historyguybookreview 
July 24, 2011Captain America: The First Avenger, is perhaps the best of the films featuring characters from the Marvel Universe. This film is a great war film, an accurate-feeling period piece, a caring romance flick, and a superb superhero epic. It is also turning out to be a blockbuster at the box office. Unless you have been Continue reading →
historyguybookreview June 4, 2011X-Men: First Class, the new film in the X-Franchise, opened on June 3, 2011, and pretty much delivered itself as a good prequel to the X-Men storylines we saw in the first four X-movies. This movie is a prequel to the other films, in that it introduces significant characters, such as Professor X, Magneto, Mystique, Continue reading →
historyguybookreview August 21, 2009Quintin Tarantino’s latest violence-fest is an alternate history of World War Two, in which a former Southern moonshiner leads a group of Jewish American soldiers into Nazi-occupied France to wreak havoc among the German forces. In typical Tarantino fashion, the death and destruction inflicted upon the Nazis by these “Inglourious Basterds” (Tarantino’s misspellings appear to Continue reading →