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  • Scattershots – 12oct15

    George Rebane The government is corrupt.  It’s always a tickle to note the protestations of liberals on these pages who howl when we conservetarians point out that our government is too big, inept beyond belief, costs too much, overreaches into our lives, and is hopelessly corrupt in literally all that it does.  The local leftwing…

  • ‘Gravity’ – from implausible via improbable to impossible

    George Rebane Fair warning, this little critique of the hit movie ‘Gravity’ will greatly reduce your enjoyment of it, especially if you recall your high school physics.  Based on the rave reviews it has been getting (I read Joe Morgenstern in the WSJ), we and another couple went to see it last Sunday.  The saving…

  • ‘Behold the Pale Horse’ in ‘2016’ (updated 27aug12)

    George Rebane This week with friends, Jo Ann and I attended showings of the two titled movies about the state of our country and its portents.  They are excellent albeit disturbing summaries of the notions and issues that we have been discussing on RR for the last five years.  Definitely worth seeing for those whose…

  • Hollywood Synthesized – Another Step Closer

    George Rebane In ‘Avatars – Lauren and Bogie Together Again’ I described the progress toward a new film industry wherein old actors would become immortal and continue to star in new films as long as audiences were willing to pay for them.  Accelerating technology has taken another giant step in this direction as described here in…

  • Atlas Mugged (Addended)

    George Rebane Yesterday afternoon we, along with the Steeles, went to see the movie ‘Atlas Shrugged – Part 1’ that I described in ‘Shrugging Atlas is Back’.   The movie, based on Ayn Rand’s novel of the same name, lived up to its expectations.  The casting, acting, production values, and fidelity to the original were well…

  • Ruminations – 19jan2010

    George Rebane • Avatar – the screenplay• Haiti and foreign aid I was reminded of my naivete by an email from a RR reader with a link to an article that discussed the message delivered by the film Avatar.  This blockbuster raises the bar for producing movies rich in very realistic computer graphics and extends all this into…

  • Avatars Lauren and Bogie, Together Again

    George Rebane In the early 1980s my firm in Los Angeles had just bought and installed the most advanced computer graphics system available.  It was the second one on the west coast (the other one belonged to a big aerospace company) and we used it to create multi-media images and videos for the then new…

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