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2024 Oscar Nominations
The Oscar nominations are in! Check back here when the winners are announced on March 10, 2024 Go to IMDb to see all the nominations. Winner Best Picture (Movies Linked to IMDb) American Fiction Anatomy of a Fall Barbie (My Review) Killers of the Flower Moon Maestro Oppenheimer Past Lives Poor Things The Holdovers The…
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Movie Review: “Leo”
Classroom pets, Leo the lizard (Adam Sandler) and Squirtle the turtle (Bill Burr) have been in the same 5th grade classroom since 1949. Leo just overheard a parent visiting the classroom telling another parent that his species of lizards live for 75 years. Calculating his age as 74, thanks to help from a 2nd grade…
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Movie Review: “Book Club: The Next Chapter”
The Book Club members (Diane (Diane Keaton), Vivian (Jane Fonda), Sharon (Candice Bergen), and Carol (Mary Steenburgen) are headed to Italy! Why? “Book Club: The Next Chapter” is horrible. The best lines, once again, go to Candice Bergen, but, you can skip this movie as it was probably made just as an excuse, i.e. tax…
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Movie Review: “Family Switch”
The Walker Family ((Jess (Jennifer Garner), Bill (Ed Helms), CC (Emma Myers), Wyatt (Brady Noon), Miles (Lincoln and Theodore Sykes), and Pickles)) are running around getting ready for Christmas, a promotion, a college interview, a record deal, and a soccer tryout. One night they visit the Griffith Observatory to view the alignment of planets when…
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STEM / STEAM: 2023 Weather Summary for Northern California
Meteorologist Adam Epstein is the Chief Meterologist at Sacramento’s FOX40 news station, KTXL. For the second year in a row, Adam has given us permission to post his year end weather summary for Northern California. Thank you, Adam! 2023, to me, was very wet and snowy in the winter, cooler further into the summer than usual, and…
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Movie Review: “Spirited”
Fresh off their success redeeming their latest mean person the three ghosts: Present (Will Ferrell), Past (Sunita Mani), and Yet-To-Come (Tracy Morgan & Loren G. Woods) set out to find the next humbug asshole to redeem next Christmas. They find Clint Briggs (Ryan Reynolds) but the ghost’s boss, Marley (Patrick Page), quickly turns him down…
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Movie Review: “The Family Plan”
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STEM / STEAM: Using Google BARD Artificial Intelligence to Write a Short Story
In 2024, ForCarol.org will “embrace” the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in our college scholarship applications. The requirements for using AI in their submissions are that the students must tell us: 1. What AI apps they used, 2. how they used them (to write, draw, etc) and what prompts they gave to the AI’s to…
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Movie Review: “Candy Cane Lane”
Every year the residents of Candy Cane Lane compete for the best Christmas yard decorations. This year, there is an extra incentive to win as the local cable TV outlet is covering the festivities and will judge the winner of the $50,000 prize. For the Carver family, that incentive is even stronger as Chris (Eddie…
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