From Hamlette ... Things in various categories that make me happy. Books: The Secret Ways by Alistair MacLean Golden Witchbreed by Ma...

I discovered Eugene Onegin , Alexander Pushkin's novel in verse via opera.  A few years back, my sister and I went to see the Royal Oper...

The Rules:   1. Thank the person who nominated you, as well as link back to their blog. 2. Answer the 10 questions provided. 3. Come ...

This is a movie that won't work for most people, cuz this is really not much of a biography, but more of a movie for opera lovers, showc...

Here's another Oscar Isaac movie that's right up my alley.  This one is an intimate, claustrophobic little sci fi movie with basical...

I've had this film in my Netflix queue mostly because it became one of my favorite James Horner scores from the minute I first heard it ...

Thanks for all the memorable roles, Mr. Rickman, from Die Hard to Harry Potter, to Sense & Sensibility to Sweeney Todd, to Quigley Down ...

I've wanted to post thoughts on The Force Awakens for days now.  To that end, I have a Word doc with 3000 words in it -- there's no...

I saw quite a few new movies in the theater this past year, that I never reviewed or wrote about.  I thought I'd write up a quick summar...

It will be hard to top 2015.  It opened with Battle of Five Armies and closes with Force Awakens .  (And I happen to be wearing Force Aw...

This film's about a best-selling author, Owen Waterbury, whose secretaries usually become his mistresses.   He hires a new one, Steph...

I was tagged by Hamlette for the Behind-the-Scenes Writing Tag. Originally, this blog started out as a writing blog (hence the name with ...