World War II
Movie Review: Darkest Hour
3.5 stars out of 5 On a few occasions at my old job, I’d fly into St. Louis and then make the long, lonely drive to Jefferson City. Each time, I’d pass the exit for the National Winston Churchill Museum, which struck me as pretty random in the middle of Nowhere, Missouri. (They didn’t even […]
Movie Review: Allied
3 stars out of 5 Here’s another one I saw a ton of commercials for. It’s 1942 and hey military guy Brad Pitt, your Frenchy wife Marion Cotillard might be a German spy. So this means: A) She is a spy. B) She’s not a spy. C) In a crazy twist, HE’S the spy. Well, […]
Movie Review: Phoenix
4 stars out of 5 This is an example of a movie that I ended up liking a lot more than I realized while watching it. Because there were definitely a few things going on that I wasn’t crazy about: —It’s really cheap-looking. Sometimes the production values reminded me of a basic-cable TV movie, and […]
Movie Review: The Monuments Men
3 stars out of 5 Due to crappy weather and even crappier offerings at the box office (which is never really a surprise either after the holidays or in late summer), I had not been to the movies yet in 2014. But I am an unrepentant Cloonephile, so I finally got around to seeing Monuments […]
Aryan Youth Prom Season?
Spotted on Route 1/9 in Elizabeth, NJ. I understand that not everyone is a history buff. But I’m surprised that nobody told the owners, “Eh… that’s a little offensive.”
Jack Silbert, curator