Don’t Look Up: So On Target It Will Make You Laugh and Cringe. Watch It!
Which is a hard thing to pull off. With a stellar cast led by DiCaprio, Blanchette, Streep, Jennifer Lawrence, Ariana Grande, and more, this movie skewers all of us so accurately that some scenes will make you cringe as we see how senseless, selfish, and misguided humans are. Written and produced by Adam McKay, who […]
The Novice—Movie Review–“You Need To Relax”
Have you ever told someone who is upset to relax? Yeah. Experience has taught me it’s the worst possible thing to say to my wife in stressful moments and has the exact opposite effect. The Novice is a movie about a young woman, Alex Dall, who is a freshman at a university where she is […]
Happy Holidays! Shane and the Hitwoman only .99 today through 29 December
I hope everyone is staying safe through the end of 2021. Sadly, Omicron has made an appearance and the next two months will be tough. Not just in terms of the pandemic but all medical emergencies. I’ve scaled back my outdoor adventures a bit because now is not the time to show up at the […]
Wheel of Time, Station Eleven, The Leftovers: A hit, A hit depending on the target, an older hit.
I read The Hobbit as a kid in the Bronx a long time ago. I was really amazed at how that Tolkein guy managed to fit three movies into one book. I was hooked. I was thrilled upon going back to the library and finding three more books by the same author. I read Terry […]
We’re Living the Opening Of A Disaster Movie In Slow Motion
Killer tornadoes. Killer Heat Dome. Unprecedented Drought. Texas Freeze. Killer hurricanes. Floods. Record heat waves. The poles melting. And, oh yeah, two years into a pandemic which shows no sign of abating. Roll the credits. And the producer and director? Us. We’ve even written the script over the last several decades. Even worse, we have […]
The Power of the Dog: Art Making A Point
This is a powerful movie. How one reacts to this power depends on where they are coming from and their own experiences with evil people. My wife and I started watching it and we turned it off about 15 minutes in. The blatant anger and seething hate in Phil (Benedict Cumberbatch) was so obvious and […]
The Georgia Traverse for Forest and Off-Road Enthusiasts
I like driving my Jeep on forest roads, away from the beaten track. I’ve done boondocking trips all over the country, but one of my favorite areas is close to home. Living here in Knoxville, there are plenty of opportunities to do that, especially with the Appalachians to the south and east and the Cumberland […]
Invasion would be better titled Evasion
I tried. Sort of. After watching the first couple of episodes I did the rest of the series in fast forward mode, stopping every now and then when it seemed like something might actually be happening. Which wasn’t often. I finally got to Episode 10 and watched the entire thing and really, WTF? What a […]
What Misconceptions and Mistakes Led to the Pearl Harbor Disaster?
“Should hostilities once break out between Japan and the United States, it would not be enough that we take Guam and the Philippines, nor even Hawaii and San Francisco. To make victory certain, we would have to march into Washington and dictate the terms of peace in the White House. I wonder if our politicians […]
The Nightingale: A Movie About Men and Evil. A Must See.
Yes, it’s extraordinarily brutal, but evil is brutal. We want to avert our eyes, but we live in a time when evil, which always exists, has crawled out from under a rock and is right in front of us. There are those who don’t believe that people are purely evil, but they are among us. […]