Hello!

With the holidays afoot CineSavant is still going a bit lean on reviews, but I hope to regain the pace and once again project the illusion of a constant flow of new content. There is certainly no lack of good discs to review.

The subtle clue in the image above reveals where we were this week instead of behind the computer where we belong.  ↑  This shot is from Friday the 24th, in chill but clear weather. We saw something I didn’t know could be seen, even though it has to be a common sight for locals: the actual Farallon Islands, 30 miles outside San Francisco Bay. The silhouette we saw is in the photo, on the ocean horizon just to the left of the right tower of the Golden Gate Bridge . . . the image enlarges.

Screenwriters take note — one reason the island, or islands, are off limits is that they’re a nuclear waste dump. What a story opportunity — what would happen if some escapees from Alcatraz, swept out of the bay, came in contact with the dump’s 47,500 steel drums of radioactive material, and . . . ?

Or what a good destination this could be for a ‘3 hour cruise’ in an alternate-universe retelling of Gilligan’s Island?

Enough nonsense, this posting is late enough already, and who knows what we will or won’t have up on Tuesday.  Don’t worry about my mental state, as it couldn’t be better — we’ve had visions of holiday carrot cake dancing in our heads. ←

Thanks for reading! — Glenn Erickson