TJ West

Screening History : The Lion in Winter (1968)

I recently had the pleasure of watching the extraordinary 1968 film The Lion In Winter, which relates a…
Screening Classic Hollywood: “The Best Years of Our Lives” (1946)

Today’s focus on “Screening Classic Hollywood” is the exemplary film The Best Years of Our Lives, one of…
Screening Classic Hollywood “The Proud Rebel” (1958)

My strenuous apologies for the prolonged hiatus. Now that things have calmed down a bit, I…
Reading History: “Bring Up The Bodies” (by Hilary Mantel)

Bring Up The Bodies begins almost immediately after the events of Wolf Hall, with Thomas Cromwell orchestrating the precipitous…
Screening Classic Hollywood: “Shane” (1953)

In keeping with the western theme I seem to have going on “Screening Classic Hollywood,” today’s…
Screening Classic Hollywood: “High Noon” (1952)

Today’s entry in “Screening Classic Hollywood” is High Noon, widely considered one of the best westerns…
Tolkien’s Heirs (II): David Eddings

Some time ago, I wrote that Terry Brooks, the bestselling author of the multi-volume Shannara series…
Screening Classic Hollywood: “The Greatest Show on Earth” (1952)

Today on Screening Classic Hollywood, I’m going to be talking about Cecil B. DeMille’s film The…
Reading History: “Wolf Hall” (by Hilary Mantel)

I’ve been an avid fan of historical fiction for most of my life. Some authors have…
“Game of Thrones” Season 5 Postmortem

Having now had a good few weeks to think about the most recent season of Game…