Category Archives: movie
My Cultural Ignorance
There are several cultural touchstones I remain rather ignorant of, despite countless references to them throughout my six decades of existence. Peter Pan, for example. As a child, I ate plenty of his peanut butter, saw the animated Tinker Bell … Continue reading
Simplifying Our Home Theater
A lightning strike prompted me to simplify our home theater. The bolt early one morning struck quite close to our house, disrupting our next door neighbor’s telephone landline wiring and one of its attached telephones. I had to reboot both … Continue reading
Treks Not Travelled
“This is not your father’s Star Trek.” —2009 ad for a movie reboot My friends know that I am a big fan of Star Trek, the original series television show that was broadcast from 1966 to 1969. However, I didn’t … Continue reading
Not Going to the Movies
October 2024 A year ago, Wendy and I watched a movie in a cinema together for the first time in over 4.5 years. The COVID-19 pandemic was part of the reason for our absence from the multiplexes, but another year … Continue reading
Hushabye, Richard
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is a 1968 children’s film that I loved catching on television during the 1970s. Given that it is a children’s fantasy musical starring Dick Van Dyke with songs by the Sherman Brothers, you might think it … Continue reading
Meador Manor 