The Video Guy comments: So...if you won an Oscar, would you thank a list of people who may well deserve your thanks, or would you try to...

Remember that feeling of really wanting to go out with someone, and realizing that person really doesn't want to go out with you? Well...

Picked up a copy of Ted Chiang's "Stories of Your Life and Others" because it contains the story on which the movie "Arrival" was based,...

VIDEO GUY recommends: retirement! It enables one to have spectacular weekends, like I just did. Went over to the D.C. area to hang with...

VIDEO GUY Reviews 2 obscure films featuring well-known leads: 1)"Hologram for the King" (Tom Hanks) - I love this guy, but please avoid...

VIDEO GUY reviews "Patriots Day." This was a tough one for me. We lived in Boston when this happened, and to say it was surreal is to...

VIDEO GUY just saw "Hidden Figures" - it was both revelatory and infuriating! Revelatory in that this incredible story has finally come...

VIDEO GUY... On a roll today. "SOUTHSIDE WITH YOU" - Touted in some corners as a "Before Sunrise" style walk-and-talk film, this was a...

If the VIDEO GUY may be allowed to repeat himself: "The Newsroom" (I’m on my 2nd viewing) is possibly one of the most brilliant pieces of...

Video Guy reviews "FENCES" – Director/actor Denzel Washington's take on the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by August Wilson (part of the...

For the "For What It's Worth" column of your news, here's some of my favorites from the past year: BOOK - "Mosquitoland" (David Arnold)....

I went to the library for this one (actually I went to "BookBub - not familiar with that resource? If you have a Kindle, Google it!...

I’m Reading Ken Follet's "The Man From St. Petersburg," wherein I discovered an interesting passage that had a familiar contemporary and...

I’m watching "Bosch" on Amazon Prime - based on a character from Michael Connelly's books, a homicide detective named Harry Bosch. Good...

Video Guy recommends "ARRIVAL." This ain't yer grandma's sci-fi, folks...it's a deliberately-paced thinking person's film - complex on...

We're watching "Good Girls Revolt" now - a story set in the late 60s and based on the women of Newsweek Magazine, newsworthy stories of...

VIDEO GUY recommends "Goliath." We found it on Amazon Prime. A sensational role for Billy Bob Thornton, and William Hurt was creepy as...

Video Guy evolves to become Media Guy, thereby allowing more broad-based reviews of a variety of media. For instance - Just finished...

Video Guy says: I just saw “The Girl on the Train.” Very faithful to the excellent book and an Oscar calibre performance by Emily Blunt....

VIDEO GUY says: If you need something to binge on , try the Netflix series "Longmire" - it's about a sherriff's dept. in contemporary...