by Site Owner | Oct 1, 2014 | Contemporary Cinema
Cinema: Doctor Strangelove at 50 By Ryder W. Miller Hearkening back to the “Good o’le Days”, a time when people were less crass and maybe more innocent and maybe more naïve, Dr. Strangelove, Or How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Bomb, reminds us...
by Ryder Miller | Sep 15, 2014 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Science Fiction, Short Stories
[alert variation=”alert-info”]Publisher: Wesleyan University Press Formats: Hardcover, Paperback, eBook, Kindle Purchase: Powell’s | Amazon | IndieBound | Barnes & Noble | iBooks[/alert] Vintage Visions, from professor and editor Arthur B....
by Site Owner | Sep 2, 2014 | Contemporary Cinema
Cinema: Dystopias r’ Us By Ryder W. Miller It sure seems like there are a lot of angry and rebellious youngsters on the big screen these day. These films seem to be popping up which are from best sellers that you might never have heard of before. They are fun...
by Ryder Miller | Aug 29, 2014 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Nature, Outdoors & Animals
Nature’s Nether Regions from Professor Menno Schilthuizen is a strange exploration of the sex lives of (mostly) insects and spiders. Sex is a subject that fascinates him like many others, but this book is not for young audiences. He does keep from using slang, and has...
by Ryder Miller | Aug 14, 2014 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs, Film, TV & Theater
Reel Change by Bill Mesce, Jr. is a fascinating book from which a serious fan of film or film criticism will be challenged not to learn something new. The book covers the last 60 years of filmography by collecting the author’s blog posts, which have a personal ring to...