The way I know a movie is good is when it stays with me days after the end credits have rolled. So it is with Netflix’s “All Quiet on the Western Front.” I just can’t get Paul and his comrades out of my head, or the foreboding musical score, telegraphing to the audience that this...
It’s been a while since I’ve shown up to blog, I’ve been swamped with my day job and launching my book which, it turns out, is quite an involved process. But there’s no time like the present. I’m sitting under a buzzing flood light on the sidelines at my son’s soccer practice. Boys on the...
Good morning and Happy New Year to all! We spent a wonderful New Years Eve yesterday and last night by doing a lot of nothing. After another epic Christmas visit to Colombia, the four of us were happy to lounge around with full abandon for scheduled activities, binge watching Wednesday and eating Chinese food. Wednesday is...
Brazil is out! Argentina hangs on by a thread! Spain has been out! And U.S.A....well, sadly, that's old news now. As a family we've enjoyed the hell out of this World Cup cycle, and the timing couldn't be better. This fall we just started watching Premier League and La Liga (thank you, Fubo TV), my...
In the spirit of Halloween, I did a search for Jamie Lee Curtis movies and Peacock served up Prom Night. It was the teaser clip that hooked me: An early 20s Jamie Lee Curtis, dancing alone to the song in her head, arms high and graceful, body spinning, when her nemesis flicks on the spotlight....
I confess that I finished reading The Killer Angels a month or so ago. I kept wanting to write about it, but decided what I really wanted to do was watch Gettysburg, the 1993 film based on the book, to tell you about yet another fantastic book-to-movie adaptation. But, alas. The Killer Angels book-to-movie adaptation...
Last month I read Deep Work by Cal Newport and what Cal had to say about work, focused attention, connectivity, email, and especially social media, had an immediate effect on my behavior. Cal's entire body of work centers around technology, social media, focused attention, productivity, and other related topics. Deep Work is his Big Idea...
I finally picked up Bird Box, long after the 2018 hype over the Netflix movie adaptation, and the trending cultural references and hilarious memes about blindfolds. I thought it was an entertaining read with a fast-paced, linear storyline that's airtight. There's very little meandering or monologuing. Josh Malerman is not making a cultural statement with...
The new Top Gun: Maverick blew me away. It's so good! It was story telling magic just like the original 1986 Top Gun. When the final credits rolled it had me thinking, how the heck did they pull that off? Again!? If you're like me and enjoy nerding-out on stories that have that special something,...
I had Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea sitting on my bookshelf and decided to read it. The story isn't what I thought it would be, plus it moves too slowly for contemporary readers. Same with the Disney movie staring Kirk Douglas. But, the book changed the Science Fiction genre when it was published in 1870...
