Movie review - Forgotten Weapons

Every Gun in “Dr. No” is Wrong

September 17, 2024 Ian McCollum 18

Licensed Troubleshooter: The Guns of James Bond is live on Kickstarter now – check it out for lots of super cool exclusive options! Today Caleb Daniels, author of “Licensed Troubleshooter”, joins me to talk […]

That One Terrible Gun Myth in Siege of Jadotville…

September 15, 2023 Ian McCollum 31

The Netflix film “The Siege of Jadotville” recounts the fighting between Katanga soldiers and mercenaries and Company A of the 35th Irish Infantry Battalion, who were deployed to the Katanga province of Congo in 1961 […]

The Real Guns of Star Wars: A New Hope

December 29, 2020 Ian McCollum 20

Ever since The Mandalorian chose a terrific prototype Bergmann pistol as the base for Mando’s blaster pistol, I’ve been asked to cover the real gun origins of the blasters form he original Star Wars film. […]

Movie Review: 1917

March 5, 2020 Ian McCollum 42

I have had a bunch of requests to comment on the recent movie 1917 by Sam Mendes, and I finally had a chance to watch it…

Movie Review: Anthropoid

November 7, 2016 Ian McCollum 41

The 2016 movie Anthropoid has gotten some negative reviews for failing to be properly cinematic and was a pretty unspectacular performer in box office receipts since its release in August – but I found it to […]

Film Review: Generation War (Unsere Mütter, Unsere Väter)

March 17, 2015 Ian McCollum 23

Generation War originally came out two years ago as a three-part German television miniseries, and I only found out about it recently. It has been described as a German Band of Brothers, but that misses […]

Movie Review: The City of Life and Death

September 20, 2012 Ian McCollum 8

The Second Sino-Japanese War is a relatively unknown part of the Second World War here in the US. Japanese troops invaded Manchuria in 1931, and by 1937 sporadic skirmishes had evolved into a full-scale war […]