Mostly movie reviews, sometimes book reviews.
College milquetoast Frank Sinatra discovers he must assume his late father’s secret identity as a womanizing outlaw known as “The Kissing Bandit.”
Tank commander Humphrey Bogart leads a hopelessly outnumbered group of Allied stragglers defending a remote well from a German battalion in the North African desert.
Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin fight over a chunk of stolen money and a riverboat casino in 1870s Galveston.
Cary Grant plays matchmaker when a housing shortage forces him, an American athlete, and a young woman to share a Tokyo apartment during the 1964 Olympics.
Penniless producer George Murphy schemes to avoid eviction from his posh hotel penthouse and conscript playwright Frank Sinatra into his new show.
An oral history of the Sisters of Mercy’s rise from Leeds clubs through their debut album and subsequent implosion.
A college student visits the last man on an abandoned, kudzu-choked street and learns what lurks beneath the vines.
A grief-stricken man sees visions of a flapper-era woman at his Tennessee cabin—and discovers he’s not the first.
In 1780 London, William Blake finds himself swept into the Gordon Riots, only to discover the rioters’ enigmatic leader harbors a dark secret.
During the brutal Civil War battle, as artillery shreds trees and flesh alike and soldiers become scavengers among the corpses, a Confederate veteran encounters something supernatural stalking the battlefield.