by Michael Mandaville | Aug 15, 2022 | Adventure, Creativity Resources, Martial Arts, Writing
I enjoyed most of the Bourne movies though not Bourne #4 with Jeremy Renner. But the apartment scene in “Bourne Identity” (2002) was pretty good. Check out this fight analysis: The Bourne Identity is a 2002 action-thriller film based on Robert...
by Michael Mandaville | Aug 13, 2022 | Adventure, Creativity Resources, Martial Arts, Writing
“Extraction” was a thrilling action movie that delivered big time with Chris Hemsworth. Set in Bangladesh, the action was tough, brutal and non-stop. The premise was very good. The film is about an Australian black ops mercenary whose mission to save an...
by Michael Mandaville | Jul 21, 2022 | Adventure, Creativity Resources, Writing
“If the Russians or the Chinese recruit a CIA case officer or FBI agent… maybe $1 million per year, in that range,” said a former Western intelligence professional who spoke on condition of anonymity. “We would actually pay less for someone on their side.” An...
by Michael Mandaville | Dec 17, 2021 | Adventure, Creativity Resources, Writing
Wattpad is a platform which allows for serialized content delivery. Much like Charles Dickens did with his novels, my content will be printed on the internet page by page or a few pages at a time. My serialized novel, “Orwell: The End of the Beginning” is...
by Michael Mandaville | Oct 20, 2021 | Adventure, Michael's Paris, Travel
I went to Luxembourg and did the final signing for my citizenship papers in this country. I discovered that I could get citizenship through my ancestry. Since I have long done genealogy and have a database of over 5000 relatives, I had remembered that they were in...
by Michael Mandaville | Dec 28, 2020 | Adventure, Filmmaking, Martial Arts
ESSENTIAL KNOWLEDGE – SAMURAI I love Samurai movies because they are so unique culturally, allowing me to see inside an amazing era of Japan’s rHistory. I remember seeing the ”Lone Wolf and Cub” series at the Fox Venice theater in West Los Angeles a long time...
