Richard's Pretension

As a sleepless midnight rolled around last night, I turned on The Purge , a seasonally appropriate thriller, on satellite TV. The plot: in ...

I don’t often watch programs such as Antique Roadshow , but I understand the appeal to those who do. Who wouldn’t enjoy learning that the o...

In a surfeit of wheeled riches, two Morristown NJ women’s roller derby teams had bouts Saturday night, both tangling with PA teams. One w...

Kurt Vonnegut’s novels, though easy reads, are notoriously difficult to translate into film. The only attempt Kurt himself thought successf...

Bad reviews are fun to write, but a collection of good movie reviews probably is more useful to anyone pondering the next Netflix option. I...

A few blogs back I noted one man’s quest to expand his knowledge by reading the entire Encyclopaedia Britannica . It’s nice to learn the fa...

An oft-repeated truism is that young people don’t believe they will die. Most teens and twentysomethings will object to this. Not only do t...