Who would have thought Steven Spielberg could make a boring movie about aliens? 

Spielberg’s first major film in 10 years, Disclosure Day, was released Friday to mixed reviews. I haven’t seen the film, but based on the reviews of those who have my sense is that the movie is about an hour too long and 30 years out of date. 

For example, the movie is described as a long chase scene in which the two protagonists are trying to reach a television studio to share proof of the existence of extraterrestrial life. Pardon me, but who actually believes the mainstream media anymore? Spielberg may be showing his age, but pretty much everyone under the age of 75 knows that anyone with the laptop and Wi-Fi could get the same information out to the entire world, faster, easier, and with a better chance of being believed than by racing a team of trained security professionals to a broadcast news studio.

This movie would have been received a lot better during the height of the popularity of The X-Files. 

Meanwhile, aliens of a different type have the United Kingdom rising up in protest after several incidents where new arrivals to the UK took bladed weapons to people of European ancestry. Citizens of the UK want elected officials who have foisted unrestricted immigration on their constituents, held accountable for streets that are increasingly unsafe and budgets that are increasingly unbalanced because of the imported diversity. 

Also: 100 days of war with Iran. 

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