Having owned an Opel in my youth, I can easily tell you that this car is NOT a great daily driver. Opels are prone to all kinds of mechanical and electrical problems. However, it is a beautiful little car and certainly should hold some collectible value. It’ll certainly turn heads at a local cars & coffee meetup. If…

Last year my trusty old 2005 Civic finally hit the point of no return. Exhaust gasses were leaking into the coolant, causing the car to overheat on any drive over 20 miles. A local Honda/Acura engine repair shop owner told me over the phone that although he could definitely fix it, the cost of repair would be far in…

I was 14. The TV ads for Star Wars were airing about a week before it released, so there was a lot of buzz around my middle school just before summer vacation started. We went on a Saturday, about a week after it released. My friend Jay, his little brother Lee and I were dropped off in front of the Six Flags Mall…

Don’t own a Tesla and probably never will due to the cost. However, even if I had the money, I doubt I would buy one. It’s not that I don’t think electric cars are the future, since they most definitely are. It’s that I absolutely love to drive. I got my license to drive over 40 years ago and I’ve never lost my love…

I agree, this man does not deserve a century in prison, but as a truck driver, he royally screwed up. However the real villains of this crime, are the trucking company that employed him and the driving school he trained at. Sadly, those are often both one and the same. Allow me to explain.

“If you tape a show Friday night, it means you still have a show.” Did anyone tell the writers of this Amazon movie that TV shows of the early 50's were not recorded on videotape? TV shows of that era were aired live and were only occasionally ‘recorded’ via an archaic system known as Kinescope. Essentially it was a…

In high school, back in the late 70's, I drove a 74 Nova SS. Back then, the Nova’s 350 V8 power was completely sapped by the heavy handed emissions controls, making it an anemic gas guzzler. While seeing this old Malaise era car brings back memories, I kinda agree the market for something like this is kinda marginal.…

I think a big part of that box office was from the hand full of drive-in movies that still operate in this country. Drive-in theaters have experienced a major resurgence since the start of the pandemic, but have been starved for fresh movies to exhibit. I watched TENET last weekend, from the safe confines of my car,…

Bill & Ted 3 is the perfect drive in movie, which is how I saw it this weekend. It’s not great cinema, but it’s comedy, plot and timing are very consistent with the original two movies, which makes it a perfect finale for an imperfect but warmly funny franchise.

My 2005 Civic EX runs just fine. Someday if I have the money, I might get something newer, like a 2014-15 model.

I went to JCPenney headquarters last year for an interview for a photo-retouching position. The place was massive and palatial, and in massive denial that the American shopping mall culture and department store industry in general was already dead and never coming back.

It felt very much like a sequel to Ex Machina. That’s not a complaint, I loved Ex Machina and I always wondered what the android Ava would do once she escaped to the real world. The first thing Delores does as part of long term plan, is to acquire lots of money, while getting revenge on a few guys at the same time.

I have a 15 year old Honda Civic EX coupe with over 200K miles that I could give equal praise to. It’s so plain by today’s standards that it’s practically invisible to thieves or police for that matter. It’s also invisible in parking lots and traffic, but that’s another matter. It’s as reliable as a sunrise, and…

1917 a hollow exorcise? Hardly. While I agree that the whole one-long-take thing can be a little contrived, in this case it’s in service of a simple quest-against-time survival story. While similar in premise to 1999's Saving Private Ryan (another war film that subverted the standard genre with it’s hellish depiction…

Overall I liked the series a lot, although the reveal took so long that the season finale almost felt rushed. However in the end you realize that this was Dr. Manhattan’s story all along and its a love story at that.

As a huge fan of the book and series, I literally woke up this morning and checked my phone for updates on American Gods season three, when I saw this story. It’s bad enough that the show has lost other great cast members do to it’s chaotic show management problems, but the firing of Orlando Jones sickens me.

I would love to see a modern retelling of the 1968 film, and my guess is that is the endgame of the current series.

This movie is far too self pretentious too realize how silly it is, much like Battlefield Earth. And like Battlefield Earth, I found myself laughing out loud through most it. Perhaps because it’s very loosely based on the Joseph Conrad novel, Heart of Darkness, the writers want us to believe they’ve crafted a…

This movie is far too self pretentious too realize how silly it is, much like Battlefield Earth. And like Battlefield Earth, I found myself laughing out loud through most it. Perhaps because it’s is very loosely based on the Joseph Conrad novel, Heart of Darkness, the writers want us to believe they’ve crafted a…

I saw the movie last night and you’ll be glad to know, you’re not alone in your assessment. I winced through half the movie.