My wife and I just finished watching Frankenstein on Netflix. The movie is Guillermo del Toro’s take on the familiar tale: human-like creature brought to life by Victor Frankenstein (the first mad…
Category: Movies
Day 321: Let’s Keep Playing Ball
In the brilliant 1989 film “The Field of Dreams,” Kevin Costner’s character Ray Kinsella builds a baseball field in the middle of a farm in Iowa. In the process, he perplexes his…
Day 285: “The Passion of Joan of Arc” (1928) – (Original Film Score)
Today I’m thrilled to share my latest film scoring project, part of Carl Theodor Dryer’s 1928 “The Passion of Joan of Arc.” Recently I read Mark Twain’s “Joan of Arc.” This is…
Day 190: Reflections on the Madoff Tragedy
I just watched, “Madoff: The Monster of Wall Street,” a documentary on Netflix. Many times I had heard the basics of Bernie Madoff’s Ponzi scheme, which robbed innocent people of billions of…
Day 186: Long Live the Movies
My wife and I are both equally enthusiastic movie-goers. By “movie-goers,” I also mean “movie-watchers,” since we don’t always go to the movies that we watch. During the Pandemic especially, there was…
Day 117: Sort of Funny…
So I was sitting here a few hours ago, trying to write a blog post and in no state to do one. In fact, I was pretty misaligned. I realized that I…
Day 53: The Unexpected Gem that is “Top Gun: Maverick”
Note: I originally wrote this movie review back in May, a month before I re-started this blog. I didn’t know it was going to be huge hit, I just knew I loved…
Day 2: That Time I Got Jealous of Idris and Dwayne
Today my wife and I went to see “Jurassic World: Dominion.”* I enjoyed watching familiar faces from the legacy “Jurassic Park” movies–Laura Dern, Sam Neil, and Jeff Goldblum–on screen with the newer…
Day 247: I’m so glad they invented movies!
It’s Sunday night, late. Tonight my wife and I went out and saw an excellent movie: The Best of Enemies. We got to the movie theater about an hour early in order…
Day 221: Ride the Roller-coaster!
I would say that I consider myself a fan of certain catch-phrases, aphorisms, or words of wisdom. There’s a reason some of these sayings get used to the point of practically sounding…