******UNIDENTIFIED FLYING SPOILERS!****** I’ve been a fan of director Steven Spielberg since my family and I waited hours parked outside a drive-in theater waiting for the filled parking lot to clear so we could squeeze in and see “JAWS” back in 1975. Two years later, seeing “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” (CE3K) at the…
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A few thoughts on UFOs/UAP and extraterrestrial life…
******SAUCER-SHAPED SPOILERS!****** Growing up in the 1970s, UFOs (as they were called then) were wildly popular. I watched alien visitation/invasion movies, such as “The War of the Worlds” (1953), “Earth vs. the Flying Saucers” (1956), and “Invaders from Mars” (1953)–that last one really scared the hell out of me watching it alone on late-night TV…
It’s time: “CreepIECon Aftermath” haunts the Inland Empire once again…
Repossessed! As we head into my favorite time of the year, the city of Ontario, California once again embraces the coming Halloween season with its CreepIECon horror convention. The original convention known as CreepIECon debuted in February of 2022, but this biannual event has a late-September spawn now known as CreepIE Aftermath (nee: Son of…
Revisiting Steven Spielberg’s “E.T.” after 40 years…
40 Years Ago. When I was not-quite 11 years old, one of the most awe-inspiring movies I’d ever seen was Steven Spielberg’s brilliant “Close Encounters of the Third Kind”(1977). “Close Encounters” was life-changing, and propelled my current never-ending curiosity about the universe. Five years later, in 1982, I was a somewhat more cynical 15 years…