My Current Interest

               I was so excited this past spring when I saw The Doctor Blake Mysteries was going to have the second season air on PBS .   Ever since the first season ended last summer, I have been checking the PBS schedule every few weeks to see when the other seasons were going to be on.   I expected to only get one season at a time with many months in between, but instead I received a great surprise.   PBS aired season three immediately after they aired season two.   This let me have many months of Dr. Blake, and now I am only one season behind.   Since I like this show so much, for me this is very exciting.                                At the start of season two it is revealed that Danny (Rick Donald) has been transferred to another police station.   In his place is Constable Charlie Davis (Charlie Cousins).   He is a police officer who works pretty much by the book and struggles to adjust to Dr. Blake’s (Craig McLachlan) more freeform ways.   To make the situation even wo

               It’s hard to think that there was a time after World War II where people did not know about Auschwitz.   They did not know what happened there, nor did they know what the place really was.   If someone were to ask them about Auschwitz, they would simply shake their head and say they did not know anything.   At least that is what happened to Johann Radmann (Alexander Fehling) in the film Labyrinth of Lies .   Based on a true story from 1950s Germany, Radmann is one of those people who knew little to nothing about Auschwitz.   Then, because of a simple chance encounter by another, all that changed.                 Johann Radmann is a young lawyer.   A prosecutor, it is his job to find justice for those who have had crimes done against them.   At first this only involves traffic related offenses, but it becomes much more when a journalist by the name of Thomas Gnielka (André Szymanski) arrives at the Attorney General’s office.   A friend of his, Simon (Johannes Krisch

            Let me warn you now, this is a strange film.   As I watched the first few minutes, I seriously questioned what I had gotten into.   I kept wondering this as I got more and more wrapped up in the story until I hardly thought about it at all.   The film remained strange all the way through.   That did not change.   What did was the story, and that was what made this film worth following all the way to the end.                    A new invention has been created called a TiMER.   It is a device that gets implanted on your wrist and will let you know how many days it will take for you to meet your soul mate.   The time counts down to the night before you are supposed to meet that special someone.   At midnight the clock will reach zero, signifying that you will meet your soul mate the very next day.   When you come in close contact with this person, both TiMERs will make a sound to let everyone know the soul mates have met.   Then everyone lives happily ever after.    

Photo of trilogy box cover taken by Kate Dorsey      I have been having a really hard time finding anything to watch on TV.   Shows are on, but very little of it interests me.   Last week’s Memorial Day weekend was especially bad.   Usually there is some good marathon on.   I found nothing.   At least that was the case until I remembered one of the channels was going to be airing the Back to the Future trilogy.   It was exactly what I was looking for.                    The Back to the Future trilogy starts with the movie Back to the Future .   In it, Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) accidentally goes back in time to the year 1955.   He runs into his parents as teenagers and messes up their whole life story.   The story was supposed to go that Marty’s mother, Lorraine (Lea Thompson), fell in love with his father, George (Crispin Glover), when her father hit George with a car.   With Marty in 1955 that is no longer what happens.   Instead of George getting hit by the car, Marty is,