The Batcave

This is a meticulously researched and fascinating account of the origins of comics. It is part journalism, part social history, part biograp...

WARNING: Oblique spoilers ahead! 1. Always be nice to old gypsy ladies and give them what they want. 2. Do not attempt to leave an undergrou...

This is not a bad actioner if you can get over the gung-ho propaganda. The special effects are good for the period. The strategy was so accu...

I have just concluded two enjoyable days at Booth College reflecting on John Wesley's Doctrine of Holiness with Dr. Tom Noble of Nazare...

I don't really get the point of so-called "Mature Age" comics like this. Fair enough, a parent needs to be warned against giv...

This film is a bonus disc of outtakes from D.A. Pennebaker 's classic film Don't Look Back . I have had two different editions of t...

A nation of trees, drab green and desolate grey in the field uniform of modern wars, darkens her hills: those endless outstretched paws of s...

The story opens with The Leader sitting at his computer aboard Omnivac, his orbiting space station plotting ways to conquer the world now th...

I'm watching my DVD collection from A-Z and have decided to post my reviews here at The Batcave for your reading pleasure. Across the Pa...

I read this profound little book to my children when they were small and bought a copy for my grandaughter yesterday. How many books about G...

Wesley’s sermon No. 64, “The New Creation,” [1] written in 1785, includes many speculations, and reflects his unfaltering optimism of gr...

From the Title Banner: "JIM SCULLY - five-year Prisoner of War in 'Nam. DR. RAYMOND COREY - frustrated physicist. ANN REYNOLDS - ...

David Millikan (pictured), Imperfect Company: Power and Control in an Australian Christian Cult (Sydney: ABC Books, 1991). This is a disturb...

What follows are reviews of books I read in preparation for teaching an Intensive unit in April at Booth College called Doctrine of Sanctifi...

An unusual Bond novel because written in the first person voice of a woman. Perhaps more than any other Bond novel this is nothing like the ...

The following story from USA Today announces a very cool and creative development from DC Comics: "Flying defiantly into a digital worl...