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By Ryan Fleming 1969. A significant year in many respects. The year of the first manned Moon landing, the year of Woodstock, the year of Abbey Road and Tomm...

By Ryan Fleming Sometimes an actor can become as famous for the roles they did not get as the ones they did. There are many such examples in film going back ...

By Ryan Fleming Bond. Not as Bond. In these articles I have mentioned how nothing seemed to attract the eye of the producers of the Bond films than appearing...

By Ryan Fleming Christmas. Merry Christmas. Somehow a film series about an alcoholic, gambling, womanising assassin became a staple of Christmas television i...

By Ryan Fleming “Bond. Jimmy Bond.” Doesn’t have quite the same ring to it as the version of the line we got historically, does it? It lacks something. The s...

By Ryan Fleming "Bond. James Bond.” With that line one of the most enduring characters in film history was introduced to audiences in 1962. Here in 2019, the...

By Ryan Fleming When you look at the highest grossing films in any given year this decade, you are greeted with a barrage of big-budget blockbusters, and eve...

By Ryan Fleming There are many different ways real life can influence our popular culture. Real events can be adapted into fictionalised retellings, real peo...

By Ryan Fleming How much is alternate history just a subgenre of science fiction? For a lot of the history of the genre it seemed as though the two were inte...

By Ryan Fleming "Spare me the tiresome antics of the Simpson family!" - C. Montgomery Burns What would the popular culture landscape look like without The Si...

By Ryan Fleming The two most widely used ideas in alternate history are that of Nazi Germany emerging as a victor from the Second World War and the Confedera...

By Ryan Fleming How might technology have developed in the latter decades of the twentieth century without the ubiquitous compact disc? What would we have us...

By Ryan Fleming In some respects, alternate history is an examination of irony. There are many examples of serious alternate history there are moments when c...

By Ryan Fleming Game of Thrones, Boardwalk Empire, Breaking Bad, Mad Men, The Sopranos, The X-Files. None of these may have existed were it not for a short-l...

By Ryan Fleming The two most common alternate history settings are ones based on World War II and the American Civil War. Bringing up a distant third are tho...

By Ryan Fleming On the 25th of May 1977 Star Wars was released in the United States, it was a film almost every studio in Hollywood had turned down and even ...

By Ryan Fleming What are the best works of alternate history? Are they the ones with the richest, most detailed, and most plausible histories described? Or a...

By Ryan Fleming There are a number of ideas that are recurrent in alternate history. The two most recurring being the victories of the Confederate States of ...

By Ryan Fleming There are few moments in history where you can pinpoint a single decision that brought about momentous changes as a direct result. Even when ...

By Ryan Fleming Within published alternate history fiction of decades gone by there seemed to be only a few genres that would make use of an alternate histor...