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Trailer Watch: Martin Scorsese’s Hugo
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Book Review: Beautiful & Pointless: A Guide to Modern Poetry by David Orr
August 20, 2025Except for a (thankfully) brief, unscientific use of Google metrics, Orr beautifully shares instances of why...
Bloody Sexy Things: Adapting Clive Barker
August 19, 2025Clive Barker has lent his eyes and hands to virtually every medium, from page to the...
The Weekly Listicle: On Adapting The Classics
July 23, 2025With the arrival of Jane Eyre from Sin Nombre director Cary Fukunaga, we see another standard...
The Weekly Listicle: A Question Of Identity
July 17, 2025Identity is a wonderful device for deception and suspense in storytelling. In some cases a whole...
Brighton Rock Rises Again. Graham Greene Abides.
July 4, 2025Acclaimed screenwriter Rowan Joffé will try his hand at the directing game next year. For his...
A Watchful Eye On… Sherlock Holmes
July 2, 2025Sherlock Holmes as a strict Victorian period piece is over and done with, but the character...
The Weekly Listicle: Misleading Movie Titles
June 29, 2025Sometimes a movie's title appears to be a secret known only to the writer. Sometimes it...
The Weekly Listicle: Worlds Of Fancy And Other Wondrous Places
June 26, 2025A cleverly rendered fantasy world has the power to make us believe astounding things, and to...




