40 Years Ago, In A Theatre Not Too Far Away… This May (no, not May the 4th…the 21st) marks the 40th anniversary release of one of my all-time favorite movies, “Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back” (1980). The film was primarily written by George Lucas and screenwriter Lawrence Kasdan (who would write many other…
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“Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace” still haunts my DVD cabinet, 20 years later…
May of 1999 was a heady time for me. I was 32, and getting married in a month. My bachelor days were melting away into a new chapter of my life. I was going from an apartment to a house. As my fiancee (present-day wife) and I were planning the details of our life together,…
Revisiting “Raiders of the Lost Ark” in cinema…
Whip it good. This week, my wife and I took in a screening of the 1981 Steven Spielberg/George Lucas classic “Raiders of the Lost Ark” at our local cinema. I hadn’t seen “Raiders” theatrically since the summer of 1981, when I was all of 14. This time, nearly four decades later, I was a…