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My introduction to Norwegian cinema didn't start with the recently mentioned Kon Tiki [https://thelastredoubt.com/norwegian-cinema-kon-tiki/]. For that matter, it didn't start with the movie I'm discussing today, but if I recall, with either the Netflix series Lillyhammer, or a dark little piece called Headhunters [https://thelastredoubt.com/norwegian-cinema-kon-tiki/]. While both were okay, the first one that actually impressed me was a disaster movie I found mentioned over on Quintus Curtius's…
June 6th, 1945, the allies came ashore in Normandy, France, to open another front against Nazi Germany. The Didact [https://didactsreach.blogspot.com/2019/06/the-jaws-of-hell.html] and Peter Grant [https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2019/06/the-greatest-amphibious-invasion-in.html] have good posts.…
It's sad how quickly it's obvious that something is just going to be pretentious trash for IYI's [https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/06/brad-pitt-heads-into-space-with-mega-daddy-issues-in-first-ad-astra-trailer/] . > Director James Gray (The Lost City of Z) has said [http://collider.com/james-gray-brad-pitt-ad-astra-filming/] he wanted to make a film that depicted space travel as realistically as possible "and to basically say, 'Space is awfully hostile to us.' It’s kind of a Heart of Darkne…
The series on HBO has come to an end, and while in some ways it suffers from the usual dragging pace of binge-watch oriented series, and the previously mentioned "lets make a representative scientist character, who know more than all her coworkers, a woman" - significantly toned down after the introductory episode - is still a solid retelling of the Chernobyl disaster [https://infogalactic.com/info/Chernobyl_disaster]. The infogalactic article [https://infogalactic.com/info/Chernobyl_disaster] i…