Ezra Frech won Gold in High Jump (and, I think, the 100m) Like most folks, I suspect, every time the Summer or Winter Olympics came on, I...

Watched:  07/12/2024 Format:  Kino Lorber BluRay Viewing:  First Director:  Georg Wilhelm Pabst I'd been meaning to see this movie since...

American legend and baseball player, Willie Mays, has passed at the age of 93. Mays was, statistically, one of the best to ever pick up a ba...

taken with my Pixel 4 Well, here in lovely Austin, Texas, we were on the edge of the total solar eclipse.  Around 1:36 PM Central, we experi...

Watched:  03/19/2024 Format:  Criterion Viewing:  First Director:  Ken Russell Selection:  Oh, no one was going to watch this with me Years ...

Watched:  03/17/2024 Format:  Hulu Viewing:  First Director:  Yorgos Lanthimos Selection:  Me My viewing of  Poor Things  did finally get m...

Watched:  02/03/2024 Format:  Amazon Viewing:  First Director:  Nolan Selection:  Jamie I'd wanted to see Oppenheimer (2023) in the the...

Watched:  01/15/2024 Format:  Amazon Viewing:  Second Director:  Robert Redford Selection:  Jamie It's been 30 years since Quiz Show (19...

Watched:  12/21/2023 Format:  YouTubeTV Viewing:  Unknown Director:  Ron Howard You're remembering this movie a particular way because y...

Watched:  12/21/2023 Format:  Amazon Prime Viewing:  Unknown Director:  Frank Capra A few years ago, we covered this movie on the podcast.  ...

Turns out today, Dec. 19th, 2023, is the 180th anniversary of the publication of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol , arguably one of th...

Watched:  12/04/2023 Format:  Prime Viewing:  Unknown Director:  Mark Sadnrich My understanding is that this movie, released in August of 19...

Watched:  11/29/2023 Format:  AMC IMAX Viewing:  First Director:  Takashi Yamazaki Where to start? Over the years, Godzilla has been many th...

Actor, singer, activist and icon Harry Belafonte has passed at the age of 96 . Belafonte appeared in innumerable films, on television and wa...

Watched:  03/12/2023 Format:  TCM Viewing:  First Director:  Herman Shumlin, Hal Mohr (uncredited) I had never seen Watch on the Rhine (1943...

Former President James "Jimmy" Carter is on my mind these days as he is, at age 98, entering hospice care.   Perhaps now more famo...

Watched:  01/14/2023 Format:  HBOmax Viewing:  First Director:  Barbara Kopple One of the things I wonder about as The Kids have decided tha...

except, literally everyone knew she was a fraud and the network a scam? Watched:  12/28/2022 Format:  HBOmax Viewing:  First Director:    C...

Author:  Dr. Christina Lane Year Released:  2020 Format:  Audio Book and Book A while back I learned of Dr. Christina Lane's book, Phant...

  Madeleine Albright, a woman of legendary accomplishment, has passed. Albright was the first female Secretary of State, and had the intelli...