“Smile, you son of a bitch!”: Celebrating a half-century of “JAWS”…

******GREAT WHITE SPOILERS!****** Fifty years ago, in that long ago summer of 1975, eight-year old me was piled along with my siblings and parents into our family’s Volkswagen bus, headed to a local SoCal drive-in to see “JAWS”; the blockbuster flick from the as-yet-unkown Steven Spielberg (hard to remember a time when he wasn’t a…

“Enemy Mine” (1985) is an unearthed gem of a sci-fi flick…

*****SPACESHIP-SIZED SPOILERS!***** Something of a box-office dud in its original release, “Enemy Mine” was a movie I didn’t catch theatrically in my younger days. I remember being intrigued by the TV trailers for this US-UK-German coproduction, but it was in and out of theaters before I could catch it. I would later see it, via…