Star Trek  Graphic Novel Collection – Volume 01 : Countdown
Jan24

Star Trek Graphic Novel Collection – Volume 01 : Countdown

Star Trek Graphic Novel Collection Volume 01 Countdown   I would never miss a Star Trek film.  I love them; even that really bad one, you know the one I mean.  Yet I wouldn’t go particularly out of my way to catch one of the many small-screen incarnations that this extraordinarily endurable social phenomenon has spawned.  And I have certainly never entertained even the notion of reading the adventures of the Trekkers in comic...

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Stephen King’s Cujo
Jan24

Stephen King’s Cujo

The Monster Never Dies: Stephen King’s Cujo   “Once upon a time, not so long ago, a monster came to the small town of Castle Rock, Maine… “He was not a werewolf, vampire, ghoul, or unnameable creature from the enchanted forest or from the snowy wastes; he was only a cop named Frank Dodd with mental and sexual problems.  A good man named John Smith uncovered his name by a kind of magic, but before he could be captured – perhaps it was...

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A. C. Doyle : A Study in Scarlet (1887)
Jan14

A. C. Doyle : A Study in Scarlet (1887)

Where It All Began: Arthur Conan Doyle’s A Study in Scarlet   I would consider three of the 20th century’s great pulp icons (or literary, if it please thee) to be Tarzan, James Bond and Sherlock Holmes.  Certainly, Dracula is there also; but he is a child of only one book by his creator and that in 1897.  It was down to the cinema to create our enduring group image of the vampire king. And of course that’s true of Tarzan and Bond...

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The Bye Bye Man (2016)
Jan14

The Bye Bye Man (2016)

Redacting the Past: The Bye Bye Man (2016)   I’m sensing a lot of…wait — keep holding hands — don’t break the circle… I’m sensing a lot of hate towards a little horror film called The Bye Bye Man.  A lot of hate. Director Stacy Title, what have you done to upset everyone so much?  Have you a message for us?  Writer Jonathan Penner, have you been caught interfering with budgerigars?  Because I’m just not feeling a lot of...

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Silence (2016)
Jan11

Silence (2016)

The Most Painful Act of Love: Silence (2016)   Stand in silence in the presence of the Sovereign LORD, for the awesome day of the LORD’s judgment is near.  The LORD has prepared his people for a great slaughter and has chosen their executioners. Zephaniah 1:7   And in the context of Martin Scorsese’s remarkable and spiritually challenging new film those executioners take the form of 17th century Japan’s ruling elite. With some...

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