For this Memorial Day, we offer our best wishes, deepest thanks, and a commemorative bouquet of military-related links: Author Joseph Koenig's personal list of the Best Fiction of World War II. “Afghanistan: My Green Zone Symphony,” is a 4-part feature on his deployment by military veteran Weston Ochs, author of the SEAL Team 666,…
When I decided to do a run of film appreciation pieces for this site I thought, “Ok, so I need to go through my DVD collection and pick out some favorites that have some kind of crime/suspense angle to them.” That wasn’t hard to do and it’s really not all that limiting. And of course,…
Yesterday in Part I we looked at Robert Mitchum’s film career from the 1940s to the 1960s. The 1960s were a terrible time for the movie business. The golden era had come to an end. The studio system had been destroyed, and television was ascendant. The great moguls and stars who had created Hollywood and…
