I realized something while watching Jurassic World Dominion recently that I couldn't quite understand for the past few years. What I realized is that, people don't want to die. They're scared to die just like me and sometimes that fear is utterly debilitating. It's not only the fear of death that is in the back of my mind while watching this film, it's my place in a world that I increasingly do Not Recognize. It's a world that daily feels like a Xerox copy of the one I remember, just off. Like The Matrix (there ya go, another one!) today's world feels like a copy of a world that used to be. But it's not a perfect copy. An imitation can never be the real thing, after all. I'm watching these characters, who I've come to love as I grew up with them, and seeing them still on the big screen after 3 decades confirmed this feeling. I mean, duh, right? We're all a little scared of death, even though it's something we all do, like tak...

For the past few years I was ready to write-off DVDs altogether. As I started to pick up more Blu-rays I was just done with DVD. I pickd up a 4K TV and player. And even Blu-ray was getting long in the tooth... But then I looked at my collection and saw my snap case DVDs. These things were once the bane of my collection; now , they are the highlight of my collection and not just the DVD portion. I love them. The cardboard is so nostalgia now, and I didn't see that coming. In the early 2000s I would trade up every single snap case DVD for their plastic cousins. Shame! These snap cases have so much character, the chapters on the inside cover, they are just too cool. Their fragility is what made me consider tossing them all those years ago. But I'm glad I held onto some of them because now is the time to collect them. You can see more and more YouTubers talking about them. You could feel that collectors are starting to really lust after these things again - well some of us. Out of ...