*****MONOLITH-SIZED SPOILERS AHEAD!***** Back in 1984, the Cold War was in full swing. Soviet Russia (before the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union) was the binary enemy of the United States; they were the ‘commie pinkos’ and we were the ‘capitalist swine’ (even in those days, I never bought that propaganda). The US space shuttle…
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Revisiting “2001: A Space Odyssey” theatrically for its 50th anniversary…
First, I want to apologize to any regular readers for the lack of fresh content for the last couple weeks (feels like forever ago to me). Between Halloween (a very big deal at my house) and most of an Election Day week spent nauseously nervous, things have been a bit crazy around here. Secondly, I…
“2001: A Space Odyssey”: 50 years of a future that never was…
Stanley Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey” (1968) is (truly) one of my favorite movies of all time. If I could take only three DVDs with me to a remote island (assuming I had a DVD player that ran on coconut juice), this movie would be one of them. Now I don’t mean it’s the best…