Category: Blu-ray Collection
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Musings & Thoughts for Friday, May 14, 2021, or: The End of the Saga of the Wayward Laptop is Nigh
Greetings, Dear Reader. It’s late morning here in New Hometown, Florida on Friday, May 14, 2021. The temperature is 78˚F (25˚C) under sunny skies and the air quality index is 40 (Good). With humidity at a relatively dry 34% and the wind blowing from the north-northeast at 10 MPH (15 KM/H), the feels-like temperature is…
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Musings & Thoughts for Tuesday, May 4, 2021, or: Confessions of a Serial Package Tracker & May the Fourth Be With You
Hello, Dear Reader. It’s late morning here in New Hometown, Florida on Tuesday, May 4, 2021. Currently, the temperature outside is 79˚F (26˚C) under sunny skies; with humidity at 88% and the wind blowing from the southeast at 6 MPH (10 KM/H), the heat index is 77˚F (25˚C). It’s gonna be a hot day, folks…
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Musings & Thoughts for Monday, May 3, 2021: or, Of Laptops Old & New, Sea Turtle Wallpapers, and Waiting for Packages
Hi there, Dear Reader. It’s late morning here in New Hometown, Florida on Monday, May 3, 2021. It’s going to be a hot beginning to the workweek. Right now, the temperature is 83˚F (28˚C) under sunny skies. With humidity at 73% and the wind blowing from the south-southeast at 10 MPH (16 KM/H), the heat…
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Movie Review: ‘Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World’
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003) Written by: Peter Weir & John Collee Based on: Master and Commander and The Far Side of the World, by Patrick O’Brian Directed by: Peter Weir Starring: Russell Crowe, Paul Bettany, James D’Arcy, Billy Boyd, Max Pirkis, Lee Ingleby, Edward Woodall, Richard McCabe Even though…
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On Movies: My Favorite Movies From ‘Before My Time’
All good things, the saying goes, must come to an end, including this through-the-decades look at my favorite movies in my Blu-ray collection. According to the colorful pie chart in the Statistics page of My Collection in my Blu-ray.com account, I don’t have too many movies from the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s. Of the 330…
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On Movies: My Favorite Movies from the 1960s
I was born in 1963, eight months before President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. I started going to the movies in 1969; the first movie I remember seeing theaters was John Sturges’ 1963 World War II/POW action-adventure film The Great Escape. I saw that in a now-closed Bogota movie theater, the Almirante,…
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On Movies: My Favorite Movies from the 2000s
Well, Dear Reader, having covered my favorite movies from the 1970s, ‘80s, and ‘90s, we have reached “the turn of the century” and the 2000s, otherwise known as the “two thousands,” the “oh-ohs,” or the “double aughts.” Turning again to that most useful visual aid – the colorful pie chart on my Blu-ray.com account’s My…
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Blu-ray Review: ‘Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan – Director’s Cut’ (2016)
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan – Director’s Cut (2016) Written by: Jack B. Sowards, Nicholas Meyer (uncredited) Based Upon: Star Trek, Created by Gene Roddenberry Starring: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, George Takei, Walter Koenig, Nichelle Nichols, Kirstie Alley, Ricardo Montalban, Bibi Besch, Merritt Butrick, Paul Winfield On June 7,…
A Certain Point of View, Too 