In these modern times social media can be a place of conflict and argument. It seems that no matter what position you take on an issue you can bet that someone will call you derogatory names for taking the position that you take and having the gall of sharing your opinion. I too, recently, have…
The movie opens with an orange sky silhouetting a simple house and a man toiling the soil under a leafless tree. The name of the movie is Unforgivien, one of the most popular Western movies that has been released and its just became available to watch on Netflix. After watching Unforgiven, again, last night on…
Mark this date on your calender because it’s going to be important. January 1, 2019. The reason why this date is so important is because nothing has entered into the public domain for the past 20 years due to the passage of the Copyright Extension Act, introduced by the late Sonny Bono who died prior…
September 8, 2018 we lost a great actor. The first movie that I saw Burt Reynolds in was the classic “Smokey and the Bandit” watching it on HBO at my aunt and uncles house on their NASA sized satellite antenna in 1978. It was a huge event where my Aunt and Uncle invited my Mom,…
When Star Wars was first released in 1977 the populatity of the Space Opera was waning. The genre, which started with the pulp magazines and books of the 1920’s and 30’s, is built around storylines that involve traveling through space and aliens. Before Luke Skywalker met Obiwan, books by Isaac Asimov and Ray Bradbury captured the imagination of…
