Edgar Rice Burroughs: Master of Adventure By Richard A. Lupoff
Edgar Rice Burroughs: Master of Adventure By Richard A. Lupoff One of the problems that I always encounter when I attempt one of my sporadic book clean-outs is that I will inevitably find that most of them just have to be held onto. Even though I may not have come across them in years I’ll now find that they are absolutely essential to my continued well-being. And so it came to pass that this week I found myself re-reading...
Getting it Fixed: Broken City (2013)
Getting it Fixed: Broken City (2013) I’m not really sure where to put this review. The movie is a couple of months old so it’s going into the (roughly) current releases; but it could just as easily go into the ‘Guilty Pleasures’ box. You see, I absolutely love this and as far as I can make out that puts me in a minority of one. I’m going to have to put it down to my unashamed weakness for B- and even C-movies. Hell, I’ll take a...
Folding in on Oneself: The Blasphemer
Folding in on Oneself: The Blasphemer “I believe in a sort of life after death. We live on in the memories of the people who loved us, our wives and husbands, our friends, our children and, if we are lucky, our grandchildren. In that way we live on, for a generation or two at least, then we fade, become those old sepia photographs which no one knows what to do with because no one can identify the faces”....
Game of Thrones: To Westeros, Skirting Middle-earth
Game of Thrones: To Westeros, Skirting Middle-earth With so many Westeros-lovers looking forward to their third season of Game of Thrones—and you can include me amongst them—I thought that there would be no harm in having a very quick glance back at the first two, just to whet the appetite even farther. The initiated know of course that this is what is known as High Fantasy and is based on the hugely (and huge)...
Farewell to Jess Franco
Farewell to Jess Franco May 1930 -April 2013 Because he was a man who –no matter what else you want to say about him– made films just the way that he wanted to, I feel a quick mention is in order regarding the cult Spanish film director, cinematographer and writer Jess Franco. I’ve been, as they say, otherwise involved for the past few days so I was late in hearing that he had gone to that Great Lesbian Vampire...
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