New on Netflix in July....which begins tomorrow. For the 50th anniversary, you can binge on Jaws 1, 2, 3 and 4, from July 1.  I already did this last year.  Yes, it got worse and worse.  Saw them during Shark Week on the Discovery channel. Title                              Domestic Gros s      Rotten Tomatoes      Year Jaws                               $260,000,000                  97                   1975 Jaws 2                             $81,000,000                      52            ...

I thought Donald Trump and Elon Musk made nice-nice after their brouhaha.   Apparently not , for when Trump's 940-page Big Beautiful Bill survived a Senate procedural vote yesterday to be considered by the floor, Musk used terms like,  the latest Senate draft bill will destroy millions of jobs in American and cause harm to our country....utterly insane and destructive....political suicide for the Republican party....will raise the debt ceiling by $5 trillion, the biggest increase in history, putting America in the fast lane to debt slavery . I watched two films last night, one on Netflix and another on Amazon Prime, that grabbed my attention regarding my life, but in totally different ways.  One was loved by Rotten Tomatoes reviewers, gaining a 94 rating, with audiences giving only 79.  The other was the opposite, with RT reviewers at 82 and audiences 95.  For me, both were excellent films.  So what I will do on Sundays devoted to spiritualism and my p...

There was a time in my life when I was into  Star Wars  films.  The first appeared in 1977 when I was still teaching engineering at the University of Hawaii.  That was 48 years ago.  I bring this subject up today because I will focus on entertainment, and saw a headline:   Giant "Darth Vader" sea bug discovered off the coast of Vietnam . First, this not an insect but a crustacean,  and a local delicacy. Second, does not much look like DV to me.  If this isopod ( Bathynomus vaderi)  was colored black, maybe There have been 12  Star Wars  films so far, and the next one,  The Mandalorian & Grogu , will be released in May, next year.  But I've grown up, and couldn't care less. This franchise has kept returning because later productions also scored well on Rotten Tomatoes. The highest rated was the first in 1977,  Episode IV--A New Hope , got the highest score, 94. However, #2 was the 1980  The Empire Strikes...