‘Onoda – 10,000 Nights in the Jungle’ The story of Japanese Army Second Lt. Hiroo Onoda is an amazing one to say the least. For exactly 10,000 nights (29 years) Onoda survived alone in the jungles of the Philippine island of Lubang with only his wits, training and dedication to see him through until in…
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Foreign War Movies Worth a Damn: The Arctic Convoy (2023)
The Arctic Convoy If you have been following my blog for a while you know my fondness for Foreign Cinema, in particular, Foreign War Movies. You can check out some of my prior recommendations HERE . The Arctic Convoy (aka Konvoi) is a Norwegian WW2 Film (with English subtitles) Based on true events that…
Advice on Death from Captain Woodrow F. Call
“The Best thing you can do with Death is Ride Off From It…”
More Black Civil Rights Revisionist History Horse Shit
Anytime Netsux (Netflix) and Obama’s Woke Production Company “Higher Ground” team up you can be sure a BLACK TURD is soon to follow and they certainly did not disappoint with their latest film “Rustin”. Now if the best the modern, woke black community can do to “celebrate” the farce that was the 1960’s civil…
The Hermit’s 2023 Veterans Day Movie and Documentary List
In addition to my Top 10 Movie Picks for Veterans Day this year I wanted to include five Documentaries. My reasoning for this is simple: It’s not enough to just Remember our Veterans, we also need to HELP them if we can, and to do that we have to UNDERSTAND their Problems. Top…
Does Art Imitate Life or Vice Versa?
“In the Name of Her Majesty and the Continental Congress Get Over Here and Feed me this Belt Boy!” 😂
Crime Series Corner: Richard Harrow
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…
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…