Michael Shay's Hummingbirdminds

The strangest part of “Skywalkers: A Love Story” on Netflix is that it is more love story than a how-to on 21 st -century Internet attentio...

For decades, I kept a copy of “Fiskadoro” by Denis Johnson. I liked the idea of the book more than the book itself. It was an early post-ap...

"Have you ever heard of a thing called fluoridation, fluoridation of water? Do you realize that fluoridation is the most monstrously co...

I awoke thinking of Walker Percy's "Love in the Ruins or The Adventures of a Bad Catholic at a Time Near the End of the World....

At the urging of one of my sisters (her first name starts with M), I tuned in to "1883" last night and was up to all hours. My fav...

We live in absurd times. A Reality TV show star is president. He is a narcissist who is never wrong about anything but is wrong about everyt...

"That's some catch, that Catch-22.  "It's the best there is." Those lines stuck in my head in 1969 and never left...

I first saw "Birth of a Nation" in a college film class 43 years ago. I had some electives to burn in my pursuit of a degree in En...

The year gets off to a rousing start with the Martin Luther King, Jr., March on Jan. 15 and the Women's March on Jan. 20. Lots of even...

I'm too old and jaded to be a fanboy. Maybe that's why I dislike standard comic book hero movies. They're like fireworks displ...

Imagine it's 2009 and you're a 24-year-old newspaper reporter living and working in New York City. An exciting life, sprinting all o...

Remember the impact of The Matrix when it debuted in 1999? The "Matrix" was the false reality created by machines. Humans lived i...

You'd think that the sprawling parking lot at the Little America Conference Center would be spacious enough for all of the comic book ge...

Jackson Pollock and Thomas Hart Benton visited the Saratoga, Wyoming, rodeo in 1938. According to Alan O'Hashi at WCM, Benton painted ...

Watching The Sound of Music Monday night, the 1965 version with Julie Andrews, I grew curious about the setting. Supposedly Salzburg, Austr...

Beautiful morning. Sun, light winds, no snow. So what am I doing inside? Collecting random thoughts on a Sunday morning. Received a fu...

This announcement comes from writer and Wyoming Tribune-Eagle columnist Edith Cook : We are showing the film  Chasing Ice  at the Larami...

My wife and I watched the recent "Ghost Adventures" episode set in the Wyoming Frontier Prison in Rawlins. Intimations of ghostly...

I've been off the blog for more than a week. I do have a good excuse: pneumonia. Gave new meaning to the term "sick in bed." R...

From Wyoming Community Media's Whistle Stop Film Festival: Mt. Sinai Synagogue in Cheyenne will present a double feature of two short...