Saturday, 31 August 2024

Retro-review: The Pink Panther Strikes Again

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This is 1970s Austin Powers long before Austin Powers: a deranged Inspector Dreyfuss escapes from the mental institution and creates a terri...
Thursday, 29 August 2024

The Boys season 4 review

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The show's still got it, but the paint job is wearing thin.  Franchises are repetitive by their very nature, but work best when the audi...
Monday, 26 August 2024

Cryptid entry: The Smores Beaver of Upper Canada

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The legendary Smores beaver of Canada; image from a rock in Northern Ontario, near Owen Sound A popular cryptid of the Great White North, th...
Friday, 23 August 2024

Delicious in Dungeon is bonkers fun

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Delicious in Dungeon is a Japanese Anime based on a Manga (by Ryoko Kui) about a group of Western style Dungeons & Dragons adventurers...
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. ...