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Confessions of a Time Traveler – The Man from 3036 (2020)

A wild story of time travel.

I watched this supposed true story on Prime Video. It is documentary style sci-fi written and directed by the Nostradamus Brothers and released July 2, 2020 by Anon Films. It is about a reporter trying to get a story from a man that had been arrested and told a wild story of time travel. It comes along pretty good but gets more unbelievable by the end. It is only 38 minutes so I’ll give it 2.5 out of 5.

The Current War (2017)

I watched the, Martin Scorsese, 2017 historical drama “The Current War” on Netflix DVD. It is about the battle of alternating current versus direct current in the late 1800’s. Thomas Edison is played by Benedict Cumberbatch (TV’s Sherlock, Khan in Star Trek Into Darkness and Doctor Strange in the Marvel movies), George Westinghouse is portrayed by Michael Shannon (Groundhog Day, 8 Mile, Pearl Harbor, Bad Boys II, Man of Steel and Knives Out) and Nicola Tesla is played by Nicholas Hoult

(A Single Man, Clash of the Titans, X-Men: First Class, Jack the Giant Killer and Tolkien). It was directed by Alfonso Gomez-Rejon (Glee, American Horror Story: Coven) and written by Michael Mitnick. The story is excellent at showing the ruthlessness of Edison to get his DC no matter what, Westinghouse to do what is right and the genius of Tesla. I enjoyed this movie and will give it 4.8 out of 5.

Click read more for the trailer and videos on the science involved.

Richard Jewell (2019)

I watched the Clint Eastwood produced and directed film “Richard Jewell” on Netflix DVD. It was filmed in Atlanta, where it originally took place, and depicts Richard Jewell as the completely innocent ex-cop, security guard. The Atlanta Journal and Constitution (AJC) and the FBI are portrayed to look like jerks. The AJC tried to get Clint Eastwood not to make reporter Kathy Scruggs, played by Olivia Wilde, look so bad in the film saying that her role was “entirely false and malicious.”

Simulation Hypothesis (2015)

I watched The Simulation Hypothesis on Amazon Prime. The hypothesis is that everything, the earth, the universe, is a simulation, and that you are existing in a reality that seems real to you but you are just living in a computer simulation. The simulation would be so real that living in it would seem normal. Many fantasy and sci-fi TV shows and movies (like The Matrix) have taken advantage of this theory.

Read more about the documentary on IMDB and more about Simulation hypothesis on Wikipedia, Scienticamerican.com, Techrepublic.com, NBCnews.com and Vox.com . I give this documentary 4.8 out of 5.

Ancient Aliens and our Binary Star

Jason Martell, from Ancient Aliens, is presenting this lecture on Amazon Prime. I enjoyed the talk but it would have been better if his slides wouldn’t have been washed out by the lighting. It is him sitting in a conference room, in front of a small audience, talking about evidence that we may exist in a binary star system. I give it 2.5 out of 5.

Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich (2020)

Watched this 4 episode series on Netflix. True story of this sick individual who preys on underage girls and uses his power and money to cover it up. The collusion of government officials is not surprising as his victims try to tell their stores and be heard. I give it 3.8 out of 5.

Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief

Watched the 2015 movie Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief. It is an excellent documentary on the Scientology cult. I give it 4 out of 5 stars in the documentary status.

[from Wikipedia]

Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief is a 2015 documentary film about Scientology. Directed by Alex Gibney and produced by HBO, it is based on Lawrence Wright‘s book Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood and the Prison of Belief (2013). The film premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. It received widespread praise from critics and was nominated for seven Emmy Awards, winning three, including Best Documentary. It also received a 2015 Peabody Award and won the award for Best Documentary Screenplay from the Writers Guild of America.

The film deconstructs the church’s claims by presenting a condensed history of Scientology and its founder, L. Ron Hubbard, examining how celebrities interact with the church, and highlighting the stories of a number of ex-members and of the abuse and exploitation that they described seeing and experiencing. The Church of Scientology responded vehemently to the film, complaining to film critics about their reviews and denouncing the filmmakers and their interviewees.

Going Clear was released in a limited number of theaters on March 13, 2015, and aired on HBO on March 29, 2015. It was a major ratings success and by mid-April 2015 had attracted 5.5 million viewers, making it the second most-watched HBO documentary in the past decade. It was subsequently released internationally, showing in theaters and on television despite a sustained campaign by the Church of Scientology to block its release.