Occassionally, I’ll read a story on the Internet that grabs my attention. This story about coded messages being transmitted to spies was one such article. Does that sound interesting to you too? Well, go have a look, then come back and we’ll carry on.
Ok, read that? Good. To sum it up, coded messages are broadcast on obscure AM radio frequencies to real spies out in the field. They’re indecipherable to you and me, but for the intended secret agent, they are top secret mission instructions or perhaps life saving warnings.
To be honest, I thought this type of communication died out long ago. Maybe I’m naive, but I had no idea that it’s still going strong today, so I just had to have a listen for myself…
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Yet another movie post? Got Deja Vu? Yup…
Denzil Washington plays Doug Carlin, a detective within some special branch of the FBI. He’s one of those ace cops you only get in Hollywood movies that could find key evidence and solve a murder with his eyes closed whilst wiping his own arse.
The film starts off OK and builds quite nicely until ‘the science bit’ when it all starts to get a teensy bit silly. Using face recognition to find a bag? Hmmm, no. The whole ‘Goggle Rig’ thing? Nope. Not buying it.
The big LCD computer screen above might just look like a computer screen to you and me. But oh no no no no. That’s a wormhole don’t you know. That’s right. Shine a laser pointer on that bad boy and it’ll go back in time.
…but after a poor middle, it almost redeems itself to the end. Almost.
Oh by the way, has anyone seen Laurence Fishburne lately? As I think Val Kilmer’s possibly eaten him.
6.5/10.
I didn’t realise until last night just how much Emma Thompson looks like Hugh Grant.
Supremely confident in my celeb looky-likey spotting skills, I ran the photo to the right through My Heritage for scientific proof. It however, thinks she looks like Sugar Ray Leonard (62%), Buzz Aldrin (58%) and Vin Diesel (56%). Oh well.
So the film, Stranger Than Fiction then…
If you’re expecting a Will Ferrell movie that contains gratuatious tits. This isn’t it (sadly).
It’s basically Will Ferrell’s attempt at a Truman Show style film. Except he’s trapped in a book about his life. Ferrell’s not exactly got great acting skills and can’t quite pull it off. Saying that, it’s still a reasonable watch. More due to Maggie Gyllenhaal though - because she is just soooo incredibly cute. Gooood morrrrrrnin’.
Oh, and without giving anything away… if Eiffel’s books were real, they would have possibly the crappest most dull endings…
7/10.
