Edith Wharton – The Age of Innocence (1920)
A Soft Captivity: The Age of Innocence ‘And, in spite of the cosmopolitan views on which he prided himself, he thanked heaven that he was a New Yorker, and about to ally himself with one of his own kind.’ One of his own kind… This concept is important to most of the characters in Edith Wharton’s wonderful, elegiac and – in the final analysis – moving and quietly ambiguous 1920 novel, The Age of Innocence. It is set during two...
The Chronicles of Conan : Volume 7 : The Dweller in the Pool
The Chronicles of Conan Volume 7 The Dweller in the Pool And Other Stories By 1974 it was pretty obvious to the Marvel Corporation that with Conan the Barbarian they had a tiger by the tail and an enormous hit on their hands. As a result, they were keen to tell some of the Cimmerian’s later-life adventures. Indeed, they had already been tentatively doing so with the first five issues of the black & white magazine Savage...
John Wick : (2014)
Live and Let Die: John Wick (2014) In among all the endless mayhem I kept thinking about that damned pencil. It just stuck with me for some reason. Russian mobster Viggo Tarasov (Michael Nyqvist) is trying to get it through to his thick, thuggish son Josef (Alfie Allen) just how unbelievably dangerous the out-of-retirement hit-man John Wick (Keanu Reeves) is: “I once saw him kill three men in a bar with a pencil! WITH A...
A Most Violent Year (2014)
Bigger Crooks than Us: A Most Violent Year (2014) At one point in A Most Violent Year Abel Morales (Oscar Isaac) asks his wife-cum-bookkeeper Anna (Jessica Chastain) how she is doing with making sure that there is nothing incriminating in the ledgers; and how far back has she gone. When she tells him, Abel comments wistfully that 1975 was a very good year. Certainly, it wouldn’t have to be much better to trump the one that they are...
Preservation (2014)
Let’s Go Hunting: Preservation (2014) That’s the trouble with this new generation – no respect for the classics, no sense of film history. If the three protagonists of writer-director Christopher Denham’s survivalist thriller Preservation had ever watched Deliverance, Southern Comfort or even Hunter’s Moon, then as soon as they clapped eyes on that sign saying that the National Park was closed, they would have been gone...
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