Chasing a Bicycle: Premium Rush
Chasing a Bicycle: Premium Rush (2012) Well, what do you know? Premium Rush is my second film in a week to do ‘exactly what it says on the tin’ (the other was The Possession). There are very few frills to it, but it is endlessly imaginative in ways to hold the attention; and at a time when I at least am sick and tired of car chases this is an action movie with a difference. Everyone else has had a chance to see their jobs...
The Whisperer in Darkness
‘A Piece of Delirium out of Poe or Rimbaud…’: The Whisperer in Darkness (2011) “The whole matter began, so far as I am concerned, with the historic and unprecedented Vermont floods of November 3, 1927. I was then, as now, an instructor of literature at Miskatonic University in Arkham, Massachusetts, and an enthusiastic amateur student of New England folklore. Shortly after the flood, amidst the varied reports of...
Red Reign: Enter the World of Anno Dracula
Red Reign: Enter the World of Anno Dracula In May of 2011 Titan Books began reprinting Kim Newman’s collection of alternative histories, which record what might have happened if Count Dracula hadn’t been stopped by Van Helsing and his group of mismatched vampire hunters in Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel Dracula. As the only two novels—printed originally in the nineties– that I read were terrific, and since some of the shorter...
The DC Comics Encyclopaedia – The Definitive Guide to the Characters of the Expanded DC Universe – Updated and Expanded
The DC Comics Encyclopaedia The Definitive Guide to the Characters of the Expanded DC Universe Updated and Expanded When I saw my brother rolling up the street in a fork lift truck I wondered what the devil he had on the end of it. As it turned out it was my Christmas present, the massive and updated 2009 edition of what is pretty much as ‘definitive’ a book as you’re likely to get on the costumed heroes and heroines of the DC...
Trying to Get Out: White Irish Drinkers
Trying to Get Out: White Irish Drinkers The title is bad enough, and that’s for sure; but when I heard the joke about the Irish seven-course meal—a six-pack and a potato, har-de-har har, I knew I was in trouble. Stop me if you’ve heard this one: there’s these two working class Irish American kids in Brooklyn, see; and one is the good brother and one is the bad. The good one is quiet and reserved and has a secret talent—he is...
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