Category Archives: Movies
East/West Diversions
Category Art, Movies
Where has the time gone? Does it seem like twenty-five years have gone by? A few days ago, on March 22nd, an anniversary was observed. It was the 25th anniversary of the release of a film that many of you watched as children. It is also likely that many of you were adults then, so [...]
Teamwork
Category Movies, Travel
It’s the dead of winter, and we’re just back indoors from one bone-numbingly cold day in Sturgeon Bay, Door County, Wisconsin. The low was -8 degrees and the high was +1. I think the place is misnamed. Maybe it should be called Ice County. I’ll need to warm up, so this will have to wait [...]
A Room With A View
Category Discussion, Movies, Travel
To state the obvious, yesterday was the last day of the month — the 28th! And this event, a month ending on the 28th, is the norm for February for three out of every four years. Somehow that 29th day, in the year when it happened, came to be called Leap Year. Anyone know why?
Sea Fever & Siren Songs
Category Art, Movies
There’s nothing like the shore, the beach, or a day on the high seas to make you feel like you’re alive. The seas have awesome power, they cannot be conquered, and are eternal. The British poet John Masefield in his poem Sea-Fever wrote: I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea [...]
Etched In Time
Category Movies
Time goes by so fast in February — this is to be expected in a month that has only 28 days. But when we watch a film that really gets to us, we no longer notice time. It passes, as it always does, but our attention is elsewhere as we are immersed in the events [...]
Googoogajoob
Category Art, Movies, Travel
On February 17th, 1969, almost forty years ago, a popular singing group, very well known in their day (wink-wink), released a Double-sided A single 45 rpm record. The names of the songs were Penny Lane and Strawberry Fields Forever. Maybe you recall this group – they were called The Beatles.
A Kiss Is Just A Kiss
Category Movies
Since people began making movies, people have been willing to pay money to see movies. Meanwhile, other people have been pitching ideas to movie producers to get them to fork over big bucks so they might cash in by means of creating the idea for a new movie project. A standard line from a pitch [...]