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Movie reviews and overviews

• 20^th century Fauss–the motorcycle racing movie Little Fauss and Big Halsy, 1970
  • School of hard Knox–an evolutionary psychology digression from 20^th century Fauss
• A ridge too far—The Bridges at Toko Ri, 1954
• Adolf versus Adolph—The Battle of Britain, 1968
• Blue, blue, electric blue—the cult motorcycle film Electra Glide in Blue, 1973
• Comet Adaline–the 2015 romantic fantasy The Age of Adaline
• Easy riser—Fly Away Home, Columbia Pictures, 1995
• Lars and the real Everard–the Canadian movie Lars and the Real Girl, 2007, in which Ryan Gosling plays an exaggerated version of me
• Lesbie Avenue–the 1995 Canadian lesbian movie When Night is Falling, which contains some hang gliding
• Magnificent flying machines—Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines, 1965
• Midnight lightning in Connecticut—The Stepford Wives, 1975
• Righteous stuff—Toward the Unknown, 1956
• Saving Major Tom–the 1967 James Bond film You Only Live Twice
  • Bondsmanship, a programming and technical writing digression from Saving Major Tom
• Saving pilot Durant—the Ridley Scott movie Black Hawk Down, 2001
• Space suits and frocks on the box—The Right Stuff, 1983
• Stairway to Paradise–the 2012 Zack Snyder movie Sucker Punch
  • Plot spoiler: Why is it titled Sucker Punch?
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  • Provenance
  • Criticisms
  • Personal and other trivia
• T minus 15 seconds, guidance is internal—First Man, 2018, starring Ryan Gosling as Neil Armstrong of Apollo 11
  • Neil, containing some brief comments on two or three important scenes
• The man who loved women—overview of the movie The Man Who Loved Women by François Truffaut, 1977
• The odd angry howitzer shell, Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan, 2019, Australian Vietnam war film
• The odd angry soldier — The Odd Angry Shot (1979) Australian Vietnam war film
• Vtg Goth Lolita–the Stanley Kubrick movie Lolita, set in New England, but largely filmed in olde England
  • Normal Normans thinking aloud–a philosophical digression from Vtg Goth Lolita
• Witches, gang bangers, and crocodiles–the Zack Snyder movie Suicide Squad, 2016

External link

Paint it black, a review of the 1976 film Sky Riders on Hang Gliding History