Veteran advocate Tammy Duckworth served in Iraq as an Army helicopter pilot and received combat injuries that cost her both legs. She ran for an Illinois congressional seat in 2006, spoke at the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver, and was appointed last year as Assistant Secretary for Public and Intergovernmental Affairs in the Department [...]
Constantin Film and YouTube decide “Fair Use” is meaningless
April 23, 2010 3 Comments
Goodbye Hitler parodies…
WWII Australian hospital ship found
Jan. 22, 2010 Leave a Comment
BRISBANE, Australia — After more than 60 years, the wreck of the doomed hospital ship AHS Centaur has been located. The wreck, which was found by Bluewater Recoveries on December 20, lies due east of Moreton Island on a seabed approximately a mile and a half under water. It is a grave to 268 medics [...]
Weinstein’s “Shanghai” delayed indefinitely
Aug. 25, 2009 Leave a Comment
40s period piece gets held up
A Cursive Memory
Feb. 13, 2009 Leave a Comment
It was a half an hour before they were set to take the stage at Boston’s Harper’s Ferry, but the band members of A Cursive Memory weren’t wasting time stressing over their upcoming performance. After all, there were zombies to be killed and no time to waste. “Since Colin (Vocalist and guitar player Colin Baylen) [...]
Confronting a Holocaust past
Feb. 10, 2009 Leave a Comment
There is no doubt that Nazi Germany was a haunting place to live in the wake of the Holocaust. Bernhard Schlink addressed these hardships in his 1995 novel “The Reader” and through lectures in Boston last week. “The Reader” personalizes the Holocaust by illustrating the turmoil of a man who is in love with a [...]
Defiance
Jan. 6, 2009 1 Comment
What makes the film “Defiance” so unique is that without ever seeing concentration camps and with barely any physical presence from the Germans, director Ed Zwick was able to tell the story of the Jews’ plight during World War II almost as masterfully as Stephen Spielberg did with “Schindler’s List.”
WWII tank sim Steel Fury due in November
Sept. 16, 2008 Leave a Comment
Lighthouse Interactive and its project partners, developer Discus Games and Graviteam‚ announced Monday that their upcoming WWII tank simulation game, Steel Fury: Kharkov 1942, will hit shelves across North America in early November and set a firm date of November 7 for European stores. Steel Fury is known in previews as a historically accurate and thickly [...]
Getting to know Akella
Sept. 12, 2008 Leave a Comment
I’m playing an early version of Stroke of Fate, a WWII adventure title in the works from Akella, but allow me to introduce the distributor.
Leipzig 2008: Heroes over Europe artwork
Aug. 22, 2008 1 Comment
One game we didn’t see much of at E3 was Atari’s Heroes over Europe, the WWII flying combat simulation sequel to Heroes of the Pacific, which was a very strong PC and PlayStation 2 title in its own right. Heroes over Europe brings the combat to high definition on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC [...]
Clive Cussler’s The Sea Hunters now available
Nov. 1, 2007 Leave a Comment
From Acorn Media comes Clive Cussler’s The Sea Hunters, a 3-DVD collection of the acclaimed television documentary. The set features eight daring shipwreck expeditions to the depths of World War II’s most deadly naval battles and attacks. “Rather than looking for treasure, the Sea Hunters seek only to complete the historical record. Besides delving deep [...]