You can’t tell me we you didn’t see this coming… I mean the times we are living in. The craziness(1), the near-civil war hysteria of “it’s your fault (and never my fault)” that’s going round and round. Don’t tell me you are surprised. Don’t do that. Ulysses S. Grant, General Read more…
Just a couple thoughts for movie reviewers. One, when I see (words to the effect of) “just like blah-blah meets blah-blah” as in a collision of two other movies and neither one is a title I recognize, I instantly know this isn’t my type of movie. Or rather, I assume it Read more…
I work with a lot of movies(1), and I’ve noticed something a little disturbing. There are almost no “G” rated movies any more. Some of that is that the movie rating system (in America, this is, other nations ratings run along different yardsticks) has changed in the last 40 years Read more…
I don’t normally spend a lot of time deeply analyzing 30+ year old movies, but I was sitting some place the other day where the Schwarzenegger movie Total Recall (1) was playing and a few things struck me. Been a while since I’d seen it, so I was looking with Read more…
Out walking this morning I came across a Red Cross coach… some kind of big bus thing converted to some use of the Red Cross’. I assume drawing blood or some such thing. There was no signage out, no identification of why they were there. Okay… it’s got red cross Read more…
Dear Wall Street Journal: A friend of mine tried to share an article of yours with me. Sent me the link. I clicked on the link and got about two sentences with the rest held hostage against my subscribing to your otherwise decent publication. I don’t subscribe under threats or Read more…