Movies/TV
I was watching The Empire Strikes Back last night for the 7,282nd time. It never gets old. But, it’s interesting how you notice something different about it each time you watch it. Last night, for the first time, it struck me how, after Luke was rescued from the surface of […]
I’ve been watching “The Seventies” documentary series on Netflix. It originally aired on CNN but is a great watch. It’s fast-moving; like Cliff’s Notes for the decade. A stunning realization came to me while watching the show. I never considered how much the former Shah of Iran looked like Eugene […]
Spock and Kirk action hero figurine set for ages 8+. Don’t they mean 48+?
So, I’ve become one of the millions of lemmings who religiously follow and wait for new episodes of the AMC series The Walking Dead. I’m ashamed because, I never wanted to be one of the people who sit around, foaming at the mouth, in anticipation of the airing of a […]
There was a great line in miniseries “Hatfields and McCoys”: Two Hatfield brothers are sitting in a whorehouse saloon drinking shots of whiskey. A prostitute approaches them. Whore: “I love Johnse Hatfield. Why doesn’t he love me?“ Guy at Saloon: “Because you’re a whore?”
Tonight I watched The Life of Pi. A story about a boy living for weeks at sea in a lifeboat with a tiger. Told in real time, this was quite possibly the longest, most boring movie I’ve ever seen. I thought a better title for the movie would have been […]
We just finished watching the commercial pap extravaganza “We Bought a Zoo.” The movie was written and directed by Cameron Crowe, one of my favorite writer/directors. “Almost Famous” and “Jerry Maguire” are two of the best in the genre in my opinion. His latest effort “We Bought a Zoo” had some […]