The Rules Of Violence – Part Three

Jun 3, 2013 | Books - Film & Television - Writing

With the airing of 'The Rains of Castamere' on last night's Game Of Thrones, this seems like a great jumping off moment to continue the discussion of violence. If we can stop weeping and retching.  For those of us who love the books, the Red Wedding...

Kit & Tex – A Pair of Birthdays

Feb 26, 2012 | Books - Film & Television - Theatre

Today is Christopher "Kit" Marlowe's birthday. He would be 448 years old. The son of a shoemaker, he wrote some of the most provocative plays of his day, always challenging authority – which is perhaps why he was forced to act as a spy for Her...

Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare

Oct 28, 2011 | Film & Television - Shakespeare - Theatre

I don’t have much time for this, but with the movie opening today I feel the need to dive in to the ANONYMOUS business, if briefly. Let me say at the outset that I have enjoyed Roland Emmerich’s early films, though I haven’t seen any of his recent...

Oland over Toler

Mar 7, 2009 | Film & Television

I've been on a Charlie Chan movie kick for the last two weeks, watching literally a dozen of them in that time. I haven't seen any since I was a kid, and they were being shown every Sunday morning on WGN, in tandem with Abbott and Costello pictures and the...

Restated, and reblogged

Sep 2, 2008 | Books - Current Affairs - Film & Television - Theatre

Now that I'm fairly well settled in Michigan for the duration of the two shows Jan and I are doing, I've jumped back into blogging. Oh, not here. No, I'm doing book reviews for my Shanghai Low Theatricals blog, A DARK WOOD, and commenting on politics over...