There are spoilers ahead if you haven’t heard, but the common denominator between these men was either a lengthy incarceration or a violent death. The show does offer some facetious lessons about where they went wrong, but all of these stories tend to end in the same place. ...
Michael Caine’s frosty Lahndahn gangster uncovers layer upon layer of villainy as he travels to Newcastle to investigate his brother’s death, but the details – and, for many, the plot – are secondary to the air of desperation, squalor and complicity. ‘The greatest decade in the history...
exactly why it's so dang wonderful. You've got Patrick Swayze as the enigmatic leader of a surfing cult, Gary Busey as Reeves' gruff veteran partner, and again, Keanu Reeves plays a former college football star named Johnny Utah who has to learn to surf as a matter of life and death....
Book Summary: When Faith Williams almost dies, she makes a pact with Death himself, who promises to return for her soul on her eighteenth birthday. As the fateful day approaches, Faith’s life becomes entangled with supernatural forces, including the handsome (and rich!) David Star. Soon, ...
as the delivery system for a thoughtful, witty, and literate consideration of his pet preoccupations: sex, death, technology, biology. It’s tragedy pitched at an operatic scale, body horror at its most visceral, pop philosophy at its most insightful. Insect politics for a blockbuster age.Das...
Butler’s Earthseed adventure Parable of the Talents (1998). In the not-too-distant future — the 2030s, in the midst of America’s social, economic, and environmental breakdown — Lauren Oya Olamina, protagonist of Butler’s Parable of the Sower (1993), gathers a band of survivors ...
(Ingrid Thulin), wait her for death, losing themselves in memories of past trauma. Maria remembers how her infidelity led her husband to stab himself; Karin admits suicidal thoughts, thinking of an incident where she maimed herself with glass. When her husband sees her, she smears the blood ...
Captured by the Incas, Tintin and Haddock are sentenced to be burned to death along with Calculus. When Tintin learns about a forthcoming solar eclipse, he devises a daring plan to pull their fat out of the fire. Meanwhile, Thompson and Thomson search for them fruitlessly. Fun fact: ...
The killer scene: Three hired guns wait for Bronson’s gunslinger at the railway station. And wait. And wait a bit more. And then wish they’d waited even longer.Death in the dust Sergio Leone’s greatest western and a landmark in the genre, Once Upon a Time in the West somehow rein...
Black Emperor’s first album of chilling and expansive post-rock for an apocalyptic prophecy intercepted from an extraterrestrial frequency. “We’re trapped in the belly of this horrible machine/And the machine is bleeding to death,” the narrator of “Dead Flag Blues” states in a deadpan ...