The so-called ‘Biden Neocons’ are part of the Uniparty of Democrats and Republicans who have minor quibbles but one major agreement. That is their unequivocal support for... Continue reading
Dennis Broe reviews this year’s TV series from around the world. Above image: Kenneth Branagh as Boris Johnson’s Churchill without the statesmanship American TV series, which had... Continue reading
In the Anglo world, things generally get lumped together, but in the Francophone world the two kinds of crime fiction are worlds apart. One branch of French... Continue reading
Dennis Broe reports on the ups and downs of the U.S. streaming industry in 2023. Image above: SAG-AFTRA members join WGA members on the picket lines outside of... Continue reading
This summer, writers and actors were marching on picket lines trying to save their jobs and secure at least a working wage in ever more expensive Los... Continue reading
Hollywood writers and actors are on strike, the first time both unions have been on strike at the same time since 1960. It’s thrown the industry into... Continue reading
Dennis Broe, in the first of to articles, describes how corporate media in all its forms downplays climate destruction. Above: New York skyline, with soot Fredric Jameson’s famous... Continue reading
The Global Crime Novel: Worldwide Corruption and Chiseling In a 1931 Warner Brothers made the film Blonde Crazy, in the pre-Code period where expression was raunchier and... Continue reading
The Invaders: Alien Beings From a Dying Planet. Their Destination: The Earth. Their Mission: To Make It Their World. It began with a landing of a craft... Continue reading
It’s hardly the ruined, devastated postwar rubble that was the backdrop of the most famous film shot in Vienna, The Third Man (see image above), but in... Continue reading