“Close Encounters of the Third Kind”; introducing Steven Spielberg’s 1977 UFOpus to fresh eyes…

*****MOTHERSHIP-SIZED SPOILERS!***** “If everything’s ready here on the dark side of the moon?  Play the five tones…” When the COVID pandemic happened, my wife and I invested in a cheap Vankyo digital projector to keep up on our movies since movie theaters were shut down for months, and arguably, still haven’t fully recovered. Without the…

Waxing nostalgic with “A Christmas Story Christmas” (2022)…

*****A SLEIGH FULL OF SPOILERS AHEAD!***** “A Christmas Story” (1983) Confession time; I never saw the late Bob Clark’s “A Christmas Story” (1983) in theatrical release. It opened sans fanfare back in 1983, and stayed off my personal radar until the mid-1990s. On Christmas Day of 1993, I’d worked myself into a nasty flu, and…