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Welcome to this week's news post! I apologise for the lack of a post last week, but I was battling issues with my computer and a bad cold. But no fear! In this this week's edition which is full of spats between Simon and Schuster and Barnes and Noble which seems to be getting worse, Sexism in the SFWA and more news!
First up, it looks like the disagreement between Simon and Schuster and Barnes and Noble is not going to end anytime soon, and in fact looks like its becoming worse. I saw via Twitter and a few blog posts this week that authors have complained that their books are not listed on the B&N site or shelved at their stores as well. This is harming both companies as S&S has basically lost the support one of the largest booksellers in the country and vice versa for B&N which is definitely forcing customers to shop to their competitors. I really hope that this disagreement does get settled soon but it is very frustrating for authors and readers who are caught out in the battle between the two companies.
The past few weeks has been epically awful in SFF and attitudes towards female authors. Two SF authors, Mike Resnick and Barry Malzberg wrote bemoaning about the backlash they received from the comments they made in the SFWA 199th edition and in the 200th edition of the magazine. They commented they felt they were being confined and restricted and was being censored but hey the irony of referring female authors/editors as lady writers and lady editors just says it all.
This brought out some fantastic responses from Ann Aguirre who wrote about her experiences in one con panel and encountering one SF author who demeaned her. It was very disappointing to hear but the backlash she received was much more awful. But I am glad she spoke out along with a few others like Foz Meadow's great post on this blow-out and backlash.
Barnes and Noble UK Nook site has also been caught up in a bit of censorship or listing blunder scandal with hundreds of erotic romance and even general romantic titles being delisted and removed from the store. Although there is some reports that titles can be found by adding erotic tag with the search of the title and author. But it doesn't explain why some titles have been removed which do not have any erotic content but overall this is a clumsy approach in listing books and hiding a subgenre which is deemed to be too racy for their general search. But I suspect this will be reversed in the near future since Amazon has learned that delisting books didn't help in garnering sales especially for a genre which is quite popular.
Kobo has reported a huge rise in growth in the first quarter of this year. They stated they 98% in growth with another rise in sales of their devices which includes their new Aura HD ereader which was released earlier this year. Kobo also announced that their stock of books has grown and with their recent opening of the Japanese store – it looks like Kobo has strengthened its position in the international market as a huge player in the ebook market.
George RR Martin's Companion to his Game of Throne series – The World of Fire and Ice has been delayed because he has written an epic 250,000 words and is still cranking out more details and material which includes brand new information.
And finally fans of Susan Ee can rejoice – the long awaited sequel which many fans have been waiting for has been slated for released later this year. The title of the book is called World After and you can check out the blurb here!
And now for books to watch out for!
Larissa Ione's 10th Demonica book – Reaver which is slated for this December has a cover and a blurb. I so cannot wait for this installment as it promises to be epic!
WARRIOR OF HEAVEN
Reaver is an angel with a past, a record, and a less-than-heavenly attitude. Powerful enough to fight alongside the fiercest battle angels-and crazy enough to risk his wings on a one-way mission to hell-he's agreed to go where no angel has ever gone before…to steal the most seductive and dangerous prize of Satan himself.
ANGEL OF HELL
Harvester is one of the Fallen, a once-heroic angel who sacrificed her wings to work as an undercover agent in hell. But now her cover has been blown, and she's been doomed to an eternity of agonizing torture. Even if Reaver can snatch her away from Satan's lair, even if they can fight their way out of the underworld's darkest depths, there is one thing Harvester can never escape-her newfound thirst for an angel's blood…
Thea Harrison has posted the cover and blurb for her latest Elder Races novella – The Wicked.
The adventure of a lifetime might just end in turmoil, but when it includes meeting your future mate, who gives a hoot?
A Novella of the Elder Races
For a librarian with a focus on rare magic books, Olivia's new job is a dream come true. She has been hired as part of a team to help manage the safe transportation of the collection of books owned by the Vampyre sorceress Carling Severan. The fact that the library is located on a mysterious island in an Other land only heightens the adventure.
Head of security for the expedition, Sebastian Hale is tired of his rootless life of adventure and finds himself attracted to the calm, beautiful librarian. But he is living a personal nightmare. He has been hit with a curse that is slowly taking away his sight, and he doesn't know if he will survive the results.
But the powerful feelings growing between them, along with Sebastian's inner turmoil, take a backseat when they learn there is a traitor lurking among their expedition team. With Elder Races politics and a priceless library on the line, they'll have to rely on each other to survive the experience.
Warning: When a librarian who likes to nest meets an owl Wyr who has always lived for adventure, their romance won't just be fly-by-night…
And finally we have The Golden City which has set my book radar a'tingling.
For two years, Oriana Paredes has been a spy among the social elite of the Golden City, reporting back to her people, thesereia, sea folk banned from the city's shores….
When her employer and only confidante decides to elope, Oriana agrees to accompany her to Paris. But before they can depart, the two women are abducted and left to drown. Trapped beneath the waves, Oriana's heritage allows her to survive while she is forced to watch her only friend die.
Vowing vengeance, Oriana crosses paths with Duilio Ferreira—a police consultant who has been investigating the disappearance of a string of servants from the city's wealthiest homes. Duilio also has a secret: He is a seer and his gifts have led him to Oriana.
Bound by their secrets, not trusting each other completely yet having no choice but to work together, Oriana and Duilio must expose a twisted plot of magic so dark that it could cause the very fabric of history to come undone….
So what do you think of Barnes and Noble delisting erotica books? And what about the issues surrounding SFWA and attitudes in SFF about women writers and readers?
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aurian June 7, 2013 at 3:52 pm
I have no idea what delisting means actually. Are they removing those books from their e shop? And erotica is really hot in Holland, i just heard a radio commercial today, about the new book, from the publisher of 50 shades, something title 80 days of yellow. At least, that is the translation of the Dutch title.
Has June 7, 2013 at 4:04 pm
LOL well when Amazon delisted books it meant that you couldn't find them in a general search – for B&N UK you had to add the erotic romance tag with the author or title of the book to show up a link 😛 Irony is that other books which are so more explicit or have more darker elements show up ok. Its a mess.
Draconismoi June 8, 2013 at 8:12 pm
Oh I have OPINIONS about chauvinist assholes who think they OWN the speculative fictions genre and are all passed off that women are coming in and doing it better.
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Plane crash: "I'm proud of you" – Fiancée of late NAF pilot pens heartbreaking tribute
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Deedee Matankari, the fianceé of late Flight Lieutenant Elijah Haruna Karatu, a deceased pilot of the Nigerian Air For (NAF) has penned a heartbreaking tribute.
On Tuesday, April 19th, 2022, news broke that an aircraft had crashed at the NAF base in Kaduna.
Sadly, the Elijah and his colleague, Flight Lieutenant Abubakar Muhammed Alkali, lost their lives in a Super Mushshak trainer jet.
Writing a tribute to her fiancé, she noted that she's proud of her man.
She wrote:
"My baby lives. Haruna Elijah Karatu, The spirit of just men made perfect. You have joined my cloud of witnesses. The sovereignty of God. We obey. We follow. I'm proud of you."


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Indians' Michael Brantley named to 2014 American League All-Star Team
by: Darcie Loreno
Posted: Jul 6, 2014 / 08:11 PM EDT / Updated: Jul 6, 2014 / 08:20 PM EDT
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CLEVELAND, Ohio — Cleveland Indians OF Michael Brantley has been selected as a reserve to the 2014 American League All-Star team.
According to a release from the Indians, Brantley was chosen as the result of player voting.
RHP Corey Kluber has also been selected as one of five "final vote" candidates for a chance to join Brantley on the league squad.
Major League Baseball's 85th All Star Game will be played on Tuesday, July 15, in Minneapolis.
Indians fans can cast their final vote ballots for Kluber online through Thursday, July 10 at 4 p.m. Fans can vote at the Indians website or at the MLB website.
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Fans can also vote on Twitter Thursday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. by using #VoteKluber.
Brantley, 27, earned his first American League All-Star selection and is set to become the first Indians All-Star outfielder since Grady Sizemore in 2008.
Kluber, 28, who is also seeking his first All-Star selection, has an opportunity to become the second Indians starting pitcher in as many seasons to participate in a Mid-Summer Classic.
The remaining A.L. final vote candidates include LHP Dallas Keuchel (Houston Astros), RHP Rick Porcello (Detroit Tigers), RHP Garrett Richards (Los Angeles Angels) and LHP Chris Sale (Chicago White Sox).
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'You will be successful if you really love what you are doing'
An interview with Frank Van Humbeck
Coordinated by: Satinder Chopra | Photos courtesy: Vince Law
As a 25 year employee with Canadian Hunter / Burlington, Frank Van Humbeck was initially somewhat reluctant to be interviewed by the RECORDER. Satinder Chopra, Vince Law, and Jason Noble were able to persuade him to share some of his observations on his career so far.
[Satinder]: Frank, let us begin by asking you about your educational background and your work experience?
I grew up on a farm in central Alberta, near Rimbey, and graduated from high school in 1968. I then went on to the University of Alberta, and graduated from there with a Bachelor of Science degree. I originally started in pure physics and math. When you come from a small town, you know what engineers do, what teachers, nurses and doctors do, but geophysics, what's that? The embarrassing thing is that I could have gotten an APEGGA scholarship in first year if I had been studying engineering, geology or geophysics. I didn't even know what a geologist or geophysicist did. When I got to third year the classes were all quantum mechanics, and special relativity and electromagnetic theory. The U of A in particular was, and still is, a very theoretical school.
One day I was in manpower looking for a summer job. At that time companies were recruiting for nuclear physicists, which you needed a Ph.D. for, and geophysicists. I didn't think I wanted to stay in school long enough to get a Ph.D., so in my third year I switched to geophysics and really had no idea what I was getting into. I graduated in 1972 and was hired by Amoco. I worked at Amoco for six and a half years, until the end of 1978. At Amoco I started off doing seismic processing with another tech. I did that for six months or so, and then got a project where I did the processing and interpretation. The rest of my time there was pretty well entirely interpretation apart from about a year I spent doing some special project work. It was a bit of processing and some liaison work with the research lab in Tulsa.
In 1978 I moved to Canadian Hunter when they were just starting their geophysics group and have been at Canadian Hunter ever since, although it's now Burlington. I have recently been recognized as a 25 year employee, which for the industry, even staying at one company for 25 years, or having one company survive for 25 years, is a bit of an anomaly. When the NEP came in, Can Hunter like everyone else decided we should explore in the US. I started working on the US projects and worked these projects from about 1980 to about 1986. We lived in Denver from the fall of '83 to the spring of '86. I came back to Calgary to be the Chief Geophysicist, and have had that title pretty well ever since. The size of the group has changed depending on the fortunes of the industry and the company. Over the years the company moved towards asset teams and business units. Some years you do more interpretation work and some years you do more paperwork. This year seems to be more paperwork.
[Satinder]: How did you come to decide to leave Amoco and move to Canadian Hunter?
At the time, I think I was just looking for a change. There was an ad in the paper for Canadian Hunter. I was working for Amoco in the Grande Prairie region where Hunter had several discoveries and I replied to the ad. I sketched out the skuzziest looking resume, figuring it would get their attention if they were interested. The Chief Geophysicist at the time was a guy named Tai Ng. Tai was out of Shell with a really strong technical background. I felt at the time that I could learn a lot from Tai, plus they gave me a big raise. It wasn't that I was displeased with Amoco. I had replied to the ad on a whim, and after meeting with Tai and the Hunter team I decided to move. It was kind of the cycle at the time. The big companies trained you to do processing and interpretation but there were so many start up companies a lot of people left the majors.
Jason and Satinder in conversation with Frank Van Humbeck
[Satinder]: How did you find living in Denver as compared to Calgary?
The thing that was interesting working in the US is that I got a much larger variety of plays. In the Western Canada basin I had worked either carbonates or clastics. In the clastics, whether you're working Peace River arch or Northeast Alberta, call it the Glauconite, call it the Viking, call it the Paddy, you're essentially working the same play. It's intensely stratigraphic. Even a lot of the carbonate plays are stratigraphic in that you a re trying to map porosity. When I got into the US basins, I found it was a really challenging experience. Hunter at that time was looking for the elephants. The US boom was such that if you took a deal in the main producing trends and drilled a discovery you still lost money because there were so many overrides. We were exploring in the Washington basin under the basalts. We did a bunch of work on the deep California turbidite trends. A lot of the Rocky Mountain basins we worked were very intensely folded. I worked in the Eastern Indiana basin looking for reefs. It gave me a big variation in plays and that helps a lot in that you look at plays with a different background. The variation in the plays we were working at the time was a lot of fun. If you're an exploration person, it's fun to do the big high risk exploration projects. Your success rate certainly is lower. It was a good experience for me. The cities, it's like living in the same city. The climate is nicer in Denver; you get two more months of summer, and two less of winter.
[Satinder]: You mentioned earlier you decided to go into geophysics in your third year of University; was there anything more to it than that?
I decided to go into geophysics because I recognized that pure theory and continuing on to a Masters or Ph.D. was not something that I wanted to do. Geophysics seemed to be a field where you could get a job. It's worked out well, I am enjoying my career. It's a fun job even though I didn't have a clue what I was getting into, back in university.
[Satinder]: Looking back, have you ever thought what you would have ended up doing if not geophysics?
When I went to university I looked at a couple of schools, and applied to two; the University of Alberta in physics, and Queens for engineering. I got a letter fro m the U of A offering some scholarship money, and as my parents were unable to help me financially, I decided to go there. Plus it was closer to home. If I hadn't taken geophysics, I probably would have taken engineering. Geophysics has suited me very well because it's a problem solving type career.
[Satinder]: You have been from Amoco to Canadian Hunter and now Burlington. What changes have you seen in the work culture ?
It was interesting seeing the differences going from Amoco to Canadian Hunter in that Hunter was a much smaller company and they had very small independent teams. Being at Burlington now is more like it was at Amoco in that Burlington is a big company. There is more planning, more reporting, whereas in a smaller company you are more independent. The big companies of today are still distinct from the big companies of the 70s which were functionally organized. The philosophy now, even in the big companies, is to work in smaller teams similar to the smaller companies. When you get the whole team together, geologists, geophysicists, engineers, all working together, you get much better results. You can see how each discipline will impact the play, as compared to each working independently, where you lose that context. There really isn't that much difference between Burlington today and Canadian Hunter 2 years ago. The sheer number of people is greater, but the structure and function of the asset teams is essentially the same.
[Satinder]: You have been in the same company for almost 25 years, what do you see as the secret to surviving in this industry with the same company for that long?
I think what has worked for me has been that I have tried to stay focused on the technical aspects of the job. I've had the opportunity with Hunter to work on a great variety of plays and found that that kept my interest. There always seemed to be something that was interesting to do.
[Jason]: What is the most interesting part about being the chief geophysicist here ?
The best part about being the chief geophysicist is I get to see most of the plays the company is working on. You spend time with the geophysicists and get to see what they are working on. The technical side is what I find the most interesting.
[Jason]: The paperwork…
The paperwork I could do without. Unfortunately it seems that consumes most of my time. This past year at Burlington I have also been involved with trying to rationalize our software, and that consumes a lot of time. It generates very strong opinions from people. When we first merged I don't think we had two pieces of software the same. Our PC's wouldn't talk to each other. We both happened to be on SEIS-X at the time, but our data management structures were totally different. Hunter was on SGI workstations, Burlington was using Sun and Houston is a Landmark shop. As far as mergers go this has been pretty smooth. Mergers have a tendency to become "us and them", with two equal sized companies. Burlington did an excellent job of preventing that, and bringing everyone together. The attrition has been quite low, and mostly what you would expect in this size a company. Even at Hunter, with 300 people, there were some who felt it was getting too big.
[Satinder]: For people just coming into the industry, what do you see as the essential requirements for a new geophysicist?
When I look at hiring a new geophysicist I look for someone who is smart. Somewhere in the resume I am looking for an academically strong person. They may have their ups and downs or areas where they are weak, but I still want to see some good academic success. Next is a good work ethic. We have started to take on summer students over the past few years, and this is probably the best way to evaluate hard work. The last one is the ability to work within a team. This is probably the hardest one to judge.
[Jason]: How active has Burlington been able to stay through the merger, over the last couple of years?
We have actually been extremely busy, particularly on the drilling side. One thing I really give Burlington credit for is having bought Hunter, they then bought the ATCO property, and while carrying a large debt, still decided to increase drilling. We increased production and with the high gas prices, things worked out really well. On the seismic side we haven't done as much. We have been doing a lot internally. Hunter had purchased a couple of the huge databases, and combined with the original Burlington data, our seismic database is huge. Our biggest challenge has been sorting it out and getting it all on one map.
[Satinder]: Frank, would you like to share with us the most memorable moment in your professional life? This one takes some thought.
The most memorable moments are probably where I've drilled wells and had successes or failures. One of the ones I remember, we were drilling a deep well in California. We mapped this great big structure and I forget what the depth was, 17,000 or 18,000 feet. So we started drilling and hit the over pressured zones; did some logging, and you discover that in over pressured shale the velocities go really low. I started thinking, "I wonder if my depth estimate is right?" Fortunately we had some tight sands that brought the velocity back up, and I breathed a big sigh of relief. When we finally hit the target we ran a drillstem test, and it was one of those where you thought you had a gas well but it depleted rapidly. We just didn't have the porosity. It's the big projects that are the most memorable.
[Satinder]: What was the most challenging project that you worked on?
The most challenging ones are sometimes technical successes but not commercial. We were exploring in the Mississippi Enbayment. It runs up into Tennessee along the Mississippi River. The challenge there was that we took a land deal before we looked at the seismic. We had about 500 to 1500 feet of Tertiary that sat on top of Ordovician carbonates. The velocities went from 5000 ft/sec to 25000 ft/sec; all we saw was a big chain of multiples and we were looking for deep structures. We worked with that data for a year or two; tried modeling, acquired some long offset data, and managed to map out some structures, but didn't pursue drilling them. The biggest technical challenges recently have probably been in the deep basin where I have been trying to map the reservoirs in between all the coals.
[Jason]: Where in Canada is Burlington active right now?
Our biggest core properties and our biggest activity a rea is the whole wedge of Cretaceous sediments down in front of the foothills. That's probably 60% of our effort. These properties are Grande Prairie, BC deep basin, Kaybob, going south towards Edson, and O'Chiese. In a lot of the plays the sands and porosity are just detectable, they are too thin to resolve. Some of the work now is trying to get fairly big 3D coverage, which is a challenge given the cost. Then we try to map the data looking for similar patterns and trends, more what I think the geology looks like. I think the future going forward is to do even more intensive work with these big 3Ds. The cost is high but in certain areas it is economic even to shoot it alone. I think we are getting a much different picture from these big 3Ds than the traditional approach of looking at the 2D then shooting a small 3D over the anomaly. You can't get a picture of the regional trends in the small 3Ds. It's difficult to really quantify what you gain, but I think over time it will prove out. The challenge we have is paying for it.
[Satinder]: Tell us about some of the new technologies you have been adopting in your interpretation?
Part of it is moving forward with some of the attribute analysis, more than just looking at amplitude to look at the waveforms. We have to do more of that. We need to see what you get out of the AVO, the offset changes. We need to look at converted waves. We haven't done a great deal of that. Maybe it's how busy we are; when you get busy you tend to do things in a traditional way. A lot of that works. I think we have to push harder, particularly on the add-on stuff, the attribute analysis and those sorts of things.
[Jason]: Do you think there is anything big left to find in Western Canada?
Yes I do. Big in terms of reserves and production, I think so. I think it's going to be in more wells and more challenging wells rather than a Redwater, that's a billion barrels in a single field. No I don't think we're going to find any of those. We are going to find tough stratigraphic plays in both carbonates and clastics. A lot of our big results are going to come from drilling lots of wells in tighter rock. From working in the US, you see that they are a level of order ahead of us in development and that is their trend. Yo u look in Alberta and BC and there are lots of wells, but start cutting it by depth and there are a lot of areas where there is only a well per township. It's not going to be easy as the easy ones are already picked off. I do think there is still lots of potential for the Western Canada sedimentary basin.
[Satinder]: You are working as chief geophysicist here, do you think there is more to achieve and where do you go from here?
For me, I think there is more to achieve at Burlington. What I have to do, is bring in more of these new technologies, and find more of these plays where we can bring geophysics to bear and make an impact. The challenge of the chief geophysicist's job is to try getting the whole group acting as a group, and to improve our technology. You build the asset teams, they get on separate floors, and then the geophysicists don't even see each other. That's what I take as the challenge here. Personally I'm really trying to figure out what I want to do. I'm early 50's now, 53, but I'm not in a real rush to retire. At the same time I'm at the age where I start asking myself what I would do if I retired. My wife says I don't have any hobbies and as I start considering retirement I need to consider how I will spend my time.
[Satinder]: Who were some of your mentors as you moved ahead in your professional life?
Going all the way back to Amoco there was Stu Colbourn, my first supervisor. I still see Stu at the Y. Jack Cameron hired me. He was the chief geophysicist at Amoco. I worked for Easton Wren for a couple of years in there. Then when I came to Hunter, Tai Ng was a big influence on me. He was a brilliant technical guy. Technically I learned a lot from him. Geophysically those are probably the guys I learned from in my early years. Now I just know more than all the rest of them (laughter).
[Satinder]: What would be your message for young people getting into our industry?
Number one, you have to be prepared to come in and work hard. The other thing is to focus on the technical aspect of the job. That's what is going to stand you through everything as the Canadian industry has been very turbulent. If you look at the people you meet over the years, the people who have a strong technical focus are not out of jobs for very long. At Hunter we had layoffs on a Tuesday and by Friday some of the guys were working again. I think you are going to be successful if your focus is on doing a good technical job.
[Satinder]: What sort of activities do you do outside work?
Historically I have done a lot of volunteer work almost exclusively in what my kids were doing. My wife and I are the personality types that when we get involved in activities, we end up running them. When our sons were in school we were involved in the music programs at both the Junior and Senior high school and both were almost full time jobs. We have also been very active with the volleyball clubs in the city and we continue to be involved with the Alberta Volleyball Association. This year, we will have 208 teams of 15 and 16 year old boys and girls competing on 26 volleyball courts at the University of Calgary on the May long weekend. We will be responsible for overseeing all the score keeping at this tournament which is the Western Canadian Championships. I also play a lot of golf over the summer. Not 70 or 80 rounds but 30 or 40 rounds. I used to ski in the wintertime but I haven't skied much in the last few winters. Both of our sons are in university now. Our oldest is doing his masters in ecology and our youngest is in his third year of organic chemistry. I still give them a hard time about not being in physics but they love what they are doing. Going back a couple of questions, I believe you will be successful if you really love what you are doing, and they have both found different fields of science which they love.
[Satinder]: Thank you very much for your time Frank.
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Posted on October 7, 2021 by carlosdev
The lion in winter.
(2021) Drama (Warner Brothers) Clint Eastwood, Dwight Yoakam, Eduardo Minnett, Natalia Traven, Horacio Garcia Rojas, Fernanda Urrejola, Brytnee Ratledge, Paul Alayo, Daniel V. Graulau, Alexandra Ruddy, Ivan Hernandez, Lincoln A. Castellanos, Marco Rodriguez, Jorge-Luis Pallo, Rocko Reyes, Abiah Martinez, Ramona Thornton, Elida Munoz, Cesia Isabel Rosales, Ana Rey. Directed by Clint Eastwood
There's no doubt that Clint Eastwood is a national treasure. Seventy years (!) into his career in Hollywood and ninety-one years of life aside, he has consistently made movies as an actor and a director that contribute to the cultural identity of the United States – even when he was making spaghetti westerns.
His latest feature – the 39th he's directed and a number too high to count that he's acted in – sees him as Mike Milo, a former rodeo star who had to retire due to a back injury. He's been a horse trainer ever since. As the movie begins, he's being fired by his longtime boss, Howard (Yoakam). Too much booze, too much age have both caught up with Mike. However, he isn't unemployed long when Mike comes back, asking Mike to do something else for him – to go to Mexico and fetch his boy, whom he has not had much contact with, from his abusive mother and bring him back to Texas to live with his dad.
Seems simple enough, so Mike gets into his battered truck, pulls on his cowboy hat, turns on some twangin' tunes and heads for the border. It's 1980, so it's still morning in America and the hordes of rapists and murderers haven't started knocking on our doors quite yet. When Mike arrives in Mexico City, he discovers that the boy – Rafo (Minnett) has run away from home and his mom it turns out is a crime boss, something ol' Howard neglected to mention (he also neglected to mention that he has ulterior motives in wanting his son back, but that will wait for a later reveal). The kid is on the mean streets making his way by his wits and by entering his pet rooster Macho in cockfights and apparently winning – there are two places in a cockfight, y'know: winner, and arroz con pollo.
The kids is intrigued by the notion of starting a new life with a father he's never met – which makes him a damn sight better than I might be in those circumstances – so off they go, back to the U.S. of A. However, Mamacita (Urrejola) has sent some goons to get her son back. Mike and Rafo end up hiding out at the ranch of Marta (Traven) who lives in the Mexican equivalent of BFE. There, she and Mike bond, Mike and Rafo bond and the kid comes closer to learning that toxic masculinity isn't all that it's cracked up to be, and that 91 isn't too late to be a chick magnet.
This isn't Eastwood's best work by a country mile, nor did anyone really expect it to be. The bar is generally set high for his work and he usually delivers and that's why even his lesser works are often more worthwhile than the best work of lesser directors. Every movie he makes feels like some kind of farewell; some are saying this might be his last movie, but I've been hearing that back since Gran Torino (and yes, I was one of those saying it) so I've learned never to bet that the prolific Eastwood has hung up his director's spurs.
Eastwood, national treasure that he is, dominates the screen even if he's long in the tooth for this kind of role. You have to feel for young Minnett who spends the most time onscreen with him; he's a young actor not equal to the task, which is to say that even much more experienced actors would not be equal to the task. Eastwood is a legitimate movie star from an era when that meant something, and he is going to overwhelm just about anyone he's paired with.
This isn't the best-written film Eastwood has ever directed, unfortunately. Many of the plot points are cliches, and feel like their in there for their own sake rather than in serving the story. That's not to say that there aren't some really memorable moments here; there's a scene in which Eastwood talks about his wife and son and as he does, a tear slowly rolls down his cheek. I can't imagine anyone not being moved by that moment and I wish the movie had more of them.
Alas, no. This is more a movie in which Eastwood acts like a sensei to a young student who is at a point in his life where he can either lead a good life or make some can't-come-back-from-those types of mistakes. That's not a bad thing in and of itself – older men mentoring young boys have made some great movies over the years, from Karate Kid on down. It's just this one feels particularly flat. That's a shame, because there's a lot to be said on the subject of toxic masculinity.
In the end, it's still an Eastwood movie and there's something valuable to be gleaned from that. However, this won't be remembered as one of his finest works. In fact, it will likely be well down his list when ranked from best to worst. That, as I said, doesn't mean it's not a worthwhile viewing.
REASONS TO SEE: Even on work that isn't his best Eastwood remains a solid reason to see a movie.
REASONS TO AVOID: Some of the plot points feel a bit forced.
FAMILY VALUES: There is some profanity as well as adult thematic elements.
TRIVIAL PURSUITS: This is the first Eastwood-directed film since 2010 (Hereafter) that isn't based on or inspired by a true story.
BEYOND THE THEATERS: HBO Max (through October 17)
CRITICAL MASS: As of 10/7/21: Rotten Tomatoes: 59% positive reviews; Metacritic: 59/100.
COMPARISON SHOPPING: A Night in Old Mexico
NEXT: Wife of a Spy
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New Releases for the Week of September 17, 2021
Posted on September 16, 2021 by carlosdev
(Warner Brothers) Clint Eastwood, Dwight Yoakam, Eduardo Minett, Fernanda Urrejola, Natalia Traven, Horacio Garcia Rojas. Directed by Clint Eastwood
An ex-rodeo star and former horse breeder gets a job from a former boss to bring his son hoe from Mexico. The journey is unexpectedly challenging as they take the back roads of Texas in 1979. Could this be Eastwood's last hurrah? Maybe.
See the trailer here
For more on the movie this is the website
Now Playing: Wide (also on HBO Max)
Rating: PG-13 (for language and thematic elements)
(Roadside Attractions) Marc-André Leclerc, Brette Harrington, Alex Honnold, Reinhold Messner. A 33-year-old Canadian who makes some of the boldest free ascents in mountaineering history, shuns the limelight. When a documentary crew approaches him to tell his story, a tug-of-war ensues between the needs of the filmmakers and his desire to capture the purest essence of the sport.
Now Playing: Regal Winter Park Village
Rating: PG-13 (for some strong language and brief drug content)
(Focus) Justin Chon, Alicia Vikander, Mark O'Brien, Linh Dan Pham. A Korean adoptee who grew up in the South, is happily married and stepdad to an adored daughter, but he could lose everything as he finds out that me may end up being deported from the only country he has ever known.
Now Playing: AMC Altamonte Mall, AMC Disney Springs, Regal Winter Park Village
Rating: R (for language throughout and some violence)
(Open Road) Gerard Butler, Frank Grillo, Toby Huss, Ryan O'Nan. A wily con-artist on the run from a lethal assassin decides to hide out in the office of a small-town police department, where an unsuspecting rookie cop will be caught up in the crossfire.
Now Playing: Wide
Rating: R (for strong/bloody violence, and pervasive language)
(Searchlight) Jessica Chastain, Andrew Garfield, Cherry Jones, Fredric Lehne. The rise, fall and ultimate redemption of Tammy Faye Bakker who went from the wife of a disgraced televangelist (and national joke) to advocate for AIDS patients and LGBTQ Christians in general. Chastain is getting early Oscar buzz for her performance here.
Genre: Biographical Drama
Now Playing: AMC Disney Springs, Enzian
Rating: PG-13 (for sexual content and drug abuse)
Lady of the Manor
(Lionsgate) Melanie Lynskey, Judy Greer, Justin Long, Ryan Philippe. A stoner-slacker working as a costumed tour guide in a historic mansion – portraying the former lady of the house – is surprised when the ghost of the REAL Lady Wadsworth shows up and warns her to mend her ways.
Genre: Supernatural Comedy
Now Playing: Studio Movie Grille Sunset Walk
Rating: R (for language throughout, sexual material and drug use)
My Name is Pauli Murray
(Amazon) Pauli Murray, Patricia Bell-Scott, Dolores Chandler, Brittney Cooper. Before Rosa Parks, before Gloria Steinem there was Pauli Murray, a black gender-fluid attorney raised in the segregated South who was a pioneering activist who helped shape some of the most important social issues of his day, and whose work continues to resonate now.
Now Playing: CMX Plaza Café Orlando
Rating: PG-13 (for disturbing/violent images and thematic elements)
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Logan Lucky
Logan Lucky gives you the most Joe Bang for your buck.
(2017) Heist Comedy (Bleecker Street) Channing Tatum, Adam Driver, Riley Keough, Katie Holmes, Daniel Craig, David Denman, Farrah Mackenzie, Seth MacFarlane, Charles Halford, Hilary Swank, Brian Gleeson, Jack Quaid, Katherine Waterston, Dwight Yoakam, Sebastian Stan, Darrell Waltrip, Jeff Gordon, LeAnn Rimes, Macon Blair, Ann Mahoney. Directed by Steven Soderbergh
When Steven Soderbergh announced he was retiring from directing Side Effects in 2012, a lot of film buffs – this one included – were disappointed. Soderbergh had been for more than 20 years one of the most fascinating and interesting directors ever since emerging from the indie ranks. He'd directed huge blockbusters and small intimated films but the time had come for him to hang it all up.
Thankfully, he couldn't stay away for very long and his retirement only lasted five years. He's back with this stupid entertaining film that can best be described as Elmore Leonard by way of The Dukes of Hazzard or the unholy lovechild of Oceans 11 and Talladega Nights.
Jimmy Logan (Tatum) is a former football star whose NFL dreams were derailed by a knee injury. Since then, he's worked whatever jobs he could find, be them in the mines of West Virginia or a construction gig in North Carolina. Through it all he makes the time to be a dad to Sadie (Mackenzie) who lives with her mom Bobbie Jo (Holmes) and her new husband Moody (Denman).
The Logan clan has always been the poster children for the adage "If it wasn't for bad luck they wouldn't have any luck at all." Jimmy's bum knee comes to the attention of the insurance company who deem it a pre-existing condition and the construction company that Jimmy is working for in the bowels of the Charlotte Motor Speedway has to let him go. To make matters worse, it turns out that Moody is opening up a new car dealership in a distant part of West Virginia and Jimmy is likely not going to see his daughter hardly at all. Moving to be close to his little girl is something he simply can't afford.
So he decides that he is going to have to finance his life the old-fashioned way – by stealing, and he has a whopper of a plan. He's going to rob the Charlotte Motor Speedway during a car show when the attendance is low and security is lax. Jimmy can't do the job by himself so he enlists his war veteran brother Clyde (Driver) who lost his arm in Iraq, and his hairdresser sister Mellie (Keough).
Even that won't be enough however; he needs a demolition expert and there are none better at it than Joe Bang (Craig). Unfortunately, Joe has had a disagreement with the law and is currently in residence at the West Virginia state penitentiary.. Jimmy and Clyde are going to have to break out Joe so his absence isn't noticed and sneak him back in so that it's like he was never gone. Why not just stay out? Because he's close to his parole date and he doesn't want to mess it up. Jimmy's got a plan for that too, however.
Heist movies, when done properly are maybe the most entertaining of all movie genres. Fortunately, this one is done properly. It has a large cast but not too large; it's got some fairly impressive names in it and a director who knows how to make use of them. The writing is taut and smart and even though much of the dialogue is delivered in thick Mountaineer State accents the pacing moves at lightning speed. There is literally never a dull moment in this film.
I have to admit that early on in Tatum's career I was not a fan. I'm happy to say that I am now however. He has worked hard and improved almost with every movie; he has learned to improve where he can and on those things he hasn't improved upon (yet) he makes sure he chooses roles that don't accentuate his flaws. He has enough onscreen charm to make Leona Helmsley smile through a toothache and of course just about any lady (and quite a few men) will tell you that he's not so hard on the eyes.
Daniel Craig is a revelation here. Generally he plays tightly wound characters but here he seems to let absolutely loose and have more fun than I've ever seen him have with a character, well, ever. With his bottle blonde spiky hair and cornpone accent so thick that it might have been laid on with a trowel, he inhabits the character without fear or inhibition. I would be happy to see a Joe Bang spin-off movie.
Soderbergh excels at these sorts of movies. His Oceans series is proof of that but he knows how to pace a movie to leave the audience breathless. This is about as high-octane as a NASCAR race and the viewer never has to wonder for a moment what's going to happen next because Soderbergh wastes not a moment in this film. He also infuses it with a jet-propelled soundtrack of roots rock, country and high-octane rockers that hit the audience like a dose of jet fuel.
Now those of a Southern rural background might take offense to this and I can't say as I blame them. The movie really plays to Hollywood stereotypes as the Southern rubes that are street-clever and get one over on the city slickers It is this kind of disparagement that drove many West Virginians to vote for Trump. Maybe that's something liberal filmmakers should take a look at objectively.
As it is this is as fun a movie as I've seen this summer and after a season of bloated blockbusters and over-hyped disappointments it's a pleasure to just sit back and enjoy a movie that you don't have to think about but just have fun with. This has the makings of a sleeper hit if it gets marketed right; sadly, that doesn't appear to have been the case. A lot of moviegoers don't know much about this movie whose trailer wasn't much seen in theaters or on television. Hopefully enough will catch on that this is a fun movie that is everything that a summer movie should be. That should be enough to call an audience out of the heat and into the multiplex.
REASONS TO GO: This is the kind of material that is right in Soderbergh's wheelhouse. The film is blessed with clever writing and a terrific soundtrack.
REASONS TO STAY: Rural Southerners might find the stereotypes offensive.
FAMILY VALUES: There are some crude comments as well as a smattering of profanity.
TRIVIAL PURSUIT: Tatum and Keough both co-starred in Magic Mike, also directed by Soderbergh.
COMPARISON SHOPPING: Baby Driver
NEXT: Sidemen: Long Road to Glory
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(Universal) Olivia DeJonge, Ed Oxenbould, Deanna Dunagan, Peter McRobbie, Kathryn Hahn, Celia Keenan-Bolger, Patch Darragh. Directed by M. Night Shyamalan
A brother and sister go to rural Pennsylvania to visit their grandparents. At first things are pretty much as you might expect; and older couple happy to see their grandkids but the longer they stay, the stranger the behavior of the elderly people begins to seem. Soon they realize that something sinister is going on and their chances of getting home alive are worsening but they can't get their mom to believe them.
See the trailer, clips, interviews, featurettes and B-roll video here.
For more on the movie this is the website.
Release Formats: Standard (Opens Thursday)
Now Playing: Wide Release
Rating: PG-13 (for disturbing thematic material including terror, violence and some nudity and for brief language)
(Goldwyn) Kate Bosworth, Hayden Christensen, Dwight Yoakam, Rhoda Griffis. A man in a car accident is declared dead and left under a tarp before being transported to a hospital. He experiences heaven until a pastor's prayers bring him back to the living. Now in excruciating pain, he fights to regain some kind of normalcy while pining for what waited for him in heaven. Eventually he wrote a book on his experiences which became a New York Times bestseller.
See the trailer, clips, interviews and a promo here.
Release Formats: Standard
Genre: Faith-Based Drama
Now Playing: Amstar Lake Mary, AMC Altamonte Mall, AMC Downtown Disney, AMC West Oaks, Cinemark Artegon Marketplace, Epic Theaters of Clermont, Regal Oviedo Marketplace, Regal The Loop, Regal Waterford Lakes, Regal Winter Park Village
Rating: PG-13 (for brief violence)
The Challenger
(Fox Searchlight) Michael Clarke Duncan, S. Epatha Merkerson, Kent Moran, Justin Hartley. An ex-boxer trying to make it as an auto mechanic is simply not making ends meet. When he and his adopted mother are evicted, he is forced back into the one thing that he's been struggling against – boxing. With the help of a legendary trainer, he will do whatever it takes to keep he and his adopted mom off of the streets. This is the late Michael Clarke Duncan's last film.
See the trailer here.
Genre: Sports Drama
Now Playing: Regal Waterford Lakes
Rating: PG-13 (for some sports violence)
(Focus World) Kevin Bacon, Camryn Manheim, Shea Whigham, Kyra Sedgwick. Two young boys discover what seems to be an abandoned police vehicle in a secluded glade and decide to take it for a joy ride. This incurs the wrath of a brutal county sheriff and leads to disastrous consequences.
See the trailer and clips here.
Now Playing: Enzian Theater
Rating: R (for language, violence and brief drug use)
(Broad Green) Ben Kingsley, Patricia Clarkson, Grace Gummer, Jake Weber. A high-powered and self-obsessed New York book editor undergoing a divorce decides to become more self-sufficient. She signs up to take driving lessons so that she can visit her daughter in college in Vermont. Her instructor is Darwan, an extremely conscientious teacher and his patience inspires her to open up with him about her deeper problems. In turn, her volatile feelings about her disintegrating marriage bring out some feelings in him about his own impending nuptials.
Rating: R (for language and sexual content)
(Music Box) Conrad Anker, Jimmy Chin, Renan Ozturk, Jon Krakauer. Among mountain climbers, Conrad Anker is a legend. It is also considered that the Himalayan peak Meru is virtually unclimbable, towering 21,000 feet into the sky with the final portion being a unique shark's fin formation that is nearly vertical and requires a different set of climbing skills than the first portion of the mountain, requiring an entirely different set of gear, all of which has to be lugged up the mountain. Anker and his team undergo the harshest conditions that mother nature has to offer, heartbreaking defeats and terrible tragedies just to make yet another assault on Meru. But can anyone climb the unclimbable mountain?
Rating: R (for language)
The Perfect Guy
(Screen Gems) Michael Ealy, Sanaa Lathan, Morris Chestnut, Charles S. Dutton. After a painful breakup with her boyfriend, a beautiful young professional woman meets a handsome and charming stranger. At first he seems like a gift from heaven, but when her ex-boyfriend re-enters the picture and tries to win her back, the perfect guy suddenly changes into someone she doesn't know – and someone completely terrifying.
See the trailer, clips, interviews, featurettes, a promo and B-roll video here.
Rating: PG-13 (for violence, menace, sexuality and brief strong language)
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Posted on December 21, 2010 by carlosdev
Merry Christmas times four.
(2008) Holiday Comedy (New Line) Vince Vaughn, Reese Witherspoon, Robert Duvall, Jon Favreau, Tim McGraw, Mary Steenburgen, Dwight Yoakam, Kristin Chenoweth, Jon Voight, Sissy Spacek, Katy Mixon, Patrick van Horn. Directed by Seth Gordon
Christmas is an incredibly stressful time of year for families that are even in the best of circumstances. When you take two sets of divorced parents, and a couple that are resisting the urge to get married because of it, you can get some interesting situations.
Brad (Vaughn) and Kate (Witherspoon) have what seems to be a really good relationship. They're both successful people, well-organized and care deeply about each other. They do have a quirk however; they don't like spending Christmas with their families. They make up elaborate lies every year to avoid spending any time with their four sets of families (both Brad and Kate are the products of divorced parents, several of whom have since remarried). They then take a well-deserved vacation in some tropical paradise – in this case, Fiji.
However, this is the year when most of their plans are going to go awry. Fog at San Francisco's airport kills their flight; when they are put on television to comment on the situation, the jig is up. There's nothing for it but to spend some time with each of their four parents.
First up is Brad's dad, the irascible Howard (Duvall) who would live in a double wide if he was just a little bit less well-heeled. His other sons Denver (Favreau) and Dallas (McGraw), each of them named for the city they were conceived in (Brad's birth name is Orlando), are a little bit shall we say steroid-enhanced. Would-be wrestlers, they take every opportunity to beat the crap out of Brad in a semi-playful manner that doesn't hide so well their underlying rage. Dallas' wife Susan (Mixon) is the queen of seven-layer cuisine. An attempt to hook up satellite TV for Howard ends in complete disaster.
Next up is Kate's mom (Steenburgen), a man-hungry cougar who has set her sights on Pastor Phil (Yoakam). She is surrounded by fellow cougars and children with kids, her sister Courtney (Chenoweth) in particular with a baby that is a living, breathing, projectile vomiting machine. Kate and Brad are recruited to star in the church Christmas pageant as Mary and Joseph, which affords Brad an opportunity to access his inner Vince Vaughn.
Brad's mom (Spacek) is next on the list, and Brad has a real problem with her. You see, she's married Brad's childhood friend (van Horn). Can we say awkward? I knew we could. All along Kate and Brad are finding out more about each other than they've ever known – when one reinvents oneself, one sometimes leaves past indiscretions behind one.
Finally, we end up with Kate's Dad (Voight) where things come to a head. Kate and Brad will have to decide if they are really ready to step up and make it official or else let the things between them remain between them.
I get the distinct impression that the filmmakers were tasked with making an outrageous comedy with a holiday theme, and then studio execs kept asking them to tone it down. The movie is replete with screenwriting 101 clichés, characters who are artificially outrageous for no other reason than to provide something for Vaughn and Witherspoon to work off of.
Actually, what I really mean here is Vaughn. While he pretty much sticks to his regular shtick, his comedic persona is so well-developed that he can do it in his sleep. Much of the movie is improvised which is right up Vaughn's alley and when Vaughn is riffing, there are very few who can keep up with them. Witherspoon is a capable comic actress, but she's dealing with a force of nature and wisely keeps herself to the background.
The parents are all Oscar winners and you would think with this kind of cast that there would be some depth to the movie. Nope, that's a big negatory. This is really meant to be mindless entertainment and for the most part, the impressive cast just show up, collect their paychecks and move on to bigger and better things. Only Voight has a really magic moment, a one-on-one conversation with Witherspoon that injects some of the badly needed holiday spirit into the movie.
The movie got the equivalent of a thermonuclear blasting from critics upon release back in 2008, which still makes me scratch my head. No, this isn't the greatest Christmas movie ever but it is mostly inoffensive and pretty mindless entertainment. While the tiny Witherspoon and tall Vaughn present a framing challenge, they have enough chemistry together to make the movie work. If you need something to put you in a holiday frame of mine, you could do worse.
WHY RENT THIS: An astonishing cast, with four Oscar winners (playing each of the parents) as well as two country stars. Vaughn is at the top of his game here, and Witherspoon is always charming.
WHY RENT SOMETHING ELSE: The movie tends to get a bit unfocused in places and the reliance on improvisation gives the movie a choppy feel.
FAMILY VALUES: Some of the humor is on the sexy side, and there is a little bit of foul language but not enough to get steamed up over.
TRIVIAL PURSUIT: Steve Wiebe makes a cameo playing Donkey Kong in the movie. Wiebe was the subject of Gordon's excellent documentary King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters.
NOTABLE DVD EXTRAS: While there is nothing on the DVD version (grrrrr!) there is an hysterical gag reel on the Blu-Ray version as well as a well-intentioned but poorly executed comedy cooking show with Mixon and celebrity chef Paula Deen.
BOX OFFICE PERFORMANCE: $163.7M on an $80M production budget; the movie broke even.
TOMORROW: The Holly and The Quill continues.
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You can't say that Jason Statham doesn't get a charge out of life.
(Lionsgate) Jason Statham, Amy Smart, Dwight Yoakam, Efren Ramirez, Clifton Collins Jr., Bai Ling, David Carradine, Art Hsu, Corey Haim, Gerri Halliwell, John de Lancie. Directed by Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor
Some action movies are high octane. Others, nuclear meltdowns. The first Crank was one of the latter. Would this one measure up?
You wouldn't think so, given that the hero of the first movie (SPOILER ALERT) falls from a helicopter to his apparent death on the city street below. (CONTINUE READING) But in the universe of Crank: High Voltage, Asian gangsters come along with a snow shovel to scoop up the wide-awake Chev Chelios (Statham) with a snow shovel to bring him to a back room operating room, where his seemingly indestructible heart has been removed for transplant into an aged Chinese mobster (a nearly unrecognizable Carradine).
He has been given a cut-rate artificial heart powered by a car battery to keep his body alive before other organs (including his, ummm, manliest) can be harvested as well. Instead, Chelios awakes to wreak mayhem, havoc and otherwise kick the crap out of things. He goes on yet another rampage around the Los Angeles area to find his heart so that he might get it back, stopping periodically to recharge his dying battery. He rescues his girlfriend Eve (Smart) from a life of exotic dancing, gets together with his incredulous doctor (Yoakam) and picks up Venus (Ramirez), the effeminate twin brother of Kaylo (also played by Ramirez) from the first movie (and Venus has a rather unusual affliction by the way), and Ria (Ling), a goofy prostitute who becomes smitten with Chelios.
Further explanation is unnecessary, redundant and superfluous. If you loved the cinematic video game that was the first movie, this will be right up your alley. Neveldine/Taylor, the directing team responsible for the first one, has amped things up a notch, shooting the improbability factor to 10 and letting loose their guerilla filmmakers onto an unsuspecting city.
This is the kind of movie not meant to be taken seriously, yet most of the reviews I read of it seemed downright huffy. Look guys, this was never meant to be a Merchant/Ivory production. This is going to appeal to the crowd that plays Grand Theft Auto for 36 hours straight, hyped out on Mountain Dew, Hot Pockets and testosterone. The heavy metal soundtrack should tell you that this is meant expressly for young males.
Yes, Virginia, there is some stereotyping, nudity, sexuality and a whole lot of violence, but so what? The stereotyping is done so broadly that it's fairly obvious it's meant as satire. The nudity and violence are so over-the-top that it's impossible to take it too seriously, and the script so ludicrous that it becomes understood that this is meant to be Jackass on steroids high on angel dust.
Statham makes Chelios as fun as it is possible for a hit man to be, poking fun at his own image in the process. He is a masterful action hero, looking convincing in all the fight sequences and running around with a perpetual scowl on his face that invites the good citizens of Los Angeles to stay the frack out of his way if they know what's good for them.
There are constant little homages to B-movies of the past, from The Brain that Would Not Die to El Mariachi as well as to the pop culture of the digital age – videogames and things like Red Versus Blue. Again, this moves at dizzying speed, so much so that you feel like you've sprinted through a marathon by the time the movie comes to an end.
This isn't Shakespeare folks; it's just a good time, and Crank: High Voltage succeeds wildly at that. This is the kind of movie that you put on, turn off your brain and let the energy drinks flow as you pound your chest and shout an occasional "WHOAAAA!" at the screen. You'll need to go through detox after seeing this one.
WHY RENT THIS: If you liked the first movie, you're gonna love this one – all the frenetic oddball action, only amped up another notch.
WHY RENT SOMETHING ELSE: The nudity, the violence, the ludicrous plot…if those things bother you, you're better off watching the next edition of Masterpiece Theater.
FAMILY VALUES: Oh, c'mon…you're not honestly thinking of letting your kids see this are you? If you are, your kids are going to need therapy, man.
TRIVIAL PURSUIT: The home video edition is entitled Crank 2: High Voltage although the theatrical release didn't have a number in the title.
NOTABLE DVD EXTRAS: The Blu-Ray has a Crank'd Out Bonus View mode featuring the cast and crew, as well as a featurette on the wrap party for the movie, something we rarely get to see.
TOMORROW: Drag Me to Hell
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Pakistani officials said the death of Mr. Umar was a major blow to Al Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent. He not only recruited a significant number of trained militants, but also compelled a number of local militants to pledge allegiance to his affiliate, the officials said.
"Because of his previous affiliation with various local militant outfits operating in the region, he managed to influence networks of Afghan and Pakistani Taliban, Jihadi groups operating in Kashmir and smaller groups operating in other South Asian countries," said Raja Umar Khattab, a Karachi-based counterterrorism police official.
A senior Afghan security official said Mr. Umar had managed to build a network of about 1,500 militants across the region, with recruits drawn from South Asia, Iran and Central Asia. Mr. Umar had close ties to the Taliban's leadership council in Quetta, Pakistan, and his militants provided training to Taliban in Afghanistan and were involved in fighting in the Afghan provinces of Helmand and Nimroz.
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Economists (or at least the more Grinch-like ones) have long complained that gift giving is a fundamentally inefficient activity. In economics, efficiency means that you're sharing around resources, like money or reindeer socks, in whichever way creates the most value and least waste possible. Essentially, economists want you to gift those reindeer socks to your uncle that enjoys wearing novelty footwear year-round, rather than your too-cool-for-school niece who will immediately chuck anything that kitsch in the nearest bin.
Plenty of people would agree that this sounds sensible enough, at least in theory. Indeed, in the early 20th century a group of American women set up SPUG, or the Society for the Prevention of Useless Gifts, to push back against the purchasing of what they saw as pointless tat for Christmases, birthdays and other celebrations. Interestingly, a key dynamic in SPUG was working-class women who were fed up of being pressured to contribute to presents for their bosses. While they didn't quite word it this way, they were echoing the idea of economic inefficiency by pointing out that the money they contributed to an unwanted desk plaque or whatever could have been better spent providing for their own families.
The thing is, though, that most of us are really quite bad at knowing what other people do or don't like. So unless we stop giving presents altogether, inevitably a high percentage of them are going to be unwanted and end up being chucked out or left to gather dust. For some people, though, that doesn't matter. Gift giving, they point out, has more value than how useful the present is to the recipient. Gifts are also a social signal that we care about someone, which can make them feel happy and appreciated even if they absolutely hate the lumpy sweater we've knitted them.
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Recovering from an eating disorder takes time, often years, and can come with relapses and countless roadblocks. So in an effort to share what she has been through, Anne Marie Sengillo posted her own eating disorder recovery journey on Reddit, which chronicled her rapid, unhealthy weight loss in 2007—she went from 150 pounds to 90 pounds in one year, and at one point even got as low as 70 pounds—and her slow road to better health since then.
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Q: Error in .kv file in python. (May have to do with screen manager. I am not sure) I am trying to use the Window Manager in kivy but I keep get the following error
[INFO   ] [Logger      ] Record log in C:\Users\Gavin\.kivy\logs\kivy_21-06-03_22.txt
[INFO   ] [deps        ] Successfully imported "kivy_deps.gstreamer" 0.3.2
[INFO   ] [deps        ] Successfully imported "kivy_deps.angle" 0.3.0
[INFO   ] [deps        ] Successfully imported "kivy_deps.glew" 0.3.0
[INFO   ] [deps        ] Successfully imported "kivy_deps.sdl2" 0.3.1
[INFO   ] [Kivy        ] v2.0.0
[INFO   ] [Kivy        ] Installed at "C:\Users\Gavin\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site-packages\kivy\__init__.py"
[INFO   ] [Python      ] v3.9.5 (tags/v3.9.5:0a7dcbd, May  3 2021, 17:27:52) [MSC v.1928 64 bit (AMD64)]
[INFO   ] [Python      ] Interpreter at "C:\Users\Gavin\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\python.exe"
[INFO   ] [Factory     ] 186 symbols loaded
[INFO   ] [Image       ] Providers: img_tex, img_dds, img_sdl2, img_pil (img_ffpyplayer ignored)
[INFO   ] [Text        ] Provider: sdl2
[INFO   ] [Window      ] Provider: sdl2
[INFO   ] [GL          ] Using the "OpenGL" graphics system
[INFO   ] [GL          ] GLEW initialization succeeded
[INFO   ] [GL          ] Backend used <glew>
[INFO   ] [GL          ] OpenGL version <b'4.0.0 - Build 10.18.10.5069'>
[INFO   ] [GL          ] OpenGL vendor <b'Intel'>
[INFO   ] [GL          ] OpenGL renderer <b'Intel(R) HD Graphics 4000'>
[INFO   ] [GL          ] OpenGL parsed version: 4, 0
[INFO   ] [GL          ] Shading version <b'4.00 - Build 10.18.10.5069'>
[INFO   ] [GL          ] Texture max size <16384>
[INFO   ] [GL          ] Texture max units <16>
[INFO   ] [Window      ] auto add sdl2 input provider
[INFO   ] [Window      ] virtual keyboard not allowed, single mode, not docked
 Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "c:\Users\Gavin\Documents\GitHub\Mobile Temperture Convertor\Mobile-Temperature-Convertor\main.py", line 15, in <module>
     kv = Builder.load_file("My.kv")
   File "C:\Users\Gavin\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site-packages\kivy\lang\builder.py", line 306, in load_file
     return self.load_string(data, **kwargs)
   File "C:\Users\Gavin\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site-packages\kivy\lang\builder.py", line 373, in load_string
     parser = Parser(content=string, filename=fn)
   File "C:\Users\Gavin\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site-packages\kivy\lang\parser.py", line 402, in __init__
     self.parse(content)
   File "C:\Users\Gavin\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site-packages\kivy\lang\parser.py", line 511, in parse
     objects, remaining_lines = self.parse_level(0, lines)
   File "C:\Users\Gavin\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site-packages\kivy\lang\parser.py", line 614, in parse_level
     _objects, _lines = self.parse_level(
   File "C:\Users\Gavin\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site-packages\kivy\lang\parser.py", line 614, in parse_level
     _objects, _lines = self.parse_level(
   File "C:\Users\Gavin\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site-packages\kivy\lang\parser.py", line 674, in parse_level
     if current_property[:3] == 'on_':
 TypeError: 'NoneType' object is not subscriptable

Here is the .kv file
WindowManager:
    MainWindow:
    FtoC:
    CtoF:

<MainWindow>:
    name: "main"

<FtoC>:

    name: "fTOc"

<CtoF>:
    name: "cTOf"

The WindowManager area is giving me the following error:
Kivy parser exception: 'NoneType' object is not subscriptable

I would be very thankfull is someone found out what is wrong with this code because I can not find it. Its probably something simple that I didn't see.
Edit:
hear is a is code that is NOT giving the error:
WindowManager:
    MainWindow:
    FtoC:
    CtoF:

<MainWindow>:
    name: "main"

    BoxLayout:

hear is code that IS giving the error:
 WindowManager:
        MainWindow:
        FtoC:
        CtoF:

    <MainWindow>:
        name: "main"

        BoxLayout:
            orientation: 'vertical'
            size: root.width , root.height

            Label:
                text: "Fahrenheit to Celsius"
                    font_size: 32

            Button:
                    text: "Fahrenheit to Celsius"
                    font_size: 32
                    on_release:

Is can see from this that when I add content to the BoxLayout I get the error. Though I still do not know why this is causing the error or how to fix it.
I hope this helps people solve this problem.

A: There was an indentation error in my code. I would like to thank @Inclement for his help.