Mr. Burke Reviews

Review #27: Longmire When I log into Netflix, there is usually a banner suggestion for some new movie or show for me to watch. one might assume the suggestion stems from my viewing habits. While I'm on the fence about software tracking my preferences and trying to pigeon-hole me, you have to appreciate if they're making the effort. The promo for Longmire just showed a guy in a long coat and cowboy hat carrying a rifle with a backdrop of wide-open countryside. I had no idea what the show was about, and wondered if the suggestion came from my watching Wynonna Earp . (Had I thought about it, I would've realized that it couldn't have -- I was using someone else's account when I binged Season 1.) The Longmire of the title is a sheriff of Absaroka County, Wyoming, and the show is based on the Walt Longmire Mysteries , which I've never heard of. However, there were six seasons of the show, which means it was popular enough to keep making them, and hopefully have ...

Review #24: The Ape, The Bat, Doomed to Die, The Corpse Vanishes Toward the end of the era of video rental and the rise of online streaming, there was a time when discount and dollar stores would sell dollar DVDs of old movies, likely in public domain. I collected a few of these before coming to the realization that if I wouldn't pay a dollar to rent one of these, why am I paying money to own them? The answer is that some of these are classics that would never show up at regular video stores, and with the rise of chain stores pushing the "mom & pop" places out of business, the price to rent was considerably more than a buck anyway. Anyway, I recently had occasion to pull a few videos out of the basement on a mission to view them and then pass them along. Passing along likely means the donation pile, because I'm not sure who might be interested and also owns a DVD player. As it is, I watched these on my desktop PC. I do have a portable player, but the screen i...