I found “Jack’s Obsession” to be delightfully charming. It’s set after the Town Hall Meeting, when Jack has locked himself away to puzzle over Christmas in solitude. While Sally and the other inhabitants wait expectantly outside, the Pumpkin King turns the idea of Christmas over and over inside his head, hilariously missing the point all […]
via The Nightmare Before Christmas “Jack’s Obsession” (1993) — Film Music Central
I think it’s fair to say I grew up surrounded by the works of Roald Dahl, the major ones anyway. I devoured Matilda as a first-grader, and it didn’t take much prompting to read Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (and its sequel), Danny the Champion of the World, and James and the Giant Peach. But […]
With his cadre of Rambos leading the way, Patrick enters the BMTverse. He breathes in the dull, uninspiring air and a part of him knows it’s home. The old rickety Rambo crouches down, his knees giving off loud popping noises, and tastes the earth. “Your brother, he’s been here.” The young spry Rambo with the […]
Hundreds evacuated while experts work to defuse the explosive
via 1,000-Pound Bomb From World War II Unearthed in London — TIME
(MILAN) — Italian authorities evacuated 4,000 people from the center of the northern city of Bolzano on Sunday to defuse a World War II bomb found during construction. Three experts defused the 500-pound American bomb during a three-hour operation that also forced 60,000 people to stay in their homes and closed sporting complexes and churches,…
via Experts Defuse 500-Pound American World War II Bomb Found in Northern Italy — TIME
When a TV show gets turned into a movie, it often represents a big change of pace, with a standalone plot, a bigger budget, all made for a bigger (or at least more casual) audience. “El Camino: A Breaking Bad Story” — which premiered a week ago on Netflix —doesn’t take that approach at all.…
via Original Content podcast: ‘El Camino’ provides a quiet coda to ‘Breaking Bad’ — TechCrunch
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As his father watched proudly, a little fisherman captured the biggest bass of his life. He then made his father even more proud by gently releasing the fish back in the water. In a video shared by Jacksonville, Fla., news outlet News4Jax, Kemari Cooper was fishing with his father Velt Cooper of Quincy, Florida, when…
via Pint-Sized Fisherman Kid Doing the Sweetest Catch and Releases Ensnares Hearts and Minds — TIME
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