Author: John Welsh

The almighty was supposed to keep mortals in line by threat of divine punishment in a promised afterlife. At least those among us who subscribed to such notions; however, a clever few reason they could break the rules society pretends to live by and rewards would come their way.

The story is predicated on the idea that an alien race from the Andromeda constellation has the technology for intergalactic space travel but has little or no understanding of genetics.

Firstly, this is the best analysis of McCabe I recall reading. I’ve not seen again since it’s release in 1971 when Altman was the hot director coming off the success of M*A*S*H

Several actors were offered roles and declined. Among them was Robert Mitchum, who asked, “Why would I want to go to Ecuador for two or three months to fall out of a truck? I can do that outside my house.”

In Polanski’s slick, Hitchcockian thriller, a writer known only as the Ghost (Ewan McGregor), is hired to ghostwrite the memoirs of an ex British Prime Minister named Adam Lang (Pierce Brosnan), clearly based on Tony Blair.