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Penelope - Review - A Beautifully Straightforward Adventure Pilot

January 30th, 2024

The idea of youth escaping into a large section of woods so as to start life anew is a plot device not at all unexplored prior, seen in films as recently as 2013’s "The Kings of Summer," while literature will always have "My Side of the Mountain. "In "Penelope, "the concept gets the episodic treatment, but if the premiere is any indicator, this is one project with the potential to captivate in its own unique way. Mel Eslyn ("Biosphere"), head of Duplass Brothers Productions and frequent colla...

Bizarrely Specific Things Every Sci-Fi Movie Does

January 22nd, 2024

5 Bizarrely Specific Things Every Sci-Fi Movie Does By: Nathan Kamal Andrea Meno February 14, 2018 Anything is possible in science fiction! You can explore the future, delve into the past, chronicle alien civilizations, and probe the endless possibilities of time and space. The genre is limited by nothing but human imagination. Unfortunately, human imagination seems like it was depleted sometime in the 1970s, because no matter what obscure corner of the galaxy you warp to...

Green Lantern Issue One

December 26th, 2023

Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 Green Lantern #1 (review) See all of Green Lantern #1, no other writeups in this node. (review) by Glowing Fish Mon Mar 07 2022 at 1:29:26 Green Lantern #1 is the first issue of Green Lantern, and was first published in July of 1960. The character of the Silver Age Green Lantern had been introduced in Showcase #22, in September of 1959. After three issues in Showcase, Green Lantern was given his own title. Featuring MENACE of th...

Great Films Based on Books

December 22nd, 2023

Clip source: Great%20Films%20Based%20on%20Books%20%7C%20LibraryThing Skip to main content Come join our LibraryThing 2023 Roundup Hunt! Dismiss https://www.librarything.com/pic/10346985Great Films Based on Books Description Book lovers often have very strong opinions about how their favorite stories ought to be adapted, when being made into films. Our List of the Month this November is devoted to films that got it right—films that were successfully adapted from books, or that even improv...

VISITORS FROM THE ARKANA GALAXY (1981)

December 15th, 2023

Gosti iz galaksije; AKA Visitors from the Galaxy366 Weird Movies may earn commissions from purchases made through product links.DIRECTED BY: Dusan VukoticFEATURING: Zarko Potocnjak, Ksenia Prohaska, Lucie ZulováPLOT: An aspiring science fiction writer finds he has materialized the aliens from his long-gestating novel, including a space monster.[link ]COMMENTS: Visitors from the Arkana Galaxy is a curious artifact from nowhere. Or at least, from nowhere that exists anymore: a co-production bet...

Love Story 1970 - A Timeless Tale of Love and Loss

December 11th, 2023

Love Story is a 1970 American romantic drama film directed by Arthur Hiller and starring Ryan O’Neal and Ali MacGraw. It tells the story of Oliver Barrett IV, a wealthy Harvard University student, and Jenny Cavilleri, a working-class Radcliffe College student, who fall deeply in love despite their contrasting backgrounds.Oliver, heir to a prominent family fortune, is expected to follow in his father’s footsteps and attend law school. He plays hockey for the university team and leads a privile...

Cinderella

December 10th, 2023

Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 Cinderella (thing) See all of Cinderella, there are 9 more in this node. (thing) by SophiesCat Fri Feb 02 2001 at 17:51:53 There are many versions of Cinderella, this version is a fairly cheery and happy one, some of the other versions have the stepsisters cutting parts of their feet off in order to try and fit into the glass slipper. Once there was a gentleman who married, for his second wife, the proudest and most haughty woma...

Influence of Zoroastrianism on Christianity and Islam

December 6th, 2023

Clip source: The%20Influence%20of%20Zoroastrianism%20on%20Christianity%20and%20Islam%20%28idea%29%20by%20Eclectic%20Scion%20-%20Everything2.com Near MatchesIgnore ExactFull Text Everything2The Influence of Zoroastrianism on Christianity and Islam (idea)See all of The Influence of Zoroastrianism on Christianity and Islam, there is 1 more in this node.(idea)by Eclectic ScionWed Oct 11 2000 at 0:02:54Zoroastrianism is one of the oldest world religions. In fact, some have dated it as the world's...

Flash - The

November 17th, 2023

Hope you all had a fun autumn.Me, I genuinely enjoyed taking a break from the blog so I could focus my time and attention on other projects. I liked that I didn’t have to bother pretending to give a shit about The Last Voyage of the Demeter. I’m glad I got to see Bottoms and Dicks: The Musical without trying to sufficiently describe what the high-flying fuck I just sat through. Watching Killers of the Flower Moon was enough of a commitment without the pressure of writing a master’s thesis abo...

Golf comms

November 17th, 2023

Golf/Gold, Arnold Palmer, Spalding, Tembo, Macho Man, Tiger Woods, Objectivity, Little League, Bosco, Moonwalker, UpdatesThe biggest stories right now are connected in a way you may not have noticed.06/10/2023 Trump looming indictment for handling of Classified docs at his Bedminster Golf resort.06/11/2023 Saudi Arabia Completes Its Hostile Takeover of U.S. GolfWhy Golf?Time to decode Pro Golf!GOLF = ?This takeover by Saudi Arabia is something Donald Trump has supported!PGA tour cancelled Tru...

The Yellow Brick Road Around The World

November 17th, 2023

Update: Hamish Harding, Harding: Money Bill, Harding: Tonya, Update: Wyndham, Sulla, UglyFast, Ick, Update: Farewell, Update: Elephant Mario, Sentai, Spy JobsAll of my posts are a mixture of highly confident solid comms and mere hypothesis. I’d love to only include the best, but all of what I do is a work in progress. Every decode confirmed 100 different ways began as a hypothesis, sometimes built from nothing more than 1 tenuous connection.I say that because among my most confident decodes i...

Joe Biden Donkey - Joe Burro Donkey - Tiger King - Joe Exotic

November 17th, 2023

Billy Cannon -> Joe Burrow, Burro = Donkey = Democrat, tigers -> TIGERS , Boxing: Jack Dempsey, Charlottes Web = Animal Farm Reaction, Giving Tree, Witcher 3: Understanding Context, Burro Part 2: Biden & Trump, Heisman Decoding, Birdwatching Spycraft James Bond, Green Hornet Bruce Lee, Burro Part 3: Joe Burrow & Joe Exotic, El Chapo & SnatchJoe Burrow is the biggest name in sports right now. What might he be coordinating as a comm?Record breaking news is always worth a dig! 09/07/...

Great Power, Great Diversity Across the Spider-Verse

November 10th, 2023

Film & TVSubmitted by tara on Thu, 11/09/2023 - 10:35 2023’s Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is the successful follow-up to Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. It’s a film that has been praised by audiences and critics alike with its undeniably flashy and original artistic style, as well as its captivating storytelling. However, one of the most compelling aspects of the film is its surprisingly rich subtext. Aside from the more obvious themes of inclusivity and diversity, something wh...

Super Chicken

November 6th, 2023

Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 Super Chicken (person) See all of Super Chicken, no other writeups in this node. (person) by Gritchka Fri Feb 02 2001 at 17:01:08 Mild-mannered Henry Cabot Henhaus III is the world's richest chicken and an amateur scientist to boot. When he drinks the Secret Sauce he invented he turns into Superchicken. With his faithful butler Fred he goes on around solving mysteries. The catchphrase is "You knew the job was dangerous when you too...

Paper Rose - Araz Eleyasian

October 27th, 2023

tutoring the teacherby Douglas MesserliTalin Agon and Araz Eleyasian (screenplay), Araz Eleyasian (director) The Paper Rose / 2018 [9 minutes]A very frustrated English teacher, Toni (Bronte Pearce) is nervous about her day in school. She’s teaching Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations, a book she clearly loves. But when we see the antics of her students, each spending the classroom time sending text messages to the others when they’re not taunting the quiet Johnny (Damian Hempstead), we compre...

Reviewing AI’s starring role in cinema - ITWeb

October 27th, 2023

Artificial intelligence (AI) has always sparked storytellers' imaginations, bringing them into new, imaginative worlds. Movies, as a strong storytelling medium, provide us a peek into the future possibilities of AI and the impacts it might have on existence.Earlier films such as "2001: A Space Odyssey" and "The Terminator" depicted AI and robots as entities that develop self-awareness and, consequently, a desire to overthrow or harm their human creators.HAL 9000, the intelligent computer in "...

JLA 94

October 26th, 2023

ameriwire | Log Out | Preferences | Drafts | Help | Random You have 1 C! and 13 votes left today. Yay! You gained 1 GP. chat | inbox Near Matches Ignore ExactFull TextFull Text Everything2 JLA #94 (thing) See all of JLA #94, no other writeups in this node. (thing) by Jet-Poop (21 s) Rep: 38 ( +41 / -3 ) (Rep Graph) (+) Sat Mar 13 2004 at 12:04:31 WARNING! SPOILERS AHEAD! DAMN YOU, WOMAN, YOU'VE IMPEDED MY WORK SI...

Thou shall not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind (idea) by apathy42 - Everything2.com

October 19th, 2023

Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 Thou shall not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind (idea) See all of Thou shall not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind, there are 2 more in this node. (idea) by apathy42 Fri Aug 29 2003 at 4:01:27 This statement is the primary commandment of the Great Convention in the universe of Dune (written by Frank Herbert). It is not only a civil law, but also a religious commandment, featured in the Orange Catholic Bi...

Alice in Wonderland Chapter Three Creaticely Revised

October 19th, 2023

Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 Alice in Wonderland (idea) See all of Alice in Wonderland, there are 2 more in this node. See also: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (idea) by Azound Wed Jun 28 2000 at 8:38:47 Remake of Chapter VIII The Sea in the Puddle A LARGE ROSE-TREE stood near the entrance of the garden: the roses on it were white. Alice took a step towards the tree, and noticed a puddle to the side of it. She stepped into the puddle, and felt the gro...

Nuclear Transparency

October 15th, 2023

Some secrets are difficult to see passively, but easy to see as a few "coincidences" are lined up. For example, did you know the Bikini was named after Bikini Atoll Nuclear testing? 07/01/1946 Bikini Atoll: First Post War Nuclear Detonation07/05/1946 Bikini Debut: named after Atomic tests. It was so obscene for the time they had to hire a stripper to model it! It became normalized after Playboy, Hollywood, and beauty pageants kept them in the public eye. By itself...

Saltburn

October 6th, 2023

LONDON 2023Review: Saltburnby David Katz06/10/2023 - Emerald Fennell’s follow-up to Promising Young Woman is a scabrous thriller about the British upper classes, and those who wish to infiltrate themBarry Keoghan in SaltburnSaltburn, the glossy new film by fast-rising British writer-director Emerald Fennell, screening at BFI London, has "remember whens" and "if onlys" on its mind: nostalgia for the prim and privileged Oxford education of her youth, with its sense of abundant possibility for t...

Teaching Students About Literary Allusion

October 2nd, 2023

In literature, an allusion is a reference to a well-known person, place, event, or literary work that the author expects the reader to recognize and draw meaning from. Teaching students about literary allusion is an important aspect of literature education as it helps students to better understand the text they are reading, and also emphasizes the interconnections between literary works. The first step in teaching allusion to students is to help them understand what it is. It is crucial fo...

Narcissus has been with us all along - Ancient stories as narcissistic narratives

September 26th, 2023

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Gun Crazy

September 25th, 2023

Gun Crazy is a precursor to Bonnie and Clyde (1967) and the sub-genre of ‘Couple on the Run’ films, which, like any film noir or neo-noir, is bound to end in tragedy. With impeccable editing that smoothly transitions across tense blocks of the screenplay, the movie establishes both a rapid-fire plot of thrills and finds time to reflect on the themes and psychology of its lead protagonists.Directed by Joseph H. Lewis and written by the HUAC blacklisted Dalton Trumbo (under a pseudonym), the sc...

On Not Asking if I should Insert Myself in the Text

September 11th, 2023

There is a passage in Ruth Behar’s book, The Vulnerable Observer: Anthropology that breaks your heart, in which she identifies the ‘most difficult feat of all’ for writers: how to ‘insert our participating-and-observing selves into the story’. It was 1996 and Behar was addressing anthropology researchers who were tasked with developing a rich textual account of the workplaces and communities where they had spent months and years. She made a case for using what she called a ‘personal voice’ in...

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