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Category: movies & television

movies & television/things

The movie Missing.

October 3, 2009

The 1982 drama Missing with Jack Lemmon and Sissy Spacek is a great movie for Americans who want to take a few steps down an alternate memory road. The Cold War...

ideas/movies & television

Using CG to render the possible: a greener world.

August 30, 2009

On Before New York in National Geographic. To date, computer graphics have been used most memorably in live-action movies to realize futuristic objects like spa...

movies & television/things

Two movies about politics, neither historical.

August 30, 2009

I had heard of the movie Soylent Green so many times over the years that I may have been dulled to the experience of seeing it for first time – which I did just...

movies & television/people

The Class (Entre les murs) will make your heart explode – inside your head.

August 23, 2009

The movie The Class may be the smartest, most gripping story I’ve encountered in a very long time. The day after, I was still thinking about the character...

movies & television/things

Smart movie, smart advertising, smart money.

August 16, 2009

The NYT: The low-budget alien movie “District 9” was No. 1 at the weekend box office with an estimated $37 million in ticket sales, a stronger than expected res...

ideas/movies & television/people/things

movies

August 9, 2009

Movies are uniquely able to transport the viewer into another person’s life – to see the world from an alien point of view. The excellent movie Blame it o...

ideas/movies & television/play

who do you know?

May 29, 2009

Jonathan Haidt: “Our minds were not designed by evolution to discover the truth; they were designed to play social games.” From the same op-ed, Nicholas D. Kris...

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