Mirage (Original Title: Durante La Tormenta)~ A nagging little voice keeps telling me the best films aren’t coming out of Californica anymore, they’re coming from the Old World, like this Spanish import. I’m starting to listen to that voice. To sit entranced for over 2 hours with a subtitled foreign …
A lesson from this lockdown, and from all state-sponsored and -enforced restrictions on free interaction and commerce between individuals: these are opportunities for crooks, charlatans and hackers to make big inroads into the lives of ordinary people. With government, lockdowns are just another chance to expand its power and control …
Dragged Across Concrete ~ This was one of the most suspenseful — almost unbearably so — cop movies I’ve seen since The French Connection. And blessed with a soundtrack that, while it doesn’t surpass Don Ellis‘ seminal work on that quintessential 70’s film, did reignite my interest in the O’Jays …
Covid19 has disrupted everything in life. Perhaps the only area in which I’m fortunate is I didn’t lose my job like millions of other Americans who were forced out of work by the lockdowns. I’ve been working from home for 6 weeks (that policy has been extended 4 times, the …
May 2 ~ I guess I should consider myself fortunate: 6 years ago I left the gig economy and took a fulltime job with a Fortune 1000 company that has now become — via merger — a Fortune 500 company, doing what I’ve done for the last 35+ years: write …
