Planet Wonder

I’ve never been big on “Nature” films.  Oh, sure, they can show you things you don’t expect to see, but oft times they are bloody and unexpectedly gruesome. The video I present to you today was passed on to me by a friend from the Fremont Area Writers (a branch of the California Writers Club), and because I like my friend, I watched it. This is not your average, every-day “Life in Nature” video.  This is something special.  While I don’t have  [ Read More ]

What in the world happened to the wonderful story of John Carter of Mars? Well, to start, Disney messed with the title. The recent movie, Disney’s John Carter was a failure, or at least that’s what the pundits would have you believe.  There will not be a sequel. Now, to some of this, the “failure” of the film is a real head-scratcher.  Yes, the story was a mixture of more than one of the Barsoom books, but that didn’t make me  [ Read More ]