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Save Us, Godzilla!

November 8, 2026 Neal Pollack 0 Comments 1940s Japan, action movies, alien monsters, alternate history, atomic bomb, B-movies, blockbuster sequels, camp cinema, Cold War, creature features, disaster movies, film reviews, G-cells, giant monsters, Ginza, Godzilla, Godzilla franchise, Godzilla Legacy of Monsters, Godzilla Minus One, Godzilla Minus Zero, Godzilla Minus Zero review, Godzilla movies, Godzilla sequels, Hiroshima, Japanese cinema, Japanese history, Japanese monster movies, Japanese science fiction, kaiju, kaiju movies, King Ghidorah vs Godzilla, King Ghidorah., Kōichi Shikishima, Matsumoto City, Mechagodzilla, meteorites, Min Tanaka, Minami Hamabe, monster battles, monster movies, MonsterVerse, Mothra, movie criticism, New York City, Noriko Ōishi, nuclear anxiety, nuclear trauma, nuclear warfare, postwar Japan, radiation, redemption, Rodan, Ryunosuke Kamiki, sci-fi action, science fiction, science fiction movies, special effects, Statue of Liberty, survival, Takashi Yamazaki, Toho Studios, Tokyo, visual effects, war trauma, World War II

Takachi Yamazaki’s ‘Godzilla Minus Zero’ sets the stage for a renewed franchise

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What Was Alfred Hitchcock’s Secret?

November 6, 2026November 8, 2026 William Schwartz 0 Comments Academy Awards, acting and performance, Alfred Hitchcock, Alfred Hitchcock biography, Alfred Hitchcock movies, auteur cinema, auteur theory, book reviews, Cary Grant, casting directors, cinema history, cinematic suspense, classic cinema, classic Hollywood, Family Plot, Film Adaptations, film analysis, film books, film casting, film criticism, film history, film studies, filmmaking techniques, Francois Truffaut, Golden Age of Hollywood, Hitchcock and Truffaut, Hitchcock casting, Hitchcock films, Hitchcock Truffaut interviews, Hollywood casting, hollywood history, Hollywood stardom, James Stewart, Jimmy Stewart, Joan Fontaine, movie stars, Nat Segaloff, nonfiction books, North By Northwest, psychological thrillers, Rope, screen charisma, star power, suspense films, Suspicion, The Man Who Knew Too Much, The Secret Hitchcock, The Short Night, thriller movies, university press of kentucky, Vertigo, World War II

New book argues that the famed director’s casting is given short shrift

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Paweł Pawlikowski Drives Us Through a Decimated ‘Fatherland’

October 24, 2026October 28, 2026 Stephen Garrett 0 Comments arthouse cinema, August Diehl, Bayreuth Festival, black and white cinematography, Cold War, cultural memory, denazification, East Germany, Erika Mann, European cinema, exile, family relationships, father-daughter relationships, Fatherland, film criticism, Frankfurt, German cinema, German history, German literature, grief, Hanns Zischler, Historical drama, international cinema, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Klaus Mann, mourning, movie reviews, National identity, nationalism, Nazi Germany, Paweł Pawlikowski, political drama, postwar Germany, Richard Wagner, Sandra Hüller, Thomas Mann, W.H. Auden, Weimar, West Germany, World War II

Postwar Germany views itself through the monochromatic portrait of the Mann family

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Marc Bloch Enters the Panthéon

July 14, 2026July 14, 2026 Michael Washburn 0 Comments Alan Riding, Alsace, And the Show Went On, André Malraux, Antisemitism, Charles de Gaulle, Charlie Hebdo, Dreyfus Affair, Émile Zola, France, Franco-Prussian War, French history, French military, French politics, French Resistance, Holocaust, immigration, Jean Jaurès, Jewish history, L'Étrange Défaite, Marc Bloch, Marshal Philippe Pétain, Mein Kampf, military history, National identity, National security, Nazi Germany, Pantheon, Paris attacks 2015, Resistance history, Sorbonne, The Strange Defeat, Vichy France, Victor Hugo, World War II

A resistance hero and historian who exposed French antisemitism gets his due

Putting ‘Pressure’ on the Weathermen of World War II

May 29, 2026 Stephen Garrett 0 Comments Allied invasion, Andrew Scott, Anthony Maras, Brendan Fraser, British cinema, Chris Messina, D Day, Damian Lewis, Dwight Eisenhower, film review, Historical drama, historical films, James Stagg, Kerry Condon, military history, military strategy, movie review, Normandy invasion, Pressure, The Longest Day, war films, war movie criticism, weather forecasting, World War II, WWII cinema

Brendan Fraser is Eisenhower deciding on which day will be D-Day

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16 New Books To Read in November

November 1, 2026November 4, 2026 Art McPhail 0

From Gary Shteyngart’s pursuit of pleasure to Rachel Maddow’s reckoning with American justice, November brings literary ambition, political urgency and some gloriously strange fiction.

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Norm Was a Vibe

October 31, 2026November 4, 2026 Rob Kutner 1

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Paweł Pawlikowski Drives Us Through a Decimated ‘Fatherland’

October 24, 2026October 28, 2026 Stephen Garrett 0

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But ‘Who is Martin Mull?’

October 21, 2026October 26, 2026 Samuel Porteous 0

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