Movie/TV Reviews

Here are six widely believed but untrue plot holes in Star Wars. Leia Leading the Empire back to the rebel base In Star Wars: A New Hope, people frequently claim that it was a plot hole for Leia to know about the imperial tracking device on the Millennium Falcon but still fly back to the … Read more

Today we went to the local theater in Feodosia to watch the new Russian war movie Litvyak, a biopic of the most famous woman combat pilot in history. And, well, it was disappointing.

I just rewatched the classic historical 1966 movie A Man For All Seasons, and realized it has some crucial lessons for us in the 21st Century.

Before we got Gerard Butler as the bare-chested King Leonidus, we got him as the (still bare-chested) Attilla the Hun. Back in 2001, while everyone still had Rome fever from Gladiator, USA Network released Attila, which imagines a historical war as rivalry between two larger-than-life characters. The miniseries holds up surprisingly well 25 years later.