As a writer I enjoy a good crime novel or screenplay with well hashed out characters, and although they are few and far between today, there have been some worthy of note in the last decade. The series Boardwalk Empire is a historical crime series set during Prohibition that premiered on HBO in…
Category: Movie Reviews
Guerilla Warfare Movie Anthology: a Recap
Flame and Citron This film is loosely based on the True Story of two members of the Danish Resistance in World War II who assassinated high ranking members of the Gestapo and SS. The student of modern Guerilla Warfare should study and take this film to heart as it represents, at least in my opinion,…
Know Your WWII History: The True Story that Inspired ‘Fury’
The True Story that Inspired ‘Fury’ Is Fury a true story? Was the Fury tank an actual Sherman? It sure seems to be. In this article, the renowned and redoubtable Red2Alpha73 (Mike Durand) reviews Belton Y. Cooper’s 1998 memoir: Death Traps: The Survival of an American Armored Division in World War II.
When Fiction Becomes Reality
Floating Migrant Camp Planned for Dorset In the dystopian novel Children of Men by P.D. James (published in 1992) the world in the year 2027 teeters on extinction as mass infertility plagues the globe and mass immigration threatens to destroy what is left of the U.K. The movie adaptation released in 2006 starring Clive Owen…
Two Rode Together
Oliver Loving and Charles Goodnight made history in 1866, and 120 years later Larry McMurtry made them legends The story of Loving and Goodnight influenced Texas Western writer Larry McMurtry to write one of the most authentic and influential western saga’s of our time, Lonesome Dove.
The Last Valley
H/T WRSA
Conan the Barbarian Script Deep-Dive
Conan the Barbarian An interesting and detailed examination of John Milius and Oliver Stone’s masterpiece script that forever changed the historical action movie genre.
Night of the Comet
Excitement Builds as Comet Approaches Earth for First Time in About 50,000 Years I had to laugh reading this headline as it reminded me of a sci-fi/horror/comedy I grew up with way back in 1984 called Night of the Comet. It was goofy and corny AF but was actually one of the first post-apocalyptic “zombie”…
In Memoriam: Ray Nelson
SF WRITER RAY NELSON PASSES AWAY Ray Nelson, the Sci-Fi writer who penned the screenplay for John Carpenter’s 1988 cult-movie They Live has passed away at 91. Nelson regularly worked with Phillip K. Dick and Ray’s mother was said to be the inspiration for Priss in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (Blade Runner)….
When Comedies Were Actually Funny #1
With the state of entertainment in the proverbial shitter, I decided to reach back in the yonder days of ole’ when Men were Men, Women were Women and “Comedies” were actually Funny! Today’s clip is from one of my favorite “Spoofball” comedy series of the early 80’s: Cannonball Run. With a star studded cast…