and none more than World War II. It has fascinated filmmakers more than any other conflict, which is understandable, given the atrocities it involved and its impact on human history. So many movies have been made about it that it stands apart from other war movies as a genre unto itself. ...
The third casualty will be the infrastructure, treaties and alliances that the West has steadfastly built during the Cold War and post-Cold War eras. A distracted Britain and the inexperience of UKIP on the global stage will undermine NATO, the World Bank, the IMF, the EU and many other en...
He started off trying to create a fun roleplaying game (RPG) character for his sister, and when I heard “female spy” and “World War II” mixed with magic and intrigue, I immediately knew that such a character would fit well in a full-fledged story. I told him to give me that ch...
The proceeds from sales are going to the War Child foundation, a charity that do incredible work to help vulnerable children in war-torn countries.” Indeed the Record Store Day website recalls that, “War Child UK is the only specialist charity for children affected by conflict. They work ...
The day, 25 April, the ANZAC forces stormed the beaches of the cove that has, henceforth, borne their name is commemorated every year in Australia with traditions founded during the First World War: ANZAC Day marches, the playing of the Last Post on a bugle during a dawn service at local...
The day a kid can tell me what -happened- on their trading card show, or better yet, that they cared, will be a triumph in terms of that style of animation. Granted that's a small fraction of an enormous universe of work, but the flipside is a collection of movies who are said to...
Jean Cocteau's greatest film takes the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice (He: head over heels in love; She: also head over heels but inconveniently stuck in the netherworld) and updates it to a menacing, post-war Paris. Orpheus, played by the devilishly debonair Jean Marais, is a poet plung...
the World War lines. What they were going to do, was to use the small roads that spider webbed across France from village to village. If, one knew how to do it, you could cover a lot more distance, than you could following the Roman roads, which were still the main roads of France...
Did bad sperm cause Communism and the Iraq War? Communism. In his book, "How the X Chromosome Controls Our Lives", author David Bainbridge suggests that a bad sperm from Edward, Duke of Kent, in 1818 eventually helped cause Communism. He imagines that one night a cosmic ray wrecked part...
One particularly interesting adaptation is “Homeland,” an American TV series based on an Israeli show called “Prisoners of War.” While both shows focus on intelligence operations and national security, “Homeland” takes a different approach by exploring contemporary geopolitical issues relevant to ...