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The Bit Maelstrom: Ida
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Making sense and senselessness of an unending flood of data. Friday, May 30, 2014. I've mentioned it before,. But it has been a weird, weird Spring for us, movie-wise. There's no shortage of movies out, but a serious shortage of consensus about what the best (or even good. Movies are. We've done all right, but it's been a struggle. (And that's with going to far fewer movies this year! Meanwhile The Boy had not gotten much sleep, and this is not a movie you want to go to if you're groggy. Is all gorgeous ...
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The Bit Maelstrom: Fill The Void
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Making sense and senselessness of an unending flood of data. Friday, June 7, 2013. So, the Internet Movie. Database has a capsule of the movie Fill The Void. From the Sundance Film Festival:. A devout 18-year-old Israeli is pressured to marry the husband of her late sister. Declaring her independence is not an option in Tel Aviv's ultra-Orthodox Hasidic community, where religious law, tradition and the rabbi's word are absolute. You can see why the bien pensants. Anyway, as noted, Esther dies in childbir...
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The Bit Maelstrom: Kung Fu Killer
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Making sense and senselessness of an unending flood of data. Friday, May 15, 2015. One of the easiest ways to. Get The Boy to a movie, regardless of time or film is to say "Oh, hey, looks like our last chance to see."—and it really doesn't matter how you finish that sentence, he's up for it. In this case, I finished the sentence with Kung Fu Killer. Teddy Chan's chop-socky martial arts festival about a serial-killer who specializes in killing only. The masters of various branches of martial arts. So, fun...
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The Bit Maelstrom: Skyfall
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Making sense and senselessness of an unending flood of data. Friday, November 23, 2012. Bond Gold Bond. That's. What secret agents say when they go to the pharmacist for jock itch. Which is apropos of nothing but a lame intro to the latest 007 film Skyfall. On the 50th anniversary of the first flick, Dr. No. Film in the series eschews most of the darkness of the Casino Royale. Reboot while not fully embracing the goofiness of the gadget-laden quipping Bonds of yore. Craig is good as Bond. Dench is go...
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The Bit Maelstrom: The (Other) Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
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Making sense and senselessness of an unending flood of data. Monday, December 26, 2011. The (Other) Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. It gets hard to defend. Hollywood—and why would you try, really? 8212;when they seem to reinforce the worst ideas people have. Like cowardice and completely paucity of original ideas. I mean, when people talk about all the sequels and movies derived from other sources these days, it's easy to note that this has always been the case. Yeah, we have four Resident Evil. There were ...
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The Bit Maelstrom: Hercules vs. Vampires
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Making sense and senselessness of an unending flood of data. Friday, May 15, 2015. Hercules vs. Vampires. And now for something completely. Different: An opera based on the 1964 Mario Bava "classic" Hercules In The Haunted World. Or Hercules with/at/in the Center Of The Earth. Or just Sword and Sandal. If you saw it on Australian television. It's just not the same as being there with 27 instruments and 8 singers and everyone having to project in a 3,000 seat theater. The effects are all practical, of cou...
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The Bit Maelstrom: Force Majeure
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Making sense and senselessness of an unending flood of data. Wednesday, December 17, 2014. Every year around this. Time, a lot of my so-called "friends" in the Midwest and North perpetuate this hoax called "snow". They post pictures of it on treetops, in their driveways, even make "snowmen". But I've been on set: I know it's just soap. Still I can play along, and nobody plays the joke better than the Swedes. And nobody's ever played it better than in Force Majeure. Some call it black comedy. But it's not...
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The Bit Maelstrom: The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out A Window And Disappeared
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Making sense and senselessness of an unending flood of data. Friday, May 15, 2015. The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out A Window And Disappeared. A boy whose unusual. Proclivities toward blowing things up take him on a life journey through many great world events. This is the premise of writer/director Felix Herngren's film The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out A Window And Disappeared. Which is as whimsical as its title suggests. Original title of Hundraåringen som klev ut genom fönstret och försvann.
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The Bit Maelstrom: Timbuktu
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Making sense and senselessness of an unending flood of data. Wednesday, March 18, 2015. It is said that the Academy. Members watch about five minutes of whatever foreign language film screener they feel like and vote on that, which may be true, but before they even have the chance to ignore the movies, the screening committee has to select them. The screening committee and I seldom see eye-to-eye. Such is the case with Timbuktu. Meanwhile, there's defiance, as a fishmonger woman refuses to put on gloves&...
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The Bit Maelstrom: Noble
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Making sense and senselessness of an unending flood of data. Friday, May 15, 2015. An Irish girl with a. Beautiful singing voice loses her family and suffers all kinds of vicissitudes at the hands of men and nuns, only to grow up and save children in Vietnam. Such is the true story behind Noble. A moving tale of accomplishing things you have no business doing. From a basically evil truant officer, to countless nuns—I reminded The Boy there was a time when nuns were played as heroes onscreen, as I d...
