If our society is eventually to collapse within itself this may be the way that collapse will begin.  Doomsday scenarios like this are cautionary tales that posit what could happen if we do not prepare properly, and also serve as […]

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Sports movies usually their specific sport to create tension and excitement as their teams or individual performers attempt to overcome adversity to achieve a championship or a personal best or, sometimes, redemption.  Occasionally there is a moral, a social statement […]

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The most cinematic writer of all time may be Stephen King.  Certainly a larger percentage of his books and stories have been filmed than anyone else of which I can think (except perhaps Jane Austen, but she only wrote six […]

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I’m not the biggest fan of animated entertainment, but I have consistently enjoyed the “Wallace and Gromit” stories (and other projects) of Nick Park, the British writer, director and animator whose sense of humor is nicely aligned with my own. […]

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Another futuristic tale that shares its distrust of governmental authority is Afterburn, which discards its pseudo-science-fictiony premise pretty quickly to get to pure and obvious action.  The content and style of this post-apocalyptic scenario is pretty similar to those which populated […]

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I used to keep on top of major film releases but in recent years have lost my way.  Five years after its release I am just now catching up to the science-fiction alien invasion adventure The Tomorrow War, which is the […]

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