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Laguna Beach Local News   The whales are passing in their timeless migration to feeding grounds in the Bering Sea. This improbably leads to a story about an early Laguna preacher, the Riverside orange grower remembered as Captain Handy. Curious about this Captain Handy, I did some research. Do you remember Herman Melville’s famous opening line, “Call me Ishmael”? Ishmael is the narrator in “Moby Dick,” the classic mid-1800s novel about men in small boats hunting whales. As the book opens, Ishmael attends church at the New Bedford Whaleman’s Chapel. The preacher, a former whaler,...

Ape-ocalypse Now: Kong: Skull Island Is an Existential War Movie Kong: Skull Island as “a mash-up between Apocalypse Now, Thin Red Line and Bong Joon-ho’s monster movie The Host.” This unique combination accounts for a lot of what makes Jordan Vogt-Roberts’ 2017 creature feature such an unexpected delight. Skull Island is the highlight to date of the so-called “MonsterVerse,” the reimagining of classic gigantic monsters produced by Legendary Entertainment and Warner Bros. The studios have struggled somewhat with the other films in the series. While there are aspects to recommen...