A Brief History On July 8, 2025, Hour of the Pumpkin Queen: Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas by Megan Shepherd was published by Random House/Disney, a sequel to the popular novel, Long Live the Pumpkin Queen: Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas. Digging Deeper After recently seeing the uprated version of the iconic film, Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas, we were anxious to read the novels that continue the tale from the perspective of Sally, who becomes the Pumpkin Queen. Having thoroughly enjoyed the first Sally book, Long Live the Pumpkin Queen:, we were eagerly awaiting the second Sally…
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Major Dan
Major Daniel Zar is a retired veteran of the United States Marine Corps. He served during the Cold War and has traveled to many countries around the world. Prior to his military service, he graduated from Cleveland State University, having majored in sociology. Following his military service, he worked as a police officer eventually earning the rank of captain prior to his retirement.
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A Brief History On July 1, 2025, Long Live the Pumpkin Queen: Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas – The Graphic Novel by Liz Marsham was published by Disney Press, an adaptation of the popular novel, Long Live the Pumpkin Queen: Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas. Digging Deeper Obviously, the story we enjoyed in the novel is the same in the graphic novel version, and since we found the story in the novel to be highly entertaining the same analysis remains true for the graphic novel. In fact, the graphic novel version flows smoothly much like a regular novel, with appropriate…
A Brief History On June 26, 2026, American superhero film Supergirl was theatrically released by Warner Bros. Pictures in the United States of America. Digging Deeper The first observation we can make about this film is, James Gunn did it again! After a somewhat different take on Superman in 2025’s aptly named film, Superman, we find the female version of the Kryptonian superhero (superheroine?) to likewise be something less than an irresistible force for good with no lack of confidence or purpose. Another flawed superhero, we find our Supergirl (played by Aussie Milly Alcock) a to be an almost morally…
A Brief History On May 29, 2026, war drama film Pressure was theatrically released by Focus Features in the United States of America. Digging Deeper Pressure captures a critical aspect of military operations that is often if not normally overlooked in movies, novels and even casual history. Weather and weather forecasting is a crucial part of military operations that does not make for dramatic battle scenes as similarly logistics is also often ignored despite its massive importance to combat. The main fact the film brings to the audience is that the pivotal battle of the Western Front in Europe during…
A Brief History On May 20, 2026, American political action thriller film Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan: Ghost War was released worldwide on Amazon Prime Video. Digging Deeper Jack Ryan, the exciting American hero created by author Tom Clancy and appearing in Clancy’s novels (14 of them) since 1984 and in other novels by four other writers, has graced the big screen five times previous to Ghost War and and had a successful television series run from 2018 to 2023. This latest movie edition takes our former US Marine (of course!) turned CIA operative from the small screen back to the…