Kingdom Based on Land of the Gods by Kim Eun Hee Written by Kim Eun-hee Directed by Kim Seong-hun Starring Ju Ji-hoon, Bae Doona, Ryu Seung-ryong Country of origin South Korea You could almost believe you were watching an Akira Kurosawa film. Mystery lies in the minutiae, horror in hints, suspense in speckles. Mixed in …
Note: This review was written in late 2017 for Electric Review. John, perhaps because of unfamiliarity with the series, elected not to run this one, presumably because Electric Review is aimed at a more sophisticated readership. I happened across it while looking for something else on my backup drive, and decided it would be suitable …
Trollhunters: Tales of Arcadia Genre; Adventure, Action, Comedy-drama, Fantasy Created by; Guillermo del Toro Based on; Trollhunters by Guillermo del Toro and Daniel Kraus Written by; Guillermo del Toro, Marc Guggenheim, Kevin Hageman, Dan Hageman, Aaron Waltke, Chad Quandt, A.C. Bradley Voices of: Anton Yelchin, Kelsey Grammer, Charlie Saxton, Lexi Medrano, Jonathan Hyde, Fred Tatasciore, …
Do You Trust This Computer? Directed by Chris Paine Produced by Tiffany Asakawa & Jessie Deeter Written by Mark Monroe Production company: Papercut Films The instant you saw the title of this piece, I’ll bet you paused, at least for an instant, and looked at your screen as a part of a computer, and not …
Happy Yaldā Night! Solstice 2018 December 20th, 2018 Well, I hoped he would be in prison by now, too. But the walls are closing in, and at this point, it’s a matter of “when,” and for how long, and how many others will be in adjacent cells. He’s going down. See? You feel hopeful already, …
The Man from Earth: Holocene (2018) Directed by Richard Schenkman Produced by Emerson Bixby Written by Emerosn Bixby Starring David Lee Smith as John Oldman/John Young William Katt as Dr. Art Jenkins Vanessa Williams as Carolyn Michael Dorn as Dr. Gil Parker Sterling Knight as Philip Brittany Curran as Tara Carlos Knight as Liko Akemi …
When I got my copy of La Belle Sauvage, I misread it as “La Belle Sausage.” The sad thing is the French word for sausage is saucisse. The words “La Belle” should have tipped me off that the title wasn’t in English. I’m from Canada. I’ve studied these things. I even lived right next door …
Elevation, a novel[la] Copyright © 2018 by Stephen King Illustrations © Mark Edward Geyer Scribner Readers will be irresistibly reminded of Thinner, a 1984 novel by Richard Bachman, in which the central character begins mysteriously losing weight. Bachman, of course, was the nom de slumming of Stephen King, and Thinner was a not-bad effort, one …
Mr. Mercedes (Season 2) Audience, AT&T, Produced by: David E. Kelley Productions, Nomadicfilm, Temple Hill Productions, Sonar Entertainment Starring: Brendan Gleeson as Detective Bill Hodges Harry Treadaway as Brady Hartsfield Jharrel Jerome as Jerome Robinson Scott Lawrence as Detective Peter Dixon Breeda Wool as Lou Linklatter Justine Lupe as Holly Gibney Holland Taylor as Ida …
Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America Nancy MacLean Copyright 2107, Penguin Books. The libertarian biographer Charles K. Rowley once said of James McGill Buchanan that he was “perhaps the most hated and feared enemy of left-leaning economists throughout the world.” Not just economists. Buchanan is considered the …