- John Hansen
- March 10, 2021
‘Love and Death’ (1975) skewers Russian tragedies
Appearing to be dour and grim in the fashion of Russian tragedies, “Love and Death” (1975) wasn’t at the top of my stack of Woody
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- John Hansen
- March 8, 2021
‘Cities of Gold’ (1992), ‘Talking to the Ground’ (1995) explore West
Douglas Preston, whose book career began with 1986’s “Dinosaurs in the Attic,” makes a leap in writing quality and, more strikingly, the lengths he will
- John Hansen
- March 5, 2021
‘Hannibal Rising’ (2007) elegantly tells backstory
To mark the 40th anniversary of author Thomas Harris’ invention of Hannibal Lecter and the 30th anniversary of “The Silence of the Lambs” – the
- John Hansen
- February 22, 2021
‘Dinosaurs in the Attic’ (1986) a virtual museum tour
Although he didn’t know it at the time, Douglas Preston’s nonfiction book “Dinosaurs in the Attic: An Excursion into the American Museum of Natural History”
- John Hansen
- February 13, 2021
‘Professor Marston’ (2017) tells of Wonder Woman’s inspirations
The creation stories of the three biggest DC heroes all have a notable amount of injustice behind them. “Superman’s” Siegel and Shuster and “Batman’s” Bill
- John Hansen
- February 2, 2021
Hughes’ screenwriting career ends with ‘Reach the Rock’ (1998), ‘Just Visiting’ (2001)
John Hughes’ wholly original works tended to be better than his sequels, remakes and adaptations, and the last two films of his screenwriting career sharply
- John Hansen
- January 29, 2021
‘Hannibal Rising’ (2006) makes Lecter sympathetic
To mark the 40th anniversary of author Thomas Harris’ invention of Hannibal Lecter and the 30th anniversary of “The Silence of the Lambs” – the
- John Hansen
- January 25, 2021
Preston, Spezi probe ‘Monster of Florence’ (2008)
We think of Douglas Preston as a best-selling thriller novelist, but his roots are in journalism, and he is still a practicing journalist. His earliest
- John Hansen
- January 23, 2021
‘Superheroes Decoded’ (2017) a definitive documentary
“Superheroes Decoded,” a two-episode History Channel documentary from 2017, isn’t what I thought it would be. But it turns out to something good: The definitive
- John Hansen
- January 9, 2021
‘Batman & Bill’ (2017) points Finger at DC Comics
“Batman & Bill” (2017, Hulu) is about the fight to correct one of the great injustices of early comic book history – the omission of