Directed by Jennifer Celotta. Miguel helps Johnny advertise Cobra Kai on the web. Daniel agrees to chaperone at the Halloween dance so he can keep an eye on his daughter.
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Directed by Jon Hurwitz, Daniel is dismayed to find a new Cobra Kai dojo has been opened up. Johnny learns his dojo has to pass several safety requirements before he can actually start teaching.
Directed by Jon Hurwitz, 34 years after losing the All Valley Karate Championship, Johnny Lawrence decides to reopen the Cobra Kai Dojo while his school adversary, Daniel LaRusso, runs a successful auto business.
Directed by Dean DeBlois, Chris Sanders. With Jay Baruchel, Gerard Butler, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Craig Ferguson. A hapless young Viking who aspires to hunt dragons becomes the unlikely friend of a young dragon himself, and learns there may be more to the creatures than he assumed.
Watched on Saturday October 24, 2020.
Rating: ★★★★
Directed by Peter Hoar. With Brenda Blethyn, David Leon, Wunmi Mosaku, Paul Ritter. Vera must put together the pieces of a 11-year-old murder and stop a ruthless killer before he or she strikes again.
Directed by Francis Lawrence. With Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Woody Harrelson. Katniss and a team of rebels from District 13 prepare for the final battle that will decide the fate of Panem.
Rating: ★★★
With Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, Cory Booker, Henry Louis Gates Jr., John Kennedy Jr.. Designers Diane van Fürstenberg and Narciso Rodriguez and actor RuPaul Charles learn about their ancestors.
Tuesday on the NewsHour, talks continue over a potential COVID-19 relief package, but time is running short to complete a deal before the election. Plus: The economic impact of pandemic aid, an antitrust lawsuit against Google, the U.S. and Russia near an agreement on nuclear arms control, court cases on voting rules, the high cost of foreign beef and Lynne Cheney’s book on Virginia presidents.
Directed by Francis Lawrence. With Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Philip Seymour Hoffman. Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark become targets of the Capitol after their victory in the 74th Hunger Games sparks a rebellion in the Districts of Panem.
Rating: The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, 2013 – ★★★½
Directed by Rian Johnson. It's Walt's 51st birthday. His return to the drug business causes Skyler to go into depression.
Tim Doner is a senior at the Dalton School in New York City who has studied over 20 languages. His interest started at the age of 13, after several years of French and Latin, when he began learning Hebrew and soon moved on to more obscure tongues such as Pashto, Ojibwe and Swahili. As he describes it, his goal is not to achieve fluency in each, but rather to learn about foreign history and culture through the medium of language. He spends much of his time perfecting his linguistic skills in different neighborhoods around the city, and to date his Youtube channel has received over 3 million hits. Tim has been interviewed (in English, Mandarin, Arabic and Farsi, among others) for media outlets such as The New York Times, BBC, The Today Show, Reuters and The Economist. He is starting his freshman year at Harvard next year and plans to study linguistics.
A nice hook to pull one into some of the reasons why one would want to pick up languages as well as how to do so.
8:44 method of loci (locorum)
10:02 Learning words in groups based on related sounds.
11:22 Why learn languages? Some useful motivation here.
Language represents a world cultural view. This is particularly poignant because a language (and its methods of thinking, viewing the world, and usually lots of associated culture) disappears from the world every two weeks.
Directed by Brad Bird. With Craig T. Nelson, Samuel L. Jackson, Holly Hunter, Jason Lee. A family of undercover superheroes, while trying to live the quiet suburban life, are forced into action to save the world.
Rating: ★★★★
Watched with Evie, who was reticent as always to start, but eventually liked it. “When can we see #2?”
Entertaining and fun. Jason Lee’s voice spoiled the reveal of the heavy for me.
Directed by Tony Scott. With Will Smith, Gene Hackman, Jon Voight, Lisa Bonet. A lawyer becomes targeted by a corrupt politician and his N.S.A. goons when he accidentally receives key evidence to a politically motivated crime.
Watched on Thursday October 15, 2020.
Rating: ★★★★
Seems odd watching this so many years later that we were worried so much about the government spying on us instead of worrying about corporations spying on us. Reminds me of the dichotomy of the way Americans and Eurpoeans view Government versus Corporate overreach.
I always mean to watch this in a double feature with Walter Murch’s The Conversation. One of these days I’ll get around to it.
Directed by Vincent Misiano. A fictitious small town in N.H. is the site of the first presidential primary vote, and the results from Hartsfield's Landing, announced at 12:07 a.m., will dominate the news all day until the final tally, so Josh wants favorable press for the president, prompting to ask Donna to persuade a local couple she knows to reconsider their vote. Elsewhere, Bartlet has just returned from India with a ...
I immediately notice a few specific differences. I really want to do a side by side viewing of the original episode and the remake now.
Directed by Thomas Schlamme. With Allison Janney, Bradley Whitford, Rob Lowe, Janel Moloney. Stage version of the season 3 episode "Hartsfield's Landing"
An apt episode to be doing for this particular purpose, but of course almost all of them could be really.
Incredibly well done and well-directed as a stage version. Definitely not something easy to do, though it also wasn’t quite live either. I’ll want to revisit the original again and then do a side-by-side comparison. A few smaller characters are definitely missing and the Josh/Donna relationship has shifted massively–in part because she no longer reads as “Bambi”.
It was a nice touch to have Ainsley return for stage directions, but I suspect that it may have been because Stockard didn’t want to come back for it?