King’s Row (1942)

[See “Our Childless Dystopia” in The New Atlantis of Winter, 2007, under “Articles”] Discover more from James Bowman Subscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email. Type your email… Subscribe

“Tyger, Tyger burning bright.” See the connection with comic-book superheroes? No, I didn’t either.

What? You didn’t know that Nixon was assassinated? You must not have been paying attention to the Hollywood fantasy-factory

An inspiring account of a coach’s dedication and a high school football team’s success which rather underplays its chief insight into the importance of character

A visual delight which there are numerous but often mutually contradictory reasons for feeling guilty about enjoying

The Sixth Day, directed by Roger Spottiswoode, is a movie about cloning that is itself a clone — a genetic duplicate of every other Arnold Schwarzenegger vehicle of the last 15 or 20 years. Actually, it is a clone of a clone of a clone, since the Schwarzenegger movie is itself a clone of a…