April
Short Fiction: Marie Brennan's "From the Editorial Page of the Falchester Weekly Review", Glenn Hirshberg's "Freedom is Space for the Spirit", Tara Isabella Burton's "the Destroyer" & Genevieve Valentine's "La Beaute Sans Vertu".

New Reads:
Brandon Sanderson's Calamity and the Bands of Mourning.  The first finishes up his supers' trilogy and ( Read more... )

Very much flash over substance.  Lots of Michael Mann's stylistic camera shots.  Plus a score that often overwhelmed the already stilted dialogue.  And an almost laughably under-reacting Chinese government to help set up the Outnumbered Heroes Outsmart the Evil Bad Baddies.  And their quest to manipulate the tin market.  I mean seriously the ( Read more... )

Benedict Cumberbatch makes a really good Alan Turing.  The movie mostly covers Turing and the others of the Betchly groups breaking of Germany's ENIGMA device.  Framed as a flashback during Turing's post-war arrest for indency, aka getting caught being gay...

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Playing with the mom's iPad. Main problem? My big fat fingers. Nice spell check though...

This is the first time where the 3-d filming for a live-action movie didn't feel obtrusive to me. And the soundtrack only grated on me once, an impressive feat given that I can't stand Daft Punk normally ( Read more... )

While I enjoyed this movie a great deal there is something that just felt slightly off about it. Probably just director David Fincher not meshing perfectly with Aaron Sorkin's script. And while I've always loved Sorkin's rapid-fire dialogue, especially when delivered perfectly as Jesse Eisenburg does as Facebook CEO and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg ( Read more... )

I have to say I think I like the '64 version slightly more for a couple reasons. One, Matthieu pulled off obsessive borderline lunatic a bit better than Azaria does. Azaria seems less obsessed with trying to beat the Russians then one of those academic zealots who can't accept that they're pet theories might have flaws ( Read more... )

Visiting Senator: Is that light supposed to do that?

Nuke Bomber Commander: Just a glitch. We'll just swap it out. The system has no problems.

2nd in Command: Thats right, nothing can possibly go wrong.

Murphy: SUCK ENTROPY BITCHES!

*Problems Happen And Stuff Goes Horribly Wrong*Also Walter Matthieu's character has the least understanding ( Read more... )

This tab stuff is hard to get used to. I keep wanting to go to the lower bar to change windows, instead of using the upper bar tabs...