working, so I looked in Netflix and wound up watching an animated Christmas movie. Don’t look at me like that. There have …
We’re Not Fucking Around Here: a review of The End of the F***ing World, season two Dark comedy Based on The End of the Fucking World by Charles Forsman Written by Charlie Covell Directed by Jonathan Entwistle, Lucy Tcherniak, Lucy Forbes, Destiny Ekaragha Starring Alex Lawther, Jessica Barden, Gemma Whelan, Wunmi Mosaku, Steve Oram, Christine …
The King Directed by David Michôd Produced by David Michôd, Joel Edgerton, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Brad Pitt, Liz Watts Written by David Michôd, Joel Edgerton Based on Henry IV, Part 1, Henry IV, Part 2, and Henry V by William Shakespeare Starring Timothée Chalamet, Joel Edgerton, Sean Harris, Lily-Rose Depp, Robert Pattinson, Ben Mendelsohn …
Crispr Crittrs: a review of unnatural selection Created and directed by Leeor Kaufman & Joe Egender There was a wonkish phrase, buried in various molecular biology papers, seemingly designed to make readers’ eyes glaze over. Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats. In bacteria, they are sequences of DNA grabbed from invading organisms (viruses, or sometimes …
Wanderers Chuck Wendig 782 Pages, July 2019 | Del Rey Books “It’s got a ‘The Stand’ thing going on,” my friend explained. So I downloaded a copy. King’s The Stand is one of my favourite apocalyptic novels, and holds up well after 40 years. Wanderers by Chuck Wendig starts out as a variant ‘zombie apocalypse’ …
A Silent Voice (2106) anime Eiga Koe no Katachi, also read as The Shape of Voice. Kyoto Animation Directed by Naoko Yamada Produced by Eharu Ōhashi Shinichi Nakamura Mikio Uetsuki Toshio Iizuka Kensuke Tateishi Usually, if I see an anime that is about 12 or 13 year old schoolkids, I immediately shut the damn thing …
In the Shadow of the Moon Directed by: Jim Mickle Produced by: Brian Kavanaugh-Jones, Ben Pugh, Rian Cahill, Linda Moran, Jim Mickle Written by: Gregory Weidman & Geoff Tock Cast: Boyd Holbrook as Thomas Lockhart Cleopatra Coleman as Rya Bokeem Woodbine as Maddox Rudi Dharmalingam as Naveen Rao Rachel Keller as Jean Michael C. Hall …