Morgan (2016)
Sep09

Morgan (2016)

Actions & Consequences: Morgan (2016)   Two centuries after the 19-year-old Mary Shelley conceived her immortal Frankenstein, film makers continue to find themselves being drawn back to the essential themes in that classic work:  artificial creation; and at which point do we have to address the possibility of that creation being in possession of a soul? Last year Alex Garland’s Ex Machina set the bar so far up that it is...

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Beyond the Black River : The Weird Works of Robert E. Howard, Volume 7
Sep09

Beyond the Black River : The Weird Works of Robert E. Howard, Volume 7

Beyond the Black River The Weird Works of Robert E. Howard, Volume 7 Edited by Paul Herman Part One   These ongoing pieces are overviews rather than reviews and therefore contain spoilers galore   When you have a hero who is described as having a  voice ‘as harsh as the rasp of steel’;  who has a yell that is ‘less like the cry of a man than the grunt of a charging lion’; and – listen now, this is the big one – who can take a blow...

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