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When Star Trek was funny.  I have written about how Star Trek crossed into the environmentally friendly. That environmental theme was in Star Trek IV The Voyage Home (1986, USA). It was an appropriate theme for the Star Trek series, which looked at life idealistically. The message was to look after the environment, particularly whales, before…

One’s a hardened cop, the other a lonely widow. It sounds like a heart-to-heart in a pulpy romance novel. But in Witness (1985, USA), it’s not. Detective John Book’s sister says having kids will do him good. The unmarried Book (Harrison Ford) does not seem the type. The detective work has taken him to another place, a…

Harrison Ford in Witness in a ‘serious’ film. After swashbuckling in Indiana Jones and being cool in The Empire Strikes Back, Harrison Ford took on the role of a detective in Witness (1985, USA).     If we know Harrison Ford the actor and star, his transition to a ‘serious’ film is smooth. The serious Witness…

Sydney Schanberg died in July 2016, aged 82. Schanberg was an award winning New York Times columnist who covered the war in Cambodia in the 1970’s. His experiences reporting in Cambodia was featured in a very well regarded film in the 1980’s. The film received three Academy awards and swept the British Academy awards as…
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