1967 comedy, dir. Mel Brooks, Zero Mostel, Gene Wilder: IMDb / allmovie. How to make a fortune on Broadway? Oversell the shares, keep the money and put on a show that flops. Unless it doesn't…
I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved array pairs and accumulation. (Note that this ends today.)
2015 fantasy anthology: six stories of Ile-Rien and Cineth.
1940 comedy, dir. and starring Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard: IMDb / allmovie. A hapless Jewish barber happens to be the exact double of don't-call-him-Hitler.
More gaming with nearby friends.
2003 crime, dir. F. Gary Grey, Mark Wahlberg, Charlize Theron: IMDb / allmovie. [Handsome Rob] "Once drove all the way from Los Angeles just so he could set the record for longest freeway chase."
2004 mystery, twenty-second in Muller's series about Sharon McCone, private investigator in San Francisco. Sharon's newest employee, Julia Rafael, is arrested for credit card fraud. Did she do it, and if not, who's got it in for her?
1969 crime, dir. Peter Collinson, Michael Caine, Noel Coward: IMDb / allmovie. You wouldn't hit a man with no trousers on, would you?
I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved array sums and differences. (Note that this ends today.)
2023 Victorian romance. Naomi Kwan is registering for an "ambulance" (first aid) class, and finds she needs a fiancé to be taken seriously. Liu Ji Kai turns up at just the right moment, and is prepared to go along with a fake engagement. But he's the son of a confidence trickster who made himself deeply unwelcome in Wedgeford, and now he's come back… to make pottery?
2010 police procedural mystery, tartan noir, first in the Jack Logan series. Fifteen years ago the murderer the press called Mister Whisper kidnapped and killed three children; Jack Logan arrested him. Now another child has gone missing and the exact same trappings are showing up; did Logan get the wrong man?
Back to one of my favourite conventions, still at the Royal Highland Centre next to Edinburgh airport.
1976 science fiction, dir. Michael Anderson, Michael York, Jenny Agutter: IMDb / allmovie. In the city, everyone accepts that they will die at age 30; or they run, and are hunted down and killed. But the central computer is determined to find and destroy the Sanctuary that they're running to.
2023 non-fiction, astronomy and autobiography. Mike Brown recounts his role in the discovery of Quaoar, Eris, Sedna, Haumea, and other minor planets. And how Pluto got demoted.
1973 science fiction, dir. Richard Fleischer, Charlton Heston, Edward G. Robinson: IMDb / allmovie. A routine murder investigation will lead to a terrible secret. (Spoilers for a fifty-year-old film.)
I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved array analysis and matrix incrementing. (Note that this ends today.)
2022 SF, fifth and last in its series. The expedition to the black hole will change everything.
1972 science fiction, dir. Douglas Trumbull, Bruce Dern: IMDb / allmovie. The last of the wilderness is preserved in space… but it isn't needed any more.
1952 historical fiction for young people. Hugh Copplestone is orphaned and living with his aunt and uncle; one of his few joys is his dog Argos. When his nasty aunt plans to have the dog killed, he sees no option but to get on the road, heading for Oxford, where his father studied as a servant to a richer boy.
1959 comedy, dir. Billy Wilder, Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon: IMDb / allmovie. Two (male) jazz musicians lose their jobs after the speakeasy is raided, and then accidentally witness a gangland killing. They have to take the first out-of-town job going. Even if that means joining a women's orchestra…
There's a new offline mapping program for smartphones, so I thought I'd see how it stacks up against the one I'm already using.