Surviving the Crazy Twins

My struggle with the crazy twins that haunt me: Bipolar Disorder and Alzheimer’s Disease.
You’ve never heard a movie like this one

You’ve never heard a movie like this one

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...
I, Claudius

I, Claudius

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...
Far From The Madding Crowd

Far From The Madding Crowd

A real, live white male hero?  Not possible! I’ve watched it more times than I want to admit.  But, as Sergeant Troy, the film’s anti-hero says just before he stops a richly deserved bullet to the heart, “Honesty in all things.”  So.  There you...
“Madame”:  God In The Box.

“Madame”: God In The Box.

And The Money Changers In The Temple. How I happened to watch the film, I’m not sure.  Perhaps on one of those interminable flights to or from Greece last spring when scraping the bottom of the barrel of viewing choices became a necessity.  When sleep, in seats...