Inside the Wicker Man The Morbid Ingenuities By Allan Brown
Inside the Wicker Man The Morbid Ingenuities By Allan Brown “It is a film about sacrifice which was itself sacrificed. It is also a film about the life force; it has been hacked, slashed, buried, written off and lost but it continues to live; indeed it refuses to die.” ...
In Darkness – Notes from the Underground
Notes from the Underground: In Darkness At his funeral, someone said, “It’s God’s punishment for helping the Jews”. As if we need God to punish each other. —-In Darkness (2012) It is 1943 and in the town of Lvov, in Nazi-occupied Poland, sewer worker Leopold Socha (Robert Wieckiewicz) is making a reasonably comfortable fist of...
Conan’s World and Robert E. Howard – by Darrell Schweitzer
Conan’s World and Robert E. Howard by Darrell Schweitzer “Know, oh prince, that between the years when the oceans drank Atlantis and the gleaming cities, and the years of the rise of the Sons of Aryas, there was an Age undreamed of, when shining kingdoms lay spread across the world like blue mantles beneath the stars—Nemedia, Ophir, Brythunia, Hyperborea, Zamora with its dark-haired women and towers of spider-haunted...
Auggie Wren’s Christmas Story: Smoke
“What’s the matter? He run out of ideas or something?” “He ran out of luck.” —Smoke A couple of weeks ago a package arrived containing an early Christmas gift. When I opened it I was truly taken aback. It was a beautiful, slim little volume from Faber and Faber, written by Paul Auster and delicately illustrated by someone called Isol. It is a thing that is both lovely to look at and to leaf through, sent by a good friend...
Family Fortunes: Deadfall
Family Fortunes: Deadfall In the aftermath of a robbery the brother and sister team of Addison (Eric Bana) and Liza (Olivia Wilde) are involved in a crash which leaves them stranded in the middle of a Northern Michigan blizzard. This is Liza’s first heist but it is obvious that the ruthless Addison is a seasoned veteran. It’s also obvious that his relationship with Liza is a bit on the unhealthy side, although any more hints of...
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