The Last Starfighter

TheLastStarfighter500Originally uploaded by jessewillisI actually watched this movie in April but just realized that I did not review it. I felt the need to correct that now.Alex Rogan is wants out of his life, he wants to be away at college and gone from the trailer park he helps his mother maintain. His one escape is a video game called Starfighter. On a particularly trying day Alex beats the

Star Wars: A New Hope

Everyone's FavoriteOriginally uploaded by Kiel BryantThe whim came over me yesterday to watch Star Wars, not just any Star Wars but the version of A New Hope from my childhood – you know the one where the blur at the bottom of Luke’s landspeeder was created by putting vaseline on the camera lens. As much as I appreciate Lucas’s desire to “complete” the things he did in the original trilogy, I