Huck Finn, and Becky Thatcher on what appears to be a collision course with Halley's Comet. The rest of the plot concerns the kids meeting up with other characters from his works. It's weird, to be certain, but is one of the most unusual claymation movies...
In 2021, Adam McKay directed the political satireDon't Look Upand Netflix released it during awards season, hoping for the best. What resulted was a lot of awards nominations, including four at the Oscars, including Best Picture. The movie was about two astronomers who learn a comet is hea...
Director Sean Baker describes “Anora” as a Cinderella story, but that’s only true to the extent that his Walt Disney World-adjacent “The Florida Project” could be seen as a fairy tale. Baker’s subversively romantic, freewheeling sex farce makes “Pretty Woman” look like a Disney mov...
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The MSDN magazine article Building a Simple Comet Application in the Microsoft .NET Framework describes an example solution. Using SignalR to push data in real time from the web server to the client over a persistent network connection. SignalR is available for ASP.NET web applications as a ...
While the author is clearly sympathetic to the ideals of Annares, The Dispossessed is a pointed critique of typical utopian narratives; the dichotomies that Le Guin describes are not readily surmounted — it’s a negative-dialectical romance. Fun facts: Although this was the fifth novel published...
The Wild Shore describes growing up in a small community of about sixty people in San Onofre, California, about halfway between Los Angeles and San Diego. The story is told from the point of view of a young man, Henry “Hank” Fletcher, and his friends. The setting is a small pastoral...
(even if the Manhattan Project sequences can seem broadly analogous to the filmmaking process, as large swaths of “Inception” and “The Prestige” did before them), nor to suggest that the director sees himself in the same regard as the man he describes in the “Oppenheimer” press notes...
Everyone I have ever known has seen me in this pose. I use it to this day. It seems also always to suggest a caption, aKomposita(a German compound term) . . . fromZietgeisttoWeltschmerzto the recently coined GermanCoronaangstterms, likeMaskentrottel(mask idiot) andImpfneid(envy of thos...
Despite its small size, the island boasts 10 beaches, meaning each day can be different. To balance out the "no-frills, casual destination," as Lieberman describes it, newlyweds can dress up and dine at acclaimed seafood restaurants in the evening. ...