Tales from the Technoverse

Category: movies

  • Today’s Argument – Biopic

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    I have had the fortune to spend much of the last 30-some years being improved by Ellen. Remarkably I find that no matter how much she corrects, I still have much work that is needed to be done. The context of this thought resulted from my mentioning this morning that there is a new biopic…

  • The Importance of Storytelling

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    Over the last year or so, I decided to focus a bit more on academic opportunities. I have attempted to become a better professor at the University of Maryland University College (UMUC), helped start a non-profit focused on increasing academic involvement with government (ATARC), and this semester signed up for two graduate courses at the University…

  • Gone Girl

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    Last night, as part of the Ellen birthday set of events, culminating in her long-desired trip to New Orleans in December, we went to see Gone Girl (chosen as an alternative to Nightcrawler, and partially because Ellen does not want to see a key character that reminded her of the Michelin tire guy). I am not…

  • In A World …

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    Finished watching Lake Bell‘s In A World. This continues the sequence of woman written, often directed, and starred in films that I have watched over the last month. The story is about a woman, well-duh, who, like her much more successful father, is in the “world of movie-trailer voiceovers”. If nothing else, I learned that…

  • Two Kid’s Movies This Week

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    This last week was, among other things (like seeing Fleetwood Mac), a week for watching “young person’s” movies. Our entire family went to the theater to see The BoxTrolls. The BoxTrolls is a stop-motion film about, well, trolls who wear boxes, live underground, and raise an orphaned human boy called Eggs. The bad guy, voiced…

  • Ruby Sparks plus a Discovery

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    I finished watching Ruby Sparks this morning. Ruby Sparks is a ‘cute’ rom-com (romantic comedy) about a lonely author with writer’s block who writes about his perfect, albeit imaginary girl friend, Ruby Sparks. After doing so, suddenly she is there in his apartment. What seems like a perfect situation, perfect only because of the limited male…

  • The Spirit of the Beehive (El Espiritu de la Colmena)

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    This morning I finished watching the Spanish movie, The Spirit of the Beehive. Made in 1973 and directed by Victor Erice, the film is set in 1940 in a small Spanish village. It tells of a girl Ana, and her sister, Isabel. The two girls go to a mobile cinema which plays Frankenstein. Ana for…

  • The Buck Stops Here

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    There are, at least, two things that my daughters mention that I never did for them. I never took them fishing (of course I have almost never fished) and I never took them horseback riding (I guess I did that a little bit myself but it violated my ‘feet-are-on-the-ground happy place’ approach. The movie I…

  • Life’s Little Annoyances

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    When one represents that shrinking number of people who actually still rent actual DVD’s to watch (my Netflix queue is up to around 490), some things end up being a mild irritant that others would not even notice. It is normal that when a DVD starts there are a series of previews of films that…

  • Chak De! India

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    As I have mentioned before most (it should really be all) mornings I walk on an elliptical walker down in the basement and watch movies. It usually takes 3-5 days to watch each movie, or if it is a TV show series (for example, I just finished season 1 of Once Upon A Time), I…