One of my favorite writers is Candice Millard .  With a relatively modest output compared to other popular historical writers, I would gladl...

Huh.  Dick Cheney died.

Author:  Skip Hollandsworth Narrator:  Clint Jordan Some time around the turn of the century, I was an avid reader of Texas Monthly , a peri...

In addition to being very TL;DR, this post was difficult to write as this documentary covers horrific, very real deaths, and the aftermath, ...

Watched:  08/16/2025 Format:  Amazon Viewing:  Third, I think Director:   Shinji Higuchi , Hideaki Anno Shin Godzilla (2016) is currently en...

Watched:  06/28/2025 Format:  Max Viewing:  First Director:  Mariska Hargitay I don't watch Law & Order much, but for a while back ...

Watched:  06/18/2025 Format:  Netflix Viewing:  First Director:  Mark Monroe (blogger's note:  we did also watch the other doc on this t...

Watched:  05/09/2025 Format:  Criterion Disc Viewing:  First-ish? Director:  Raoul Walsh Fun (likely apocryphal) fact:  This movie from 1939...

Watched:  04/26/2025 Format:  Drafthouse Viewing:  First Director:  Ryan Coogler I guess Marshall is my "there's a vampire movie ou...

love the US flag pine tree deodorizer.  Feels very 00's Watched:  04/23/2025 Format:  Midnight Pulp Viewing:  First Director:  John R. C...

Watched:  02/27/2025 Format:  Apple+ Viewing:  First Director:  Greg Berlanti What an odd movie. This is kind of what has happened with the ...

Former US President Jimmy Carter, the President who was in office when I became aware of what a President was circa 1978-79, has passed at t...

Watched:  12/28/2024 Format:  4K Disc Viewing:  First, as it turns out Director:  Alfred Hitchcock For Christmas, K and Dug got me a set of ...

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...