One strength of a television series like Game of Thrones is its ability to explore character. Characters have several episodes, several seasons, to develop and change. We call this transformation character arc. When I binge watch a television series, it tends to be the plot that keeps me watching, one episode after the next....
Believing that readers might gain more benefit from my blog if I let them know what’s coming, I decided to begin each month with a summary of what I’m working on and what blog articles to expect in the coming weeks. It is my intentions to post new content on Wednesdays and Sundays. Lately...
Last August I set out on a project to read Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes cannon, from the first book to the last. It was my intentions to read and review a book each month. Following that schedule, I should’ve finished this project in April, but I encountered a couple hiccups along the...
If there was any doubt whether the current cast had the strength and talent to carry the Star Trek movies forward, Star Trek Beyond shattered that doubt. It is a thrill ride from its humorous opening scene to its final shot of a starship under construction. Once again J.J. Abrams, acting as producer rather...
The other day, I posted my review of Star Trek (2009), and I wanted to post a short review of Star Trek Into Darkness, in anticipation of seeing the third installment, Star Trek Beyond. Released in 2013, Star Trek Into Darkness is the second installment of J.J. Abrams reboot. In my review of the...
As a boy, I loved Star Trek. Though the original series played for only three years, reruns were always on. And I read the books, the Bantam adaptations of the episodes. When Star Trek: The Movie came out in 1979, I had to see, as I had to see the next two movies. I...
What’s Up, Doc? is a 1972 comedy starring Barbra Streisand and Ryan O’Neal. The plot centers around the the confusion caused when multiple matching bags arrive at the same hotel. Though two of the suitcases contain innocuous items, a third contains expensive jewelry, and the fourth, top secret documents. When the bags become mixed...
Remember how in the 1980s and 90s we awaited a new Star Wars movie, and then LucasFilms released A Phantom Menace, and we said, “Huh?” It wasn’t that we hated the movie, but we knew it wasn’t the Star Wars movie we wanted and anticipated. This is the way I feel about Independence Day:...
Imagine an elderly man, sitting in a parlor before a fire, rocking in a chair, and telling you stray stories about his adventures as the comrade to a famous detective. The detective is now retired in obscurity–a beekeeper, we are told–but the truth of his many mysteries have yet to be told. So now...
Two successful detectives battle over police ethics. Touch of Evil is a 1958 film noir directed and starring Orson Welles. It also stars Charlton Heston and Janet Leigh. Set in a Mexican border town, it follows the rivalry between the American detective, Captain Quinlan (Welles), and a Mexican detective, Mike Vargas (Heston). After...
