2021 was a pretty good year for television, books, and discovering authors I wasn’t familiar with. This was the year I came across Joe Abercrombie, Ashley Pollard, Andy Weir, Jim Al-Khalili, and Peter Cawdron. In all cases I’ve read at least three of their books this year, and they were uniformly excellent. Abercrombie is an …
Month: December 2021
Door into Summer Director(s) Takahiro Miki Screenplay By Tomoe Kanno Date Released 12/28/2021 Where To Watch Netflix Genre(s) Drama, Sci-Fi, Young Adult, Non-English, Family, Mystery Duration 1 Hour, 58 Minutes Content Rating TV-PG Noted Cast Soichiro Kento Yamazaki Riko Kaya Kiyohara PETE Naohito Fujiki Professor Toi Tomorô Taguchi Rin Shiraishi Natsuna Watanabe Kazuhito Matsushita Hidekazu …
Termination Shock by Neal Stephenson William Morrow, 720 pp. There is an old saying attributed to the Arabs: “It is unwise to summon that which you cannot dismiss.” The underlying philosophy is that we can conjure up mighty powers and processes to deal with any given situation, but in the event of unintended consequences (and …
Get Back Directed by Peter Jackson Starring John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr Music by The Beatles Executive producers Jeff Jones, Ken Kamins, Producers Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Yoko Ono Lennon, Olivia Harrison, Peter Jackson, Clare Olssen, Jonathan Clyde Editor Jabez Olssen Running time 157 min (part 1), 173 min (part 2), 138 …
Darkest Hour Directed by Joe Wright Written by Anthony McCarten Produced by Tim Bevan, Lisa Bruce, Eric Fellner, Anthony McCarten, Douglas Urbanski Starring Gary Oldman, Kristin Scott Thomas, Lily James, Stephen Dillane, Ronald Pickup, Ben Mendelsohn Cinematography Bruno Delbonnel As a child, I was taught, over and over, that Winston S. Churchill was the greatest …
Don’t Look Up Directed by Adam McKay Screenplay by Adam McKay Story by Adam McKay & David Sirota Produced by Adam McKay & Kevin Messick Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence, Rob Morgan, Jonah Hill, Mark Rylance, Tyler Perry, Timothée Chalamet, Ron Perlman, Ariana Grande, Scott Mescudi, Himesh Patel, Melanie Lynskey, Michael Chiklis, Tomer Sisley, Paul …
Riggin’ in the Friggin’ Solstice 2021 – Wisdom and Betrayal Bryan Zepp Jamieson December 21st 2021 When it came to observing the Winter Solstice, the Nordic gods were first and foremost. Makes sense, given that they lived in the land of ice and snow, and the midnight sun and noon darkness. Observing the Solstice didn’t …
The Freak Brothers Directors: Dominic Polcino, Joe Ekers, Jeanette Moreno King & Juan Jose Meza-Leon Cast: John Goodman Fat Freddy Freekowtski Pete Davidson Phineas T. Phreakears Tiffany Haddish Fat Freddy’s Cat (renamed and regendered “Kitty” for the series) Woody Harrelson Freewheelin’ Franklin Freek Also: Adam Devine, Alan Freedland, Alan R. Cohen, Andrea Savage, Blake Anderson, Carrie …