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There is enough likeness in her recent body of work that I feel comfortable describing You Hurt My Feelings as a Julia Louis-Dreyfus kind of movie. It’s smart, adult, funny, mildly acerbic, and deeply rooted in our current problems. These are the kind of problems that people who have nothing but these kinds of problems…

As a space junkie, I loved this documentary following two small-launch rocket companies over a multi-year period. Given that Ars Technica’s Rocket Report is part of my weekly diet, I pretty much know how it’s going to turn out and I’m probably THE target audience for a documentary like this. Still, the story arcs of…

I have a revolutionary idea for screen-writers and directors that might fundamentally change the way stories are told. Begin at the beginning and go to the end. I call this “linear storytelling”, and I’m confident that if somebody tried it, it would prove remarkably effective. Characters would develop in ways that surprise us. When their…

The Fallacy of a Solution Not every problem is solvable – at least in the sense of there being some immediate set of actions that will remove (or even alleviate) the problem. No single actor in the Middle East has control of the problem and most of those who might appear to be able to…