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The Cinetopia Film Festival has hit Ann Arbor and our Saturday pick was 'How To Build a Library'. 2025 Kenyan-American documentary film, directed and produced by Maia Lekow and Christopher King. It follows Shiro Koinange and Angela Wachuka, as they restore McMillan Memorial Library, Nairobi. Kenyan publisher Angela Wachuka and writer Shiro (Wanjiku) Koinange quit their jobs to start a non-profit organisation named "Book Bunk" and, as their third project, to restore the famous, neo-classical McMillian Library. Along the way, they navigate local politics and confront Kenya's colonial past.

This led to a back and forth about the importance of finding a project in life that you can be passionate about and why it's important, especially as you age, to not let go of such a pursuit.

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Directed by Maia Lekow and Christopher King

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I totally ripped this synopsis from Wikipedia. Sue me - I was pressed for time.

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This 1997 action/romance starring Val Kilmer and Elizabeth Shue is one of Jay's personal favorites! This flic has it all! Espionage, disguises, cool tech gear (for the 1990's), chases, and a love story that works between 2 characters who actually have palpable on-screen chemistry. With an absolutely kick-ass soundtrack that reflects the time it was made - heavy on the electronic rock, ambient, alternative flare.

Buckle up as Val takes on a thrill ride across countries from England to Russia where he becomes a multi-persona chameleon to steal technology, highjack a formula for cold fusion, evade the Russian mafia, topel a would-be oligarc, and fall in love, all under the guises of Catholic Saints. Get ready for 'The Saint'!

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Rami Melek and Lawrence Fishburn take on the espionage genre in this new spy thriller. Here's the twist, Rami's just a big nerd who happens to work at the CIA. But when his wife is killed, can he leverage his keyboard crypto-jockey talents into a cold-blooded, protein-eating, super assassin to avenge his wife? Especially with both the killers and Langley hot on his trail. Holt McCallany and Rachel Brosnahan support.