The Recovering Hopper

S aw this going around on the Internet recently, and thought I might use it as a jump-start to overcome my negligent lack of posting this ...

  I may not have made millions over the course of my life, may not have moved the culture with my writing, may not have influenced a genera...

  M y oldest daughter, Little One, now age 20, has been a Bob Dylan fan for quite a while. She has a hippie streak, music-wise, liking a lot...

  I know I’ve written extensively about Ridley Scott’s 1979 movie Alien . About how influential it was to me as a young lad. About how into...

F ound myself on my own last night for a few hours, a rare occurrence believe it or not. So I picked up some Chinese food and settled down...

  Last night at the Oscars. We didn’t watch, of course, but I did see the movie with the Mrs. back in July. When I read the news this mornin...

  S o I was genuinely excited a few months back when I first learned that a major motion picture of the life and career of Napoleon Bonapart...

  So the plague has visited my home this past week. No, not the Wu Flu. No, this was its older, more mature cousin: the upper respiratory tr...

  Amidst all the busyness of getting the house in order to sell, getting Little One ready for her SATs, getting Patch to her various soccer ...

All right, indulge me for a moment. Or rather, the child in me. King Kong vs. Godzilla was one of my favorite movies growing up in the 70...

I appreciate a good descent into madness flick. That being the case, I picked up The Lighthouse on a distant memory of hearing someone...

Don’t know much about this year’s Oscars (nor do I really care), but I know one thing: Joaquin Phoenix should win Best Actor for po...

© 2019 One major part of my life growing up in the 70s, between the ages of, say, eight and ten, was Godzilla. The original Japan...