By Dr. Charlie W. Starr Last March, well known producer Mark Burnett and his actress wife, Roma Downey, released a 10-hour mini-series called The Bible. Many people watched the series to the surprise of Hollywood industry insiders and critics. Though it premiered on cable TV, the first episode surpassed everything else in the ratings […]
By Dr. Charlie W. Starr I don’t usually get to review movies before they come out. Typically, when you hear from me about a movie, it has been out for three months or more and is heading toward its DVD release. But last spring I got the opportunity to meet Joe Boyd from Rebel […]
By Dr. Charlie W. Starr My expectations for a March movie are usually pretty low. All the really entertaining movies tend to come out in the summer or at Christmas. That’s a trend that may be changing, and a good example of it is last March’s Oz the Great and Powerful. The film was […]
By Dr. Charlie W. Starr Have you ever wondered what Bilbo Baggins (from Tolkien’s The Hobbit) has in common with John McClane (Bruce Willis’s Die Hard character)? Neither did I, until last February. I was rereading The Hobbit in the same month the fifth Die Hard movie came out (worst film in the franchise, […]
By Dr. Charlie W. Starr One of the most underrated writers in the history of American literature died in 2012. Ray Bradbury was born in 1920. He published his first story in the late 40s and continued to publish novels and stories and write for film and television in every decade thereafter. That might […]
