A.O. Scott of the New York Times makes a glowing Christmas pick: . In a second I’ll tell you why this particular film fills me with a sense of Christmas well being… It is near the close of the film, Christmas Eve, as the stage is set for the wonderful…
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The Amateur Cloud Society That (Sort Of) Rattled the Scientific Community An improbable tale of how a British maverick harnessed crowd sourced meteorological discoveries to reveal the poetic wonders of the sky. By JON MOOALLEMMAY 4, 2016 …A cloud is only water, but arranged like no other water on earth.…
One forecast group expects the coldest third week of February on record in the eastern United States. Why is this happening? Partly, it goes back to last fall. In Siberia. “There was a big ramp-up of something we call the snowfall advance index during the month of October in Siberia,”…
Douthat: …And then weirdly, the season’s best sci-fi blockbuster — one of the best such since “The Matrix,” for my money — ended up getting, essentially, an art-house release, because the director, Bong Joon-ho, feuded with Harvey Weinstein, and Harvey banished the movie to limited release and video-on-demand. I speak,…
Forgiveness, I blame the horrible pun on a tenacious headache. The Castle has a John Lautner guest house and Mr. Moby likes his architecture, hence a blog: Moby Los Angeles Architecture Blog. And, the castle has a really nice view – when I was a kid I used to skirt…
E. M. Forster, in his 1927 book “Aspects of the Novel,” presented the concept of “round” versus “flat” characters. He generally preferred the former to the latter except when the purpose was to arouse feelings of “humour” or “appropriateness,” maintaining that flat characters, comprised of a single idea or “factor,”…
“My sister was born a lion, and I a tiger, and in the laws of the jungle, they were never friends.” via Joan Fontaine, star of ‘Suspicion’ and ‘Rebecca,’ dies at 96 – latimes.com. “Looking back on Hollywood, looking at it even today,” Ms. Fontaine wrote in “No Bed of…
By A. O. Scott (Who, by the way, always gets me thinking… Great film critic.) …Walt, in a late, decisive conversation, explains that their job as storytellers is to “restore order” to the chaos of life and infuse bleak realities with bright, happy colors. Imagination, in other words, is a…