Fox Sunlight Pictures. Mira Nair, director. Hilary Swank and Richard Gere lead actors. Ron Bass and Anna Hamilton Phelan screen-play writers. 111 minutes. 2009. So I’m tardy with this review. Not so. I published it in In Sync magazine in its January 2010 issue—shortly after I viewed this film. Now that my new social media […]
Monthly Archives: December 2013
International Brigades in Spain 1936-39 by Ken Bradley: A Book Review
The clue to the authors political bent is in his Dedication: “To the volunteers of the international brigades who gave all they had to oppose international fascism and to preserve a free Spain.” (My emphasis on “free.”) Republican Spain (again another euphemism) was anything but free or a republic. In 1936, when the Spanish Revolution […]
The Last Prophecy, Jon Land Book Review
I’ve seen this book many times past. Not exactly this one book but other books, films, and tales with the same basic plot: intrepid adventurers discover an ancient and secret writing or glyph well hidden in some exotic/dangerous/gruesome local. Only some obscure university professor/retired cryptographer/computer geek can decode this mysterious writing. Meantime, eeevil (keep “eeevil”) […]
Book Review: Engineers of Victory: The Problelm Solvers Who Turned the Tide in the Second World War
Engineers of Victory: The Problem Solvers Who Turned the Tide in the Second World War Paul Kennedy, Random House, New York, 2013, 438 pp., with maps and Tables, photographs, Notes, Bibliography, and Index. Kenny posits that there were five key tactics to the Allied victory in World War II. How to […]