Friday, 6 September 2024

Demons of El Dorado - Part 7, er, 11?

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EDIT: Whoops, it's been so long I forgot I already published this on the blog several years ago. I have the remainder in screenplay for...
Thursday, 5 September 2024

R-ratings aren't just for blood, sex, and gore

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James Mangold on making   Logan : "For Mangold, allowing Logan to be R-rated was important, not so much for violent content, but for st...
Tuesday, 3 September 2024

Woman dead at work for 4 days

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Most companies don't take 'work them to death' literally... and then there's Wells Fargo.  This   story has flooded wire fee...
Sunday, 1 September 2024

Eric Schmidt on AI, lawyers, and stealin'... but shh, don't quote him, it's a secret

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S o is the  spy  who stole from Google just following the advice of (former and likely current) Google execs? Eric FFS Schmidt, an ex-Google...
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...