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Angels & Demons 2009
Competently made, but ultimately 'meh' for me. I need my thrillers more hard boiled and less puzzle-driven.
One mild irritation: I have a memory of reading this book, but I have no recording of it in my LibraryThing. I for sure would have recorded it, but when I cross-referenced my BLOG, I found that I started Dan Brown's "Inferno" in 2013, but I also didn't finish that.
Regardless, it is a Ron Howard and Tom Hanks movie, so it was…
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Silicon Valley 2013
I have been watching the HBO series Silicon Valley, and it is splendid. Between the second and third season, I sought out a documentary about the real Silicon Valley, and found this marvelous American Experience documentary titled "Silicon Valley".
I have read the stories of the formative companies (IBM, Texas Instruments) and the formative technologies (the transistor, the integrated chip, the microprocessor), but this doc is a superb synthesis of all that material, told through the through-line of Robert Noyce,…
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The Holdovers 2023
This is a movie of both sadness and sweetness, and I think it gets the blend just right. There are truths in all the indignities our characters suffer and director Alexander Payne holds on these moments long enough for us to feel it. His film is also an appreciation for 1970s New England and Boston in Winter. I loved this movie's heart. Hats off to Paul Giamatti, Dominic Sessa and Da'Vine Joy Randolph. "Entre nous!"
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Conclave 2024
I am firmly in the secular world these days. And when I do think about the Catholic Church, I always go back to the adjective "man-made". It is a man-made institution, as are all religious beliefs.
Despite my lapsed religion, I enjoyed Conclave. I remember enough of the rites and rituals that all the praying and fancy garments was almost soothing. The movie then brings in the politics and high drama, which was all too believeable.
I especially appreciated the…
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