The Guild Review

Andrew Bacevich gave the 2012 George C. Marshall Lecture in Military History , and as one would expect from Bacevich, it was scathing, insi...

Why the sudden interest in Grimm's Fairy Tales ? There are two recent films featuring variations of the Snow White story: Tarsem Sing...

The other evening my wife and I watched Triumph of the Will , a film some of my history students will be watching.  This piece of Nazi prop...

On 9 December John la Carre 's 1974 novel Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy comes to the big screen in the US. I recently re-read the nove...

On a recent flight back to the US from Albion I watched four (count 'em - FOUR!) films. All were fairly decent, and worthy of a mention...

If ever someone makes a movie about the founding of Britain's Special Operations Executive, Joan Bright Astley , who was a secretary at ...

Trailer to the new remake of Graham Greene 's Brighton Rock . The FT liked it . As long as they didn't cut my favorite line, it sh...

Around the third grade I took to writing a series of short stories set during my favorite conflict, World War II. They were all written in t...

I have been intrigued by Israeli films at least since seeing Time of Favor , Joseph Cedar's debut film , five or ten years ago. A strin...

The winner of this year's runner-up Grand Prix at Cannes was Of Gods and Men ( Des hommes et des dieux ), a French film directed by Xav...

A little while ago the trailer for An Education came across my desk, probably because it was nominated for three Academy Awards. The film, ...

I have a confession to make: I play miniature war games. Many years ago I got my start with these guys , though I never owned more than a h...

While living at the Quincy House I developed a love of Wes Anderson films (and of one of Anderson's gurus, Whit Stillman ). At the tim...

Murder mysteries can be fiendishly difficult things to unravel. However, there are certain assumptions we often take for granted: the laws ...

I have a confession to make: I have not yet seen Inglourious Basterds . This may not, in and of itself, be a bad thing. Except that I am n...

Quentin Tarantino is well known for his love of bloodletting: films such as Reservoir Dogs (1992), Pulp Fiction (1994) and Kill Bill (vol...

We recently lost the internet at my house for several days. One realizes just how much it has become a part of everyday life when it is gon...

I am not particularly interested in the new Star Trek film , but this interview of the director, J. J. Abrams , is just fantastic. I found...

The other day, while at the cinema to see The Watchmen ( my review here ), I happened to see this trailer for Dan Brown's Angels and De...

Last night I went to see The Watchmen with some friends. Though I've not read the comic book, I like superhero movies, so I figured I ...