GREETINGS

For the last couple of years I've wanted to find a way to do for historical movies what so many websites do for sci-fi, horror, fantasy, etc. movies. The blog format is a lot simpler, but hopefully it'll provide a spot for history buffs to get a digest of what's coming up, film-wise.

The big news right now is, of course, Oliver Stone's ALEXANDER THE GREAT, which opens at Thanksgiving (add turkey joke of your choosing here). Hopefully, though, it'll be a successful movie, and a good one. There have been so many recent disappointments in the history movie genre (GANGS OF NEW YORK, THE ALAMO, KING ARTHUR) that we really need a boost.

And there's more on the horizon. Steven Spielberg and Clint Eastwood are teaming up for FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS, about Iwo Jima, and Spielberg is also supposed to be preparing a "Band of Brothers" type miniseries about WWII in the South Pacific. Also, Spielberg has announced that he's going to produce a miniseries about the American West, with at least one episode directed by Simon Wincer (LONESOME DOVE, QUIGLEY DOWN UNDER). That could be really good.

So, welcome aboard, check back once in awhile (I hope to do new postings a couple times a week), and keep watching those historical films.

Terry S. Todish

Terry Todish