Stories By Dan Fields
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Graphic Novels
What Is Best In Life? Not Conan 3D, Barring A Miracle
April 12, 2024Borne on the crest of the wind, I hear already the lamentation of women. Women whose...
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Historical Fiction
The Weekly Listicle: Three Rings Of Circus Movie Mayhem!
April 11, 2024The circus is a complicated enterprise, and its symbolic value in storytelling has many faces. It...
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Art
2011: Armageddon Comes Early To Hopeless Film Geeks
April 9, 2024Before the year is out, we may see all the weirdest and most controversial filmmakers of...
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Movies
Movie Review: Your Highness
April 8, 2024If only the makers of the film would publish something -- perhaps as a DVD extra...
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Movies
Movie Review: Hop
April 6, 2024Perhaps the best way to take Hop is as an illustration of why Easter movies never...
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Movies
The Weekly Listicle: Keeping It Simple With A ROBO-POCALYPSE!
April 6, 2024This week, the big opener of note is the outrageous fantasy action epic Sucker Punch, which...
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Movies
Movie Review: The Lincoln Lawyer
April 4, 2024Michael Connelly is a very popular author, but it is easy to dismiss a film adapted...
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Literary Themes
The Weekly Listicle: On Adapting The Classics
April 2, 2024With the arrival of Jane Eyre from Sin Nombre director Cary Fukunaga, we see another standard...
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Great Britain
A Watchful Eye On… Winston Churchill
March 31, 2024Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, known best as the wartime Prime Minister, held in his distinguished...
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Movies & TV
Oscars 2011: A Beaten Critic Speaks
March 30, 2024Congratulations to Julia Rhodes for her excellent Oscar picks, which leveled my own, 15 to 9....