…through The Valley of Elah Well, I went and did it again. That is, I put a film on my Netflix queue without any idea of what it was really about. But I got lucky this time with In The Valley of Elah. Based on actual events, it stars Tommy Lee Jones and...
Only to be cast on the funeral pyre As often is the case, I’m not quite sure how I came to have Netflix send me the 1927 German film, Metropolis. But it finally moved to the top of my queue the other day and showed up in the mail box. Directed by Fritz Lang,...
Catch it if you can If you like, you can call me out of it. In fact, way out of it. But it wasn’t until just a few months ago that I became aware of the 2018 film, A Quiet Place. But I must have been about the last one to get on board. It made a ton of...
My guilty pleasure I’ve mentioned my personal trainer, Charlie, before. Between the beat down sessions he inflicts on me, I enjoy trying to give him a bit of his own medicine-at least verbally. A sort of pay it backward for all the cans of whup-ass he’s...
Decadent Rome. Decadent America? I don’t really remember how I, Claudius got on my Netflix radar. I think it was my sister who suggested it. But in any event, it took months, even years, for it to work its way to the top of my queue. But I’m glad-I...
MSMS: My scary movie syndrome Understand. I have a slight tremor anyway. It’s a side effect of the medication I take for my bipolar syndrome. And, I suppose, a natural consequence of getting older. But it doesn’t come close to preventing me from...
