Monday, 10 June 2024

Furiosa is fantastic

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Furiosa is an action-packed, splatterfest roller coaster ride.  Sure, it rehashes action sequences from earlier entries, such as the climac...

Police interrogate man for 17 hours and extract false murder confession

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They push him into confessing to murdering his own father... then his father turns up perfectly healthy. Of course, they don't tell the ...
Friday, 31 May 2024

Jeffrey Hinton on AI: always interesting

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I naively look forward to full fledged sapient AI. When they arrive, true children of the mind, it'll be the first time in thousands of ...
Tuesday, 7 May 2024

Civil War review

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I quite enjoyed it.  Well.  As much as you can 'enjoy' a such harrowing film.  It focuses on a group of journalists travelling to in...
Saturday, 30 March 2024

The mutually incompatible universes of Ukraine war pundits

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"The first casualty of war is truth." – Hiram W. Johnson Popular political pundits are pushing mutually incompatible narratives on...
Tuesday, 12 March 2024

Dune II review: epically awesome and awesomely epic

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This is one of those rare films that simply must be seen in IMAX. It's a breathtaking, epic spectacle.  The art direction alone is worth...
Monday, 11 March 2024

(Sort of) Russian literature review: Day of the Oprichnik & War with Russia: An Urgent Warning

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Day of the Oprichnik  by Vladimir Sorokin This was sold to me as a kvass soaked satire of Putin's Russia. I can see some parallels, in t...
Monday, 8 January 2024

Midnight Mass mini-review

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Midnight Mass is dark, brooding, contemplative and fabulous. It's a slow burn show that dives deep into how people see what they want to...
Sunday, 7 January 2024

The Boy and the Heron

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A new Miyazaki film!  I was looking forward to this.  Like Godzilla Minus One , The Boy and the Heron is set during the waning days of WW...
Friday, 5 January 2024

Genocide in Gaza(?)

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I don't always agree with John Mearsheimer, but he's well informed, smart, and always thought provoking. On January 4th, he put up a...
Thursday, 28 December 2023

Back to D&D

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I haven't played Dungeons & Dragons in decades, but after reading my new book, a friend recommended I give Dungeon Mastering a go. ...
Thursday, 14 December 2023

Godzilla Minus One review: rock the kaiju!

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First, Godzilla Minus One is awesome. Second, they made it for under $15 million USD. SERIOUSLY?!? Godzilla Minus One looks as good or bet...
Friday, 8 December 2023

Max Zing interior cover

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His adventures aren't really that sedentary.  Check them out over on Amazon !
Friday, 24 November 2023

From Voyager to For All Mankind: Ronald D. Moore's fabulous forays into the cosmos

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For All Mankind  season one is superb TV.  It's one of the best sci-fi shows out there. Maybe one of the best shows on TV currently, per...