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A challenge for an author is to sign away film rights to a published work. This tendency is because a writer’s characters are precious and the writer has invested a significant amount of personal pride in a work as a whole. The finished product shouldn’t be tampered with. However, a few authors seem to have…

DVD movie commentary/review In a day and age of security uneasiness, what or who will save the day? Fight fire with fire or with subtlety?  James Bond is based on the Ian Fleming novels, but the issues the novels, and movies, present are as relevant today as they were yesterday, perhaps more so. The character…

There are movies that hold up the ideal of peace, but it can be a difficult road to hoe. Battlestar Galactica (1978, USA) was one of those movies. Battlestar Galactica was something of a cult phenomenon and the movie merchandise was short lived, but memorable for some boys. It was like Star Wars (1977, USA),…

DVD movie commentary Bobby Fisher was the world chess champion who broke the Soviet’s stranglehold on the top echelons of the game. But, it could be argued that, Bobby’s rise to the top came at the expense of losing his innocence, the shock of childhood incidents causing him to want to be the best at…

Movie article I remember well the song Something’s Missing (In My Life), the version sung by Marcia Hines. But it touched on issues I thought were redundant. Not according to this song. You must experience something’s missing, to know something’s missing in your life. Marcia sung about a relationship or love being the missing link.…

Movie article What is image? Perception is image. Audiences perceive an actor a certain way. Like or dislike, it is still perception, but deliberately manufactured in images to attract and gain a market. Sometimes, the actor to audience process does not work, but it also works well in other instances. Actors from the Golden Age…

DVD movie commentary/review We may want to ‘transcend’ something in life, whatever that is, such as freedom from a difficulty, way of life, predicaments. Peter’s hope in the family fairy tale movie Pan (2015) is having freedom from predicaments. We all would like to be free from problems, but things gets in the way of…

Return of the Jedi was the long awaited Star Wars sequel of the 1980s. The movie was strongly anticipated because it was a Star Wars film as well as the previous film leaving a few unanswered questions. Actually, the producers changed the title “Revenge of the Jedi” to Return of the Jedi (1983, USA) because revenge…

DVD movie commentary/review Eddie (Game of Thrones’ Peter Dinklage playing a teenager) wants to be a winner at arcade games, so plays at the local arcade, as well as entering the 1982 video game championships. 1970s-80s classic video games are present at ‘the games’ of video games, notably Pac Man and Donkey Kong (games I…

You don’t have to be the last person on earth to feel lonely and emotionally distanced from people, but I can imagine what is worse is being the last person on earth or one of a few survivors. Being the last person on earth or one of a few survivors should send shudders. Even so,…
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