Widower's Tango

I saw a Doris Day movie when I was a boy called Where Were You When the Lights Went Out? , which was a takeoff on the 1965 power blackout t...

When I watch coverage of the fighting going in Libya, I know who they're talking about when they mention "pro-government forces...

The allegorical children's books of C.S. Lewis, The Chronicles of Narnia , are enjoying an unexpected vogue since the release of the fi...

The Japanese gangster - or yakuza - film has a tradition long enough to give it a degree of respectability. Unfortunately, gangsterism in J...

Taking a quotation from Hamlet to heart ("the readiness is all"), the U.S. Navy spends much of its time preparing for war. It spe...

"Somebody threw a dead dog after him down the ravine." If all port would be claret if it could, every drunk would be Geoffrey Fir...

An old friend was watching a Japanese film with me one day - Kurosawa's Hidden Fortress - when he saw Toshiro Mifune brandishing a sword...