Rebecca, 1940 and 2020
This month Netflix released a new adaptation of the book Rebecca, directed by Ben Wheatley. This was the second “big screen” adaptation...
More to 1919: The Amazing Story of Ray Caldwell
Midway through this season, I saw a tweet about something that happened "on this date in baseball" from 1919 that I had completely missed...
Greyhound and Lifeboat
This month I watched the new Tom Hanks movie about a WWII allied naval convoy in the Atlantic that is being terrorized by a German...
Spy Game and Notorious
Alfred Hitchcock had a pretty good sense of the landscape of the just before and just after World War II. His 1940 film not only foresaw...
2001: An Attack on America
This installment is more than just the 2001 season, it also covers a couple of other games in other seasons of the twenty-first century...
Watchmen and Comic Book Vigilantes
Superheroes are vigilantes working outside of the law for good, or their interpretation of "good." There are times in film that the...
1995: Win Above Replacements
The game was going to come back in some form. We were saved from a sham of a season at the last moment and were treated with a new era of...
1994: A Year Without Playoffs
It was a year as I was just starting to get excited by baseball and then it went away without a World Series. It was the heyday of cheap...
1981: A Split Season
It seems that every year that has some kind of disruption to the schedule, also seems to be a marker in some way of baseball's slow...
1972: First Strike
There wouldn't be an interruption in a Major League season for over fifty years. Despite several players going off to World War II and...
