Doctor Strange (2016)
Mystic Master of the Fortune Cookie: Doctor Strange (2016) I don’t normally give much credence to nonsense ideas like ‘trigger warnings’. This is the phrase used by those dainty little buttercups who want them posted at the beginning of books, films and whatever you’re having yourself, as a warning that certain content contained therein might just remind you of some trauma from your past life, thus sending you screaming up...
Looking Back At… The Dead Zone
Looking Back At… The Dead Zone The Dead Zone was published in 1979, the sixth of Stephen King’s books to appear under his own name. It is one of the earliest of his that I read, loving it as much as I did everything he wrote during that early period. It’s somewhat odd, coming back to it at this remove. For one thing, I would now be infinitely more familiar with David Cronenberg’s quite brilliant and utterly moving film adaptation...
Black Hounds of Death : The Weird Works of Robert E. Howard, Volume 9
Black Hounds of Death The Weird Works of Robert E. Howard, Volume 9 Edited by Paul Herman Part One These ongoing pieces are overviews rather than reviews and therefore contain spoilers galore Regular readers of these little ponderings will know how utterly weary I get when that bogeyman buzzword of our time – ‘racism’ – is thrown out. So you can imagine the deep sigh I’m breathing as I approach Robert E. Howard’s most...
Arthur C. Clarke’s 2001: A Space Odyssey
Arthur C. Clarke’s 2001: A Space Odyssey Based on the screenplay by Arthur C. Clarke and Stanley Kubrick I watched Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey a few months back; and, despite having lost count of how many times I’ve seen it since its release in 1968, I don’t think that I ever found it as deeply satisfying as I did this time around. There is just always something new to pore over. And it changes with age, just as the viewer’s...
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (2016)
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (2016) Tim Burton has put up with a lot of sniping over the last few years – and let’s face it, quite a bit has been deserved – but I’m always going to cut a lot of slack to the director who once charmed us with Beetlejuice and Big Fish, not to mention the utterly sublime Edward Scissorhands, Ed Wood and Sleepy Hollow. So I’d like to say that Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children is...
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