Rear Guard Action

The Tactical Painter recently published a great post with many good points on Richard Attenborough's 'hidden' message in A Brid...

It is a really bad movie. The re is an overload of romantic and war movie clichés, and the  acting is mediocre. The main character is tryin...

I very much enjoyed the French movie La Religieuse, based on the late 18th century book by Denis Diderot , better known for his encyclopedi...

In my continuing quest to prepare for my role as commander of the U.S. contingent in a humanitarian operation , I have read Black Hawk Down...

Remember how I got the awesome Colonial Marines badge from my Secret Satan last January? Well, I finally found time to patch it to some sle...

This Friday I saw Zero Dark Thirty , the movie about the assassination of Osama bin Laden. Actually I had wanted to see Lincoln , but Dieder...

Watched Target For Today , the 1944 propaganda movie on the 8th Army Air Force, although it does well as a documentary. It runs one and a ha...

Went to see Django Unchained last week and enjoyed it a lot. The latest movie by Quentin Tarantino is again a masterpiece of imagery and s...

I was led (I forgot by whom, but thanks) to a really interesting article on Peter Jackson's interpretation of The Hobbit, by Kristin Tho...

It was only to be expected that Peter Jackson would extend the line from the Lord of the Rings trilogy to the Hobbit and the first part of t...

In June I had this epic rant about Prometheus , Ridley Scott's overpowering Alien prequel. It is a visual and audio spectacle which coul...

Life's slowing down a bit after holidays (I hope you enjoyed the pictures I posted, it was a fun way of updating whilst on the move) and...

I got some interesting reactions to my Prometheus post on Fortress Ameritrash and I'd like to share some of that with you. Obviously I...

Just come back from Prometheus on the big screen in 3D. And just as expected it's a visual spectacle. Some images will last me a long ti...