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Ensnared Melodies
English: Original oil painting by Pappi, 2008. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)Introduction As with poetry, aspects of a romantic relationship are regular topics in songs. From longing to heartbreak to the...
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The British Playboy - Review of "The Look of Love"
Plot:This is the biopic of Paul Raymond (Steve Coogan), the British millionaire publisher, club owner and real estate developer. “The Look of Love” takes a reflective look through the eyes of Raymond...
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Batman at 75
I have loved Batman from almost as early as I can recall. As I push the ever aging and failing mechanism I call a brain to recreate the images of my past, I am filled with a sense of happiest during...
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Ripper Retrospective - Revew of the classic "Jack the Ripper: Summing up and...
Ripper Bridge (Photo credit: STINFLIN Pascal)1988 was a hell of a year for Jack the Ripper enthusiasts. Being the centenary of London’s“Autumn of Terror”, few producers, publishers, historians, writers...
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Demonic Possession, Hauntings and Such Like - A Review of "The Conjuring"
Lorraine Warren (Photo credit: Gage Skidmore)Plot:In 1971 the Perron family (Lili Taylor, Ron Livingston, Shanley Caswell, Hayley McFarl, Joey King, Mackenzie Foy, Kyla Deaver) move into an old...
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A Lazy Cat? - Review of "The Cat's Meow"
Marion Davies (Photo credit: Wikipedia)Cover of The Cat's Meow It is 1924, at the height of the jazz age, where the Charlston is all the rage, Prohibition is en force and silent cinema has made...
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Robin Williams Shines Brightest in an Unusual Light - Review of "One Hour Photo"
Cover of One Hour Photo (Widescreen Edition)Plot: “One Hour Photo” is a psychological thriller starring Robin Williams as Sy Parrish, a photo technician working at a large supermarket’s one hour photo...
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Folklore as a Tool
I am currently reading "Dracula: Prince of Many Faces - His Life and Times" by Radu Florescu and Raymond McNally and I came across this wonderful passage: "Although folklore has to be used with caution...
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Sheridan La Fanu Honoured on Google
“But dreams come through stone walls, light up dark rooms, or darken light ones, and their persons make their exits and their entrances as they please, and laugh at locksmiths.”― Joseph Sheridan Le...
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The Lines Before the Score: A Reflection on "Jaws" the novel
Jaws (novel) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)I recently picked up my copy of “Jaws” and I have to admit that the opening passage is very hard to beat. Consider these very famous lines: “The great fish moved...
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Thomas Cromwell Revised
Portrait of Thomas Cromwell. New York, Frick Collection. Oak panel, 76 x 61 cm. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)"The ambitious have no friends" - Brian Taggert and Faustus BuckThomas Cromwell seems modelled...
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Behold... Vulvatron!
I was delighted to hear that the Thrash Metal band, Gwar, announced Vulvatron (played by Kim Dylla) as their new front-woman. Never a band to take themselves too seriously, Gwar took horror rock...
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Vigilante Thriller with Pedigree? - Review of the Brave One
Cover of The Brave One [Blu-ray] Plot: Erica Bain (Jodie Foster) is an outspoken radio host. Her expressive opinions on her late night show have recently been focusing on the decay of her...
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Restrained Twist on the Cuckoo Thriller?
I guess I have been interested in the concept of cuckoo stories since I first studied Emily Bronte's only novel, "Wuthering Heights", for my English Literature A level many years ago. The novel's...
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Showing up
“If today was the day you were finally going to win, did you show up?” - Daniel WaldschmidtThe above quote was randomly selected on my email provider. It is an interesting mutation of a...
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All Change!
Professor Stephen R. Covey (Photo credit: Wikipedia)"People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are,...
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Champion Charlie Brown!
Charlie Brown, created by Charles Schultz, is the USA's most profound and simple antidote to the culture of competitiveness. Charlie Brown's genesis was as a single strip cartoon for Sunday newspapers....
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New Book by Luna Ballantyne
Luna Ballantyne (pseudonym of fantasy novelist, Ingrid Hall) has released her new erotic novel, "Freedom", which book one of her "Sensual Liaison Series". The story is a time-spanning fantasy centred...
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Shelley, Storms and Frankenstein
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley. Stipple engraving. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)"[He] then proceeded, with much eagerness and enthusiasm, to show me the various instruments,...
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Jonas Salk's 100th Birthday
I am going to come straight with you on this one. When it comes to leading lights in vaccinations, most of my historical knowledge ends with perhaps the man we could call the Godfather of Vaccinations,...
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