Divers and Sundry

Goodbye, Mr. Chips is a 1939 film directed by Sam Wood and starring Robert Donat (in an Academy Award-winning performance ), Greer Garson...

The Citadel is a 1938 film directed by King Vidor and starring Robert Donat , Rosalind Russell , Ralph Richardson , Rex Harrison , Francis...

The Ghost Goes West is a 1935 film directed by Rene Clair and starring Robert Donat , Jean Parker , Eugene Pallette , Elsa Lancaster and ...

The Private Life of Henry VIII is a 1933 film directed by Alexander Korda and starring Charles Laughton (in an Academy Award-winning per...

Today is the anniversary of the death in 1958 of actor Robert Donat . There are short overviews at BritishPictures.com , TCM and The Guard...

The Fisher King is a 1991 Terry Gilliam film starring Robin Williams , Jeff Bridges and Amanda Plummer . Michael Jeter and Tom Waits ar...

Strike Three, You're Dead by Richard Rosen won the 1985 Edgar Award for best first novel . This is the first book in a series about bal...

The 13th Warrior is a 1999 action/adventure film starring Antonio Banderos as an Arab poet turned warrior. Also in the film are Omar Shar...

Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century is a 1953 Merrie Melodies cartoon starring Daffy Duck , Porky Pig and Marvin the Martian . We love Duc...

Listverse names the longest novels in English: 1) Mission Earth ; L. Ron Hubbard: 1.2 million words 2) Sironia, Texas; Madison Cooper: 1,10...

Aeon Flux is a 2005 post-apocalyptic film starring Charlize Theron , Sophie Okoneda , Marton Csokas and Frances McDormand . It was fun to...

Memphis was lost to the Confederacy on this date in 1862. There are descriptions of the battle, which only lasted 1 1/2 hours, at AmericanC...

Starman is a 1984 John Carpenter science fiction film starring Jeff Bridges and Karen Allen . Robert Phalen (who plays Susan Ivanova'...

I heard on NPR that David Carradine is dead -a possible suicide. It sounds strange to say it, but his TV show Kung Fu was a formative pa...

I see at SFCowsnest.com that David Eddings has died at the age of 77. The Younger Son used to be a huge fan of his various epic fantasy s...

Immortal is a 2004 French-produced English-language science fiction film. It is directed by Enki Bilal . I found the story of a God seeki...

Today is the anniversary of the death in 1970 of Albert Lamorisse , celebrated film director and inventor of the game Risk . The film for w...

I have finally, at long last, finished Olympos by Dan Simmons . Ah! What blessed relief is mine! I was determined to get through this bo...

Children of the Damned is a 1963 science fiction film about kids with uncanny powers. I had originally scheduled this one for earlier in t...

I Married a Dead Man is a mystery novel by Cornell Woolrich . The entirety of the story is told in the prologue and first 7 chapters, so b...