There’s a genre in fiction known as alternate history. It usually gets lumped in with science fiction, although in reality, it’s somewhere between that and history. The premise usually involves taking some […]
Written by Larry McMurtry and Diana OssanaDirected by Yves Simoneau I was a late bloomer when it came to appreciating the western genre in films. The first story I ever truly enjoyed […]
Written by Michael BlakeDirected by Kevin Costner The story of the Native Americans as written by the movie industry over the last hundred years or so was mostly one of savagery where […]
When I was about nine, a friend of the family gave me my first Little House book. I was immediately captivated by the stories within and read them over and over through […]
Written by David FranzoniDirected by Antoine Fuqua I love Ioan Gruffudd. When I saw a trailer for Fantastic Four recently, I was disappointed to hear him talk without that wonderful Welsh accent […]
Written by Brian HelgelandDirected by Brian Helgeland STUDIO REP #1: I’ve got a great idea for a movieSTUDIO REP #2: What is it?REP #1: We take Gladiator and set it in medieval […]
American Dreams is the sequel to Homeland, a novel in which John Jakes explores the immigrant experience in this country. In Homeland, young Paul Crown leaves Germany to seek a better life […]
With three kids in the car, I was going to have to be careful what I chose for our trip to Florida. Although other titles looked intriguing, I settled on Mount Vernon […]
Set during the 1920s and 1930s, this novel follows events begun in the novel How Few Remain, through The Great War series, and in the previous novel in this series, American Empire: […]
In the Afterword of his novel, Homeland, John Jakes explains that he purposely had this novel pick up in the year 1891, the same year that the final novel of his Kent […]
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