Category Archives: Films

LQCs: Bad Map Projections; Worldle; Banned Books

Posted on Wednesday 4 May 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

I’ve commented a few times about map projections, and how projections of the entire globe are invariably misleading in one way or another, because there’s no accurate way to map a spherical surface onto a flat map. Inevitably there are … Continue reading →

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Boosted

Posted on Tuesday 28 December 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

I thought to post a summary of one of those E.O. Wilson books tonight, but it’s past 4:30 and I don’t think I have the time. (I try to wrap up here by 5:30.) So some miscellaneous items today. First, … Continue reading →

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Don’t Look Up, 2

Posted on Sunday 26 December 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

Follow-up to previous post: about the film Don’t Look Up. So, I give the film a thumbs-up, even though it’s uneven. It follows through on its premise. It effectively parodies the denialist nature of the anti-vaxx crowd, with a crucial … Continue reading →

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Don’t Look Up, 1

Posted on Saturday 25 December 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

Another quick holiday post.

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Links & Comments: More on Foundation and Dune

Posted on Friday 12 November 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

I still have not seen the Dune movie, nor any Foundation episode past the 2nd. Still, articles and reviews about them illustrate some basic principles about science fiction, and about dramatic adaptations of science fiction, and I’ll post a few … Continue reading →

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Blue Marvel Relaxation

Posted on Saturday 10 July 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

The hospital rooms where I stayed for several weeks in May and June, had TVs, of course, mounted on the walls with remotes operated from the beds.

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Film Notes: Summer Stock and others

Posted on Sunday 18 October 2020 by Mark R. Kelly

Lately our evening TV has trended toward checking the movie channels around 8pm (after watching the TV game shows Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune, the former my favorite and the latter Y’s) to see what’s on. We subscribe to a … Continue reading →

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Skiffy Flix: King Kong

Posted on Thursday 16 July 2020 by Mark R. Kelly

This very famous and popular film, from 1933, isn’t exactly science fiction, but somewhat adjacent to SF: a variation of the “lost world” story popular in the 19th and early 20th centuries, when there were still unexplored areas of the … Continue reading →

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Skiffy Flix: Son of Frankenstein

Posted on Wednesday 15 July 2020 by Mark R. Kelly

This third Frankenstein film, Son of Frankenstein, from 1939 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Son_of_Frankenstein), again features Boris Karloff as the monster. I saw this film decades ago, likely in the 1990s when there was a fine, independent video rental store around the corner from … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Crazy Rich Asians

Posted on Tuesday 28 August 2018 by Mark R. Kelly

(From Facebook, Sunday 26 August) Today we saw Crazy Rich Asians, a pleasant if fairly conventional Hollywood comedy romance, the distinctive and attractive feature being that the entire cast is Asian, and it’s mostly set in Singapore among the very … Continue reading →

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