The Sin You Can Live With: Horns (2013)
Jan12

The Sin You Can Live With: Horns (2013)

The Sin You Can Live With: Horns (2013)   With the best will in the world, Horns is a movie that I just don’t get.  I don’t get it at all. Yet I’m not going to lash into it or tell you to avoid it like the plague because it may just be me!  Now I know that regular readers would be astonished if that were the case, my taste being absolutely impeccable and all, but who knows?  This might be one of those times. I can only say that I did...

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The Chronicles of Conan – Volume 5 – The Shadow in the Tomb And Other Stories
Jan12

The Chronicles of Conan – Volume 5 – The Shadow in the Tomb And Other Stories

The Chronicles of Conan Volume 5 The Shadow in the Tomb And Other Stories     Over a span of 26 issues of Conan the Barbarian and three of the black & white magazine Savage Tales, the team of Roy Thomas and Barry Windsor-Smith had (with a little help from Gil Kane and John Buscema) taken a character who might in lesser hands have remained pretty much the by-blow of a typical Marvel hero and created something rather special in...

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Lovecraft’s Legacy
Jan01

Lovecraft’s Legacy

Lovecraft’s Legacy Edited by Robert E.  Weinberg & Martin H.  Greenberg   An Occasional Look at Lovecraftian Anthologies: 3   Some time back, in an interview with the Innsmouth Free Press, the great Lovecraftian scholar (I would say the greatest of Lovecraftian scholars), S.  T.  Joshi said: “It is not merely that Lovecraft’s tales form a roughly coherent single entity—a kind of loose novel in which each story comprises a...

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