Written by Richard Maibaum, Johanna Harwood, and Berkeley MatherDirected by Terence Young Growing up, and growing older, I never quite got into the whole James Bond phenomenon. However, after much cajoling by […]
Movie Review: Dr. No – James Bond #1
The Supreme Court Got It Wrong
It’s kind of ironic that I just started listening to the audiobook of Ron Chernow’s biography of Founding Father Alexander Hamilton. I’m just at the beginning, but there’s a lot there that’s […]
Book Review – Stalin’s Hammer: Rome – Continuing the Axis of Time Series
This is the first in a series of three novellas that follow the characters developed in John Birmingham’s Axis of Time trilogy. In that series, he has a multinational military force battling […]
DVD Review: This Is America, Charlie Brown – The Peanuts Gang Takes On History Not Holidays
The various Peanuts specials have always been near and dear to me. They are a very fond memory of my growing up years, and something I like that I could pass on […]
Movie Review: United 93 – 9/11 As Seen Through The Eyes of the Only “Witnesses”
Written by Paul GreengrassDirected by Paul Greengrass I know someone who was on United 93 when it crashed. I avoided the films having to do with September 11th due to the people […]
Series Rewatch: Babylon 5 – By Any Means Necessary – Never Hand Someone a Gun Unless You’re Sure Where They’re Going to Point It
Written by J. Michael Straczynski and Kathryn M. DrennanDirected by Jim Johnston As pretty much a stand-alone episode, By Any Means Necessary contains a lot of character development while giving viewers a […]
Book Review: Dead Fast by A.J. Stewart – Run Marcus Run
This is the fourth book in the Miami Jones series by author A.J. Stewart. Do you need to read the others before reading this book? It would probably be a good idea. […]
Movie Review: Paragraph 175 – Homosexuals and the Holocaust
Written by Sharon WoodDirected by Rob Epstein & Jeffrey Friedman When people talk about the Holocaust, one of the most common statistics is that six million Jews were killed by the Nazis. […]
DVD Review – Duran Duran: Arena – For Those of Us Still Preoccupied with 1985
I grew up in the MTV era when music videos were the latest, greatest things. I was swept in with the music of the era having grown up on Long Island listening […]
Book Review: Ball Four by Jim Bouton – A Hilarious Year in the Life of a Ballplayer
There was a time when baseball players were considered role models. Even sportswriters were in on the conspiracy, hiding things like drinking and womanizing from an unsuspecting public. Then came Jim Bouton’s […]
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