My favorite genre remains science fiction and it is astounding to me how far the genre has come since its halcyon days of Destination Moon and Tobor the Great.  Even the dopiest sci-fi films of the past couple of decades contain imagination […]

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About fifteen years ago I began to develop a strong appreciation for British actress Lesley Manville.  It was seeing her in the Mike Leigh film Another Year and realizing, with quite a start, that she greatly reminded me of Gloria Grahame, […]

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