Retired movie nut living in Chattanooga, Tennessee with a wonderful wife, Kristen and pomchi baby, Sharma
Author: JONATHAN MOYA
The Poppy Influencers in Flanders Fields
In Elsinore the poppies grow Despite the constant selfies show That stake their place in yellow high, No birds photo bomb their big I Show not seen by same throngs below. – We are the influencers you know. We shine, …
“Apollo 11”: Capturing the Glory of Man, Space and Moon
There is something majestic about great moments in history caught gloriously in action. The Apollo 11 moon landing was one of those caught moments in time. Appropriately, a documentary about Apollo 11 wouldn’t need sonorous commentary or analysis, just the …
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The Orangutang Falls
The Sumatran orangutan, gardening her spot comfortable in the canopy and lush tree top, nursing her young month-old, fell fiery below, seventy-four holes in her when the shooting stopped. – Four air gun pellets pierced her left eye, two her …
“Five Feet Apart”: Needs A Lot More Distance
When sex becomes deadly, it is a horror movie. When it becomes PG-13 and involves cystic fibrosis, viruses and teenage romance it becomes treacly, it becomes Five Feet Apart, which strives to be the ultimate doom teen romance. This movie …
Border Crossing
There is no sky or earth in the white van that crosses me over, nor in the drywall coop painted red where white men with tattooed arms stood up and sit down, up and down, unleashed erections pivoting and searching …
Grief Is Everything and All
My grief is stillborn, not consoled by the hope of replacement of another good little boy or girl with brown paws and a gentle lick, another Anne or Tom with eyes that cry of heaven and a bright mind that …
“Captive State”: Rupert Wyatt Tries to Get His Planet of the Apes Revenge.
Rupert Wyatt works better with origin stories than with the post stories and sequels. Rise of the Planet of the Apes was a great start for a simian trilogy that was finished vigorously and effectively by Matt Reeves when the …
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