Latest
What an AI Detector Score on Your Manuscript Is WorthThe One-Hour Call Before I Quote Your BookWhen a Client Thinks the Ghostwriter Used AIMonthly or Milestone: How Ghostwriting Gets BilledWhen Your Memoir Should Be a NovelWhat It Costs to Fix an AI-Written ManuscriptThe Clients Who Pay and VanishThe Quotation Marks That Get Authors SuedThe Work You Would Never Have StartedWhen Your Own Memoir Sounds Like BraggingWhat Belongs on a Copyright PageThe Hugging Face AI Agent Attack: An Operations ReadingBehind the Book: The Mysterious Island, Neb’s SideHow to Organize Decades of Memories Into a MemoirWhy Rotten Tomatoes Sucks: The Score Does Not Mean What You ThinkWhy Amazon KDP Sucks: They Terminated My Account OvernightIngramSpark: How I Publish Now and WhyWhy Fiverr Sucks for Ghostwriting: The Buyer’s SideWhy eBay Sucks Now: A Seller’s Numbers and a Buyer’s WarningThe Ghost Story TraditionThe Gothic TraditionThe Christmas Ghost Story TraditionResurrection as a Narrative StructureBooks to Give a WriterThe Beach Read ArgumentWhy It’s a Wonderful Life Failed on ReleaseWhat to Read in SpringWhat to Read in SummerWhat to Read in OctoberHow Warner Bros. Dismantled a $17 Billion Cartoon EmpireThe Imaginary Scarcity TrapThe Graph That Goes Vertical Is Usually Somebody Else’sSubstack Is Not Collapsing. The Promise Was.The Disasters That Happen to Ordinary PeopleToba: The Winter That Almost Ended UsJay Stifflemire: Nothing Ever Gets Written DownGeorgie-Ann Getton: I Forgot I Had Free WillAI Detection Cannot Be Evidence, and Publishing Is Using It That WayAI Consciousness Left Philosophy and Entered the LaboratoryThe Office Block Where the Bedrooms AreThe Web Got Fenced: What AI Search Costs Small SitesBlack Tuesday: The Web Ring War Nobody Outside It NoticedWhat the AI Visibility Industry Sells, and What the Evidence SaysBlack Tuesday: The Original ring-master.net Page, 2000Behind the Book: Peacekeeper, The Dissolution WarsBehind the Book: Real World SurvivalBehind the Book: Publish Your BookBehind the Book: ReincarnationBehind the Book: Sell Your BooksBehind the Book: Show Don’t Tell

Actor: Michael Caine

Michael Caine arrived when British film still expected received pronunciation from its leads, and Zulu, The Ipcress File and Alfie put a working-class London voice in the center of the frame. That alone changed what British cinema sounded like.

He has made more than a hundred and thirty films and has been open that many were taken for money, including Jaws: The Revenge, of which he said he had never seen it but had seen the house it built.

The good work is very good. Get Carter, The Man Who Would Be King, Educating Rita, Hannah and Her Sisters and The Cider House Rules, the last two winning him Best Supporting Actor.

His late career with Christopher Nolan, particularly as Alfred, gave him a second act as the moral center of large films. He also wrote a genuinely useful book on screen acting technique.

John David Washington as the Protagonist in a tactical suit, standing in front of inverted visual effects showing objectsAaron Taylor-Johnson

Tenet (2020) Review

Tenet (2020) rates 6 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Nolan bought a real 747 to crash because it cost less than building a model, and then mixed the film so that a substantial number of people could not…

READ MORE »

The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992) film posterDave Goelz

The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992)

Michael Caine plays Scrooge opposite Kermit, Miss Piggy, and the Muppet ensemble in a sincere adaptation of Dickens. The Muppet Christmas Carol is Brian Henson's 1992 American adaptation of Charles Dickens's 1843 novella, with Michael Caine playing Ebenezer Scrooge among…

READ MORE »

Alfie (1966) film posterJulia Foster

Alfie (1966)

1966 Lewis Gilbert drama with Michael Caine breaking the fourth wall as a London womanizer facing the cost of his lifestyle. The film depicts Alfie Elkins, a young London chauffeur who treats women as conquests instead of as people.

READ MORE »

Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014) film posterColin Firth

Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014)

2014 Matthew Vaughn spy action with Colin Firth recruiting Taron Egerton into a British independent intelligence agency. Kingsman: The Secret Service is Matthew Vaughn's 2014 British spy action film adapting Mark Millar and Dave Gibbons's 2012 comic series The Secret…

READ MORE »

The Eagle Has Landed (1976) film posterDonald Pleasence

The Eagle Has Landed (1976)

1976 John Sturges WWII thriller with Michael Caine as a German paratrooper colonel sent to kidnap Churchill from rural England. The Eagle Has Landed is John Sturges's 1976 British WWII thriller adapting Jack Higgins's 1975 novel.

READ MORE »

The Prestige (2006) film posterChristian Bale

The Prestige (2006)

2006 Christopher Nolan period thriller with Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale as rival Victorian magicians destroying each other. The Prestige is Christopher Nolan's 2006 American period thriller.

READ MORE »