The Psychedelic Send-Up Bond: The 1967 Casino Royale
Few movies have wasted as much talent as the 1967 film adaptation of Casino Royale. Let’s see, we have David Niven, Deborah Kerr, Peter Sellers, Woody Allen, Orson Welles and …
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(Black) Knights in White Satin: The Strange Early Life of Dane Whitman
As probably everyone reading this knows by now, The Eternals introduces us to the MCU’s Dane Whitman, AKA the Black Knight. It’s one case where cutting out some of the …
What was the idea here?
H.P. Lovecraft’s “The Dunwich Horror” is one of the great tales of cosmic terror. It has inspired a variety of covers attempting to capture the unspeakable horror within its pages. …
Gotham City grifters: the criminal as con man
In my Silver Age reread I’m now in what’s known as the New Look period of Batman that began in 1964. Sales of Batman and Detective Comics were low (I …
I may have broken a lifelong habit. That’s a shame
So last weekend I watched No Time to Die via a Netflix DVD, and I enjoyed it. I’m not a huge fan of Craig’s run but with some minor quibbles, …
Satire Is What Closes on a Saturday Night
As part of my research for The Aliens Are Here (which McFarland has settled on as the title for what I’ve been calling Alien Visitors), I rewatched the cheerfully deranged …
At Christmas I felt … the sting of death!
Back in the 1980s I read a mystery, A Taste for Honey by HF Heard. It’s the first of three about “Mr. Mycroft,” an elderly, brilliant retiree turned beekeeper living …