We are watching the french mini-series "Le Petit Quinquin." It is very bizarre and powerful in many ways. The timing and cinematography will keep you spell-bound. You will need subtitles. 4/5 stars.
Monday night we watched “Run All Night” where Liam
Neeson plays an alcoholic mafia torpedo who has Liam-Neeson super powers. When
you shoot him it makes him angry. Not great but a fun shoot-em-up 3/5 stars, worth watching.
The anti-fraud team in Google has very cool digs in London. They are fighting botnets that create billions in click fraud losses to the evil search giant (ESG).
Their entrance is like a big bank vault.
Their powerdrill super-computer sounds really cool. But the article indicates they are losing the battle and the click fraud is actually increasing.
Read the whole thing.
. . . is slightly better than the terrible reviews; 3/5 stars. Not good; barely worth watching.
Just
based on recommendations from people at work we watched "Iron Sky." It was as bad as the reviews and we are sorry we wasted the time. 1/5 stars.
On Wednesday night we watched "Astérix - Le Domaine des Dieux." It has some silly boring sequences but in general is true to the comics in satire, tone, and deep character development. I like the plot and story arc. It is worth sitting through if you have young, french-speaking children. The prolonged climax and end are fantastic. 3/5 stars.
On Tuesday night we watched "Whoami." It is much better than it looks from the trailer. We enjoyed it -- 3/5 stars.
Tonight we watched "Kingsman the secret service," another campy, over-the-top, James Bond satire with Samuel L Jackson, Colin Firth, and Michael Cain (among others). It was fun and we enjoyed the silly satire. The acting was weak; the plot was crap. But none of that matters. 3/5 stars. Enjoy it for what it is.
During the Math Olympiad I read Stephen King's Revival. It is fantastically crafted. The characters come alive; the plot is tight as a drum. The mystery and foreshadow draw you in. The language is just wonderful. Cool homages to H.P. Lovecraft and others.
I really dislike the horror genre but Stephen King is a great writer. The occult crap during the story is easily ignored; but the climax and "big reveal" at the end was silly and pushed me out of the story. Even so I give it 4/5 stars and highly recommend it.
Tonight we watched this film about the producer and director of the live tv documentary that broadcast the Eichmann trial. It contained a lot of original footage: 3/5 stars -- worth watching.
Today (Saturday, 2 May 2015) we attended the Math Olympiad for 5th and 6th graders in Kent, WA. Up at 05:30, long drive, fun math team problems.
A zero from the left, a zero from the right, let’s go math team! Fight, fight, fight!
Go, International School Super Sigmas!
