Longest night. Darkest day. A bleak time to be sure. But once it is the longest night, then nights are shorter. Once it is the darkest day, days become bright. Since the wheel last turned this way, my life has been touched by death, cancer, lay-offs,...

Dogfight (1991) 8/10 It’s November 1963. A group of Marines on liberty has a “dogfight;” a contest to see who can bring the ugliest date. Corporal Eddie Birdlace (River Phoenix) brings Rose (Lili Taylor), but finds there’s more to her than he’d...

The Omega Man (1971) 8/10 Robert Neville (Charlton Heston) is the only survivor of biological war. With the world dying of plague, Neville developed a vaccine too late; and only he was treated. Everyone else is dead or mutated into vampire-like...

A few days ago, I dreamed that someone I knew was an expectant father, and his wife was in labor. I was to be the labor coach and, while my friend waited nervously outside, I went in to attend to her. When I entered, I discovered the “wife” was an...

1. Little Green — Joni Mitchell: Except the sound was screwed up, so now I have to figure out if I need to remove and re-upload this one. 2. Whispers from a Spiritual Garden — Yusef 3. Louisiana 1927 — Randy Newman 4. My Romance — Michael Feinstein 5....