Star Wars is back! And who would not go see it? We did, of course. We took Eve's father. He had not seen any of the Star Wars movies, which I find incomprehensible. I think he is the only person I ever met who has not. Of all movies of all time, Star War and the Godfather are must sees by my calculation, just because they are really good and have …
When we came home last night we turned on the TV and watched a movie I haven't seen since it was in the theatres twenty-four years ago. Thelma and Louise. A classic. It got me thinking about my favorite movies over the years. Here is part of my list: Breaking Away, which I mimic by giving myself an Italian bicycle riding name. Power of One. W …
Always enjoying confusing my mind by trying to understand theoretical physics, I tried hard to understand the movie Interstellar. Without giving away any plot, I will only say it has a little to do with black holes, worm holes, the warping of spacetime, and most intriguing of all -time distortion. Black holes, at their simplest of levels, can b …
One of my favorite movies as a child is on TV every year around this time, Babes in Toyland, or as it is also titled The March of the Wooden Soldiers. It was just on again the other day. In this Laurel and Hardy film from the 1930's the hapless Stan figures out that they can use the 6 foot tall wooden soldiers to fight the evil Silas Barnabas and …
There are three movies out now that have some common themes. They are Gravity, Captain Phillips, and All is Lost starring Robert Redford. They each in their own very different settings deal with danger, life and death, and courage. All is Lost is all Redford. Literally. Though the dangers of a man alone at sea were predictable, it was stil …
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