GFS Home Movies: The Stranger (1946)
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In which I review the 1946 Orson Welles film noir classic The Stranger. Perhaps the first movie in the Nazi Hunter genre.…
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A Gallery of World War II Superhero Comic Book Covers
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A gallery of Golden Age comic book covers showing superheroes fighting for America in World War II. Take that, Hitler!…
Images of D-Day, the Allied invasion of Normandy — June 6, 1944
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Images of D-Day, the Allied invasion of Normandy – June 6, 1944.
The Normandy landings, codenamed Operation Neptune, were the landing operations of the Allied invasion of Normandy, in Operation Overlord, during World War II. The landings comm……
Dear America: STFU. Love, Uncle Sam
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Shhh! It’s a gallery of World War II posters emphasizing the importance of silence for security.…
10 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Kiss
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Kiss has been around for nearly 40 years and is a world famous rock & roll band. But I bet I can think of 10 thing you probably don’t know about them.…
Book report: The Murrow Boys: Pioneers on the Front Lines of Broadcast Journalism
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It’s hard to imagine, especially for those of my generation or younger, but broadcast news was not always a wasteland of vacuous celebrity gossip, shallow political “analysis”, or crude sensationalism. There was in fact a…
Venture Bros. wrapup: “Blood of the Father, Heart of Steel”
So hey, I’m a little late on this review. I know that seems inexcusable since it is the season premiere, but my damn DVR didn’t record this when it was supposed to. And if it’s…
Album cover of the week: Underground
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This week’s installment looks at Thelonious Monk’s last great album, Underground.…
Book report: The ODESSA File
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GFS reviews Frederick Forsyth’s 1972 novel The ODESSA File, about the hunt for the infamous Nazi concentration camp commander Eduard Roschmann.…