Raritania

The plot of William Haggard's Slow Burner (reviewed here ) centers on a British program to develop civil nuclear power in the hopes of ...

I remember that when reading Ian Fleming's James Bond novels I was struck by how much the character and his outlook, his associated imag...

Boston: Little, Brown, 1965, pp. 192. WARNING: MILD SPOILERS Until recently I had read only one novel by William Haggard, mainly because ...

New York: University of Cambridge Press, 2006, pp. 382. Before delving into a discussion of Edgerton's book, it is important to rememb...

Looking back it is clear that Star Wars was not the first science fiction film--nor the first space-themed science fiction megahit. ( 2001 ...

I first saw Akira Kurosawa's The Hidden Fortress (1958) on Bravo before its lamentable turn to particularly disgusting versions of the ...

Recently thinking about the G.I. Joe cartoon I was struck by how strong the similarities and connections to the Bond films are --G.I. Joe ar...

New York: Putnam, 2002, pp. 272. Just as after the over-the-top High Time to Kill Raymond Benson swung all the way around to a more groun...

New York: Putnam, 2001, pp. 272. WARNING: MILD SPOILERS Reading Never Dream of Dying the book's title struck me as the most Fleming...

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1990, pp. 304. After an uneventful year has made James Bond restless in that way all too familiar to rea...

New York: Putnam, 2000, pp. 272. As if conscious of having deviated too much from the usual pattern of the Bond adventures in High Time to...

New York: Putnam, 1999, pp. 304. Raymond Benson's High Time to Kill , his third James Bond novel (film novelizations apart), is also t...

In the 1960s the Bond films virtually invented the action movie as we know it. In the decade that followed, however, they lost their earlier...

That the Wachowski siblings' Jupiter Ascending would get anything but a brutal reception was a long shot. After all, it has long been...

What I said about G.I. Joe recently applies to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles as well, even though I recall watching more of the series (...