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…
Category: Movie Suggestions
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,…
Memorial Day Weekend Movie Watch List
Sergeant York 1917 A Bridge Too Far The Bridge on the River Kwai The Railway Man Patton Saving Private Ryan Flags of our Fathers Dunkirk Hacksaw Ridge We Were Soldiers Full Metal Jacket Bat 21 Black Hawk Down Heartbreak Ridge Taking Chance 13 Hours Zero Dark Thirty Lone Survivor American Sniper The Hurt Locker Act…
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.