but with an alternating story line between two men set 40 years apart, I found it too easy to put down. Both men are sent to war – the father to Korea, the father to Vietnam- and both men return damaged. They are both largely unreachable, encasing themselves in a masculine armour a...
Bill explained that despite the famous cast of characters in the film, the budget largess didn’t extent to the film’s design. As is usual with large productions that feature a lot of well-known actors, the above-the-line talent eats up most of the budget. And what you are left with...
“Besides, the atom bomb may destroy everything in fifty years’ (or fifty minutes’) time. In which case, farewell Homer, good-by Shakespeare, good night Balzac, adieu Doucin (Fernand and Gerard).” Born
we were without power for 96 hours. I slept in the basement, which is not an option for many who live in the South ( like Florida). We fortunately had a gas hot water heater, so had hot water to bathe. Did our cooking on propane and charcoal grill. Good thing to...
Put on your flying cloak and load up on pizza balls, because we’re here to talk about “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.” This is an interesting one, because most of us agree that the movie is fun and inventive in a lot of enjoyable ways—but also entirely mishandles its...
“The best explanation for ‘the good old days’ is a bad memory. When we take an objective look at how the country is doing and which way it has been going, we see that American life is not a hellscape of carnage and decline. What stands out is a resilient democracy that tends to...
Despite the multicultural inroads paved by Lee and other Marvel writers during the 1960s, Cold War stereotyping had yet to fade: Iron Man’s origin was rooted in the Vietnam War, and the hero battled the Chinese troublemaker, Mandarin, and a Vietcong villain named Wong Chu. Despite ...