Also caught up on the 2016 Jackie, which stars Natalie Portman in an Academy Award nominated performance as Jacqueline Kennedy. Very good performance in a pretty mediocre film. Set immediately before, during, and at various points within a couple … Continue reading
Also checked out The Birth of a Nation, the new film about Nat Turner’s slave rebellion in 1831. Many people may recognize the title of the movie as that of the rightfully infamous DW Griffith film from 1919… one of … Continue reading
Mark Bowden’s Worm: The First Digital World War is a well-written (and short) history of computer worms and the conficker worm specifically, providing a layman’s view of the history and technology involved. It’s pitched to novice readers and operates on … Continue reading
This is a reasonably complete list of horror movies that have been made, I’ll give it that much. However, that really doesn’t make it a history of horror so much as it makes it a catalog with random descriptions and, … Continue reading
Of Dice and Men is a fine book. It’s ok. It doesn’t do much explicitly wrong. It just doesn’t do what it does explicitly right… or, more to the point, in-depth. Part of this is my fault, I suppose. My … Continue reading
A book about the “golden age of hijacking” is a fascinating topic set in an era I knew a little bit about but the sheer excessive amount I didn’t know was impressive. I was certainly aware that terrorists and thieves … Continue reading
This was a good 100 page book padded by a lot of loosely connected materials that may – or may not – have had anything to do with rabies. Sure, vampires, werewolves, and zombies might draw some of their inspiration … Continue reading