Category Archives: Movie Reviews

Chappie is Strange

Posted on March 7, 2015 by Michael J. Melville

To say the least, a police robot with Artificial Intelligence, is a novel place to turn a plot upside down. In futuristic metropolitan South Africa the robotic Scouts help police round up the bad guys, lower the murder rate, and … Continue reading →

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Orange Marmalade

Posted on February 1, 2015 by Michael J. Melville

What would be fun to do after reading about the Shadow? A movie perhaps, yes, a comedy would be a good compensation, but which one? I had seen the previews for Paddington, that story of the little bear from Darkest … Continue reading →

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Celebrating Martin Luther King, Jr.

Posted on January 18, 2015 by Michael J. Melville

On Sunday my friend Neville Bridgeford gave away two paintings to his benefactors. The four of us talked, laughed, and told stories late into the night. It was a wonderful way of showing gratitude for the way our friends provided … Continue reading →

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Divergent, Treading in the tracks of the tiger.

Posted on March 29, 2014 by Michael J. Melville

Dreams provide us with vital information. When I was a substitute child care worker at Trinity School in Ukiah, an eight-year-old boy woke me up in the middle of the night. He had a bad dream and had wet his … Continue reading →

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Naked we came into this world and naked we depart

Posted on January 10, 2014 by Michael J. Melville

One of the main problems of the post World War II era is the emergence of narcissists.  Babies didn’t get the nurturing care they needed during the war.  They didn’t get the reflection from their caregiver(s) which is required during … Continue reading →

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The Dallas Buyers Club

Posted on November 21, 2013 by Michael J. Melville

The Dallas Buyers Club is a story of how promiscuous sexual desire can lead to spiritual evolution and redemption.  Denial and excess are central pivot points in this dramatization of what happened in the 1980s when the main character, Ron … Continue reading →

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The Coffee Angel

Posted on November 4, 2013 by Michael J. Melville

I wanted coffee before the movie.  There were twenty minutes to spare and, can you believe it, Starbucks was out of coffee?  Well, there was none to pour, so I was given my choice of a freshly brewed cup of … Continue reading →

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The Battle of the Year: the Dream Team

Posted on October 3, 2013 by Michael J. Melville

Why would a seventy year old man go to see a film like The Battle of the Year, a film about a break dancing?  Oddly it is about a Dream Team.  And that’s how this whole story began, in a … Continue reading →

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James Dean, the Eternal Youth

Posted on June 10, 2013 by Michael J. Melville

As an exploration of the young male psyche, the film  A Portrait of James Dean: Joshua Tree, 1951, gives a lot of insightful information.  The storyteller begins with his meeting and being befriended by Jimmy Dean at UCLA.  Starting with … Continue reading →

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Trance, the movie about hypnosis and amnesia

Posted on April 13, 2013 by Michael J. Melville

Trance is a deeply disturbing psychological thriller.  It is one of the most vivid illustrations of why Carl Jung rejected the use of hypnosis in psychotherapy.  Trust in an authority figure is necessary for hypnosis, but it removes the active … Continue reading →

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