Author: Roland Hughes

Roland Hughes is the president of Logikal Solutions, a business applications consulting firm specializing in OpenVMS platforms and Qt on Linux. Hughes serves as a lead consultant with over two decades of experience using computers and operating systems. With a degree in Computer Information Systems, the author's experience is focused on systems across a variety of diverse industries including heavy equipment manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, stock exchanges, tax accounting, and hardware value-added resellers, to name a few. Working throughout these industries has strengthened the author's unique skill set and given him a broad perspective on the role and value of technology in industry.

Reviews

Review – Edge of Tomorrow

★★★★☆ I call Edge of Tomorrow the ex-wife movie or the ex-wife fantasy movie. What ex-wife hasn’t wanted shoot and revive former hubby endlessly? How unbelievably clever giving the straight female audience something besides Tom Cruise to pull them into the theater. Don’t worry guys there is plenty for you.…

Roland HughesJuly 20, 2019February 12, 2021

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Review – Deliberate Intent

★★★★☆ Deliberate Intent is a really good movie about a topic that never goes away. When does freedom of the press go too far? That is the question at the root of this movie and it keeps coming up time and time again in our current lives. Even if this…

Roland HughesJuly 19, 2019January 29, 2021

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Learning a Lot of New Songs

Featured image by Gerhard G. from Pixabay Early this spring I went to the Post Office in a small town near my family farm. While shipping some books I noticed the song playing on the radio. I commented to the young woman behind the counter about the song. She responded…

Roland HughesJuly 18, 2019February 9, 2021

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Review – Terminator: Genisys

★☆☆☆☆ You really can’t go back in time. No, I’m not going to tell you there is some secret government program which has achieved time travel. The fact we are all alive means they haven’t. If they are incompetent enough to be an elected official now and they can’t fix…

Roland HughesJuly 17, 2019January 29, 2021

Film Reviews Reviews

Review – My Old Lady

★★★☆☆ My Old Lady just had to be on my rental list. When you see that a movie has Maggie Smith in it, you simply have to put it on your list. I mean, even if your only exposure to her work was Downton Abbey you had to love the…

Roland HughesJuly 16, 2019January 29, 2021

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Review – No Escape (2015)

★★☆☆☆ No Escape is a movie which didn’t really work for me. Perhaps I’ve become jaded in my old age? I like Pierce Brosnan. I even like Owen Wilson in many things, but something just didn’t seem to work here. Make no mistake, the political statement it made about corporations…

Roland HughesJuly 15, 2019January 30, 2021

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Review – Spotlight

★★★★★ Spotlight might well be a perfect movie. Journalism is all but dead in America and probably the world. The constant drive to make a fast buck and turn a quarterly profit has decimated the journalism industry. Local papers no longer have the resources to put crack investigative journalists on…

Roland HughesJuly 14, 2019January 29, 2021