Miv Evans

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Miv Evans is a British writer who relocated to Los Angeles in 2005. She has written 300+ film reviews and her debut novel was published in 2014.

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Project Nim – A Chimp’s Life

Nim is a chimpanzee who a professor tried to make human. It's a fascinating documentary that aims to hold up a mirror to the animal that is man's closest relative but in so doing also holds up a mirror to mankind. And it's not always pretty.

Bad Teacher – Bad Everything

Diaz dazzles as the Bad Teacher in this otherwise barely entertaining piece that tries so hard to shock it suffers from exhaustion long before the final curtain falls.

CARS 2 – No Kids at Disney

This is a children's film with a plot too complicated for many adults to understand and with so much explanatory dialogue it sometimes feels like a lecture. There's absolutely no humor for anyone and much is made of a picture of an engine, the li

Page One: Inside The New York Times – Remembering The Good Times

There are some compelling facts in this documentary, but not nearly enough, and what there is is so bogged down by social media trivia that no room is left for a cohesive story to be told, which is something of a paradox

The Art of Getting By – Or Not

Stakes don't get much lower than this and it's as crashingly boring as it sounds, with the lack-luster plot making its meandering way from one pointless moment to the next.

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How Git Commit Histories Become Evidence in Federal Computer Crime Cases

A single line in a commit message, written years before anyone imagined a prosecutor reading it, is often what pushes a federal computer-crime case from "maybe" to "charged." Not the code. The sentence next to it, timestamped and signed wit

Hell Has a New Tide: ‘The Bottomless’ Comes to Empire Underground November 29

Forget the beach vacation. Sean Cranston is taking audiences somewhere far darker. With The Bottomless, the Upstate New York filmmaker brings a maritime nightmare to Albany: a shipwrecked pirate, a mermaid, and a journey shaped by Dante's Inferno.

California’s 2028 Watering Deadline Is Closer Than It Looks: Why Commercial Property Owners Need to Review Irrigation Lines, Backflow Protection and Plumbing Maintenance Now

California's 2028 watering deadline is approaching for commercial property owners whose landscapes contain decorative grass irrigated with drinking water. A strip of lawn around an office parking lot may seem like a minor maintenance issue,

A Peptide Can Have Different Names on the Purchase Order and Lab Report: The Documentation Gap That Can Mislead Research Teams Copy headline

A laboratory can order one peptide, receive a vial bearing a second name, and open a certificate of analysis that uses a third. None of those differences automatically means the material is wrong. A development code, a common research name
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