I’d enjoyed these similar TV shows …
… so tried something quite similar – Better than Us
It’s the first Russian television series to make it to Netflix.
I made it through 8 of the 16 episodes before finally giving up. The pace too slow. The English dubbed audio hilariously bad.
Paulina Andreeva is shockingly realistic as a killer robot.
The little daughter in the show played by Vita Kornienko is fantastic too.
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Surprisingly, I’d never visited Moorecroft Regional Park near Parksville though it’s considered one of the best parks on Vancouver Island.
Moorecroft was established 1934 as a summer camp for girls by Gertrude Moore.
My mother’s maiden name is Moore.
I cycled out. Ran about an hour on nearby trails. Then cycled back to Tim Hortons.
It operated continuously by her until 1954, when her failing health necessitated the decision to sell the waterfront property. The United Church of Canada purchased the property for $50,000, and continued to run it as a camp. It decided to sell the 85 acre property in 2010 and the property was put up for sale for $7.95 million and there was great concern that this great place would be lost to a future subdivision or some other type of development. Concerned local citizens and conservation groups were preparing for the worst-case scenario when three factors made a good resolution possible. The United Church agreed to put a conservation covenant on the property that zoned most of the lands for the protection of its ecological interests.
Not long afterwards it was purchased by the Regional District of Nanaimo and the Nature Trust of BC for $4.8 million down from the asking price of 7.98 million. It opened as Moorecroft Regional Park in 2011. It is a credit to the United Church and the district for preserving this historic property.
Most mornings I wake early. Head directly to Tim Hortons to pick up coffee.
Continue on to Rathtrevor Beach Provincial Park, one of the most beautiful beaches I know in the Pacific N.W.
At low tide, it stretches nearly a kilometre out into the Strait of Georgia.
The park is an important stopover area for migratory birds, notably brant geese, which use the beach as a staging area from March 1 to April 15.
Birds stop in the spring for the annual herring spawn … which also attracts large numbers of seals.
There are plenty of friendly, feral rabbits too.
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I finally got around to watching this intense end-of-the-world film — while locked up for COVID-19.
Bird Box is a 2018 American post-apocalyptic thriller …
The film follows a woman, played by Sandra Bullock, as she tries to protect herself and two children from malevolent supernatural entities that make people who look at them go insane and commit suicide. …
On Rotten Tomatoes, an approval rating of 63% …
Sandra Bullock is always good.
And I found the film quite skillful, interweaving two story lines set 5 years apart.
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Blow the Man Down is an 2019 American black comedy thriller …
It holds a 100% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes …
Some call it Fargo set in coastal Maine.
Quirky. Original. Very believable characters.
Mary Beth (Morgan Saylor) and Pris (Sophie Lowe) Connolly are sisters who have been taking care of their ailing mother for a year. On the day of her funeral, Mary Beth, the younger of the two (she’s about 18), learns the grim news that the mother, who owned and ran a local fish store, has left them with nothing but debt.
The great Margo Martindale runs the town whorehouse.
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Variety – Tribeca Film Review: ‘Blow the Man Down’
A surprisingly good film. … And I hate motor racing of all kinds.
Matt Damon is good as Matt Damon. As always.
But Christian Bale is by far the highlight of this movie. I’m going to watch more of his films.
Ford v Ferrari stars Matt Damon and Christian Bale …
The plot follows a determined team of American engineers and designers, led by automotive designer Carroll Shelby and his British driver, Ken Miles, who are dispatched by Henry Ford II and Lee Iacocca with the mission of building the Ford GT40, a new racing car with the potential to finally defeat the perennially dominant Ferrari racing team at the 1966 24 Hours of Le Mans race in France. …
… at the 92nd Academy Awards received four nominations, including Best Picture …
For his performance, Bale was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Drama and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role. …
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As usual, the real story has been altered to make the movie more dramatic.
Fact is, neither of the Ferrari cars made it past the half way point of the race.
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One odd book.
I can’t decide whether or not to recommend it.
Then We Came to the End (2007) is a satire of the American workplace.
It takes place in a Chicago advertising agency that is experiencing a downturn at the end of the 1990s Internet boom.
What ties the novel together is the canny formal choice Ferris has made: his decision to write the novel in the first-person plural.
There is no single “narrator.” Rather, a group of workers relates the story, reconceiving 19th-century omniscience as a gossipy group consciousness …
Hell Is Other Cubicles
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