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Star Wars Fan Film: The Recompense
Posted by Greg Laden on May 26, 2015 
I’ve written about The Recompense here, and that writeup includes interviews with the creative team putting the film together. This is just a quick note to remind you that The Recompense has a kick starter project with one week left. So, now, you have to go there and kick in a few bucks! The graphic…
New Star Wars Film: The Recompense
Posted by Greg Laden on May 19, 2015 
Bounty hunter Jahdo Kyn intends to start a new life, but in order to leave his troubled past behind he has to buy himself a new future. He has a plan, but as his plan develops he discovers a dilemma, one that requires him to make choices he is not well-prepared to make. This is…
Ana is coming up the Atlantic
Posted by Greg Laden on May 9, 2015 
I remember joking with my friend Ana about how her name would be attached to the first named storm in the 2015 Atlantic Hurricane season. It turns out Ana is an exceptional individual. Both of them. Ana, my friend, is an actor and is currently engaged in a project I’ll be telling you more about…
Science of The Avengers
Posted by Greg Laden on April 28, 2015 
From “Reactions” (from the American Chemical Society).. Without chemicals, super heroes would be impossible! See Also: The Physics of Superheroes–Jim Kaklios
Does The Rite Have the Right Stuff?
Posted by Greg Laden on January 29, 2011 As an ex-Catholic, I can appreciate a good movie involving Satin1 or his Minions. There are several reasons for this. For one thing, I get the jokes.2 Some of them are rather subtle and require an understanding of church dogma. Also, I can relate to the stranger side of the belief system from personal experience.…
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part I
Posted by Greg Laden on November 21, 2010 We braved ice and fog to go down to see Harry Potter this morning. And yes, it was indeed icy, which was a bit traumatic for me. Last time I was walking on glare ice, I fell and seriously injured my knee. That was last February and I’m still doing physical therapy and taking the…
Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia [citation needed]
Posted by Greg Laden on October 19, 2010 I like Wikipedia, I really do. But there are also some serious, very serious problems with it. I just read the entries on the Battle of Rorke’s Drift, a few related historical entries, and the entry on the movie Zulu, which is about the Battle of Rorke’s drift. My interest here is in looking at…
An organic workout, a strange encounter, and a movie
Posted by Greg Laden on September 19, 2010 Replacing floors is a total exercise routine. Moving furniture out of the way, ripping up whatever is there, measuring and cutting new sub flooring, carting around heavy sheets of plywood, tacking and nailing, and so on and so forth works every single muscle in one’s body. That’s what we did last weekend. Also, I was…
THEM!
Posted by Greg Laden on May 21, 2010 I recently watched this film for the first time since I was a little kid. The plot is much more nuanced than I had realized at the time. Interesting mixture of science and religion.
‘Ana’s Playground,’ filmed in Minneapolis, will screen Saturday
Posted by Greg Laden on March 3, 2010 Details on the film and the screening here. Hat tip: Ana.