Word: armine
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Here is a standard time-travel movie, tarted up with a lot of virtual-reality twaddle. Shuttling back and forth between the present and a distinctly low-rent version of Los Angeles in 1937, a techno-nerd (Craig Bierko) must consider the possibility that he murdered his mentor-boss (Armin Mueller-Stahl) and doesn't remember doing so. While he creates an agreeably menacing atmosphere, Rusnak never makes us care particularly about anyone. One finds oneself praying for a wowing special-effects sequence. Or anything else that would jolt this movie out of its inconsequence...
...THIRTEENTH FLOOR Directed by Josef Rusnak Starring Armin Mueller-Stahl, Craig Bierko June...
...Premise Loosely based on the novel Simulacron-3 by Daniel F. Galouye, The Thirteenth Floor is the latest in an increasing number of science-fiction films which delve into the nature of reality and creation. The story revolves around two corporate visionaries, Doug (Bierko) and Fuller (Armin Mueller-Stahl), who create a complete virtual reality simulation of 1937 Los Angeles on a computer chip. However, when Fuller is murdered and Doug becomes the prime suspect, he must plunge into a mystery that has him questioning the thin line between the real and the simulated...
...When Armin Brott's first child, Tirzah, was very young, someone asked her what her father did. She answered without hesitation: "He washes the dishes." Brott, 40, an athletic ex-Marine and the Berkeley, Calif., author of a series of hugely popular books on fatherhood, didn't set out to be the superdad's superdad. When Tirzah was born eight years ago, he was working as a contract negotiator for a shipping company and thought business was his calling. But he found himself taking more time off and, over his employer's objections, bringing his little girl to work...
...Armin A. Brott has added a third book, A Dad's Guide to the Toddler Years (Abbeville), to his New Father series. (The first two were The Expectant Father: Facts, Tips and Advice for Dads-to-Be and A Dad's Guide to the First Year.) Brott writes honestly and earnestly. His wry sense of humor will be a relief to hassled parents. He observes, for example, that at 12 to 15 months, a toddler is "becoming aware of the expressive function of language and has developed an uncanny ability to pick out--and endlessly repeat--the one swear word...