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…
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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 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…
A Brief History On May 15, 2026, American supernatural horror film Obsession was released in theaters in the United States on by Focus Features. Digging Deeper We found Obsession an engaging, entertaining, and refreshingly novel take on the “You better be careful what you wish for” theme. The lead actress (Inde Navarrette) did an excellent job in particular. Although the audience chuckled at various points throughout the film, we overall found the film creepy, with a few jump scares and some startling vocalizations. The ending is a downer, although as always we refrain from explicit spoilers. The overall premise, while…
A Brief History On April 11, 1997, American action adventure horror film Anaconda was released in theaters in the United States by Sony Pictures Releasing. Today, we take a flashback to the 20th Century to look at an entirely enjoyable film, campy, yes, but with a decent budget (for the time of $45 million and a cast featuring major stars. Digging Deeper The story finds us in the Amazon, with our heroes, played by Jennifer Lopez, Ice Cube, Owen Wilson, Jon Voight, Eric Stoltz, and Jonathan Hyde, searching for a mysterious and almost mythical remote tribe in the dense jungle bordering…
A Brief History On January 23, 2026, French supernatural psychological horror film Return to Silent Hill was released in theaters in the United States by Cineverse and Iconic Events Releasing. Digging Deeper A reboot of the Silent HIll film franchise based on the video game, Silent Hill 2, from back in 2001, Return is taking the original premise of the haunted rural mining town in a slightly different direction with new characters. A lovelorn man seeking his lost love desperately in the nightmare title town, the alcoholic James receives a mysterious letter from his former love interest, Mary, urging him to “return to…