The two female soldiers who will make history this week as the first to graduate from the Army’s grueling and legendary Ranger School have been identified as Capt. Kristen Griest and 1st Lt. Shaye Haver, Washington Post reports.
While Griest, a military police officer from Orange, Connecticut, and Haver, an Apache helicopter pilot from Copperas Cove, Texas, have not previously been identified by the Army, the Washington Post and other outlets were able to name the women after observing Ranger School training multiple times this year. Read More...
Even Dennis Quaid’s eager scenery-chewing can’t enliven this laughably contrived and thoroughly predictable thriller.
A contrived and cliché-stuffed thriller such as “The Intruder” often forces me to suppress an urgent desire to shout rude things at the screen. Read More...
George R.R. Martin still hasn’t officially said when The Winds of Winter, the sixth book in his A Song of Ice and Fire series that serves as the basis for HBO’s Game of Thrones series, will come out. (And don’t hold your breath for any news about the planned seventh and final book in the series, A Dream of Spring.) But for fans who are eager to peek inside the mind of the series’ creator — or just find entertainment in the same things that entertained him — here are five books by authors that Martin says have influenced him in one way or another. Read More...