Category Archives: reviews

Is the Moon a Balloon?

Posted on December 18, 2017 by cdsmiller17

  Jonathan Cainer’s Guide to the Zodiac Jonathan died in 2016. He would have been 60 years old today. It’s taken me a while to get around to that fact. I read his daily horoscopes in the Daily Mail, the … Continue reading →

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The Hills Are Alive…

Posted on December 18, 2017 by cdsmiller17

…with The Sound of Music Why this one has become a Christmas film, I don’t know. But I suspect it’s because of the theme of family, in this case, the Trapp Family Singers. “Based on the memoir The Story of … Continue reading →

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The Reawakening of Magic

Posted on December 16, 2017 by cdsmiller17

  Once Upon A Time – Season 7 It took awhile. The reset to give an adult Henry his own neverending story was going to be a stretch, once you took the Savior (Emma Swann) out of the equation. Last … Continue reading →

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Passing of a Legendary Photographer

Posted on December 14, 2017 by cdsmiller17

  Glenn Capers (1950 – 2017) I heard yesterday that Glenn had died on Monday of this week, in Colorado Springs. He was 67. I had the honour of erecting his birth chart, with his permission. Here it is:   … Continue reading →

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It’s a Sign of the Times

Posted on December 13, 2017 by cdsmiller17

    Just Stop Your Crying Two things happened last night: Noah Mac was eliminated from The Voice after singing “Sign of the Times” and ‘Harry Styles: Live in Manchester’ was aired on CTV. Harry’s final tune was (you guessed … Continue reading →

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Snow as Metaphor

Posted on December 11, 2017 by cdsmiller17

Disney’s Frozen Can you believe it’s been four years already since the greatest grossing animated movie was released by Disney? It was on television last night, and I just had to watch it again to see if it still packed … Continue reading →

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Playing the Game of Life to the End

Posted on December 6, 2017 by cdsmiller17

Ready Player One “In the year 2044, reality is an ugly place. The only time teenage Wade Watts really feels alive is when he’s jacked into the virtual utopia known as the OASIS. Wade’s devoted his life to studying the … Continue reading →

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Saying Goodbye to a Friend

Posted on December 3, 2017 by cdsmiller17

  Marley and Me We watched this movie again last night. It breaks one’s heart to see a dog put down. But the alternative is so much worse: watching your friend suffer. The makers of this movie made it a … Continue reading →

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Did Dickens “Invent” Christmas?

Posted on December 2, 2017 by cdsmiller17

The Man Who Invented Christmas Three of us went to see this movie last night. It definitely helped to be familiar with the story “A Christmas Carol” as the seeds of it are literally scattered throughout the film. The Plot … Continue reading →

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Temple of the Knights Templar?

Posted on November 23, 2017 by cdsmiller17

The Treasure As I have chronicled previously in these pages, there is something ‘special’ about Rennes-le-Château. I didn’t know that Henry Lincoln had written about the geometry of the landscape. So, imagine my surprise when I came across this book … Continue reading →

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