Raritania

For years now the press has buzzed about an upcoming "Bond 26"--almost entirely on the basis of no actual information, instead sim...

Recently Hunter Derensis published a piece with Responsible Statecraft looking back at Akira Kurosawa's I Live in Fear --his drama abou...

Robert Ludlum's The Chancellor Manuscript revolves around the pursuit of J. Edgar Hoover's secret files by competing members of Ame...

Looking back on the profusion of bestselling spy thrillers set during World War II in the 1970s it has seemed to some, myself included, plau...

In the Good Times episode "Where Have All the Doctors Gone?" (season 6, episode 17) Ms. Florida Evans and Dr. Paula Kelly had an ...

Deadline has (finally) presented the results of its Most Valuable Blockbusters tournament . Reviewing the list of champions I was unsurpr...

Last year, as Hollywood's courtiers in the entertainment press gushed over the successes of Inside Out 2 and Deadpool 3 as proof that ...

In North America the '90s saw a boom in first-run syndicated drama, new broadcast networks, and the burgeoning of made-for-cable program...

In recent years the term "dad thriller," and related terms like "dad action movie," seem to have come into vogue. What...

There is a pattern in modern economic life which is well-established in the historical record. Specifically a new sector emerges, which is i...

The idea that someone is going to set up a blog online and amass a meaningful audience--enough for them to be thought of as a public figure ...

The "attention economy" is just like the rest of the economy to which it has become so integral. The chances of really big "s...

One of the most interesting aspects of Theodore Dreiser's A Book About Myself (for me, at least) was his frankness about how he felt fa...

We hear the word "populist" a lot these days. As is usually the case with words that get tossed around very much by the sub-lite...

In considering the question of whether the digital era has really lived up to the hype for it one option would seem to be to compare this os...