J.G. Ballard : The Complete Short Stories
The Pacifics of Our Imaginations: J.G. Ballard The Complete Short Stories “In the codes of Renata’s body, in the junctions of nipple and finger, in the sulcus of her buttocks, waited the possibilities of a benevolent psychopathology.” (Zodiac 2000) “Its ruined appearance [was] profoundly depressing, an Auschwitz of the soul whose mausoleums contained the mass graves of the still undead.” (The Terminal Beach) “Already...
A Feast for Crows: Book Four of A Song of Ice and Fire
A Feast for Crows Book Four of A Song of Ice and Fire Those early episodes of HBO’s Game of Thrones…they seem so long ago, don’t they? Why, back then Ned Stark’s head was still firmly attached to his shoulders and Daenerys’s dragons were cute and playful little tykes. Now, with the penultimate series well under way, Ned’s head is but a distant memory and the dragons are all grown up and ready to burn… So I thought it might...
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017)
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017) I had been given the erroneous impression that writer/director Luc Besson simply thrusts the audience into Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets with little or no context to help establish the coming action. Not so. To the hauntingly familiar notes of David Bowie’s ‘Space Oddity’ we see the space station Alpha in 1975 orbiting the earth as different races from the home...
Dunkirk (2017)
Dunkirk (2017) The dialogue is so minimal that there are entire stretches of Dunkirk with not a word spoken. Yet when those words do come they are often as quietly devastating as what we are witnessing on screen. – The tide must be coming in — – How can you tell?– – The bodies are coming back – And it truly does feel as if we are witnessing an extraordinary and even pivotal point in our...
War for the Planet of the Apes (2017)
Ape – ocalypse Now: War for the Planet of the Apes (2017) What a film. Played dead straight, this reboot has been showing us how to do it right since 2011; and now, following Rise and Dawn, Matt Reeves’ War for the Planet of the Apes concludes a great, epic trilogy that has given us a fully satisfying beginning, middle and end. And just to get the bitching out of the way…there is none! Except to say that unless Mr....
Nemo: Heart of Ice
Nemo: Heart of Ice “Sailed from Lincoln [Island] with the morning tide, and a heavy heart. I am discouraged by the fact that my young wife has lately given birth not to a son and heir, as I had been convinced the gods would surely grant me, but a daughter that she has named Janni, for her mother. Though she often brings the child to me and tries to make me love her, I cannot, so great has been my disappointment. Thus I...
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