Interview With a Writer

Romance readers go through a lot of books.  We’re somewhat spoiled by Nora Roberts’s amazing ability to produce five or six new novels every year.  She’s an outlier, of course, but Romance readers are voracious, and very vocal about delays.  Publishers have learned to recognize and even harness […]

Slashing Cinema

Wendell Jamieson writes about Japanese sword fight films for The New York Times: “I recently asked my sensei, then and now, Noboru Kataoka — himself an actor who goes as Ken Kensai — to name the greatest sword fight film of them all, and he answered, The Sword […]

Soldier of Cinema

It has always been my long held contention that cinema–while being a medium of mass entertainment–can also be a powerful art form that can illuminate, inspire and ultimately change the world we live in. One artist that worked in the mediums of photography and film making that truly […]