Extrapolated from Greg Palast’s 2002 book, there’s a chilling relevancy to the research and interviews that still resonate in America’s 2016 elections in which Republican nominee Donald Trump repeatedly brought up voter fraud and claims of a ‘rigged system’ that prevents the country’s paler disenfranchised from reclaiming the greatness of their country and the White House…
Review of Anthony Mann’s Cold War drama Strategic Air Command (1955), newly released on DVD & Blu by Olive + Howard Hughes’ nutty Jet Pilot (1957) from the KQEK.com archives.
The FBI Story (1959) and Strategic Air Command (1955) form James Stewart’s unofficial government propaganda diptych where two agencies – ground-level and aerospace, respectively – are portrayed as necessary bodies, always on guard against evil that threatens the sanctity and virtue of the American way…
Howard Hughes blew more than $4 million to create the ultimate Air Force-Cold War-romance kludge with aerial combat scenes reminiscent of Hughes’ Hell’s Angels (1930), only to have Jet Pilot shelved from 1953 to 1957…
Review of Sidney Pollack’s ‘European’ drama Bobby Deerfield (1977), new on Blu from Twilight Time.
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