On Reviewing A Writer’s New Work By Panning 30-Year-Old Books

Posted on December 13th, 2016 by Adam-Troy Castro

If someone tells you online or in person that he’s just read a book by a given writer and pronounces it superior, you cannot win an argument about the quality of the writer by declaring that you gave up reading that writer’s works twenty years ago, and especially not if you hated one book that […]

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Twenty-Two Musketeers [Part Two]: Wherefore art Thou, ‘Definitive’?

Posted on November 8th, 2011 by Adam-Troy Castro

All for one and one for all. First Commentary (continued) by Adam-Troy Castro The Three Musketeers (1935). Directed by Rowland V. Lee. Written by Rowland V. Lee and Dudley Nichols, from the novel by Alexandre Dumas. Starring Walter Abel, Ian Keith, others. 97 minutes ** The Three Musketeers aka The Singing Musketeer (1939). Directed by […]

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Twenty-Two MUSKETEERs (Part One): or, The Ritzes Putting On You

Posted on October 30th, 2011 by Adam-Troy Castro

All for one, and one for all.   First Commentary by Adam-Troy Castro The Three Musketeers (1935). Directed by Rowland V. Lee. Written by Rowland V. Lee and Dudley Nichols, from the novel by Alexandre Dumas. Starring Walter Abel, Ian Keith, others. 97 minutes ** The Three Musketeers aka The Singing Musketeer (1939). Directed by Allan […]

Tags: Angela Lansbury, Buster Keaton, Charlie Sheen, Charlton Heston, Christopher Lee, Don Ameche, Faye Dunaway, Gene Kelly, Ian Keiith, Jackie Chan, John Wayne, June Allyson, Lana Turner, Michael York, Milla Jovovich, Oliver Reed, Raquel Welch, Rebecca DeMornay, The Beatles, The Marx Brothers, The Ritz Brothers, The Three Musketeers, The Three Stooges, Tim Curry, Van Heflin, Vincent price, Walter Abel