Nashville man's girlfriend warned he was building bombs

Throckmorton [attorney] told The Tennessean that Perry [girlfriend] had fears about her safety, and thought Warner [bomber] may harm her. The attorney was also at the scene that day, and told officers Warner “frequently talks about the military and bomb making,” the police report said. Warner “knows what he is doing and is capable of making a bomb,” Throckmorton said to responding officers.
Police then went to Warner’s home, located about 1.5 miles (2.4 kilometers) from Perry's home, but he didn’t answer the door when they knocked several times. They saw the RV in the backyard, the report said, but the yard was fenced off and officers couldn’t see inside the vehicle.
The report said there also were “several security cameras and wires attached to an alarm sign on the front door” of the home. Officers then notified supervisors and detectives.
“They saw no evidence of a crime and had no authority to enter his home or fenced property,” the police statement said.

So remember kids, don't answer the door and the police will just walk away from your house.

The Uninvited (1944) **

Mild, and mildly amusing, gothic ghost story. Gail Russell shines.

2020 In Review: Music

*** A Girl Called Eddy - Been Around
*** Corner Laughers, The - Temescal Telegraph
*** Country Westerns - Country Westerns
*** Cults - Host
*** Game Theory - Across The Barrier Of Sound Postscript
*** Haim - Women In Music Pt. III
*** Katie Von Schleicher - Consummation
*** Lavender Diamond - Now Is The Time
*** Lemon Twigs, The - Songs for the General Public
*** Nada Surf - Never Not Together
*** Nick Lowe - Lay It On Me
*** Nicole Atkins - Italian Ice
*** OHMME - Fantasize Your Ghost
*** Penny Diving - Big Inhale
*** Phantom Planet - Devastator
*** Pretenders - Hate For Sale
*** Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - Sideways to New Italy
*** Sad13 - Haunted Painting
*** Surfer Blood - Carefree Theatre
*** Thao & the Get Down Stay Down - Temple
*** The Asteroid #4 - Northern Songs
*** Tim Heidecker - Fear Of Death
*** Varsity - Fine Forever
*** Waxahatchee - Saint Cloud
*** Woods - Strange to Explain
** Beths, The - Jump Rope Gazers
** Big Believe, The - Juggernaut
** Bob Dylan - Rough and Rowdy Ways
** Bombay Bicycle Club - Everything Else Has Gone Wrong
** Bye Bye Blackbirds, The - Boxer At Rest
** Deep Sea Diver - Impossible Weight
** Elvis Costello - Hey Clockface
** Everything Everything - Re-Animator
** Gretchen's Wheel - Such Open Sky
** Hinds - The Prettiest Curse
** Jason Isbell - Reunions
** Jenny O. - New Truth
** Laura Veirs - My Echo
** Lisa Loeb - A Simple Trick To Happiness
** Matt Berry - Phantom Birds
** Of Montreal - UR FUN
** Psychedelic Furs, The - Made Of Rain
** Strokes, The - The New Abnormal
** Torres - Silver Tongue
** Yumi Zouma - Truth Or Consequences
** Nation of Language - Introduction, Presence
** Sufjan Stevens - The Ascension

Note: As befitting this awful year, this is the first time I did not rate a film or music release with 4 stars.

2020 In Review: Movies

*** Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
*** Horse Girl
*** I'm Thinking Of Ending Things
*** Palm Springs
** Downhill
** Soul
** The Call Of The Wild
** The Wrong Missy
* Mank
* Onward

Soul (2020) **

A few funny scenes in this blend of genres which goes a long way to basically say "enjoy every sandwich".

John le Carré, author of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, dies aged 89 | The Guardian

Having spent four decades living in Cornwall, married twice and raising a son, Nicholas, who would write novels himself under the name Nick Harkaway, Le Carré conceeded: “I have been neither a model husband nor a model father, and am not interested in appearing that way.” The consistent love of his life was writing, “scribbling away like a man in hiding at a poky desk”. “Out of the secret world I once knew I have tried to make a theatre for the larger worlds we inhabit,” he wrote. “First comes the imagining, then the search for reality. Then back to the imagining, and to the desk where I’m sitting now.”

The Grass Is Greener (1960) **

Beautifully composed wide screen shots and a quartet of stars in a stagy play adaptation. Watchable.

Mank (2020) *

Aside from being a hatchet job on Orson, this dull flick features fine cinematography and lead performance but little else.

The Silent Partner (1978) ****

Superbly directed noir/heist hybrid with a startling Chris Plummer performance.

The Jigsaw Man (1983) **

If you don't pay too much attention to the plot this is an enjoyable foray into spy v. spy territory. Sir Larry is fun to watch as well as the surprisingly good cast.