Day: November 22, 2015

Three sentence movie reviews: Spotlight

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This movie has vaulted to the top of my Incredible-You-Must-See-It movie list* as it contains a story that won’t stop–but never goes overboard–and incredible acting and also LIBRARIANS!**  I found the story to be upsetting in that way that means it happened in real life, and no one did anything.***  The “upsetting” means a bunch of people aren’t going to see it, but that’s a shame because this is the kind of movie that won’t leave you in the best way possible.

Cost: free due to birthday gift card from brother
Where watched:  Regal Fox Tower

*You know this list lives in my head, right?  It doesn’t really exist in written form.
**The librarians aren’t really part of the plot, but it’s really cool to see pre-digital newspaper research. It almost makes up for the sad feeling one gets when one thinks of what was to come for the newspapers.
***I mean really, the levels of complacency in this film are gasp-inducing.

poster from: http://www.impawards.com/2015/spotlight.html

Hanging around downtown

The holiday tree (which I believe is it’s official name) is getting its branches attached.  I think they supplement with branches from other trees, judging by Douglas Firs I’ve seen in the wild. (aka the neighborhoods of Portland)

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Somewhere on this post is a picture of a big hole.  After a period of recession-era shutdown, that big hole has now become a very sparkly new building.

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Said sparkly new building towers over Director Park (picture it on the far right of the picture below).  Perhaps its height will make the covered area in the park look a better scale. By the way, the roof of the covered area is being repaired as its instillation was faulty.

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Our iconic “Allow Me” statue has been outfitted for the holidays.

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