Countdown to Inferno
Inferno will be in theaters before you know it, and I can’t wait. I love Dan Brown books. I love Tom Hanks movies. I love movies produced by Ron Howard. The combination of Brown, Hanks, […]
2016
Review: Stranger Things (Season 1)
I’m coming to this one a little late. I had it on my list of things to review or write about and kept putting it off. I had sort of decided it was too late […]
Check Out Michael Phelps Doing Eminem on Lip Sync Battle
So, what do you do for fun after raking in the medals at the Summer Olympics and raising the bar even higher as the most decorated athlete in history? Apparently you go on Lip Sync […]
Science Fiction? Nat Geo ‘Mars’ Is Science Factual
Nat Geo will air a six-part series in November called ‘Mars’. It’s an ambitious project in that it attempts to mesh actual documentary footage and interviews with experts with a fictional story of a crew […]
Review: ‘Morgan’ Has Potential but Misses the Mark
Morgan starts with a simple premise of the moral and ethical implications of genetically crafting a biological being from scratch. Even if such a being looks and acts human, is it? Is the being a […]
Review: Captivology – The Science of Capturing People’s Attention
As the subtitle implies, Captivology is a book about capturing attention. It is a guide to understanding and implementing tips and practices that will attract and keep the attention of your desired audience.Parr starts out […]
War Dogs Proves Life Is Often Stranger than Fiction
Holy crap.That is my summary of War Dogs. The movie was produced by Todd Phillips–director of the Hangover movies–and Bradley Cooper. The truly crazy part, though, is that War Dogs is real-life. It’s a story […]
‘Sausage Party’ Explores Meaning Of Existence Through Raunchy Animated Comedy
Sausage Party neither looks nor sounds like a deep, existential movie at face value. However, between the adult humor and debauchery, the new R-rated animated comedy manages to explore the important philosophical question of why […]
The Principle Is What Happens When Good Science Gets Twisted
A controversial movie, The Principle, is now available on iTunes and Amazon. The movie—written and produced by Rick DeLano—is a polished pseudo-science attack on the generally accepted model of cosmology. I disagree completely with the […]
Alice In Chains Still Rocking Strong
I remember Alice In Chains from the halcyon days of Grunge Rock in the 90’s. While the band never achieved the level of fame and notoriety of acts like Nirvana and Pearl Jam, Alice In Chains […]