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Robert Samuel Warshow [1] (1917–1955) was an American author associated with the New York Intellectuals. [2] He is best known for his criticism of film and popular culture for Commentary and The Partisan Review .
Calibre has received positive reviews and is critically acclaimed. On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 95% based on 21 reviews, with an average rating of 7.4/10. [8] Metacritic gives the film a weighted average rating of 76 out of 100, based on 7 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". [9]
Robert Sheckley (July 16, 1928 – December 9, 2005) [1] was an American writer. First published in the science-fiction magazines of the 1950s, his many quick-witted stories and novels were famously unpredictable, absurdist , and broadly comical.
Big Calibre is a 1935 American Western film produced by Supreme Pictures and directed by Robert N. Bradbury. [1] It premiered on March 8, 1935. [ 1 ] The film features Bob Steele as Bob O'Neill, a stockgrower who, seeking vengeance for his murdered father, goes after the murderer, crazed scientist Otto Zenz (Bill Quinn).
A projectile that can be equipped either with a tapering boat-tail or a base bleed unit; it comes in high-explosive, smoke generating and illuminating versions. Maximum range from a 39-calibre howitzer is 24 km (15 mi) boat-tail or 30 km (19 mi) base bleed; from a 52-calibre barrel is 30 km (19 mi) boat-tail or 39 km (24 mi) base bleed. [20]
Tomorrow is a 1972 American drama film directed by Joseph Anthony and starring Robert Duvall.The screenplay was written by Horton Foote, adapted from a play he wrote for Playhouse 90 that was itself based on a 1940 short story by William Faulkner in the short story collection Knight's Gambit. [1]
Jacopo Lomeli is summoned to the Casa Santa Marta, where the pope has died in his sleep of a heart attack. The death is not suspicious, as the late pope had a history of heart problems, and a review of his schedule the preceding day indicates nothing out of the ordinary, only a meeting with Camerlengo Joseph Tremblay followed by dinner with Archbishop Janusz Woźniak, the Prefect of the Papal ...
The plot concerns four college students who discover a Catalan manuscript, The Book of Skulls, dealing with an order of monks living in a monastery in the Arizona desert, whose members claim the power to bestow immortality on those who complete their bizarre initiation rite. Most morbid among the order's mysteries is the ninth: for each group ...