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Civil War - Alex Garland (2024)
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Film
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So, played out against the backdrop of America - a group of journalists are documenting the secession of Texas/California and the Civil War that results. It's good, not great, and ends - well, not unpredictably. IN fact probably a little too predictable.
Tonight I'll watch "Warfare" and see if that's any better.
UFO Sweden (2022)
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Film
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This was a charming Italian/Swedish film, in the vein of "Super Eight", about a young girl whose father disappeared during a mysterious "weather/ufo" event.
And it goes off in a few directions but notable it sticks pretty close to it's subject and doesn't opt for any of the easy endings that most American versions would have done. Which, in my mind, makes it superior. Sort of a kids film, "Goonies" or "ET" but without the big budget and effects. It succeeds despite.
Harvard Copy of Magna Carta found to be Original
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Found
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Hidden in plain sight, as they would say. A 1327 "Copy" of the Magna Carta, purchased in London in 1946 for the princely sum of $27.50 has proven to be an original.
Link: https://hls.harvard.edu/today/harvard-law-schools-copy-of-magna-carta-revealed-as-original/
The Surfer - 2024
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Film
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Nicholas Cage in something completely different...
Now, what I initially thought was going to be a Nic Cage surfer-revenge pic a-la "John Wick" or a million other-some-such.
Was I wrong. A completely surreal - well, how to describe it? And I don't care to give the plot away - but the camera, the shimmering heat, Nicholas Cages (and other's) eyebrows given an absurd focus, the twists and turns - I did not see that coming.
And the meta - for fear of giving it away - I'll put beneath the "read more" link.
Not an enjoyable or easy watch - but absolutely brilliant.
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