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            ...

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...

I've recently watched a lot of Netflix.  Haven't been to a movie theater since the opening of  Barbenheimer  weekend almost two years ago.  Saved a lot of money. I pay Netflix $17.99/month, the standard rate without ads.  I also am a member of Amazon Prime, which costs me $15.70 with ads.  But I buy a lot from Amazon, providing for free shipping, so Prime is almost free to me. To compare, consider that when you go to a movie theater, you need to drive there, then back home.  There is a tendency to make this an outing, so you have lunch or dinner.  If not, you buy popcorn and a drink.  Skipping a restaurant, just the theater cost will set you back $25/person.  That's already more than a month of Netflix. With Netflix/Prime, you pick what you want and when.  You sit in a more comfortable environment.  You don't need to wear a mask.  Of course you don't need to wear them anymore in theaters, but you are in a cold/flu/COVID en...