Category: Movies
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Musings & Thoughts for Saturday, April 1, 2023, or: Weekend Update, Part the First
Another weekend, another month. Another quarter-year. It’s early afternoon here in Lithia, Florida, on Saturday, April 1, 2023 – another warm, humid, and sunny day in the Tampa Bay area. And as I sit here in what, for now, is my bedroom/writing room/mancave, I am, for once, not thinking about my new story (or, at…
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Book Review: ‘The Star Wars Archives: Episodes I-III, 1999-2005’ (Taschen 40 Edition, 2023)
The Star Wars Archives: Episodes I-III, 1999-2005 – Taschen 40 Edition (2023) By: Paul Duncan, with Colin Odell and Michelle Le Blanc Publisher: Taschen Books Reviewer’s Note In January of 2021, I purchased, purely on impulse, the original Collector’s Edition of The Star Wars Archives: Episodes I-III, 1999-2005, a hefty 600-page tome about the making…
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On Writing & Storytelling: A Writer’s Rest Day & More Arrows for My Quiver
“Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it’s always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen) and quite often the blank piece of paper wins.” ― Neil Gaiman It’s late afternoon here in lovely Lithia, Florida, on Saturday, March 25, 2023. Since it’s the weekend, and since…
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On Movies & Movie Collections: ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds – Season One’ Warps into My Blu-ray Collection
Yesterday I received Star Trek: Strange New Worlds – Season One in a three-disc Limited Edition steelbook case. It’s my penultimate pre-order from Amazon – Paramount’s Black Sunday (1977) on Blu-ray arrives next week – since I’m trying to cut back on non-essential purchases till I move to Brandon. It was originally scheduled to arrive…
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On Movies & Movie Watching: Making Progress with My TBW List for March
This afternoon I decided to shake things up a bit, so instead of cloistering myself in my bedroom all day, I did something I rarely do: I turned off my desktop PC, grabbed a Blu-ray of a movie that was, incidentally, one of the titles on my most recent To Be Watched (TBW) list. That…
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On Movies & Movie Watching: My Sunday Afternoon Movie Selection – ‘Romeo and Juliet’
It’s late afternoon here in Lithia, Florida, on Sunday, March 12, 2023. I’m off to a late start with this post because I decided to change things up and watch a movie in the early afternoon rather than wait till nighttime. A few days ago – before I went down the rabbit hole of revising…
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Death Star Corridor (A Star Wars Haiku)
Coldly lit hallways Of dark reflective metal Lead to Jedi’s doom.
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On Movies & Movie Watching: My (Aspirational) To Be Watched List for the Weekend
So, it’s already Thursday, March 9, 2023? Wow. Tempus fugit indeed. Well, with the weekend looming on the horizon, it’s probably time to revisit the To Be Watched (TBW) list, since weekends are supposed to be the “prime time” for movie watching – even though I often don’t watch anything because I am too distracted…
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On Movies & Movie Watching: ‘Devotion’ – If at First You Don’t Succeed, Try, Try Again
Last night, I attempted to watch Devotion by playing the 4K UHD Blu-ray disc; I have the option of choosing either the physical disc or the digital copy I redeemed on Vudu on Wednesday, but I prefer the former playback method. Streaming is fine most times, but it does have limitations and is highly dependent…
A Certain Point of View, Too 