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The Realities of Software Releases: More Than Just a Button
Releasing software is more than a button click. It is a high stakes moment where code meets the friction of the real world. From the landing gear moment of scale to the clean floor data paradox, here is why going live is complex and why we never release on Fridays.
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Frozen (2013)
Let it go, Let it go, can’t hold it back any more! Feels right, that while I am in Disney World, I should be watching this movie as part of my series. I will confess the journey to this movie for me wasn’t your conventional path. I came to this one very late. In fact, I came to it only because of my youngest son, doing a parody of…
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Youth (2015)
For my 100th movie on the 100th day in this series I was wanting something a little special to mark this huge milestone. Oops. Not to worry, I will chose better for my 200th movie. Youth had so much promise, with Michael Caine and Harvey Keitel as two aging friends, at a spa retreat in the Swiss Alps. Quirky and stylistic, we followed these pair as they wrestle with what is…
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The Transporter (2002)
It is no secret I have a man crush on our boy Jason Statham. After he was an Olympic diver, he turned his hand to movies with a help from Guy Ritchie. He quickly found himself a niche, as that ‘b’ movie action hero. Picking up where the likes of Van Dame and Seagal left off, Statham slipped into that no nonsense, never gets his butt kicked role very easily.…
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Death at a Funeral (2007)
This is as near perfect as you can get for a quirky British comedy. It is all the right ingredients, a very believable setup, ordinary characters in an extraordinary situation, wit, and sarcasm. Dean Craig who wrote this wonderful little hit, proves if he sets his mind to it he can produce comedic gold. However when he lets slip, what we end up, is something completely at the other end of…
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Ted 2 (2015)
I was nearly a fan of the first outing with the talking bear, that we know and love as Ted. The premise was a nice gimmick on the genre usually reserved for the likes of Disney, bringing life and character to an animal. But by stepping away from the family audience and going straight to the adult world, you open up to a lot more crude humour. Ted 2 continues…
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The Runner (2015)
Here we have Nicolas Cage trying to prove he can be a serious actor by taking on the role of a politician who is trying to walk the line between personal and professional morality. Set just after the BP oil spoil in the Gulf of Mexico, we have Cage playing a saintly congressman who is fighting the fight for the local businesses and people who’s lives have been destroyed by…
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Momentum (2015)
If I was to tell you that this movie took in a whopping £46 in its opening weekend in the UK, you would start to get a feel for the quality of this movie. We have ex-Bond girl, Olga Kurylenko playing the mouse to James Purefoy cat, in a heist goes wrong sort of movie. Set in South Africa, we have all the usual setups, corny and cliche as you could possibly…
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Get Low (2009)
This was one of those Netflix finds, that with its heavy weight cast of Robert Duvall and Bill Murray should have popped up on my radar a lot sooner. After watching it, there is a reason it didn’t pop up – it isn’t very good. The story centers around Duvall’s character, a 1930′s Tennessee hermit who has lived by himself in near isolation for 40 years. Apparently the story has a pixie…
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Gravity (2013)
Take a Sandra Bullock, throw in a little George Clooney, bake in space for 90 minutes and you have an Oscar (7 of them!) winning combination. The movie starts off with them fixing a satellite as part of a scheduled EVA. They then get word of a Russian satellite that breaks up, sending debris at 22,000 mph toward them. Naturally this rips through their mission, killing everyone but 2 from…
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