So Orwellian, Kind of Orson Wellesian
Recent news events have led some public figures to call the actions of social media companies “Orwellian” for banning Donald Trump and...
Take Shelter from The Birds
A couple of months ago I hit the point of quarantine where I watched a whole bunch of blockbuster disaster movies. Disaster movies are...
Psycho and Silence of the Lambs
I have been looking forward to a double feature of Psycho (1960) with another great movie forever. I have to admit that I had kind of...
Rebecca, 1940 and 2020
This month Netflix released a new adaptation of the book Rebecca, directed by Ben Wheatley. This was the second “big screen” adaptation...
More to 1919: The Amazing Story of Ray Caldwell
Midway through this season, I saw a tweet about something that happened "on this date in baseball" from 1919 that I had completely missed...
Greyhound and Lifeboat
This month I watched the new Tom Hanks movie about a WWII allied naval convoy in the Atlantic that is being terrorized by a German...
Spy Game and Notorious
Alfred Hitchcock had a pretty good sense of the landscape of the just before and just after World War II. His 1940 film not only foresaw...
2001: An Attack on America
This installment is more than just the 2001 season, it also covers a couple of other games in other seasons of the twenty-first century...
Watchmen and Comic Book Vigilantes
Superheroes are vigilantes working outside of the law for good, or their interpretation of "good." There are times in film that the...
1995: Win Above Replacements
The game was going to come back in some form. We were saved from a sham of a season at the last moment and were treated with a new era of...
