Author: John Welsh

The level of concentration required to follow a well plotted mystery is beyond someone who finds the label on a ketchup bottle a insurmountable challenge.

O Canada takes the form of an on camera confession. Leo is compelled to filter it through the lens of a video camera, a serious upgrade form the one he used after answering the call of his true vocation, that of documentary filmmaker.

Due to Bigelow’s inability to introduce characters in parallel action, we the viewers must endure several ”turn back the clock” actions to zero hour.

In the early morning February 17, 1970, Green Beret Captain Jeffrey MacDonald, M.D. called the police to his home in Fort Bragg, North Carolina.

It turns out the newspaper reports were wrong, the dinosaurs were not wiped-out 65 million years ago by a comet impact.

Philip K. Dick is best known for his novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, the basis for Blade Runner (a very loose adaptation I must point out).

When I heard John Schlesinger (Darling, Far From the Madding Crowd)  was making a film of  Nathanael West’s novel I wasn’t surprised. Not after the 1967 adaptation of James Joyce’s Ulysses

Sort of like the Wildfire team Crichton  cooked up for The Andromeda Strain. You know, to deal with outer space alien space virus. 

About a year after the release of Junior Bonner I was in Prescott Arizona where it was shot. Along were a couple of friends, 53 long years ago.