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Month: July 2012
Not one but two teaser trailers for Man of Steel have been released, essentially the same trailer with different voice-overs. From the look of the trailers the movie feels more like Terence Malick’s Man of Steel than a Zack Snyder film. Nice use of The Bridge Of Khazad Dum from the score to The Fellowship of the Ring and I love the visual of him breaking through the sound barrier.
Russell Crowe as Jor-El
Kevin Costner as Jonathan Kent
finished Deep Down (A Jack Reacher short story) by Lee Child and gave it 4 stars http://t.co/h2bOVlgR #Kindle
The Burning Wire by Jeffery Deaver
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
In this the ninth outing for Lincoln Rhyme he is up against a killer that has turned New York city’s electricity grid on its inhabitants. Not only that The Watchmaker has been spotted arriving in Mexico and Rhyme is offering his assistance in capturing the most dangerous and elusive of his foes.
This is a more personal tale than the last few Lincoln Rhyme novels and he is having thoughts about whether he should remain in his current condition. I enjoyed this book a lot, Jeffrey Deaver rarely disappoints, but it is not one of my favourite Lincoln Rhyme books.
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I recently saw the film Waiting for Superman, which despite the title is not a comic book film but a documentary about the US education system.
It had received rave reviews but I think it was deeply flawed, it oversimplified the problem and was emotional manipulative.
Basically it poses the question why is the US no longer top of the world when it comes to education league tables?
Comparing the 1950s with today the US seems to have dropped from #1 to around #20
One of the reasons offered is that part of the issue is that the rest of the world has simply caught up with the US economically in the intervening period. The film covers this entire aspect in less than a minute and spends a large proportion of the film attacking the teacher’s unions.
Bad teachers lead to poor teaching and poor teaching leads to a cycle of educational underachievement for many students.
Bad teachers stay in their jobs due to their union-secured contracts which guarantee them tenure (which unlike tenure for university professors is apparently automatic after just a number years of service) and tenured teachers are virtually impossible to dismiss.
This is probably part of the problem but it ignores the larger socio-political issues.
Amy and I decided that we should try to make a real effort to watch more films because it is something that we both love to do that we somehow fell out of the habit of doing. To think back in the days of working at the cinema I was watching around 100 films a year.
We started with a quirky comedy that my brother recommended to me called Jeff, Who Lives at Home.
Windows 8 launching late October, RTM ‘on track’ for August | The Verge http://www.theverge.com/2012/7/9/3146476/windows-8-will-rtm-august-release-late-october via @verge
Paul Thurrott recommends viewing the BUILD 2011 keynote given by Steven Sinofsky in which Windows 8 was finally unveiled to understand the roadmap of the development and release of what is the most significant OS from Microsoft since Windows 95.
Finished The VDI Delusion by Jack Madden et al. and gave it 5 stars http://t.co/b9EOtHha #Kindle