When I was a kid reading my Dad’s comics, my favorite stories were the Crisis issues of Justice League. It was nearly always a JLA/JSA crossover event, and we would see alternate Earths depicted with new heroes and villains. These stories started the DC multiverse, culminating in one of the biggest events in DC comics history: Crisis on Infinite Earths.

My wife loves to binge-watch streaming shows. There are a great many shows she has never seen and new ones joining the fray seemingly every week. She slips on her AirPods and fires up Netflix on her iPad, and away she goes.

She was incredibly disappointed that Bridgerton only has one season (so far), and she tore through it so fast that she roped me into re-watching it with her, although not nearly as quickly.

She watches shows at binge speed and loves every second of them. The term binge suggests it might be a bad thing. …

In Field of Dreams, James Earl Jones’s character Terrance Mann gives the most important speech.

It’s only $20 per person. They’ll pass over the money without even thinking about it: for it is money they have and peace they lack. And they’ll walk out to the bleachers; sit in shirtsleeves on a perfect afternoon. They’ll find they have reserved seats somewhere along one of the baselines, where they sat when they were children and cheered their heroes. And they’ll watch the game and it’ll be as if they dipped themselves in magic waters. The memories will be so thick they’ll…

I grew up in the 1970s and 80s, so my superhero movies were, shall we say, limiting. The technical ability to showcase superheroes and their villains on the big screen really didn’t hit their stride until the X-Men and Spider-Man movies. Although, an argument can be made regarding Superman: The Movie and Tim Burton’s Batman films.

My list of favorite superhero movies has a focus on the blockbusters of the last twenty years or so. Mostly because my favorites have been from that time. …

I do not have a famous father. He is, however, somewhat well-known in the small community he and, by virtue of birth, I grew up in. His father, my grandfather, was the county sheriff for many years. His mother, my grandmother, was a teacher and cook for many more years. My Dad was a trusted pharmacist in a town of 12,000 people, and so he knew people.

He didn’t run for mayor or sit on a city council. He is not apolitical, just uninterested in pursuing that path. He was never a community leader.

Looking back, 1981 was not the pivotal year of movies that would shape my cinematic sensibilities. For Your Eyes Only and Superman II were there, of course. However, I was too young and unsophisticated to understand or really enjoy The Cannonball Run or Stripes. Moreover, it was a year before Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan, Tron, and Blade Runner — movies that would mean the world to me.

No, the only important movie of that summer was the one that broke all the records and introduced the world to Indiana Jones — Raiders of the Lost Ark.

I was…

I grew up in a house full of books. My father is a voracious reader, and he gravitated toward action-adventure and sports (he has some very early editions of Ian Fleming Bond books). He also has an extensive silver age DC comics collection I tore through when I was young. I remember begging him to go up in the attic where they were kept so I could grab a new handful.

Consequently, I became a reader myself. This is an aspect of myself that is constantly changing. As they say, the only thing constant is change. I consistently was reading…

I was never a fan of Seinfeld. I can count on one hand how many episodes of Seinfeld I’ve watched. I hated every single character on that show. I didn’t get anything about it. It was not a show for me. The show ran a bit before I graduated college and a few years after. In the early 90s, I was in my 20s and could not care less about this group of “friends” who looked like they were in their middle 30s experiencing a life with no connection to mine.

If there were to be some Seinfeld reunion special…