The Film Canon: Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

In 1964, a film examined the grim possibility of something going very wrong with America’s nuclear program. A group of bombers carrying nuclear weapons are accidentally given the GO-codes to drop their nuclear payload onto the Soviet Union. The President…

The Man Who Never Was: The Paradoxes and Genius of Peter Sellers

“There used to be a me, but I had it surgically removed.”                                                                 – Peter Sellers I remember it distinctly. “Come over I have a movie you gotta see,” my friend said, “It’s really funny.” I went over to his…