A look at our nuclear history through comic panels proves illuminating.
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TV Review: The Americans – “The Colonel”
The Americans delivers an exciting finale, with good surprises as well as dangerous ones.
Read More »The Candy Bombers Is More Than a History Lesson
Brings the blockade of Berlin to life while offering lessons for the present.
Read More »DVD Review: Fidel
Powerful 1969 documentary of Fidel Castro.
Read More »The Wake-Up Call of Fail Safe in 2012
Sidney Lumet's Fail Safe offers a perspective on the presidency never more relevant than it is here in 2012.
Read More »Book Review: Comic Books and the Cold War, 1946-1962: Essays on Graphic Treatment of Communism, the Code and Social Concerns, Edited by Chris and Rafiel York
Essays examine how comic books helped shape American youth during the Cold War.
Read More »Book Review: The Duke Don’t Dance by Richard Sharp
Friends from a liftime ago stick together and help each other during times of turmoil and grief.
Read More »Blu-ray Review: Tinker, Tailor, Solider, Spy (1979)
Acorn Media re-releases Tinker, Tailor, Solider, Spy in Blu-ray, with a couple of new extras.
Read More »Blu-ray Review: The Double (2011)
Give it a whirl so you can see how damn handsome Richard Gere's hair looks if nothing else.
Read More »Book Review: The Future Remembered: The 1962 Seattle World’s Fair And Its Legacy by Paula Becker and Alan J. Stein
An outstanding account of the 1962 Seattle World's Fair, and the legacy it left behind.
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