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It's an interesting question. I mention in the article that such a scenario may well embolden the appeasers in the UK who would previously favoured Nazi Germany as a bulwark against bolshevism and isolationists in the US. Realistically this was probably me trying to make the worst case scenario...

Was there really an opportunity for such a disaster in Feb-June 1941? It's certainly possible for Rommel to die, plenty of opportunities for that, but the British were so overextended (and diminished after the Greek sideshow) that it's difficult to see them being able to destroy the Axis mobile...

Great review, fascinating to consider the endurance of the Great Man in AH goes back to it actually being produced by Great Men.

Having seen it now, much better than I expected, All in all, feeling really optimistic about A24 being the new horror studio dedicated to making good films now that Blumhouse has gone down the route of self-parody. I like both good and bad horror films but it's refreshing to have the option.

It's difficult to imagine Menace working as constituted. There was far too much reliance on the popularity of de Gaulle and the Allied cause amonst the French establishment in Dakar, particularly given Vichy had been purging pro-Allied officials from the area since June. The belief that a...

It's tricky because this argument seems to resemble the sort of Oh Dearism which can hinder understanding for the sake of making some grand point about the human condition. Certainly much of the violence in any war is going to be meaningless, opportunistic or random but to actively try and cast...

It reminds me of one of the latter seasons of Lost (after people had stopped watching) where it's revealed time travel is possible but also lethal unless you can find someone who is present at both points in time. I think they even used the term 'constant' to refer to such people.

I think I said something similar at the time but it would have been good to have more examination of whether or not the engagement really was worthwhile or if it really was just a waste of life halting an invasion already doomed to defeat. There does seem to be an implication (possibly just on...

Imagining a South African/Swedish nuclear confrontation over Angola. Meanwhile a Vela-style event occurring at Lake Geneva inspires an iconic guitar riff.

Extinction level events are also very common historically and this is one going to be one of them.

Pretty bad, not quite Queen Nixon levels but Clean Wehrmacht is a staple and the Rommel Myth is pushed to the point of sainthood.

It's also a copy and paste from his earlier work Disaster at D-Day. Tsouras can certainly put a good collection together but his unreconstructed Wehrabooism is a fatal flaw in his writing, it approaches self-parody.

He certainly pulled it off in the original Terminator, arguably his best performance, but it does beg the question whether audiences would think they were watching a stealth addition to the Terminator series with the T-800 battling vampires in the post-apocalyptic setting.

Great article. I was aware of the original ending but didn't know it had actually featured with the home video release. Watched the Will Smith version for the first time in ages recently and the theatrical ending was still there and still doesn't work as well as the original. Not sure if the...