I’ll confess to a major SF heresy: I’ve never much liked the novel Dune. But I do like both film versions. Yes, that includes David Lynch’s. Lynch may have disowned the film, due to the trauma of working for De Laurentiis productions and the appalling, unauthorised, “director’
Debbie Lerman Debbie Lerman, 2023 Brownstone fellow, has a degree in English from Harvard. She is a retired science writer and a practicing artist in Philadelphia, PA. brownstone.org The Wuhan Cover-Up and the Terrifying Bioweapons Arms Race (Skyhorse Publishing, December 3, 2023) is a crucial book for understanding
Tiger The First Fleet: The Convict Voyage that founded Australia 1787-1788 Author: Jonathan King ISBN 0-333-33855-3 I picked up a copy of this book at a local second-hand bookstore. It turns out it was signed by the author on the bicentenary of the fleet’s
Jen Webb University of Canberra, Alice Gorman Flinders University Carol Lefevre University of Adelaide, Dennis Altman La Trobe University Hugh Breakey Griffith University, Julian Novitz Swinburne University of Technology Matthew Ricketson Deakin University, Oscar Davis Bond University Peter Mares Monash University, Tom Doig The University of Queensland Tony Hughes-d’
Rudolph Lambert Fernandez Rudolph Lambert Fernandez is an independent writer who writes on culture and society. mercatornet.com The year 2023 marks the 30th anniversary of Clint Eastwood’s masterpiece on masculinity. The plot, set in 1960s Texas, follows escaped convict, the benign Butch Haynes (Kevin Costner) who takes eight-
Leighan M Renaud, Florian Stadtler, Simon Potter University of Bristol Andrew Dix Loughborough University Dominic Broomfield-McHugh University of Sheffield Jane O’Connor Birmingham City University Madeleine S Killacky Bangor University We have covered a lot of new releases this year but these seven really impressed our experts. There’s
Haley Kynefin Haley Kynefin is a writer and independent social theorist with a background in behavioral psychology. She left academia to pursue her own path integrating the analytical, the artistic and the realm of myth. Her work explores the history and sociocultural dynamics of power. brownstone.org Welcome to The
Melanie Williams Professor of Film and Television Studies University of East Anglia Roger Lewis’s biographies are always rich, wayward, engrossing, idiosyncratic and above all obsessive, which seems entirely fitting for evoking the particular qualities of his latest subject – the celebrity couple to end them all, Richard Burton and Elizabeth
Oliver Gingrich Programme Lead BA (Hons) Animation Min Young Oh Lecturer in Animation University of Greenwich Chicken Run 2: Dawn of the Nugget combines the distinctive charm of the Great Escape-esque story that characterised the original Chicken Run (2000), with an action-packed plot, staged in a futuristic setting
Steven Tucker Steven Tucker is a UK-based writer with over 10 books to his name. His next, Hitler’s & Stalin’s Misuse of Science, comparing the woke pseudoscience of today to the totalitarian pseudoscience of the past, will be published in summer 2023. mercatornet.com Tough Crowd: How
Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com The most influential person in my life was a school-teacher, Guy Bliss, who back in 1956 preached to the school’s first 6th form (about 6 of us in his history class (the rest had fled at 15, then the school leaving age, mainly for
Rodney Tiffen University of Sydney theconversation.com Nearly every biographical commentary on Rupert Murdoch notes how he began with a modest inheritance in Adelaide, principally an afternoon newspaper, and built it into a global multimedia empire. Walter Marsh’s book Young Rupert: The Making of the Murdoch Empire has the
L Matthew Meyers L Matthew Myers is a data-driven financial, media, and policy analyst. His work has appeared in over 20 major publications, and he has published extensively on toxicology, health sciences, biotech, and pharmaceuticals. brownstone.org Oppenheimer is an epic film, and an extraordinary cinematic achievement. Writer-Director
dailytelegraph.co.nz New Zealand film RIVER OF FREEDOM is set to release next month, with film premiere events in Auckland on September 5th at The Civic, Christchurch on September 6th at Hoyts Riccarton, and Wellington on September 7th at The Embassy. Following the premieres, New Zealand audiences will have
Robert Malone brownstone.org Robert W. Malone is a physician and biochemist. His work focuses on mRNA technology, pharmaceuticals, and drug repurposing research. You can find him at Substack and Gettr The title of US Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s new book, The Wuhan Cover Up, does not
