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…
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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
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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…
Foreign WWII Movie Trifecta
City of Life and Death takes place in 1937, during the height of the Second Sino-Japanese War. The Imperial Japanese Army has just captured the then-capital of the Republic of China, Nanjing. What followed was known as the Nanking Massacre, or the Rape of Nanking, a period of several weeks where over two-hundred thousand…
¿Quien es, Pete?
¿Quien es, Pete? As far as Old West History goes, no other person or story had a more profound impact on me as a writer than Billy the Kid. When I was fifteen years old, my parents took me on a three-week summer RV trip to New Mexico, Colorado and Utah. While in New…
Movies on Guerilla Warfare
The Liberator This movie documents the life and exploits of Simon Bolivar, quite possibly, one of the most influential figures in the history of the South American continents struggle to be free of the Spanish Empire in the 19th Century. Although this movie is not so much about Guerilla Warfare per se, I…