History

‘Godzilla Minus One’ (2023) is Japan’s ‘Independence Day’

Surprising for a nationalistic era in human history, 2023 saw the release of two World War II films that aren’t particularly complimentary toward their source

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‘Jamaica Inn’ (1939) mercifully ends Hitchcock’s British period

Alfred Hitchcock adapted three Daphne Du Maurier works, more than any other author. Two are famous: the Oscar-winning “Rebecca” (1940) and the creature-feature favorite “The

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‘Oppenheimer’ is an epic, but not quite the bomb

“Oppenheimer” is the most important piece of cinematic homework of 2023, something that would be invaluable to civics classes learning about the back rooms of

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Fall movie preview 2023: 10 films I wouldn’t mind seeing

It’s fall movie season, so that means horror (from modest quirky entries to hyped franchise fare), Oscar-baiting biopics and legendary directors unveiling their latest wares.

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‘Last Voyage of the Demeter’ expands ‘Dracula’ lore

“The Last Voyage of the Demeter” had been in development hell for a couple decades, and while it’s great for vampire horror fans that it

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‘Air’ an engrossing chronicle of Nike’s side of the legendary MJ deal

“Air” (Amazon Prime) cleverly and crisply chronicles Nike’s 1984 signing of Michael Jordan to the now-legendary basketball shoe contract. It’s not a chronicle of Jordan

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Where were you in ’73? ‘American Graffiti’ marks 50 years

With “American Graffiti” (1973), George Lucas wanted to put 1962 in a time capsule, and he ended up creating a film that has stood the

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All 9 of Philip K. Dick’s non-SF novels, ranked

In the late 1950s, Philip K. Dick found a career as a science fiction writer, and quickly became quite good at it, delivering several classics.

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‘Superman: The High-Flying History of America’s Most Enduring Hero’ (2012) a good place to start your Supes scholarship

Having recently read Michael Chabon’s “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay” (2000) – which borrows from “Superman” writer Jerry Siegel and artist Joe Shuster’s

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‘Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’ Season 5 looks to the future

Like the final season of “Lost,” “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” is flash-forwarding in its last go-around, in the prologs of each episode (three of which

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