Unless you really enjoy conventional, comfortable story telling. I have lot of sympathy for Sean Penn since he was visiting a relative on the same floor of hospital in LA where my mother was for a time. But I can’t say I ever liked him as an actor, and the chapo and macho shtick is lame. His new vehicle on Hulu….I am a sucker for space shows, but this was god awful. Tiresome and predictable plotting, writer’s room choices, and scenes: (“how about she runs a tattoo parlor!?”; “let’s copy that scene from Contact, maybe? Oh good idea I loved that scene!”; “let’s make the explosion be the same as the Challenger!”). BTW, what male astronaut does not have a buzz cut? Could they not have the central character be a Sunita Williams type, in 2018?
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Friends of African Village Libraries (I post regularly here)- Sumbrungu Community Library nighttime reading
- Résumé du livre Une grande mère criminelle
- Organisation d’une séance de discussion autour d’un livre à la bibliothèque de Dimikuy
- Librarians of Tuy monthly meeting January 2026, Burkina Faso
- Impressions sur la production de livres CMH au Burkina Faso
- Compte rendu de la première rencontre des gérants de la zone du Tuy
- Science fiction books for libraries in Burkina Faso and Ghana
- Animation d’une séance de lecture à la bibliothèque de Dimikuy
- Nyariga Community Library in Ghana, photos January 2026
- Visite à la bibliothèque de Béréba, Burkina Faso